Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, till Asshur shall carry thee away captive.'

Some day or other they will come and afflict Asshur, the great empire of the East, out of which Balaam probably came; and afflict Eber too, the kingdom of the Jews, and they too shall perish for ever.

That lady had been given in marriage to an officer in Solomon's army, and thirty years afterward, in the land of Asshur, where her father was stationed, I married the youngest daughter of Liridi.

This deity in Assyria was Asshur.

He is recognized by most authorities as Asshur, a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, who was probably the hero and leader of one of the early migrations, and, as founder of the Assyrian Empire, gave it its name,his own being magnified and deified by his warlike descendants.

The Assyrian Asshur placed kings upon their thrones, protected their armies, and directed their expeditions.

In speaking of him it was "Asshur, my Lord."

Ranking after El in Babylon, Asshur in Assyria, and Baal in Phoenicia,all shadows of the same supreme God,we notice among these Mesopotamians a triad of the great gods, called Anu, Bel, and Hea.

In Assyria, Asshur, the substitute for Ra, was the supreme deity.

And before the Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar, and long centuries before Nineveh or Calah or Asshur, there had been mighty kingdoms in Babylonia, of which the world had quite forgot the names, only vague rumors remaining in song or legend of Nimrod and Chedorlaomer and Ur of the Chaldees,only what was preserved in the dimmest records of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Assur, English Asshur; the name occurs in the marginal rendering of Gen. x. II (Revised Version).

An ornament often introduced into the designs of thrones and chairs is a conventional treatment of the tree sacred to Asshur, the Assyrian Jupiter; the pine cone, another sacred emblem, is also found, sometimes as in the illustration of the Khorsabad chair on page 4, forming an ornamental foot, and at others being part of the merely decorative design.