dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the

language of all the earth: and from

thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

For the Wars of all these nations with Israel, see under WAR.

AMALEK.

HIS DESCENT AND EXTIRPATION.

at the time when kings go forth to
battle, that David sent Joab, and
his servants with him, and all
Israel; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged
Rabbah: but David tarried still at
Jerusalem.

1 Chron. xx, 1. And it came to
pass, that after the year was ex-
pired, at the time that kings go
out to battle, Joab led forth the
power of the army, and wasted
the country of the children of
Ammon, and came and besieged
Rabbah; (but David tarried at
and Joab
Jerusalem:)

Rabbah, and destroyed it.

smote

2 Chron. xxvi, 8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

2 Kings xxl, 11. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols.

Ezek. xvi, 3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GoD unto Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Amos ii, 9. Yet destroyed I the the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

ARABIA.

NOTED FOR ITS KINGS AND ITS
MERCHANDISE..

1 Kings x, 15. Besides that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice-merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

Jer. xlix, 2,6. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel 2 Chron. ix, 14. Besides that be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. And after-which chapmen and merchants ward I will bring again the cap- brought: and all the kings of tivity of the children of Ammon, Arabia, and governors of the country, brought gold and silver saith the LORD. to Solomon.

Gen. xxxvi, 12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah, Ezek. xxv, 5, 10. And I will Esau's wife. Num. xiv, 45. Then the Amalek-make Rabbah a stable for camels, ites came down, and the Canaan- and the Ammonites a couchingites which dwelt in that hill, and place for flocks: and ye shall smote them, and discomfited them. know that I am the LORD. Unto the men of the east with the even unto Iormah. Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

Num. xxiv, 20. And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be, that he perish for

AMMON.

CHIEF CITY, RABBAH. Gen. xix, 38. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Amos i, 14. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

AMORITES.

ONE OF THE SEVEN NATIONS OF
CANAAN.

Deut. xx, 17. But thou shalt
utterly destroy them; namely,
the Hittites, and the Amorites, the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the
LORD thy God hath commanded
thee.

2 Chron. xvii, 11. . . . . And the Arabians brought him [Jehosha phat] flocks, seven thousan 1 and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

Isa. xxi, 13, 16, 17. The burden In the forest in upon Arabia, Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail; And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

Jer. xxv, 24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the

desert.

Gal. i, 17. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

Josh. iii, 10. And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and Judges x, 11. And the LORD said the Perizzites, and the Girgash-forth unto the children of Israel, Didites, and the Amorites, and the not I deliver you from the Egyp-Jebusites. tians, and, from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

2 Sam. xi, 1. And it came to pass after the year was expired,

Judges xi, 23. So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

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ASSYRIA.

Gen. x, 11. . . . . Asshur went and built Nineveh. Gen. xxv, 18. And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he [Ishmael] died in the presence of all his brethren.

Num. xxiv, 22. Nevertheless the

Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

2 Kings xv, 29. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

Isa. xix, 23-25. In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, eren a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

Jer. ii, 18, 36. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Jonah iii, 2. Arise, go to Nineveh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Nah. i, 1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nah. ii, S. But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water; yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

Nah. iii, 7. And it shall come to
pass, that all they that look upon
thee shall flee from thee, and say,
Nineveh is laid waste: who will
bemoan her? whence shall I seek
comforters for thee?

Zeph. ii, 13. And he will stretch
and destroy Assyria; and will
out his hand against the north.
dry like a wilderness.
make Nineveh a desolation, and

Matth. xil, 41. The men of
Nineve shall rise in judgment
with this generation, and shall
condemn it: because they repented
at the preaching of Jonas; and,
behold, a greater than Jonas is
here.

ASIA.

Jer. 1, 1. 25. The word that the LORD spake against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and hath brought forth the weaLORD hath opened his armoury, by Jeremiah the prophet. The pons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GoD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

Ezek. xii, 13. My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

Dan. i. 2. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his Acts vi. 9. Then there arose cerhand, with part of the vessels of tain of the synagogue, which is the house of God, which he carried tines, and Cyrenians, and Alexancalled the synagogue of the Liber-house of his god; and he brought into the land of Shinar, to the waste the land of Assyria with the drians, and of them of Cilicia and the vessels into the treasure house

Micah v, 6. And they shall

sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Zech. x, 10, 11. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through the sea with alliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

had gone throughout Phrygia and
Acts xvi, 6. Now, when they
the region of Galatia, and were
forbidden of the Holy Ghost to
preach the word in Asia.

tinued by the space of two years;
Acts xix, 10, 31. And this con-
Asia heard the word of the Lord
so that all they which dwelt in
Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
which were his friends, sent unto
And certain of the chief of Asia,
him, desiring him that he would
not adventure himself into the
theatre.

