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655912, the Mushki(?
6559229?]
6559And now what shall we say by way of summing up the Assyrian writing of history?
6559Are the duplicates mentioned here to be found in K. 2833 and K. 3085, G. Smith, 205?]
6559Is it surprising that we begin to wonder whether the victory was only a victory on the clay tablet of the scribe?
6559It was brought( before the God Ashur?)
6559[ Footnote: Inscription at Hasanah( Hassan Agha?)
37411( 10) Dhabitu( Tebet)''The cave of the dawn''(?)
37411( 3) Sivanu( Sivan)''Bricks''(?)
374111850 Samas- Rimmon I his son 1820 Igur- Kapkapu?
37411521 and 515(?).
37411Ada''si?
37411Bel- Kapkapu''the founder of the monarchy''?
37411Bel- basi his son?
37411In heaven, who is supreme?
37411Irisum his son?
37411Khallu?
37411On earth, who is supreme?
37411Samas- Rimmon II his brother?
37411Sin- sarra- iskun( Sarakos)?
28072[ 35] How far did that diversity go? 28072 ***** When we attempt to mount the stream of history and to pierce the mists which become ever thicker as we near its source, what is it that we see? 28072 350- 3(?). 28072 Again, is not the building on the left of the picture obviously a flat- roofed house? 28072 And is not that enough to suggest a probable reason for the want of windows characteristic of an Oriental dwelling? 28072 And may not these groups, though distinct, have been more closely connected than the Jews were willing to admit? 28072 Are they ideographic signs or funeral offerings? 28072 But how to represent the wooded mountains on this side of the water? 28072 Can any other instance be cited of an art so well endowed entirely suppressing what we should call the civil element of life? 28072 Granting wooden roofs, how is such an accumulation to be accounted for? 28072 How many stages were there? 28072 In the case of vaults how are we to suppose that the rooms were lighted? 28072 Is it too much to suppose that by means of rivers and canals those of Nineveh may have been taken there too? 28072 M. Halévy has translated an Assyrian text, whose meaning he thus epitomizes:What becomes of the individual deposited in a tomb?
28072Must they not have trembled for the security of tombs surrounded by a rebellious and angry populace?
28072Must we believe that it was never finished or used?
28072Must we conclude that stone columns were unknown in Chaldæa and Assyria?
28072Must we take it to be the plan of his royal city as a whole, or only of his palace?
28072Nineveh,"the dwelling of the lions,""the bloody city,"saw its last day;"Nineveh is laid waste,"says the prophet Nahum,"who will bemoan her?
28072Supposing such an arrangement to have obtained in Mesopotamia, of what material were the piers or columns composed?
28072Was it impelled by mere inability to distinguish, by varieties of feature, form and attitude, between the different gods created by the imagination?
28072Was it the same in Chaldæa?
28072What then were we to make of these arched blocks, also coated with stucco, but found in the centre of the rooms and far away from the walls?
28072What, it is asked, do these men want with light?
28072When wooden roofs were used were they upheld by wooden uprights or by columns of any other material?
28072Why did art, in creating divine types, give such prominence to features borrowed from the lower animals?
28072Why is it that such works have perished and left no sign?
28072Why were these battlements given a height beyond those of the royal palace?
28072[ 325]?--ED.
28072[ 420] What then did the Assyrians do with their dead?
12248''Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
12248''Did not Solomon King of Israel sin by these things?
12248''I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?''
12248''If the girls are pretty and nice, and if the men like them, why should not they please themselves?''
12248''Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
12248''Lord, what wilt_ Thou_ have me to do?''
12248''Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day?
12248''What do these feeble Jews?''
12248''What is this I hear of you?
12248''Will a man rob God?
12248''Will they fortify themselves?''
12248''Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?''
12248''Will they sacrifice?
12248''Yes,''he went on,''is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive six months after?
1224819):''What is this thing that ye do?
12248A poor weak, miserable down- trodden set of men; what can_ they_ do?
12248A stronger man than Samson, where shall we find him?
12248A third would have risen with a long face, and would have asked,''What will Sanballat say if we rebuild the wall?
12248Accordingly, what do we find them doing?
