Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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, and leading such animals as the Bac-trian camel, elephant, lion, rhinoceros—ani-mals found only in lands far east of the Ti-sns; The bass-reliefs are very numerous,exhibiting especially war and hunting. Themarch, the onset, the pursuit, the siege, thePassage of the rivers, the submission andtreatment of captives, secretaries noting the!^g»>er_of heads taken in battle, and the1 See Assyria. bells, ear-rings, arms, and utensils of variousdescriptions, have been discovered, all of ex-cellent workmanship. The ornaments espe-cially are in good taste, and evince no in-considerable skill in the working of metals.For a condensed account of these explora-tions, see Smiths Ancient History of theEast, chap, xii., and Eawlinsons AncientEmpires, vol. i., chap. iv. For a fuller ac-count, Layards Nineveh and its Remains,and Layards Nineveh and Babylon. Nisroch (great eagle f), an Assyrian deity,in whose house or temple Sennacherib wasworshiping when he was slain by his sons NITRE 688 NUMBERS
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Supposed Figure of Asshur, the tutelary Deity of theaucient Assyrians. From the Monuments. Adranimelech and Sharezer. Very little isknown of this god. He is probably identicalwith Asshur, the supreme deity of the Assyr-ians. (2 Kings xix., 37 ; Isa. xxxvii., 38.) Nitre occurs iu Prov. xxv., 20, and in Jer.ii., 22. The substance denoted is not thatwhich we now understand by the term nitre,i. €., nitrate of potassa, saltpetre, but the ni-trum of the Latins, the natron or native car-bonate of soda of modern chemistry. Thisis found abundantly in certain Egyptianlakes, fifty miles west of Cairo. The Egyp-tians use it in bread and for soap. Noah (rest), an eminent patriarch, andninth in descent after Adam. He is de-scribed as a just man, and perfect in hisgenerations, and as walking with God.When, therefore, God determined to destroythe world by a flood (q. v.), Noah was chosennot only to preserve and perpetuate the race,but also, as we learn from the N. T., to warnthe ungodly of the comi

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