. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . entempted to inter-vene in the revo-lutions of thehour, but theprompt punish-ment which fol- lOWea niS niSt hj^^^IAN SOLDIEKS FIGHTISG against the attempt put an end for ever to his desire for independence. His successor,Amon, during his brief reign of two years, had no timeto desert the ways of his father, and Josiah,^ who cameto the throne in 638 , at the age of eight, had so far 1 Drawn by Fauoher-Gudin, from the cast of a cylinder given by Cun-ningham. The cylinder is usually described as Persian, but the dress isth
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . entempted to inter-vene in the revo-lutions of thehour, but theprompt punish-ment which fol- lOWea niS niSt hj^^^IAN SOLDIEKS FIGHTISG against the attempt put an end for ever to his desire for independence. His successor,Amon, during his brief reign of two years, had no timeto desert the ways of his father, and Josiah,^ who cameto the throne in 638 , at the age of eight, had so far 1 Drawn by Fauoher-Gudin, from the cast of a cylinder given by Cun-ningham. The cylinder is usually described as Persian, but the dress isthat of the Medes as well as of the Persians. 2 2 Kings xxi. 18-26 ; cf. 2 Cliron. xxxiii. The reign of fifty-five years attributed to Manasseh by the Jewish annalists cannot be fittedinto the chronology of the period ; we must either take off ten years, thusreducing the duration of the reign to forty-five years, or else we mustassume the first ten of Manasseh to be synchronous with the last ten ofHezekiah. 3 2 Kings xxii. 1 ; cf. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 312 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE manifested no hostility towards Assyria. Thus, for morethan fifty years, Judah enjoyed almost unbroken peace,and led as happy and prosperous an existence as thebarrenness of its soil and the unruly spirit of its inhabitantswould permit. But though its political activity had been almost nothingduring this interval, its spiritual life had seldom beendeveloped with a greater intensity. The reverse sustainedby Sennacherib had undoubtedly been a triumph for Isaiah,and for the religious party of which we are accustomed toregard him as the sole representative. It had served todemonstrate the power of Jahveh, and His aversion for allidolatrous worship and for all foreign alliances. In vaindid the partisans of Egypt talk loudly of Pharaoh and ofall those principahties of this world which were drawnround in Pharaohs orbit; Egypt had shown herself in-capable of safeguarding her friends, and t
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