12248Am I anxious that my children, my servants, the visitors who come to see me, all who are in my home on the Lord''s Day should do the same?
12248Am I doing all I can, using all the influence God has given me, to lead others to reverence and observe the holy day?
12248Am I ever lifting up my heart to Him?
12248Am I therefore to cut off my own soul from all hope of safety?
12248Am I to be found at my post, faithfully carrying out the work He has given me to do?
12248Am I working for Him?
12248And because one Christian, or several Christians, disgrace their Master, and act inconsistently, am I therefore to condemn Christianity itself?
12248And how long will it take to build walls like these?
12248And how was he found?
12248And now what will be the result?
12248And the king, quite understanding from Nehemiah''s speech that he wants something from him, asks immediately:''For what dost thou make request?''
12248And the people; how were they?
12248And was the prayer heard?
12248And what about the portions?
12248And what pledge, what security did these nobles require for their money?
12248And what said the Word?
12248And what was the result?
12248And why?
12248And, if I myself keep and reverence God''s Sabbath, do I see that those over whom I have influence are doing the same?
12248Are any of Tobiah''s goods there?
12248Are the difficulties great?
12248Are the people more in earnest?
12248Are the walls on which they have spent so much labour overturned and laid low in the dust?
12248Are we alive or dead?
12248Are we ever tempted to say, I can not serve the Master faithfully?
12248Are we going on like this for ever, beaten by sin, overcome and defeated?
12248Are you weary and faint as you keep at your post?
12248Because I find in my bag of gold one bad half- sovereign, or even two or three bad ones, am I therefore to throw all the rest away?
12248Bring a feather, hold it before his mouth, watch it carefully, does it move?
12248But do you say, How can I obtain this strength, by what means can I acquire it?
12248But hush, who are these passing amongst the weeping crowd?
12248But is bodily strength the only kind of force or power a man can possess?
12248But now, what is at the bottom of this business?
12248But of whom was the tenth to consist?
12248But they-- what had they done?
12248But what did Lycurgus find himself obliged to do in order to secure his end?
12248But what do they say?
12248But what is that dark cloud rising north of Jerusalem?
12248But what is that in the far distance?
12248But what is the breath of the soul?
12248But what says the Master?
12248But who was this Rab- shakeh, and how came he to live in the most glorious palace in the world?
12248But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee?
12248But''Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them,''so runs the Psalm, and are not children a heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord?
12248But, says Nehemiah,''I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?''
12248Can He care if I am sick, worried, or poor, or depressed?
12248Can I say--''O happy day, O happy day When Jesus washed my sins away?''
12248Can I, then, believe that He will have time to take notice of my tiny affairs?
12248Can it be a storm coming, a terrible storm of opposition and difficulty?
12248Can it be that Hanani, his brother, who had been one of Ezra''s companions, had repeated it to him?
12248Can it be that this prayer was suggested to him by the words of his friend, the prophet Malachi?
12248Can we say from our heart,''The Lord is_ my_ Comforter?''
12248Can we therefore conclude that the man is dead?
12248Did God, has God forgotten His faithful servant?
12248Did He not say to the thief on the cross,''To- day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise?''
12248Did Nehemiah then break up the marriages which had already taken place, and send the wives away?
12248Did he kneel down in the midst of the banqueting hall and call upon his God?
12248Did he not alone and unaided rend a young lion in two, as easily as if it had been a kid?
12248Did he not overthrow an enormous building by simply leaning on the huge stone pillars that held it up?
12248Did he then rush away to his own apartment to pray?
12248Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?
12248Do I help them by every means in my power?
12248Do I know anything of real prayer?
12248Do I love to hold communion with my God?
12248Do I strive that in my home at least God shall have His due?
12248Do they expect to offer the sacrifice at the commencement of their work, and then the very same day to finish it?
12248Do they fondly dream they will ever finish their work, and fortify their city?
12248Do they think it will be done directly?
12248Do we not feel we have come short in the past, and that we should like to do better in the time to come?
12248Do we not feel we should like to do more for the Master in time to come?
