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he Battle of Ulai is well known because of the relief carvings found in Ashurbanipal's palace in Ninevah. These chaotic images portray the torture and death of countless enemy soldiers. The severed head of Teumman can be found in nearly every panel including the panel depicting the king's victory banquet. This is consistent with the Assyrian propaganda "which urges viewers to be both fearful and in awe of Assyrian might".[8]

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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord:

wherefore it is said,

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

     And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,

and Erech,

and Accad,

and Calneh,

in the

land of Shinar.

    

Out of that land went forth Asshur,

and builded Nineveh,

and the city Rehoboth,

and Calah,

And Resen

 

between

 

Nineveh and Calah:

the same is a great city.

*************

 

 

Simeon and Levi

are brethren;

 

instruments of cruelty

are in their

habitations.

 

O my soul,

come not thou

into

their secret;

 

unto their assembly,

 

mine honour,

be not thou united:

 

for in their

anger

they slew a man,

and

in their

selfwill

they

digged

down a wall.

******

 

There

was in the days of Herod,

the king of Judaea,

a certain priest named Zacharias,

a Son of Moses

*

And the anger of the Lord

was kindled against Moses,

and

he said,

 

Is not Aaron

the

Levite thy brother?

 

I know

that

he

can speak well.

 

And also,

 

behold,

 

he

cometh forth to meet thee:

and

when he seeth thee,

he

will be glad

in his

heart.

*

and his wife

was of

the

daughters of Aaron,

and her name

was

Elisa-bethsheba.

 

*

For

I

know him,

 

that he

will command

his children

and his

household

after

 

him,

 

and they shall keep

the

way of the Lord,

to do

justice

and judgment;

*

And thou

 

shalt teach

them

 

ordinances

 

and laws,

 

and shalt shew

them

the way

wherein

they

must walk,

 

and the

work

 

that they

must do.

 

**

 

And they

were both

righteous

before God,

walking

in all

the commandments

 

and ordinances

of

the Lord blameless.

 

And

they

had no child,

 because

that Elisa-bethsheba  

was barren,

 

 and they

both were

now

well stricken in years.

**

Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the

courses,

which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months

of the year,

of

every course were twenty

and four thousand.

 

**

 

And it came

to

pass,

that while he

executed the priest's office

before God

in the

order

of

his course,

 

According to the custom

of the

priest's office,

**

Bring no more vain oblations;

incense

is an

abomination

 

unto me;

 

the new moons and sabbaths,

the calling of assemblies,

**

lest we be scattered

abroad

upon the face

of

the whole earth.

 

*

 

I

cannot away with;

 

it is

inequity,

 

even the solemn meeting.

*

 

his lot

was to burn incense

when he went into

the temple

of

the Lord.

 

     And the whole multitude of the people were praying

without

at

the time

of

incense.

 

And there

(Nineveh)

appeared unto him

an angel

of

the

Lord

 standing on

the

right

side of the

altar of incense.

 

     And when Zacharias saw him,

he

was troubled,

and fear fell upon him.

 

But the angel said unto him,

Fear not,

Zacharias:

 

for thy prayer is heard;

 

and thy wife

Elisa-bethsheba

shall bear

thee a son,

and thou shalt call

his name

Elisha.

 

And thou shalt have joy

and gladness;

and many shall rejoice

at

his birth.

     For he

shall be great

in the

sight

of

the Lord,

and shall drink neither

wine

*

Woe unto them

that are

mighty

to

drink wine,

 

and men of strength

to mingle strong drink:

Which justify

the

wicked for reward,

and take away the righteousness

of

the

righteous from him!

 

*

nor strong drink;

and he

shall be filled with

the

glory of the Lord,

even from

his mother's womb.

******

And

I

 

will give unto thee,

and to thy seed after thee,

 

the land wherein thou art a stranger,

 

all the land

of

Canaan,

 

for an

everlasting possession;

 

and

I

will be their God.

 

And God

said unto

Abraham,

 

Thou

shalt keep

my covenant

therefore,

 

thou,

and thy seed

after thee

 

in their

generations.

*

 

And many

of

the children

of

Israel shall

he

turn

to the

Lord their God.

**

And he

said unto the woman,

Yea,

 

hath God said,

Ye

shall not eat

of

every tree

of

the garden?

