Sacred geography, and antiquities (1872) (14585361509)

Identifier: sacredgeographya00barr (find matches)
Title: Sacred geography, and antiquities
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter), 1807-1888
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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eby Yunus; Calah that of Kalah-Sherghat, sixty milesbeloAV; and Resen that of Nimrud. In the book of Jonah Nineveh isdescribed as an exceeding great city of three days journey (chap. 3 : 3).If we are at liberty to understand these words of the circuit of the quadran-gle above described, they correspond well to its dimensions. But no deci-sive evidence appears that this quadrangle was ever enclosed by walls, andin other respects the explanation is not very satisfactory. Diodorus (2. 3)describes the wallsof Nineveh as one hundred feet high, and so broad thatthree chariots might be driven on them abreast. Upon the walls stoodfifteen hundred towers, each two hundred feet in height. 5. The prophets foretell the utter and perpetual desolation ofthe Assyrian empire and Nineveh: He will stretch out hishand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will makeNineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness. And flocksshall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: )^^imi . ^%
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