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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.” It appears that

Nimrod also founded the city of Nineveh,

which afterward became the capital of Syria.

(See marginal reading of Genesis 10:11, and

Johnson’s Cyclopedia, art. Syria.) The

following sketch of the history of Babylon,

from Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia, art.

Babylon, is according to the latest authorities

on this subject: —

“About 1270 B. C., the Assyrian kings became

masters of Chaldea, or Babylonia, of which

Babylon was the capital. This country was

afterward ruled by an Assyrian dynasty of

kings, who reigned at Babylon, and sometimes

waged war against those who reigned in

Assyria proper. At other times the kings of

Babylon were tributary to those of Assyria.

Several centuries elapsed in which the history