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  Assyria (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
In B.C. 1120 Tiglath-pileser I., the greatest of the Assyrian kings, "crossed the Euphrates, defeated the kings of the Hittites, captured the city of Carchemish, and advanced as far as the shores of the Mediterranean." He may be regarded as the founder of the first Assyrian empire.
He directed his armies into Syria, which had by this time regained its independence, and took (B.C. Arpad, near Aleppo, after a siege of three years, and reduced Hamath.
Azariah (Uzziah) was an ally of the king of Hamath, and thus was compelled by Tiglath-pileser to do him homage and pay a yearly tribute.
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  Syria - LoveToKnow 1911
SYRIA, the name given generally to the land lying between the easternmost shore of the Levantine Gulf and a natural inland boundary formed in part by the Middle Euphrates and in part by the western edge of the Hamad or desert steppe.
Syria happens to lie on the line of least resistance for communication between the early subtropic seats of civilization in the Nile and Euphrates valleys and the civilizations of Europe.
Geologically, Syria belongs to two distinct regions of the earth's crust, the northern and smaller portion lying within the great belt of folding of southern Europe and central Asia, and the southern and larger portion belonging to the Indo-African area, which, though often faulted, is usually free from crumpling.
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 Page 230
To the Year 332 B.C.: In 625 Syria was invaded by Scythian hordes, and from the battle of Megiddo (609) to that of Carchemish (605) the land was under the sway of Pharaoh Necho, after which it came under the dominion of the Neo-Babylonian empire.
The general fortunes of Syria during the Persian period were evil, since the land constituted the route of the expeditions against Egypt, Pbenicia, and Palestine.
From 65 to 48 Syria was under the sway of Pompey, but in 56 Crassus received it, and after sharing the vicissitudes of the period, it was controlled by Mark Antony from 41 to 30, despite attempted Parthian invasions.
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 Syria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Contains: Abilene, Aleppo, Arpad, Arvad, Bashan, Batanaea, Carchemish, Damascus, Ebla, Emesa, Gamgum, Gan Dunias, Hamath, Homs, Latakia, Marathus, Mari, the Nizari, the Nusayri, Palmyra, Syria (General Survey), Tel Barsip, Ugarit, Unqi, Yamkhad, Zimru.
Arpad allied with Urartu against the Assyrians, and was beseiged for three years.
Nonetheless, they eventually became the most economically successful group in Syria, and today are the dominant sect in that country, including among their numbers the ruling Assad family, a disproportionately large percentage of the armed forces' upper echelons, and many cabinet ministers.
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 Arpad - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Arpad, in the Bible, unidentified city, probably in W central Syria.
Arpad SZENES and M. VIERA DA SILVA painters in Fine Arts School Museum during the exhibition of VIERRA DA SILVA.
In the center: Arpad GONCZ President of the Hungarian Republic.
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 f. The Land of Aram (Syria). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
It is certain that two major movements of Aramaic speakers, one west into Syria and another into Upper Mesopotamia and Babylonia (the Chaldeans), occurred in the course of the 12th century.
With the decline of Damascus, the northern Aramean state of Arpad (Bit Argusi) came to the fore.
In 755, King Matiel of Arpad allied himself with Urartu (See 744–727) against the Assyrians, but they were defeated by Tiglath-Pileser III in 743.
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 NETBible : NEXT Generation :: Arpad - Dictionaries
ARPAD; ARPHAD - ar'-pad; ar'-fad ('arpadh, "support"): A city of Syria, captured frequently by the Assyrians, and finally subjugated by Tiglath-pileser III in 740 BC, after a siege of two years.
Arpad is one of the conquered cities mentioned by Rabshakeh, the officer of Sennacherib, in his boast before Jerusalem (2 Ki 18:34; 19:13; Isa 36:19; 37:13; the King James Version Arphad).
Isaiah puts a boast about its capture in the mouth of the Assyrian king (Isa 10:9), and Jeremiah mentions it as "confounded" because of evil tidings, in the oracle concerning Damascus (Jer 49:23).
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 Arpad (Syria) Information
Arpad was a city located in north-western Syria.
In 743 BCE, Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III led a military expedition to Syria, defeating there an army of Urartu.
