. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. 4) one of those constantlyrepeated representations of the wholesale immo-lation of captives before the gods, which so oftenoccur in the Egyptian sculptures. With refer-ence to them generally, we have nothing to addhere to what has been said before (pp. 390,391). But with respect to the particular ex-ample now given, it will be observed that the king (for he is a king) has mounted the priestlymitre, to indicate that he is acting as a priest—that is, offering sacrifice, or immolating tohis god. The f
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. 4) one of those constantlyrepeated representations of the wholesale immo-lation of captives before the gods, which so oftenoccur in the Egyptian sculptures. With refer-ence to them generally, we have nothing to addhere to what has been said before (pp. 390,391). But with respect to the particular ex-ample now given, it will be observed that the king (for he is a king) has mounted the priestlymitre, to indicate that he is acting as a priest—that is, offering sacrifice, or immolating tohis god. The figure of the god to whom theoffering is made is, indeed, introduced inthe original, but has been omitted by ourartist. The manner in which he strikes hisheavy dart successively into the brains of themiserable victims explains the manner inwhich the death-wound was inflicted upon theperson represented in the second of our pre-sent cuts. The one now last offered is from asculj)tureupon the portico of thepalace-temi)leat Medinet Abou. 4 F CHAPTER VII. JUDAH, FKosi 929 b c, to 725 bc. ^^mmM/. ,/frf-^ ^ [Petra. Mount Seir. From Laborde.] Jehoshaphat the son of Asa, began to reign over Judah in the year 929 , beino- the JZraV V T- ^^ ^^^^ ? ^^^---1 -^^^ ^hab has brougi:!^ ht tZTt^ u J fT ^«^^-tly to intimate to the reader the excellent character fir t ..T f ^ Hebrew kings. Direct idolatry had been put down by his father, and thethe eof it r.^?Vrr ^ ^^^^ t^-»-^t« --^ instruments appealed that eflects more deep and permanent might bc secured by acting upon the inner Chap. VII.] JUDAH, FROM 929 n c , to 725 58*7 sense of the people, by instructing them fully in the principles and distinguishing privilegesof their theocratical system, and by rendering those principles operative, as the standards ofpublic and judicial action, throughoxit the land. The land had already been purged, as byfire, from the noxious weeds by which it had been overgrown; and now the king made ithis bu
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