 

**

And he shall

go

before him

 

in

the spirit

and power

of

Elias,

**

Take ye the sum

of all the

congregation

of

the children

of Israel,

after

their families,

by the house

of

their fathers,

with the number

of their names,

every male

by

their polls;

 

From twenty years old

and upward,

all

that are

able

to go

 

forth

to

war in Israel:

 

Thou

and Aaron

shall number them

by

their armies.

And with you

there

shall be a man

of

every tribe;

every one head

of the

house

of

his fathers.

 

And these are the names

of the

men

 that shall stand with you . . .

*

When Leah

saw

that she

had left bearing,

 

she took

Zilpah her maid,

and gave her Jacob to wife.

And Zilpah Leah's maid bare

Jacob

a son.

And Leah said,

 

A troop cometh:

 

and she called

his name Gad.

 

*

Of Gad;

Elias-aph

the

son of Deuel.

 

 

**

And it came to pass,

when

I,

 

even

I

Daniel,

had seen the vision,

and sought

for

the meaning,

 

then,

behold,

 

there

stood before

me

as the

appearance

of

a man.

    

And

I

heard a man's voice

between the banks

of Ulai,

 

which called,

 

and said,

 

Gabriel,

 

make this man

to

understand the vision.

 

**

     And Pharaoh

said

unto Joseph,

 

In my dream,

behold,

I stood

upon the bank of the river:

 

And,

behold,

there

came

up out of

the river seven kine,

 

fatfleshed

and well favoured;

 

and they

fed in a meadow:

 

And,

behold,

seven other kine came up

after them,

 

poor and very ill favoured

and leanfleshed,

such as

I

never saw in all

the

land of Egypt

for badness:

 

And the lean

and the ill favoured kine

did eat up

the

first

seven fat kine:

 

And when

they

had eaten

them up,

it

could not be known

that they

had eaten them;

 

but they

were still

ill favoured,

as at the

beginning.

 

So

IYEAON

awoke.

 

 

**

 

So he

came near

where

 

I stood:

 

and when

he

came,

 

I

was afraid,

 

 

and fell upon

my face:

*

But there

went up a mist from the earth,

and watered the whole face

of

the ground.

 

*

but he

said unto me,

 

Understand,

 

O

son of man:

 

for at the time

 

of

the end

shall be the vision.

 

Now

as he

was speaking with me,

 

I

was

in a deep sleep

 

on

my face

toward the ground:

 

but he touched me,

 

and

set me upright.

 

And he

said,

 

Behold,

I

will make

thee know

what shall

be in

the

last end

of the indignation:

for at the time

appointed the end shall be.

 

**

to turn

the

hearts

of

the fathers

to the children,

 

and the

disobedient

 

to the

 

wisdom of the just;

 

to

make ready

a

people

 

prepared

 

for

the Lord.

    

And Zacharias

said

unto the angel,

 

Whereby shall

I know

this?

 

for

I am

an old man,

and my wife

well

stricken in years.

 

And

the angel

answering

said unto

him,

I am Gabriel,

 

“Gabriel is the alter

the sons of Aaron, established and worshiped  in Nineveh,

after “also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon,

and put them in his temple at Babylon.”

Hence, Gabriel, the appearance of a man.

 

that stand

in the

presence of God;

 

and

am

sent to speak unto thee,

 

and

to shew

thee

these glad tidings.

 

And,

behold,

thou

shalt be dumb,

and not able to speak,

until the day

that these things

shall

be performed,

 

because

thou believest

not

my words,

 

which shall be fulfilled

in

their season.

*

    

And after those days

his wife

Elisa-bethsheba

 

conceived,

*

and it shall come to pass,

that every

one

that findeth

me

shall slay

me.

 

*

and hid herself

five months,

 

saying,

Thus hath the Lord dealt

with me

in

the days wherein

he

looked on

me,

to take away

my

reproach among men.

 

 

Annas and Caiaphas

being the high priests,

 

the word

of

God

came unto

Elisha 

the son

of

Zacharias

in the

wilderness.

 

And he

 came into all the country

about Jordan,

preaching repentance;

 

 

*

The inequity

of

Ephraim is bound up;

 

his

sin is hid.

The sorrows

of a

travailing woman

shall come upon

him:

he

is an

unwise son;

for he

should not stay long

in

the

place

of the

breaking forth

of

children.