12248Do we not see people of all classes at work-- rich men and poor men, people of all occupations, priests, goldsmiths and apothecaries, and merchants?
12248Do you say, It is hard to give it up, to clear it out; it has become a second nature to me, and I know not how to rid myself of it?
12248Do you, Nehemiah, intend to fortify Jerusalem, and then set up the standard of rebellion against Persia?
12248Does he leave his work at once, and set off for the Plain of Ono?
12248Does he shrink from giving offence, or hurting people''s feelings, or calling things by their right names?
12248Does it breathe?
12248Does the hot sun of temptation often tempt you to throw up the work?
12248For My Name''s sake, I see it, know it all,''Tis hard for thee, But I have loved thee so, my child, canst thou Bear this for Me?''
12248For was not this Tobiah an Ammonite, a Gentile?
12248For what does he find as he walks through the streets of Jerusalem?
12248For what had Daniel declared?
12248For what message had Jeremiah brought their fathers?
12248For what purpose was this immense sum of money sent?
12248For what was the oldest sin?
12248For where should we expect to find a man of God?
12248Four miles of wall was a long space to guard and defend, how could more hands be secured?
12248From which division, from which company, from which flock shall I choose my friends?
12248God asks for the whole day; do I give it to Him, or do I spend the best of its hours in bed?
12248Has Ezra''s work been successful?
12248Has it been always earnest, heartfelt, true?
12248Has it been as regular, as profitable as it might have been?
12248Have the Samaritans returned to attack the city?
12248Have we consecrated to Him our time and our talents?
12248Have we done all that we could for His service?
12248Have we given Him the tenth of our money?
12248Have you done that?
12248Have you done that?
12248Have you turned a saint?
12248He casteth forth His ice like morsels: who can stand before His cold?
12248He has forgiven me, He has washed me from my sins in His own blood; how can I grieve Him?
12248He said,''But what is this you write; come home?
12248He tells us,''I contended some time with them''( that is, I reproved them and argued with them),''and I said, Why is the house of our God forsaken?''
12248Heaven with all its brightness, hell with all its darkness and misery, which shall be for me?
12248How are matters progressing?
12248How can I become strong?
12248How can I ever risk losing the joy of my heart by going contrary to His will?
12248How can I pain Him by yielding to temptation?
12248How can this great evil be stopped?
12248How can we be made vessels meet for the Master''s use, fit for the service of God?
12248How could he stand up and read the law to the people, when he knew, and they knew, that he was not keeping it himself?
12248How could the Levites serve, how could the choir sing unless they were fed?
12248How do I keep the Sabbath myself?
12248How does Nehemiah go to work?
12248How does he reply to this cruel ridicule, these sharp, cutting, insolent words, that provoking laughter?
12248How is it that he has not put a stop to this proceeding?
12248How long will our string have to be if it is to hold the 100,000,000 oranges?
12248How shall we answer them?
12248How shall we settle the matter clearly and definitely?
12248How shall you know if it be straight or not?
12248How shall you tell if it be perpendicular?
12248How should the number of those who were to migrate to the capital be chosen?
12248How then shall I know if my soul lives?
12248How, then, can we be cleansed?
12248How, then, does the law of God drive us to Christ?
12248If a man walks in God''s law he can not go wrong; if he keeps all God''s commandments, what more can be required?
12248If men in the East wear beards, what is it that keeps him so busy?
12248If sin is confessed and forsaken, will He not pardon it?
12248In case of an attack from their united forces, what would be the mark at which all these enemies would aim?
12248In case of an attack, what would be done?
12248Is Jerusalem thriving?
12248Is Nehemiah moved from his post of duty by Sanballat''s message?
12248Is it an unkind spirit?
12248Is it not one of the works of the devil, which we are bidden to lay aside?
12248Is it not right, is it not wise to pull up at times and to look at our life, at what it has been, and at what it might have been?
12248Is it not the very prayer of the penitent thief,''Lord, remember me?''
12248Is it possible, can it be, that we recognize some of those whom we saw working so happily and cheerfully on the walls?
12248Is it prayerlessness?
12248Is it pride?
12248Is it selfishness?
12248Is it temper?
12248Is it the chief kind of strength?
