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Title: The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback ..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, 1826-1899
Subjects: Babylonia -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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together with monkeys and bab-oons, lions and antelopes, the elephant and the rhinoceros,emblematic of different countries. Among the nationsthereon portrayed are the Jews, whose peculiar feat-ures are unmistakable. And among the tributary kingswhose names are inscribed on the obelisk is the nameof Jehu, the son of Omri, and Hazael, whom Elijahanointed king of Syria; which furnish an interesting in-stance of corroborative evidence of the fidelity of theBible historians. And other historic facts cluster around these ruins;for on the spot where the marble obelisk was found asubsequent king had his royal abode. It was Tiglath-pileser II., the supposed Pul of the Scriptures, who re-paired and adorned the palace of Shalmaneser II., and onits walls had caused to be sculptured in relief, but incolossal proportions, winged figures struggling ^vith mys-tic animals; and, to delight his higli martial spirit, he hadalso scenes of war portrayed, such as sieges, with mounds BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 279
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and battering-rams, archers masked by loop-holed screens,and captives impaled alive. Having ascended the throne in 745 B.C., Tiglath-pile-ser II. sought to restore the kingdom to its ancient gloryand ascendency. His wars were many, long, and bloody.By his energy and imwearied activity he subdued a re- 280 THRONES AND PALACES OF volt in Soiitlierii Mesopotamia, and thereupon assumedthe title of King of Babylon. From the south, he ledhis victorious legions to the west, and, after a strugglewhich lasted eight years, he conquered Keziu, King ofDamascus; Menahem, King of Samaria; Hiram, King ofTyre; and Queen Khabila, whose dominions were on theborders of Egypt. And having subdued these, he de-feated Azariah, King of Judah ; but the victory was dear-ly bought, and the Assyrian king retired to his own do-minions. Resolved upon the unconditional surrenderof all those provinces which had revolted, he returned,after the lapse of ten years, and commenced an attack onSamaria, when Pekah was the

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