The Holy Land and the Bible; . ng the way, and init Jehu, the head of Jorams army, wdio had conspired against hismaster and was on his way to destroy Jezebel and her race. I see acompany, cried the look-out, and the driving is like the driving ofJehu, the son of Nirashi, for he driveth furiously. A few niinuteslater, Joram, who though still weak with a recent wound at EamothGilead, had gone out in his chariot to meet his general, lay with thearrow of Jehu through his heart, in the field of Naboth, bought by hisfather and mother at the heavy price of murder and its curse.^ Oncemore behind his h
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ng the way, and init Jehu, the head of Jorams army, wdio had conspired against hismaster and was on his way to destroy Jezebel and her race. I see acompany, cried the look-out, and the driving is like the driving ofJehu, the son of Nirashi, for he driveth furiously. A few niinuteslater, Joram, who though still weak with a recent wound at EamothGilead, had gone out in his chariot to meet his general, lay with thearrow of Jehu through his heart, in the field of Naboth, bought by hisfather and mother at the heavy price of murder and its curse.^ Oncemore behind his horses, Jehu rushed on to Jezreel, passing under thewindows far u]) in the wall of the palace which must have been builton the line of the town wall. But the evil news of her sons deathhad already reached the now aged mother, or perhaps she had seen the 1 Judg. V. 20. 2 Josh. xvii. 16. 3 Josh. xix. 18. 4 1 Kings xviii. 45. 5 1 Kings xxi. 1. 61 Kingsxvl. 33; 2 Klngsx. 11. 7 2 Kings ix. 27. 8 2 Kings ix. 17. 9 2 Kings ix. 24, Now when he came nigh to the ^ate ofthe city, beheld, th^re was a dead man car-ried out, the only son of his mother, and shewas a widow. . And when the Lordsaw her, he had compassion on her, and saidunto her. Weep not. And he came andtouched the bier : and they that bare it stoodstill. And he said, Young man, I say untothee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and beganto speak. And he delivered him to hismother.—St. Luke vii. AND THE SOUTHERN SLOPE OF MT. TABOR. (See page 519.) ^^^i^^i^ ^tXXVtir.] BElSAN, JEZREEL, >JaW. 511 dismal tragedy from her lofty lattice, and true to lierself to the last, sheresolved to die bravely. Getting her maids to paint lier eyelids, andtire lier head, she looked out comj)osedly at one of the windows, andgreeted Jehu as he entered the town gate with the taunting words,Had Zimri peace—did it go well with him who slew his master?Slie would have him remember that, after a seven days reign, Zimriwas crushed by
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