12248Is my name then on God''s honour list?
12248Is not anger a bad thing?
12248Is not our God a God of mercy?
12248Is not the sorrow small, the burden light, Borne for thy Lord?
12248Is not this the Lord''s own picture of the place He went to prepare for His people?
12248Is there any secret sin hidden away in your heart?
12248Is there no desolate home into which we can bring a ray of light?
12248Is there no one whom we can cheer?
12248Is there no poor relative, or neighbour, or friend, with whom we can share the good things that have fallen to our lot?
12248Is there no sorrowful heart to which we can bring comfort?
12248Is there not forgiveness with Him?
12248Let each of us ask himself or herself, What am I doing in this matter?
12248Let the language of the heart of each in the Lord''s army be that of Nehemiah,''Should such a man as I flee?''
12248Look at the south- east corner, who will ever be able to clear away the heaps that have accumulated there?''
12248Nehemiah has stood firm under ridicule; he has been unmoved by force or deceitful friendships; will he be frightened from his duty by gossip?
12248Now indeed we have no open rupture with the governors, but who can tell what the result of our taking action in this matter will be?
12248Now, says Nehemiah, consider:''Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God?''
12248Of what nation are these colonists?
12248Or can it be that this is a heaven- sent opportunity in which he may make his request?
12248Ought ye not to be careful in your conduct, kind, and just, and generous in your dealing?
12248Shall it be Christ or Satan, Jerusalem or Gerizim, God or the world?
12248Shall we indeed take part in that grand procession?
12248Shall we pass within the gate into the city?
12248Shall we stand with the King of Glory on Olivet?
12248Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?''
12248Should such a man as I flee?
12248Should such a man as I flee?
12248Should we not bless them too?
12248Should we not day by day call down blessings on the brave noble missionaries?
12248Should we not help them all we can?
12248Should we not like to leave the old careless days behind, and for the future to fight manfully against the world, the flesh, and the devil?
12248Should we not pray for them, that strength and courage may be given them?
12248Should we ourselves be left behind?
12248So Nehemiah bravely answers:''Should such a man as I flee?
12248The great reformer, Martin Luther, looked around him, and what did he see?
12248The mighty universe, the great empire of the King of kings, who shall give us even a faint idea of its size?
12248Then I testified unto them: Why lodge ye about the wall?
12248These are your Christians, are they?
12248They could not live on air, no food was provided for them; what could they do but take care of themselves?
12248They have broken their word in the matter of the tithes; have they kept their promise with regard to the Sabbath?
12248Turning to the Rab- shakeh he asks:''Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?
12248WHAT DO THEY SAY?
12248Was Nehemiah remembered?
12248Was it some special sin which he confessed before God then?
12248Was this intelligence received with unmixed joy and thankfulness, or were there some in the city to whom it came as anything but pleasant tidings?
12248Was this right, or fair, or just?
12248We can picture him pacing up and down, saying again and again, What shall I do?
12248Were the Samaritans quiet, or had Sanballat and Tobiah taken the opportunity afforded by his absence, and invaded Jerusalem?
12248Were they continuing to serve and obey the Heavenly King?
12248Were they keeping the solemn covenant which had been sealed in his presence?
12248What about our Bible reading?
12248What about prayer?
12248What about sin, that besetting sin of ours, so often indulged in, so little fought against?
12248What about work for God?
12248What can be the cause of this mournful wail?
12248What can be the matter?
12248What can have happened to move them so deeply?
12248What city did the Persian kings make their capital?
12248What could they do?
12248What course shall we take?
12248What dare he propose?
12248What did those who sealed promise?
12248What do_ we_ know of Nehemiah?
12248What does Nehemiah answer?
12248What does the Master say as He hears words like these?
12248What had been going on in his absence?
12248What had filled them with grief?
12248What is Jerusalem compared with Shushan?
12248What is one name that we give to physical power; do we not call it_ brute force_?
12248What is that moaning, muttering sound in the far distance?
12248What is that plant standing in a conspicuous place in the conservatory?
12248What is the cause of their distress?
12248What is the matter at this part of the wall?
12248What is the reason of this sad change?
