Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ount of the Assyrian invasion you see that Sen-nacherib could not take the city by storm; and thearmy that he sent against it had to withdraw. Thatwas a proof of the mighty strength of Jerusalem; andwhen Sennacheribs army was driven out of the coun-try by plague, the final proof was given of the in-vincibility of the God of Zion. Now, the Psalms ofthe first book of the Psalter, which was the first Je-rusalem hymnal, the first Davidic hymnal, are full ofthe invincibility of this Zion; of God, the Rock, theStrength, the Tower, the Fortress, the Refuge; of theenemy overrunning the land only to be compelled toretire. That Psalter is vivid with this, and the morefamiliar I became with underground Jerusalem, themore the city of the old days was brought before my 1 We gain some idea of the strength of Davids city, the Acraof the Maccabean time, when we read in Maccabees of the Syriangarrison which maintained itself there for twenty years after therest of Jerusalem had been taken by the Jews.
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