This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...about 860 B. C. The tribute depicted in the second compartment upon the obelisk comes from Israel; it is the tribute of Jehu. The names are Yahua, the Khumriya. Jehu is usually called in the Bible the son of Nimshi, (although Jehoshaphat was his actual father, 2 Kings ix. 2;) but the Assyrians, taking him for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...about 860 B. C. The tribute depicted in the second compartment upon the obelisk comes from Israel; it is the tribute of Jehu. The names are Yahua, the Khumriya. Jehu is usually called in the Bible the son of Nimshi, (although Jehoshaphat was his actual father, 2 Kings ix. 2;) but the Assyrians, taking him for the legitimate successor to the throne, named as his father, (or rather ancestor, ) 'Omri, the founder of the kingdom of Samaria, 'Oinri's name being written on the obelisk as it is in the inscription of Shalmanescr, where, as yon already know, the kingdom of Israel is always called the country of Beth 'Omri. If this identification of name were the only argument in favour of Jehu, I should not so much depend on it; but the king of Syria is also named on the obelisk, Khazail, (which is exactly the Hazael of Scripture, 2 Chron. xxii. 6, who was the contemporary of Jehu;) and in the inscriptions of the obelisk-king's father, whom I have hitherto called Sardanapalus, but whose real name must be read Assur-akh-baal. There is also a notice of Ithbaal, king of Sidon, who was the father of Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, and a contemporary of Jehu. These three identifications constitute a synchronism on which I consider we may rely, especially as all the collateral evidence comes out satisfactorily. The tributes noted on the obelisk are ali from the remote nations of the west; and what more natural than that the tribute of Israel should thus be put next to the tribute of Egypt? There was no Assyrian campaign at this time against either Egypt or Israel; but the kings sent offerings, io order to keep on good terms with their eastern neighbour. I have not yet had time to go through the very elaborate history of ' Assur-akh-baal, ' contemporary with the prophet Elijah; b...
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