Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you c …… [ 展开全部 ] an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Media as one kingdom, about 500 years before Christ It was he who took Babylon, restored the Jews, and ordered the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, and who was predicted by name, as the ...(展开全部) Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Media as one kingdom, about 500 years before Christ It was he who took Babylon, restored the Jews, and ordered the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, and who was predicted by name, as the shepherd of the Lord, and the deliverer of Israel. (Isa. xliv. 28, xlv.) The successors of Cyrus, as given by Ezra, are Ahasuerus, Artaxerxes, Darius, and Artaxerxes. Ahasuerus was Cambyses, the conqueror of Egypt. Artaxerxes is the king elsewhere called Smerdis the Magian, by whose decree the rebuilding of Jerusalem was stopped. Darius has, in profane history, the additional name of Hystaspes. Under his patronage the temple was finished. Xerxes, who is omitted by Ezra, as having no connexion with sacred history, but who is named by Daniel, was the celebrated invader of Greece. Artaxerxes Longimanus (so called from the length of his hands, ) is supposed to be the Ahasuerus of the book of Esther. With this prince ends the history of Persia as connected with the Scriptures. BABYLONIA AND CXXAX.DEA. It is easy to determine the general situation of this great country, which lay on both sides of the river Euphrates, while its particular boundaries are not so evident. The Persian Gulf was certainly its southern limit; on other sides it is more difficult to draw the line. Perhaps we may place Mesopotamia and Assyria on the north; Persia and Susiana on the east; and the stony and desert Arabia on the west. This country is now called Babylonian or Arabian Irak. The south-western part of Babylonia, upon the borders of the Arabian desert is called the land of the Chaldeans, or Chaldea, by Jeremiah, (xxiv. 5, xxv. 12,, 1. 8, ) and Ezekiel, (xii. 13.) The two names Babylonia and Chaldea are generally applied to the same country. Its ancient name was Shinar. Nimrod built a city called Babel, i...
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