 

I

will ransom them

from the

power of the grave;

 

I

will

redeem them from death:

 

O death,

I

will be

thy

plagues;

 

O

grave,

I

will be

 thy

destruction:

 

repentance

shall be hid

from

mine eyes.

 

*

And he said,

Cursed be Canaan;

a

servant of servants

shall

he be unto

his brethren.

 

*

Though

he be

fruitful among his brethren,

 

an east wind

shall come,

the wind

of

the Lord shall come

up from

the wilderness,

 

and his

spring shall become dry,

and his fountain shall be dried up:

 

he

shall spoil

the treasure

of all

pleasant vessels.

 

Samaria shall become desolate;

*

but Ruth clave unto her.

And she said,

Behold,

thy sister in law

is

gone back unto

her people,

 

and unto her gods:

 

return thou after

thy sister

in law.

 

And Ruth said,

Entreat

me not to leave thee,

or

to return

from

following after thee:

for

whither thou goest,

I will go;

and

where

thou lodgest,

I

will lodge:

thy people

shall be

my people,

and thy God my God:

 

*

she

shall be called Woman,

because

she

was taken out of Man.

 

Therefore

shall a man leave his father

and his mother,

 

and shall cleave unto his wife:

and they shall be one flesh.

 

**

for she

hath rebelled against

 

her God:

 

they shall fall

by

the sword:

their infants shall

be

dashed in pieces,

and their workmen

with child

shall be ripped up.

 

O Israel,

return unto the Lord

thy God;

 

for

thou hast

fallen

by

thine inequity.

 

Take with you words,

and turn to the Lord:

say unto him,

Take away all inequity,

and receive us graciously:

so

will we

render the calves

of

our lips.

 

*

 

 

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying,

The voice

of

one

crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Every

valley shall be filled,

and every

mountain

and hill shall

be

brought low;

 

and the crooked shall

be

made straight,

and the rough ways

shall

be

 made smooth;

    

And

all flesh

 

shall see

the

salvation

of

God.

 

Then said

he to the

multitude

that came forth

to be

anointed 

of

him,

 

O

generation

of

vipers,

 

who hath warned you

to flee

from the

wrath to come?

    

Bring forth

therefore

fruits worthy

of

repentance,

**

and the arms

of

his hands

were made

strong

by

the

hands of the mighty

God of Jacob;

(from thence is the shepherd,

the stone of Israel:)

*

and begin

not to say

within yourselves,

 

We

have

Abraham

to

our father:

**

But with thee will

I

establish my covenant;

*

 

Then

ye

shall answer them,

 

That the waters

of

Jordan

were cut off

before

the ark

 

of

 

the covenant

 

of

the Lord;

 

when it passed

over Jordan,

 

the waters

of

Jordan

were cut off:

*

 

*

and

these stones

 shall

be for

a memorial unto the children

of

Israel for ever.

**

for I

 say unto you,

 

That God

Is

able of

these stones

to

raise up children

unto

Abraham.

*

Moreover

he said,

*

And Terah

lived

seventy years,

and begat Abram,

*

I am

The

 God of thy father,

 

the

God of Abraham,

 

the

God of Isaac,

 

and the God of Jacob.

*

     And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:

every tree therefore

which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,

and cast into the fire.

    

And the people asked him, saying,

What shall we do then?

    

He answereth

and saith unto them,

He

that

hath two coats,

 

let him impart to him that hath none;

and he that hath meat,

let him do likewise.

 

Then and Satan came also among them to be anointed  and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

And

he

said

unto them,

Exact

no more

 

than that

which is

appointed you.

 

*

And with them,

by their generations,

after the house

of their fathers,

were bands of soldiers

for war,

six and thirty thousand men:

for they had many wives and sons.

 

 

*

And the soldiers likewise demanded

of him,

saying,

And what shall we do?

And he said unto them,

Do violence to no man,

neither accuse any falsely;

and be content with your wages.

 

And as the people were

in expectation,

and all men mused in their hearts of Elisha ,

whether he were the

Christ, or not;

 

Elisha  answered,

saying unto them all,

I indeed anointed  you with water;

but one

mightier than

I

cometh,

the latchet of whose shoes

 

I am

not worthy to unloose:

he shall bless you

with the

Glory of God

and

with fire:

*

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:

but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

 

 

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