. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ng of Judah and his people turned repentingly to God, and implored deliverancefrom his hand. He heard them; and inclined Shishak to withdraw with the rich spoil he hadgained, without attempting to retain permanent possession of his conquest. Astonished him-self at the facility with which that conquest had been made, this king despised the people whohad submitted so unresistingly to his arms, and, according to the testimony of Herodotus,*cited by Josephus himself, he erected, at different points on
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ng of Judah and his people turned repentingly to God, and implored deliverancefrom his hand. He heard them; and inclined Shishak to withdraw with the rich spoil he hadgained, without attempting to retain permanent possession of his conquest. Astonished him-self at the facility with which that conquest had been made, this king despised the people whohad submitted so unresistingly to his arms, and, according to the testimony of Herodotus,*cited by Josephus himself, he erected, at different points on his march home, triumphalcolumns charged with emblems very little to the honour of the nation which had not opposed him. Although it is difficult to assign a specific reason, beyond a conquerors tliirst for spoil, forthis invasion of the dominions of the son by a power which had been so friendly to the father,it does not strike us, as it does some writers, that the difficulty is increased by the fact of thematrimonial alliance which Solomon had formed with the royal family of Egypt. Rehoboam. [Shishak, king of Egypt. Tliebes] » Ill-rod., i. 105. 4 B 2 556 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book IV. Avas born before that alliance was contracted, and he and his mother were not likely to beregarded with much favour by the Egyptian princess or her family. Indeed it would seemthat she had died, or her influence had declined, or her friends deemed her wronged, beforethe latter end of Solomons reign; for it is evident that the king of Egypt, this very Shishak,was not on the most friendly terms with Solomon, since he granted his favour and protectionto the fugitive Jeroboam, whose prospective pretensions to divide the kingdom with the son ofSolomon forms the only apparent ground of the distinction with which he was treated. Thiscircumstance may direct attention to what appears to us the greater probability, that the expe-dition was undertaken at the suggestion of Jeroboam, who had much cause to b
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