. The training of the Chosen people. the flood at the risingof the mighty river. We have already seen that the full generation ofprosperity, which the two Hebrew kingdoms enjoyedduring the reign of Jeroboam II and Uzziah, coin-cided with the period during which Damascus was ly-ing prostrate from the blows already inflicted by As-syria, and Assyria herself had passed into a this weakness the great empire was rescued byTiglath-pileser III, who, after subduing his enemies inthe east, reconquered northern Syria. Under Shal-maneser IV, Sargon and Sennacherib, the full stormburst on Pal
. The training of the Chosen people. the flood at the risingof the mighty river. We have already seen that the full generation ofprosperity, which the two Hebrew kingdoms enjoyedduring the reign of Jeroboam II and Uzziah, coin-cided with the period during which Damascus was ly-ing prostrate from the blows already inflicted by As-syria, and Assyria herself had passed into a this weakness the great empire was rescued byTiglath-pileser III, who, after subduing his enemies inthe east, reconquered northern Syria. Under Shal-maneser IV, Sargon and Sennacherib, the full stormburst on Palestine. The Assyrian advance partook ofthe energy and irresistibleness of an elemental force. Chapter 32. The Rod of Jehovah 117 It was like the sirocco of the desert. Before the tre-mendous Assyrian power all Palestine was over-run,except Jerusalem, which became a vassal state; Egyptitself was invaded, and Thebes fell in 660. Ezekielsfamous description of Assyrian glory does not appearto be in the least exaggerated (Ezek. 31: 3-9).. An Assyrian Palace, Restored. When we remember that Nineveh fell only fifty-threeyears after the Assyrian conquest of Thebes, that theprophecies of Zephaniah and Nahum had almost im-mediate fulfilment, and that the crash of Assyrianpower was so absolute that two centuries later thevery locality of her capital had been forgotten, only tobe determined beyond a doubt in 1845 A- Dv we geta fresh and vivid impression of the suddenness andcompleteness with which the sceptre of world powerwas snatched from the victorious and arrogant handof Assyria. It is probably well within the truth tosay that there is no parallel in human history to theswiftness and totality of the destruction of Assyria. Though Amos foresaw the Assyrian conquest ofIsrael (6: 14), he did not foresee the fall of fact makes his attitude the more he did was to grasp with singular tenacity thetruth that Assyria was wholly at the disposal of Je-hovah. He believ
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