12248What is the weak part of our defences?
12248What is the wisest course to take?
12248What need after that to enter a single other article in the covenant?
12248What place would have to bear the whole force of the attack?
12248What response does he meet with?
12248What return do the three men make for their kindness?
12248What say the walls of Jerusalem?
12248What says the Captain?
12248What shall he say?
12248What shall we do?
12248What test then shall we use?
12248What then is the barber''s work?
12248What then is the first thing we find Saul doing?
12248What then were the articles of the covenant?
12248What was it?
12248What was the gossip which Gashmu had started against Nehemiah?
12248What was the matter?
12248What was the reason of its downfall?
12248What was the very first sin that entered into this fair earth of ours?
12248What will Geshem whisper?
12248What will Tobiah do?
12248What will the king do?
12248Where can the caravan have come from?
12248Where is Eliashib the high priest?
12248Where shall we find God''s great honour list?
12248Where were the men?
12248Where will they get their stone from?
12248Which of us can picture in his mind 100,000,000 objects?
12248Which of us will follow their example?
12248Which shall it be?
12248Who amongst us can stand firm in spite of Satan''s efforts to lead us aside?
12248Who are crying, and what is the cause of their distress?
12248Who are crying?
12248Who are these girls?
12248Who are these men who are arriving by companies at all the different gates of Jerusalem?
12248Who can even guess how many still lie beyond, unseen, unnoticed, unheard of?
12248Who can hold on, not for a week only, but still faithful as the weeks change into months, and the months into years, faithful unto death?
12248Who could help feeling it bitterly?
12248Who is there, that, being as I am-- that is, being a layman, not a priest-- as I am, could go into the temple and live?
12248Who then amongst us are faithful, true and unmoved?
12248Who then are to work for God?
12248Who then were these citizens of Jerusalem, these men and these women, who raised the great cry?
12248Who then were these hermits?
12248Who then would ever hear again of the power of Jerusalem?
12248Who then would ever see the gates put in their places?
12248Who was he?
12248Who was the strongest person who ever lived?
12248Who were these?
12248Who will bind himself to God?
12248Who will put his seal to the document, and promise to serve and obey the Master who died for him?
12248Who would be found willing to go to such a place as the heart of Africa?
12248Whom did Nehemiah choose for this post of enormous trust?
12248Why did the trees in the garden stand unsupported, and yet this tree fell so soon as its props were removed?
12248Why do we call it this?
12248Why had the Jews of Nehemiah''s day such an objection to living in Jerusalem?
12248Why is it that some only stand firm so long as they are under the care and influence of others?
12248Why then did not Nehemiah hold the service of dedication before?
12248Why was it so called?
12248Why was this?
12248Why, after longing for Jerusalem all the time of the captivity, did they shrink from it on their return?
12248Will he degrade him from his high position?
12248Will he dismiss him from office?
12248Will he punish him for his breach of court etiquette?
12248Will they make an end in a day?''
12248Will you try this plan this very night?
12248Will you?
12248Workers for God, does the work seem hard?
12248Would any offer for such a post of danger?
12248Would she deny her Master?
12248Would she renounce her Lord?
12248Yet after all are we right in calling Samson the strongest man?
12248Yet what says St. Paul?
12248Yet what says the Master?
12248Yet who can grasp such a number as that?
12248You take up a drawing of wood, and hill, and tree; how shall you know if it be correctly sketched?
12248You would never believe it, you would never guess it; but what do you think?
12248_ How then shall we work_?
12248_ What do they say?_ Do you answer like the Psalmist,''They lay to my charge things I knew not?''
12248_ What do they say?_ Do you answer like the Psalmist,''They lay to my charge things I knew not?''
12248_ Where then shall we work_?
12248_ Who should work_?
12248and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?''
12248and what communion hath light with darkness?''
12248and when wilt thou return?''
12248and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life?
12248men of all ages, the young and strong, and the old and white- headed?
12248people of both sexes, men and women?
12248those from all parts of the country-- men of Jericho, and Gibeon, and Mizpah, side by side with inhabitants of Jerusalem?
12248will ye rebel against the king?''