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8781 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 125.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… which reference will be made in the sequel.

8782 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 125.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… it refers to something that had taken place during the expedition of Sargon against Seve and Hanno. To complete this history we may mention that, in the eleventh …

8783 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 126.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of references, we may state that, as regards the facts of Assyrian history, we have mainly followed the work of Schrader, previously mentioned.

8784 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 126.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… , before referring to the Biblical account.

8785 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 127.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… the reference in Isaiah 10:9 to Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus, which were taken, not by Sennacherib, but by Sargon. But the mention of these places occurs …

8786 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 128.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… monuments refer. It was therefore a wise strategic movement on the part of Sennacherib to turn aside and lay siege to Lachish, the modern Umm Lakis. We remember …

8787 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 130.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… those referred to in 2 Kings 20:20. With these it is obviously impossible to deal in a book like the present. The reader must be asked to believe that what is passed …

8788 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 130.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… brief reference to the first part of the campaign, when Sennacherib detached a corps which laid waste Judah and took the principal towns along the route …

8789 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 132.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… any reference to the embassy of Hezekiah nor to the tribute which he sent. Probably both were viewed as the sequence of a course disapproved, which, however …

8790 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 133.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… -Shakeh refers to the horrors of a protracted siege ( 2 Kings 18:27 ), his coarse language sounds rather like a threat of future than an indication of present straits …

8791 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 135.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… its reference to the Nile banks (comp. Isaiah 19:6, and generally Ezekiel 29:6, which evidently refers to 2 Kings 18:21, or else to Isaiah 36:6 ). “A reed” is itself an insufficient …

8792 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 136.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… not referring so much to religious ceremonies connected with such treaties, as to the offering of gifts on such occasions,—the term, “a blessing,” being frequently …

8793 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 137.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… contemptuous reference to Jehovah, as if He were like the false gods of other nations, who in the past had been unable to deliver the lands of their worshippers …

8794 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 138.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… “rumor”) refer on the one hand to the advance of the Egyptian army, which led to the retrograde movement of Sennacherib, and on the other hand to the Divine visitation …

8795 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 139.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… any reference to Egypt, and was also perhaps more directly challenging to the God of Israel ( 2 Kings 19:9-13 ).

8796 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 142.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… with reference to the threats of Sennacherib and the issue of this war.

8797 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 143.4 (Alfred Edersheim)

… , we refer to the articles, “Ninive” and “Sanherib,” in Riehm’s Handworterb. d. Bibl. A1terth.

8798 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 144.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… . the references are in Ecclesiastes 48:18-22; 1 Macc. 7:41; 2 Macc. 8:19.

8799 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 145.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… just referred to, Sennacherib was killed by his son Adramelus, and succeeded for a short time by Nergilus (comp. Schrader, u.s, p. 330, and note), who was overcome …

8800 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 146.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… in reference to the king of Assyria as to be met by the Divine promise in 2 Kings 20:6; nor could Hezekiah have shown such treasures to the ambassadors of Merodach …