Syria and Egypt: From the Tell El Amarna Letters

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Charles Scribner, 1898 - 187 ページ
 

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88 ページ - And now Dunip your city weeps, and her tears are running, and there is no help for us. For twenty years we have been sending to our lord the king, the king of Egypt, but there has not come to us a word from our lord, not one.
1 ページ - The place of the records of the palace of the king," as it is called upon the stamped bricks which I found still remaining there.
137 ページ - Behold, neither my father nor my mother appointed me in this place. The strong arm of the king inaugurated me in my father's territory.
119 ページ - ABDKHIBA to the king. A. has been slandered, and accused of revolt. He was not an hereditary chief, but was set up by the king. He is slandered because he' reproached the king's officer with favouring the Khabiri. Yankhamu has taken away a garrison. Cities of the king under Ili-milki have fallen away. A. continually tells the officers that all the dependent princes will be lost. Let troops be sent, for the king has no longer any territory, the Khabiri have wasted all. "To the scribe of my lord the...
117 ページ - Palestine is that from Abdkhiba king of Jerusalem. These show that Jerusalem was not merely a Jebusite village made into a capital by David and Solomon, but was the capital of south Palestine from early times. From the accounts of the state of Palestine at the Israelite invasion it appears that the Amorites held most of the country, but this was apparently not the case in the XVIIIth Dynasty. On the contrary, they are never mentioned in the south at all.
119 ページ - Abdkhiba your servant. Bring aloud before my lord the king the words, ' The whole territory of my lord, the king, is going to ruin.' " (W. 179 ; RP xvii. 66.) This last injunction to the scribe, to impress the facts on the king, is curious ; it bears such a stamp of sincerity that it seems...
118 ページ - Galilee early in the present war (letter 1 1 6); and then seems to have spread on southward, until by the time of the Israelite invasion the Amorites were paramount in the whole of Palestine.

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