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Nehemiah 1:3
And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
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Lamentations 2:9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
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The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... Local cults often centred round obscure deities held in little account by ... their houses
burned, and prisoners were impaled outside the gates of their cities. ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

The Seven Trumpets.
... extremities of Germany almost to the gates of Rome ... them with the ruins of their cities
and churches ... a New Jerusalem, as other enthusiasts have often attempted. ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the seven trumpets.htm

The First Theban Empire
... a stronghold by breaking down its gates with their ... But the ancient royal cities of
Kheops and his ... The task was often arduous, and the commissioners generally ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... to secure for him the opening of the gates of Athens ... were restored to order, and,
as was often customary in ... the offensive, most of the Asiatic cities would have ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... and was sometimes used to denote cities which had ... had a double enclosing wall and
massively built gates, which could ... to which the country was often exposed, or ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... movements of the time, and had often directed their ... Borsippa, Kuta, Kishu, Dilbat,
and Uruk, "cities without peer ... the town threw open its gates before him.*. ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... of demarcation between them, and we are often obliged to ... the Nile and to the
river-side cities on the ... the central steppe and through the Cilician Gates, to the ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... allowed their critical faculties, and often their imagination ... and several lines of
walled cities"among which ... two small forts placed close to the main gates. ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

The Iranian Conquest
... classical writers maintain that the Magi often cloaked monstrous ... his fortress of
Sidene, opened its gates after a ... the passion of the Greek cities for autonomy. ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
... 'The heathen made the chief gates of their ... The two cities Sion and Jerusalem, were
such as sometimes set forth the two churches, the true and the false, and ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/solomons temple spiritualized.htm