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The monuments excavated at Nineveh have
revealed much about the religion of the ancient Assyrians. They worshipped
the sun, moon and stars, and among their idols were heroes and rulers from
earlier times who were made deities. Asshur was the father of the
Assyrians and the country was named after him. He was regarded as "the
great god, king of all the gods." It was Asshur who gave power and life to
every priestly king, and this was his symbol. A winged circle or globe
with the human figure of a warrior god armed with a bow in its center.
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"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land
went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great
city."
- Genesis
10:10-12
"For through the voice of the LORD Assyria will be
beaten down, As He strikes with the rod."
- Isaiah
30:31
"And He will stretch out His hand against
the north, Destroy Assyria, And make Nineveh a desolation, As dry as the
wilderness."
- Zephaniah
2:13
"He shall pass through the sea with
affliction, And strike the waves of the sea: All the depths of the River
shall dry up. Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the
scepter of Egypt shall depart."
- Zechariah 10:11
"Asshur is there and all her company: his
graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the
sword"
- Ezekiel
32:22
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