And when he had blessed his twelve sons he commanded them to bury him with his fathers in a double spelunke which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite against Mamre in the land of Canaan which Abraham bought.

Egyptian, Babylonian, Aramaean, Hittite, Memphis, Babylon, Hamath, MegiddoI swallowed them all thankfully, wrote them down and asked for more.

And again, in the case recorded at 2 Kings 7: 6, where the Lord "made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host,... and they arose and ... fled for their life," thinking that Hittite and Egyptian forces were approaching, it is evident that God simply caused the Syrians, who were contending with his people, to feel that they were fighting hopelessly against God's cause.

And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

"And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also....

Relics of Buddha, and the Hittite inscriptions.

As has been indicated, the greatest puzzle of ancient history is that of the Hittite empire, which seems to have ruled all Asia Minor at some uncertain time, and to have extended over Syria and Palestine.

Already an English expedition has very carelessly just opened the hill and exposed, but not fairly published, some few as fine friezes as are to be found in the Assyrian capitals, with unread Hittite inscriptions, and a fine statue of the Hittite Venus; but much remains to reward the student of Oriental history and art.

Already an English expedition has very carelessly just opened the hill and exposed, but not fairly published, some few as fine friezes as are to be found in the Assyrian capitals, with unread Hittite inscriptions, and a fine statue of the Hittite Venus; but much remains to reward the student of Oriental history and art.

It was a magnificent result of very moderate labor,Hittite friezes, Assyrian and Aramean inscriptions all in one little mound.

As I write, the announcement comes that Professor Sayce has at last discovered the secret of the Hittite hieroglyphs, and we may hope that very soon it will be possible to read them.

All about the coast of Asia Minor they lived, while that Hittite power was ruling the interior; and, intermixed with Phoenician trading-posts, they held the great islands of Crete and Cyprus and the shores of Sicily and Italy.

The Professor took from his bag a foreign review in which a German sciolist had dared to question his interpretation of a Hittite inscription.

She might have been equally balm to King David, Uriah the Hittite, Socrates, Rousseau, Lord Byron, Heine, or Charlie Peace.

The large numbers of the Canaanites, as well as the Philistines and others, who became proselytes, and joined themselves to the Hebrewsas the Nethenims, Uriah the Hittite, one of David's memorable "thirty seven"Rahab, who married one of the princes of JudahIttaiThe six hundred GititesDavid's bodyguard, "faithful among the faithless."2

The large numbers of the Canaanites, as well as the Philistines and others, who became proselytes, and joined themselves to the Hebrewsas the Nethenims, Uriah the Hittite, one of David's memorable "thirty seven"Rahab, who married one of the princes of JudahIttaiThe six hundred GititesDavid's bodyguard, "faithful among the faithless."2

Kizzuwatna and the problem of Hittite geography.

GELB, IGNACE J. Hittite hieroglyphs, III.

Kizzuwatna and the problem of Hittite geography.

GELB, IGNACE J. Hittite hieroglyphs, III.

16, the land which Jacob bought of the children of Hamor, is confounded with that which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite.

Never forgetful, it would seem, of a childish adventure when the little Nur Jahan in temper and pride set free his two pet doves, twenty years later the Mughal Emperor won her from her soldier husband by those same swift methods that David employed to gain the wife of Uriah, the Hittite.

There was a Judith, daughter of Beer the Hittite, one of the wives of Esau (Gen. xxxvi. 34).

The Sumerian, Aegean, Chinese, Hittite, Assyrian and Indian civilizations had enjoyed periods of dominance but had never reached the level of supremacy enjoyed by the Egyptians.

HAMAH (45), the Hamath of the Bible, an ancient city of Syria, on the Orontes, 110 m. NE. of Damascus; manufactures silk, cotton, and woollen fabrics; is one of the oldest cities of the world; has some trade with the Bedouins in woollen stuffs; during the Macedonian dynasty it was known as Epiphania; in 1812 Burckhardt discovered stones in it with Hittite inscriptions.