A smaller Scripture history in three parts Volume 70; Old Testament history. connection of Old and New Testaments New Testament history to A - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...but by the very power he was now courting. Hezekiah humbled himself before God, and was comforted with the assurance that the judgment should not be executed in his days (2 Kings xx. 12-19; 2 Chron. xxxii. 31; Isa. xxxix.). Meanwhile Merodachbaladan was driven out of his kingdom by Sargon (b.c. 710-9). 1 For the details, as well as the whole relations of Assyria and Egypt since the accession of Sargon and the capture of Samaria, see the "Smaller Ancient History," chap. xxiv. The latter years of Sargon were occupied with troubles at home, while Egypt was rent by internal divisions." Hezekiah took the opportunity to throw off the yoke of Assyria, and to drive back the Philistines as far as Gaza (2 Kings xviii. 7, 8). This drew upon him the famous assault of Sennacherib--the one Assyrian king, as Nebuchadnezzar is the one Babylonian, who was the great enemy of Judah. Having succeeded his father Sargon in the 23d year of Hezekiah (August, b.C. 704), and having been occupied for three years with the affaire of Assyria and Babylon, he made a great expedition for the recovery of Phoenicia and Palestine (b.c. 701-700).' We learn from his annals that the people of Migron, a city on the Philistine border, had expelled their king, Padi, a devoted friend of Assyria, and given him np to "Hezekiah, king of Judah." Sennacherib, marching down the maritime plain to attack the city, found the whole forces of " the kings of Egypt" and of " the king of Ethiopia " arrayed against him; and he defeated them in the decisive battle of Altakou (in SS. ElteheK). Now it was that " Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them " (2 Kings xviii. 13; 2 Chron. xxxii. 1; Isa. xxxvi. 1); and...
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