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Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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King, and put the people to death in the most indiscrim-inating and savage manner. The act seems to have beensavagely resented by Pul, the Assyrian King, who descendedupon Israel and carried away a large part of the people intocaptivity. Pul did not enter the capital, however, but sparedthe district immediately around Samaria, and confined his de-vastations to the mountain-country east of the Jordan, and tothe tract north of the plain of Esdraelon. It was a greatblow, however, and struck at the very life and strength ofthe nation. This was the first captivity of Israel. The next and more decisive blow was struck during thereign of Hoshea. The immediate occasion was the discoveryby the Assyrians of an alliance between the Israelite Kingand the monarch of Egypt. And this brings into view thepractical value of Palestine and the relation which it nowbore to the world. To us it is an interesting country, and itshistory an interesting history, because it is so immediately con- m§/k,*¥mi.
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;-/ ^<^^4i?jiiay w ^■■ ^Mi^ I 854 BLOTTING OUT OF A KINGDOM. nected with our own Christian faith ; and in comparison withits records, those which relate to the other great nations ofthe world fade into insignificance. Yet the men of that timesaw nothing of this. To them there were but two great empiresin the world, that of Egypt, which had thus far reigned with-out a rival, and the new, ambitious and rapidly rising empireof Assyria, with Nineveh with its 600,000 people, its lordlycapital. While Egypt had no rival, she could well afford tolet Palestine alone; it did not trouble her, it was a little se-cluded mountain block lying apart by itself, and was an en-tirely innocent and unoffending thing. But when there beganto spring up on the Tigris, another great world power, then,this mountain block which rose between the Tigris and Eu-phrates plain and the Nile plain, began to assume great im-portance ; and it was a question of time which should possessit first. It was like Saxony

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