. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Handcuffs] upper city, upon Mount Zion, which the Jebusites had hitherto retained. They sacked it andburned it with fire. But as we afterwards again find it in the occupation of the Jebusites,down to the time of David, it seems they took advantage of some one of the subsequentoppressions of Israel, to recover the site and rebuild the upper city. 368 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book [Immolation of Captives.] Eleazer the high-priest, as we have seen, did not long survive Joshua; and tlie remnant of
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Handcuffs] upper city, upon Mount Zion, which the Jebusites had hitherto retained. They sacked it andburned it with fire. But as we afterwards again find it in the occupation of the Jebusites,down to the time of David, it seems they took advantage of some one of the subsequentoppressions of Israel, to recover the site and rebuild the upper city. 368 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book [Immolation of Captives.] Eleazer the high-priest, as we have seen, did not long survive Joshua; and tlie remnant ofthe seventy elders, originally appointed by Moses to assist him in the government of the nation, soon followed them to the these venerable persons lived,the Israelites remained faithful totheir Divine King and to his soon after their death, the begin-nings of corruption appeaied. Atimely attempt was made to check itsprogress by the remonstrances andthreatenings of a prophet from Gil-gal. But although they quailed un-der the rebuke which was there ad-ministered, the effect was but tempo-rary. Tlie downward course whichthe nation had taken was speedily re-sumed; and it is strikingly illustratedby some circumstances which theauthor of the Book of Judges hasgiven in an appendix contained inthe five last chapters of that book,but which we shall find it more con-venient to introduce here in their proper chronological place. The history of Micah furnishes a
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