The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Coin of Emperor Macrinus, Byblus, Syria. With effigy, and showing the Temple of Apollo at Byblus. Byblus was the ancient city of Jehail 01 Gebal,of the Hebrews, near the Lebanon Mountains, and inW Syria, about 20 miles south-west of Tripoli. It was a Sacred City (or a city of r<Metal Tablet discovered at Nineveh. Phoenicians, its origin datinprobable period of 700 years B. C. The name of Gebal occurs in Ps7, in connection with Edom and Moab, Ammon and Amalek, the Phithe inhabitants of Tyre. The mention of Assur, or the
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Coin of Emperor Macrinus, Byblus, Syria. With effigy, and showing the Temple of Apollo at Byblus. Byblus was the ancient city of Jehail 01 Gebal,of the Hebrews, near the Lebanon Mountains, and inW Syria, about 20 miles south-west of Tripoli. It was a Sacred City (or a city of r<Metal Tablet discovered at Nineveh. Phoenicians, its origin datinprobable period of 700 years B. C. The name of Gebal occurs in Ps7, in connection with Edom and Moab, Ammon and Amalek, the Phithe inhabitants of Tyre. The mention of Assur, or the Assyrian,verse, may reasonably be supposed to give date to the composition ice) of the es, and e next he ref- erence. The Giblites or Biblians seem to have been eminentcutting (2 Kings v. 18) and ship-caulking. This coin was si i 3 of stone \. I), lm; 67 COINS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND Coin of Athens. The first connection of the Greeks with the Hebrews occurred about B. C. 800,when Joel (iii. 6) speaks of the slave merchants of Tyre selling the children ofJudah to the Greeks. The Greeks are also mentioned (Ez. xxvii. 13) as barteringtheir metal vessels for slaves. Prophecies respecting Greece also occur ( 21, etc.) where the histories of Alexander the Great, and his Greek successorsin Egypt, Syria, etc. (see illustrations facing pages 600,601,603,604,605), are brieflysketched; while in Zachariah (ix. 3) is foretold the triumph of the Isaiah (lxvi. 19) is prophesied that through the influence of the Jewish racethe Greeks would be converted.
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