Word: tyre
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands of the Arabians and the Philistines, himself died wretchedly from a lingering sickness which consumed his bowels. His fearful death did not prevent Ahaziah from...
...central boss of an ancient Hittite shield dug up in the ruins of Tyre has been given to the art museum at Princeton...
...photographs, nearly 1,000 in number, give an excellent view of Semitic scenes; the mountains, lakes and rivers of Palestine and North Syria, the cities of Jerusalem, Jericho, Samaria and Tyre, the ruins of Petra...