It took Tiglath-pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city.
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 BibleMaster.com - Study Aids - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
A city of Syria, captured frequently by the Assyrians, and finally subjugated by Tiglath-pileser III in 740 BC, after a siege of two years.
Arpad is one of the conquered cities mentioned by Rabshakeh, the officer of Sennacherib, in his boast before Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13; Isaiah 36:19; 37:13; the King James Version Arphad).
Isaiah puts a boast about its capture in the mouth of the Assyrian king (Isaiah 10:9), and Jeremiah mentions it as "confounded" because of evil tidings, in the oracle concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23).
www.biblemaster.com /bible/ency/isb/view.asp?number=763   (117 words)

  
 Sitios de Arpad | Información Pública y Privada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Arpad Dynasty of Hungary (907-1301) and the Premyslid Kings of...
The Arpad Dynasty of Hungary (907-1301) and the Premyslid Kings of Bohemia (1198-1378).
Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D., received his degree in Chemistry in Budapest, Hungary and his B.Sc.
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 Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 5 | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Jeremiah speaks here of the kingdom of Syria, which he means by Damascus, where the kings, as it is well known, resided.
There are several copies in which the כ, caph, is found, and it is evidently the most suitable reading, — Confounded is Hamath and Arpad; For an evil report have they heard, — they melt away; Like the sea the agitation, the quieting none can effect.
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 Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XIX. Assyria's Age of Splendour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
New political confederacies in Syria kept the north-west regions in a constant state of unrest, and the now powerful Urartian kingdom was threatening the Syro-Cappadocian states as if its rulers had dreams of building up a great world empire on the ruins of that of Assyria.
Leaving Arpad, Tiglath-pileser advanced to meet Sharduris, who was apparently hastening southward to attack the Assyrians in the rear.
Tiglath-pileser was operating successfully in middle Syria when he had dealings with, among others, "Menihimme (Menahem) of the city of the Samarians", who paid tribute.
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 ARPAD - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
Isaiah mimicked such statements, saying Assyria was only a rod of Yahweh's anger and would soon face punishment for its pride (Isaiah 10:5-19).
Jeremiah noted Arpad's confusion as he pronounced doom on Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23).
Arpad is modern tell Erfad about 25 miles north of Aleppo.
www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T469   (165 words)

  
 BLB 2Ki 18
It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and the present Hamah doubtless occupies its site; as Abulfeda, who was prince or emir of Hamah about A..D. 1345, expressly states, in his Description of Syria, that Hamah is an ancient city mentioned in the writings of the Israelites.
Arpad is probably the town of Arphas, mentioned by Josephus as limiting the province of Gamalitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea, and Trachonitis, to the N. E.; and the Raphan, or Raphanea, which Stephanus places near Epiphania.
And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
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 2003 (Part Two)
Behold, he shall come up and fly as an eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah [Busra, SW Syria OR Bosra, SE Iraq]: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom [S. Jordan, NW Saudi Arabia] be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her...her young men shall fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.
Syria's foreign minister on Sunday called the overnight raid on a camp "a flagrant violation and a serious escalation" and said Damascus would complain to the United Nations in a closed Security Council meeting hastily called for 4 p.m.
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 Assyria Part Nine
The centre of reorganization in northern Syria was the city-
Three years longer the struggle went on before Arpad.
Middle Syria, about Hamath, became involved in trouble with Assyria.
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 Kerux...The Online Journal of Biblical Theology
Tiglath-Pileser III assumed the throne of the Neo-Assyrian empire in 745 B.C. He proceeded to reverse four decades of Assyrian decline by marching his armies back and forth year after year from the Tigris-Euphrates to the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf to the mountains of Ararat (Urartu).
At his death in 727 B.C., Assyria controlled the Mesopotamian crescent from the border of Egypt to the border of modern Azerbaijan to the border of modern Iran.
From 742-740 B.C., Tiglath-Pileser III besieged Arpad (Syria).
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 Revival of Assyrian Empire: 745-730 BC
He then proceeded to enter the Syrian city of Arpad, where all the kings of Upper Syria paid him tribute because of his power.
Also during that year, Syria and Israel formed an alliance and attacked Judah.
