Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s-syria, which fatal step made him tributary to Pul andhis successor Tio-lath-Pileser. Ahaz died at the ajye of36, and was refused burial with his ancestors theKings. Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, succeeded to the throne andbegan his reign about 726 B.C. His reign is memor-able for his efforts to restore the worship of the trueGod. In the fourteenth year of his reign, the kingof Assyria marched against Jerusalem, and sent aninsulting and blasphemous message, demanding thesurrender of the city, which being communicated toHezekiah, he repaired to the Temple and there im-plored divine aid against the presumptuous invader,in response to which the Lord sent an angel thatnight who smote and destroyed the Assyrians—185,000 men—who were found corpses in themorning. Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah didSennacherib king of Assyria come up against all thefenced cities of Judah, and took them. And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Pabsarisand Rab-shakeh fiom Lachish to king Hezekiah with
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m m a great liost against Jerusalem: and they went up andcame to Jerusalem. And when they were come up,they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool^which is in the highwa,y of the fullers field. And when they had called to the king, there cameout to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which wahover the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joahthe son of Asaph the recorder. And Rab-shakeh said unto them. Speak ye now totlezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king ofAssyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trust-est^ And it came to pass that night, that the angel ofthe Lord went out, and smote in the camp of theAssyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand:and when they arose early in the morning, behold,thev were all dead corpses. (2 Kings, 17, 18, 19—xix. 85.) llezekiah died 697 e.g. and was succeeded by Ma-nasseh, who began to reign when he was twelve yearsold, and reigned 55 years. The commencement ofhis reign was noted for his shocking idolatries, cru-elty, and tyr

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