Hours With the Bible: Or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge; Volume 5 - Couverture souple
Présentation de l'éditeur
Hezekiah was the last king of Judah who closed his reign amidst undisturbed prosperity. Having ascended the throne while Hosea was still kmg in Samaria, he had seen the Northern Kingdom crushed by A ssyria, and its population led off by the conquerer to the banks of the Tigris and other regions of the East. Shalmaneser IV., Sargon, and Sennacherib, had in succession reigned over the great Ninevite empire, and Jerusalem had twice been threatened by its armies; once in the reign of Sargon Sennacherib, perhaps, acting as commander-in-chief and the second time by that prince himself, after he succeeded to the throne. The sudden destruction of his vast host, without human intervention, had filled the world with awe, and must have invested Hezekiah with a kind of sacredness as one specially protected by Heaven. An embassy from Merodach Baladan, of Babylon, the heroic opponent of the Great King, had attracted all eyes to Jerusalem and kindled the fm-y of A ssyria; but Judah survived all these dangers, and for three or fomyears before Hezekiah sdeath had been left undisturbed. The Philistines in the martime plains had become independent under A haz, but submitted to his successor. Under the inspiration of prophets like Isaiah and Micah, Hezekiah had reversed the religious policy of his father, banishing idolatry, destroying the heathen high places, restoring the temple, reorganizing its worship, and observing the ancient national religious feasts with an enthusiasm unknown since the days of Jehoshaphat, two hundred years before. The revival of the old faith of I srael, which began imder the preaching of Joel more than a hundred and fifty years before Hezekiah sday, had culminated under that of the son of A moz.
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