Tiglath-Pileser accepted his offer and in the year 734, he marched his army into Syria and found the army of Rezon, a Syrian king, waiting for him.
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 VIEWPOINT (Archives 2)
Hamath and Arpad were both located in northern Syria, illustrating the fullness of the wrath to come throughout the whole of the Syrian nation.
It is no secret that the US is as eager to neutralise Syria in its goal to wipe out every terrorist nation from the face of the earth as Israel is to free itself from Syria's military and WMD threat.
The Al Qaeda organisation and neighbouring states like Syria and Iran are seeking to expell the invaders and fill a perceived political and religious vacuum.
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 Ethics of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires by Sanderson Beck
Shamsi-Adad's queen Sammuramat, the legendary Semiramis of Greek historians, ruled as regent (or at least was influential) for her son Adad-nirari III, who in 806 BC invaded Syria and collected tribute from the Neo-Hittites, Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, and Edomites.
After Adad-nirari III died in 783 BC, his four sons ruled in succession; but none of them were noteworthy until the fourth, Tiglath-pileser III, became king of Assyria in 745 BC, though some believe that he was not a royal son but a general who took power by force.
Nabonidus continued the effort of Neriglissar to defend Syria from northern invasion, bringing 2,850 captive slaves back to Babylon to rebuild its walls and restore the temple of Sin at Harran.
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 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Brief Overview of the Assyrian Empire
Gradually the expansion resumed, primarily to the disadvantage of the states of northern Syria.
According to the Old Testament (2 Kings 15:19), in 738BC, during the reign of King Menahem of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser III occupied Philistia and invaded Israel, forcing a particularly heavy demand for tribute.
Shalmaneser was unfuriated (as expected) and invaded Syria, besieging Samaria for 3 years.
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 AllRefer.com - Arpad, in the Bible (Biblical Proper Names) - Encyclopedia
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Arpad[Ar´pad] Pronunciation Key, in the Bible, unidentified city, probably in W central Syria.
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 Kerux...The Online Journal of Biblical Theology
Tiglath-Pileser III assumed the throne of the Neo-Assyrian empire in 745 B.C. He proceeded to reverse four decades of Assyrian decline by marching his armies back and forth year after year from the Tigris-Euphrates to the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf to the mountains of Ararat (Urartu).
At his death in 727 B.C., Assyria controlled the Mesopotamian crescent from the border of Egypt to the border of modern Azerbaijan to the border of modern Iran.
From 742-740 B.C., Tiglath-Pileser III besieged Arpad (Syria).
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 Unveiling Newsletter # 10
This tells us that the problem King Ahaz was having with the King of Syria, and the King of northern Israel, would be resolved shortly after some particular male child, named 'God is against us', was born - to take place within King Ahaz’s reign - more than 500 years before Jesus was born.
Syria lost their king, Rezin, shortly after Israel lost their king, Pekin, which was very close to the year 740 - 739 BCE.
Mahershalalhashbaz - Maher-shalal-hash-baz, means: "swift is booty, speedy is prey", symbolic name given by Isaiah by the Lord's direction to Isaiah's son; prophetic indication that Damascus [Syria] and Samaria [northern Israel] were soon to be plundered by the king of Assyria.
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 Assyria Part Ten
Later in the king's reign, captives from Babylonia and Syria were
the affairs of Syria, whither, both by reason of immemorial Egyptian claims
He secured adherents in the provinces of Arpad,
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 arpad - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Isaiah 10
The Amplified Bible renders it, “Is not Calno of Babylonia conquered as is Carchemish on the Euphrates.
Is not Hamath in Upper Syria as Arpad, her neighbor?
This was the proud aggressor’s arrogant boast, but like many another, he was ignorant of the nature of Jehovah, and that the contest was between him, the puny created thing, and the almighty Creator!
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 Wars
806 B.C. Assyrian Adad-Nirari III sacks Arpad in Syria
754-714 B.C. Urartu campaigns at least once per year under Argishti I and Sarduri II 754 B.C. Assyrian Ashurdan III sacks Arpad in Syria
312 B.C. @Gaza Egypt and Syria vs. Macedonian Demetrius 5
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