. The training of the Chosen people. the Hand that thrust back the waters ofthe Red Sea to make a highway out of Egypt. But,with a fatuity that exasperates and harrows the heartof the student of their history, they sought for helpin every direction except where help was to be the graphic figure of Jeremiah: My people havecommitted two evils: they have forsaken me, the foun-tain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jer. 2:13). The actual historical situation is quite clear. Tig-lath-pileser—the Pul of 2 Ki. 15:19—who usurpedthe throne o
. The training of the Chosen people. the Hand that thrust back the waters ofthe Red Sea to make a highway out of Egypt. But,with a fatuity that exasperates and harrows the heartof the student of their history, they sought for helpin every direction except where help was to be the graphic figure of Jeremiah: My people havecommitted two evils: they have forsaken me, the foun-tain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jer. 2:13). The actual historical situation is quite clear. Tig-lath-pileser—the Pul of 2 Ki. 15:19—who usurpedthe throne of Assyria in 745, was one of the great sov-ereigns of history. Like Julius Caesar and Napoleonhe was equally great in the field as a general and inthe council chamber as a statesman. All Assyria, tothe remotest provinces, vibrated with the thrill of hismasterly energy and administrative capacity. Damas-cus and Israel saw the thick-gathering clouds of thecoming storm. Before the common peril, like savage 120 Old Testament History. beasts in a cave when the thunderclap shakes the earth,they forgot their animosities, and made a hurried al-liance against the Assyrian. They saw the importanceof the co-operation of Judah, and, since Ahaz, king ofJudah, was unwilling to join them, they sought to com-pel the assistanceof the southernkingdom, by be-sieging hoped to cap-ture the city, usurpthe governmentand use the re-sources of thekingdom againstthe common en-emy. Ahaz was Tiglath-pileser in his Chariot. strQng enQUgh tQ repel this attack, but his situation was madeexceedingly precarious by the invasions of theEdomites and Philistines, who never lost anopportunity to humble their hereditary enemies(2 Chron. 28:17, 18). At this juncture Isaiahlifted up his voice. He not only had been broughtup and lived in Jerusalem, but he seems to have beenof royal blood. He had begun to prophesy sixteenyears before, and abstracts of his discourses up to thistime are preserved in the
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