. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . a/yysM:. HEZEKIAH PREPARES FOR A SIEGE 29 nor transgressed, I pardoned them. We may here pauseto inquire how Hezekiah was occupied while his fatewas heing decided on the field of Altaku. He wasfortifying Jerusalem, and storing within it munitions ofwar, and enrolling Jewish soldiers and mercenary troopsfrom the Arab tribes of the desert. He had suddenlybecome awaje that large portions of the wall of the cityof David had crumbled away, and he set about demoHshingthe neighbouring houses to obtain materials for repairingthese breaches: h
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . a/yysM:. HEZEKIAH PREPARES FOR A SIEGE 29 nor transgressed, I pardoned them. We may here pauseto inquire how Hezekiah was occupied while his fatewas heing decided on the field of Altaku. He wasfortifying Jerusalem, and storing within it munitions ofwar, and enrolling Jewish soldiers and mercenary troopsfrom the Arab tribes of the desert. He had suddenlybecome awaje that large portions of the wall of the cityof David had crumbled away, and he set about demoHshingthe neighbouring houses to obtain materials for repairingthese breaches: he hastily strengthened the weak pointsin his fortifications, stopped up the springs which flowedinto the Gihon, and cut off the brook itself, constructing areservoir between the inner and outer city walls to storeup the waters of the ancient pool. These alterations^rendered the city, which from its natural position waswell defended, so impregnable that Sennacherib decidednot to attack it until the rest of the kingdom had beensubjugated: with this object in view he
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