The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Assyrian War Engines. The chief projectiles were the catapults forthrowing darts, and the balista for throwingstones. Both these kinds of instruments were pre-pared by Uzziah for the defense of Jerusalem (2Chron. xxvins), and battering the wall is men-tioned in the reign of King David (2 Sam. xx: 15) ; but the instrument itself for throwing itdown may have been that above noticed, and no
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Assyrian War Engines. The chief projectiles were the catapults forthrowing darts, and the balista for throwingstones. Both these kinds of instruments were pre-pared by Uzziah for the defense of Jerusalem (2Chron. xxvins), and battering the wall is men-tioned in the reign of King David (2 Sam. xx: 15) ; but the instrument itself for throwing itdown may have been that above noticed, and notthe battering-ram. The ram was, however, a sim-ple machine,andcapable of demolishing the strong-est walls, provided access to the foot was practi-cable ; for the mass of cast metal which formedthe head could be fixed to a beam lengthenedsufficiently to require between one and two hun-dred men to lift and impel it. 4£,sM//a. Battering Ram. Of the balistse and catapultae it may be proper toadd that they were of various powers. For bat-tering walls there were some that threw stonesof fifty, others of one hundred, and some of threehundred weight; in the field of battle they wereof much inferior strength. Darts varied similarlyfrom small beams to large arrows, and the rangethey had exceeded a quarter of a mile, or about450 yards. All these engines were constructedupon the principle of the sling, the bow, or thespring, the last being an elastic bar, bent backby a screw or a cable of sinews, with a trigger toset it free, and contrived either to impel darts ky
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