_Sennacherib King of Assyria came up_ SENNACHERIB Sennacherib was one of the most magnificent of the Assyrian kings. He seems to have been the first who fixed the seat of government permanently at Nineveh, which he carefully repaired and adorned with splendid buildings. His greatest work is the g... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the King of Assyria sent Rabshakeh_ INVASION OF JUDAH BY ASSYRIA In chaps, 36-39, a historical part follows, which retiring from the ideal distances of chaps, 34. , 35. into the historical realities of chap. 33., begins with the statement that “at the conduit of the upper pool in the road of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rabshakeh said unto them_ WAR ORATORS We have a class of speakers in this country who are silent on all great social and cosmopolitan topics, but make themselves heard and felt the moment any matter of warlike fascination comes to the surface. All other questions float down the stream of public... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now on whom dost thou trust?_ TRUST IN OTHERS SOMETIMES DISHONOURED That question may not be without importance in matters of ordinary life. We have all to trust our fellows, more or less, and I suppose we have all had to smart in some degree, as the result of it. We may trust the mass of men in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Syrian language_ THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE The Syrian language _i._. Aramaic, spoken between Palestine and the Euphrates, the language of international intercourse and commerce in those days. (_A. B. Davidson, D.D._)... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear ye the words of the great king_ THE BLAND INSINUATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF GOD’S PEOPLE When Satan would tempt men from trusting in God and cleaving to Him, he doth it by insinuating that in yielding to him they may better their condition; but it is a false suggestion, and grossly absurd, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Where are the gods?_ HAMATH Hamath at the north border of the Holy Land, a large town on the Orontes, depopulated by the Assyrian in 720. Arpad, Aradus, a town on the coast, now a heap of ruins. _Sepharvaim, _or Sipar, a town to the north of Babylon, built on both sides of the Euphrates. (_B. Bla... [ Continue Reading ]