...Assyrian empire are finely described by the prophet Ezekiel, under the similitude of a tree. " Behold, the " Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a PART I. their dominion from the borders of Egypt, i the frontiers of India. In the prosecution of these...

...multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? thou thinkest no firince ttfual to 3 thyself, but Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs ; it avertofified the most flourishing...

...Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs ; it overtopped the most flourishing trees, it exceeded all other king4 dome. The waters made him great,...

...her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and he? daughters shall go into captivity. XXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the king of Assyria was a greater...

...? Think not, that no king is comparable to thee, in power and greatnessXXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyinan was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high statare ; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the king of Assyria was a...

...king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian wan a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep...

...empire, under the splendid and majestic imagery afforded by vegetation in its most flourishing state : " The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair "-branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an " high stature, and his top was among the thick " boughs. The waters made him great, the...

...Egypt subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, - - 4143 — " with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs ;" rather, " fair in shoots, and thick in an overshadowing top, and tall in stem, and his topmost shoot...

...vanish away. Under the same emblem Ezekiel ( xxxi. 3 — 6 ) describes the Assyrian empire. "Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadow ing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. — His height...

...where the greatness and glory of Assyria is likened unto a Cedar-tree. It is thus described : " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. " Therefore his height was exalted...