The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-24. 1-24 I The Hebrews—Religious Growth 47 tine, ana even Egypt itself, to the position of submissive provinces within hisempire. Judahs king, M
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-24. 1-24 I The Hebrews—Religious Growth 47 tine, ana even Egypt itself, to the position of submissive provinces within hisempire. Judahs king, Manasseh, was made prisoner, carried before Esarhaddoiiin chains, and afterward restored to his throne as a dependent vassal king. In the terrible days that followed Esarhaddon, when those wild barbariantribes from the unknown north were ravaging Palestine as well as Ass}ria, whenNineveh and Babylon were at death-grips, and Nineveh was finally overthrown,.Judah reasserted its independence. Its king Josiah not only fought successfullyagainst his neighbors and fellow sufferers in desolation, but organized a greatreligious revival. The ancient law-books of Moses had vanished, destroyed per-haps or carried ofi as booty by one of the Assyrian conquerors. Now, in clearingout from the temple the accumulations of many generations, there was redis-covered a copy of at least a part of the Law. Reading this, Josiah and his peoplerealized with horror how far
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