Acts xx, 16. For Paul had de-
termined to sail by Ephesus,
because he would not spend the
time in Asia: for he hasted, if it
were possible for him, to be at
Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

a ship of Adramyttium, we
Acts xxvii, 2. And, entering into
launched, meaning to sail by the
coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a
Macedonian of Thessalonica, be-
ing with us.

brethren, have you ignorant of
2 Cor. 1, 8. For we would not,

our trouble which came to us in
Asia, that we were pressed out of
measure, above strength, inso-
much that we despaired even of

life.

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of his god.

of Shinar: and it shall be estabme,To build it an house in the land Zech. v, 11. And he said unto lished, and set there upon her own base.

VARIOUS STATEMENTS AND
PROPHECIES ABOUT IT.
him, I am the LORD that brought
thee out of Ur of the Chaldees,
Gen. xv, 7. And he said unto
it.
to give thee this land to inherit

fathers had provoked the God of
Ezra v, 12. But after that our
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
heaven unto wrath, he gave them
the king of Babylon, the Chal-
dean, who destroyed this house,
and carried the people away into
Babylon.

speaking, there came also another,
Job i, 17. While he was yet
three bands, and fell upon the
and said, The Chaldeans made out
away, yea, and slain the servants
camels, and have carried them
with the edge of the sword; and I
thee.
only am escaped alone to tell

the Chaldeans: this people was
Isa. xxiii, 13. Behold the land of
not, till the Assyrian founded it
for them that dwell in the wilder-
ness: they set up the towers

thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

Isa. xlviii, 14. All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. Jer. xxi, 4. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

Jer. xxxii, 5, 24. And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the

pestilence: and what thou hast

spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

Jer. xxxvii, 9, 10. Thus saith the LORD, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

Jer. 1, 10, 45. And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans; Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habita

tion desolate with them.

Jer. li, 24. And I will render unto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

Dan. ix, 1. In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans.

Hab. i, 6. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not

theirs.

nezzar also carried of the vessels
of the house of the LORD to Baby-
lon, and put them in his temple at
Babylon."

Ezra v, 14. And the vessels also
of gold and silver of the house of
God, which Nebuchadnezzar took
out of the temple that was in
Jerusalem, and brought them
into the temple of Babylon, those
did Cyrus the king take out of the
temple of Babylon, and they were
delivered unto one, whose name
was Sheshbazzar, whom he had
made governor.

Isa. xiii, 1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

Isa. xiv, 22. For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

Josh. ix, 10. And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.

2 Kings x, 33. From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassités, from Aroer, (which is by the river Arnon,)

even Gilead and Bashan.

EDOM.

DESCENT AND DESTINY. Gen. xxxvi, 1, 9. Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in mount Seir.

Num. xx, 14, 21. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travel that hath Their Redeemer is befallen us. Thus Edom refused

Jer. 1, 23, 34. How is the ham-
mer of the whole earth cut asun-
der and broken! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the
nations!

strong; The LORD of hosts is his
name: he shall thoroughly plead
their cause, that he may give rest
to the land, and disquiet the in-
habitants of Babylon.

Dan. iv, 30. The king spake,
and said, Is not this great Baby-
lon, that I have built for the house
of the kingdom by the might of
my power, and for the honour of
my majesty?

Matth. i, 17. So all the generations, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations; and from David, until the carrying away into Babylon, are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ, are fourteen generations.

BASHAN.

Deut. 1, 4. After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt

at Astaroth in Edrei.

to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Num. xxiv, 18. And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

Deut. xxiii, 7. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy Egyptian; because thou wast a brother: thou shalt not abhor an stranger in his land.

1 Sam. xiv, 47. So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every the children of Ammon, and side, against Moab, and against against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

Markill,8. And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

Deut. iii, 1, 3, 4. Then we turned, Ps. lx, 9. Who will bring me and went up the way to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came into the strong city? who will out against us, he and all his peo-lead me into Edom? ple, to battle at Edrei. So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him, until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deut. iv, 43. Namely, Bezer in ITS CHIEF CITY, BABYLON. the wilderness, in the plain coun(See under dispersion of BABEL.) try of the Reubenites; and Ramoth 2 Chron. xxxvi, 7. Nebuchad-in Gilead, of the Gadites; and

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Ps. cviii, 9, 10. Moab is my out my shoe; over Philistia will I wash-pot; over Edom will I cast triumph. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Isa. xxi, 11. The burden of DuHe calleth to mo out of mah. Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Isa. xxxiv, 5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea,

and upon the people of my curse, | cometh from Edom, with dyed | Korah, duke Gatam, and duke to judgment.

