. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Jewiah Captives from Lachish.—From a bas-relief at Kouyunjik. Sennacherib on hia Throne before Lachish. Kouyunjik records. The most important inscribedterra-cotta cylinders are—those from KalahSherghat, with the annals of a king, whosename is believed to read Tiglath-pileser, notthe same mentioned in 2 Kings, but an earliermonarch, supposed to have reigned aboutb. c. 1110; those from Khorsabad containingthe annals of Sargon; those from Kouyunjik,especially one known as Bellinos cylinder,with the chronicles of Sennacherib ; that fromNebbi Yunus with t
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Jewiah Captives from Lachish.—From a bas-relief at Kouyunjik. Sennacherib on hia Throne before Lachish. Kouyunjik records. The most important inscribedterra-cotta cylinders are—those from KalahSherghat, with the annals of a king, whosename is believed to read Tiglath-pileser, notthe same mentioned in 2 Kings, but an earliermonarch, supposed to have reigned aboutb. c. 1110; those from Khorsabad containingthe annals of Sargon; those from Kouyunjik,especially one known as Bellinos cylinder,with the chronicles of Sennacherib ; that fromNebbi Yunus with the records of Esar-haddon,and the fragments of three cylinders withthose of his son. The most important resuits may be expected when inscriptions sonumerous and so varied in character are de-ciphered. A list of nineteen or twenty kingscan already be compiled, and the annals ofthe greater number of them will probably berestored to the lost history of one of themost powerful empires of the ancient world,and of one which appears to have e
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