. The training of the Chosen people. , andthat He who sits upon the circle of the heavens willgive the final victory to the good. Chapter 31. The Peril of Prosperity in CHAPTER PERIL OF PROSPERITY. 2 Ki. 14 : 1—15 : 7; 2 Chron. ch. 26; Amos. Jeroboam II of Israel and Uzziah of Judah wereable administrators, superior to most of their prede-cessors, but they could not have brought about the con-ditions of general prosperity that marked their reigns,if it had not been for the contemporary political situ-ation in the Semitic world. The northern kingdom,whose location made it sustain the b
. The training of the Chosen people. , andthat He who sits upon the circle of the heavens willgive the final victory to the good. Chapter 31. The Peril of Prosperity in CHAPTER PERIL OF PROSPERITY. 2 Ki. 14 : 1—15 : 7; 2 Chron. ch. 26; Amos. Jeroboam II of Israel and Uzziah of Judah wereable administrators, superior to most of their prede-cessors, but they could not have brought about the con-ditions of general prosperity that marked their reigns,if it had not been for the contemporary political situ-ation in the Semitic world. The northern kingdom,whose location made it sustain the brunt of attacksfrom the east, had proved that single-handed it wasno match for Damascus. During the greater part ofhis reign Hazael of Damascus had been free to carryon a devastating war against Israel, because Assyriawas fully occupied in holding its own against the risingpower of its northern rival, Armenia. When, however,Assyria was free to attend to the eastern provinces, itdealt the son of Hazael a crushing blow, and Damascus. A Street in Damascus. was only saved from pillage by the payment of a vastransom. It became evident to far-seeing men, like theprophet Amos, that if Assyria found her hands freefor any length of time, Samaria and Jerusalem wouldshare the fate of Damascus, but, for forty years afterthis, the hands of Assyria were not free, or she was 112 Old Testament History weakly ruled. When, however, Tiglath-pileser III—the Pul of 2 Ki. 15: 19—usurped the throne of As-syria, b. c. 745, what the statesmen of western Asiahad seen to be inevitable, in the long run, began to takeplace. The period of prosperity for the two kingdomsis the lull between the Assyrian defeat of Damascus,and the putting forth of Assyrian power in Palestineunder the generalship of Tiglath-pileser III. The natural resources and the advantages of thecommercial position of Palestine are impressivelyshown in the remarkable material prosperity which fol-lowed the withdrawal of the menace of
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