Lam. ii, 22. Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Ezek. xxv, 12-14. Thus saith the Lord Gon, Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenge hims If upon them; Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger, and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. xxxv, 15. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the

Lord.

Dan. xi, 41. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Am

mon.

Amos ix, 12. That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

Obad. 1, 8. The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Gop concerning Edom, We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding

out of the mount of Esan?

Mal. i, 4. Whereas Edom saith. We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them; The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for

ever.

ITS CHIEF CITY, BOZRAH.

Gen. xxxvi, 33. And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

Isa. Ixiii, 1. Who is this that

garments from Bozrah? this that is
glorious in his apparel, travelling
in the greatness of his strength? I
that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.

Jer. xlviii, 24. And upon Keri-
oth, and upon Bozrah, and upon
all the cities of the land of Moab,
far or near.

Jer. xlix, 13. For I have sworn

by myself, saith the LORD, that
Bozrahi shall become a desolation,
a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
and all the cities thereof shall be
perpetual wastes.

·Amos i, 12. But I will send a fire
upon Teman, which shall devour

the palaces of Bozrah.

Amalek. These are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom: these were the sons of Adah. And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke

Mizzah.

Cheran. The children of Ezer
are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan,
and Akan. The children of Dis-
han are these; Uz. and Aran.
These are the dukes that came of
the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke
Dishan. These are the dukes
that came of Hori, among their
dukes in the land of Seir. And
these are the kings that reigned.
in the land of Edom, before there
reigned any king over the chil-
dren of Israel. And Bela the son
of Beor reigned in Edom: and the
name of his city was Dinhabah.
And Jobab died; and Husham of
the land of Temani reigned in his
stead. And Husham died; and
Hadad the son of Bedad, (who
smote Midian in the field of Moab,)
reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city was Avith. And
Hadad died; and Samlah of Mas-

These are the dukes
that came of Renel in the land of
Edom; these are the sons of
Bashemath, Esau's wife. And
these are the sons of Aholibamah,
Jaalam, duke Korah: these were
Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke
the dukes that came of Aholi-
bamah, the daughter of Anah,
Esau's wife. These are the sons
of Esau, (who is Edom.) and these
are their dukes. These are the
sons of Seir the Horite, who in-
habited the land; Lotan, and
Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
THE PEOPLING OF EDOM,
And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
AND ITS ARISTOCRACY.
These are the dukes of the Hor-
Gen. xxxvi, 1-8, 10-23, 25-32, 34-ites, the children of Seir in the
43. Now these are the generations land of Edom. And the children
of Esau, who is Edom. Esau of Lotan were Hori, and Heman:
took his wives of the daughters and Lotan's sister aras Timna.
of Canaan; Adah the daughter of And the children of Shobal were
Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah these; Alvan, and Manahath, and
the daughter of Anah, the daugh- Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. And
ter of Zibeon the Hivite; And the children of Anah were these;
Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, Dishon, and Aholibamah the
sister of Nebajoth. And Adah daughter of Anah. And these
bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashe-are the children of Dishon; Hem-
math bare Reuel; And Aholi- dan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and
bamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam,
and Korah. These are the sons
of Esau, which were born unto
him in the land of Canaan. And
Esau took his wives, and his sons,
and his daughters, and all the
persons of his house, and his
cattle, and all his beasts, and all
his substance, which he had got in
the land of Canaan, and went into
the country from the face of his
brother Jacob. For their riches
were more than that they might
dwell together; and the land
wherein they were strangers
could not bear them because of
their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau
in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
These are the names of Esau's
sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the
wife of Esau; Reuel the son of
Bashemath the wife of Esau. And
the sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
Kenaz. And Timna was concu-
bine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and rekah reigned in his stead. And
she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these Samlah died; and Saul of Reho-
were the sons of Adah, Esau's both by the river reigned in his
wife. And these are the sons of stead. And Saul died; and Baal-
Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Sham-hanan the son of Achbor reigned
mah, and Mizzah: these were the
sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
And these were the sons of Aholi-
bamah, the daughter of Anah, the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife;
and she bare to Esau Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah. These were
dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons
of Eliphaz the first-born son of
Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar,
duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, Duke

in his stead. And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died; and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. And these are the names of the dukes that came of

Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke

Deut. vi, 22. And the LORD Ps. lxxxvi, 4. I will make shewed signs and wonders, great mention of Rahab and Babylon to and sore, upon Egypt, upon Phathem that know me: behold Phil-raoh, and upon all his household, Istia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; before our eyes. this man was born there.