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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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ael. Yet thedetails of this mighty mans reign have all perished. The lossof one of the important books which would have been incor-porated in our Bible, the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel,deprives us of much which would have been most interesting,and which has perished forever! With the reigns of the few Kings that followed, we havelittle to do, for they were men of no great importance, andquickly passed away. It was a period of crises and calami-ties, and brings back the time when Israel was a new Idng-dom, and one dynasty followed another in quick succession.Zachariah, the last King of tRe house of Jehu, reigned butsix months. He was slain by Shallum, an ambitious usurper,who reigned but one month. His reign in turn was sub-verted by Menahem, who was followed by his son Pekaaiah,and then his dynasty came to an end. It was a period of civU.war, confusion and bloodshed. Meanwhile the foreign relations of the country underwenta complete change. At the time when the Syrian empire be-
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352 EISE OF NINEVEH. gan to rise in its strength, and to work downward on the eastside of the Jordan, and to make troublesome incursions intoWestern Palestine, Israel and Judah ceased their feuds andentered into close alliance against this formidable power on thenorth-east. Hence the union between the house of Jehosh-«phat and that of Aliab which has been already described.But at length there began to emerge into sight another neigh-bor on the east, who threatened to be more troublesome thaneven Syria had been. This was the young but mighty empireof Assyria, under the shadow of Ararat. Its cap- ital was Nineveh on the Tigris. That it had been powerful andhad dominated over Israel at an early day is plain from thediscovery of a black obelisk, which may be seen in the BritishMuseum, on which is inscribed that Jehu, the son of Omri,paid tribute to the Assyrian King, Shalmaneser I. EvenJehu scpms, therefore, to have been a Idnd of suzerain of As-syria. There was no invasion, however, til

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