Identifier: monumentsoldtest00pric (find matches)
Title: The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Price, Ira Maurice, 1856-1939
Subjects: Bible Jews -- History, Ancient
Publisher: Chicago : Christian Culture Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aty some of the best traits of statesman-ship. If this event is properly located as to time,we find that the great Shalmaneser II of Assyria,with his almost invincible troops is sweeping thecountry east of the Euphrates; that his army is benton a western campaign; and that the political skiesare darkened by the ominous clouds of an invasion.Syria, as centered at Damascus, was the only barrierbetween Ahab and this portent of destruction. Tohave cut down Ben-hadad and leveled this breast-work would have been the height of folly, and theshortest road to national disaster. This treaty, whichpreserved intact the king and kingdom of Damas-cus, was AhaVs best defense for his own people andrealm. 132. Another evidence of the truth of what hasjust been said is found in an inscription of this sameShalmaneser II (III Rawl. 8, 78-102): * In the eponym-year of Dayan-Asshur (854 b. c), on thefourteenth day of the month lyyar (about May), I leftNineveh, crossed the Tigris river, and advanced against
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PORTRAIT OF SHALMANESER II(With an inscription cnt across it) shalmanesers record 151 cities of Giammu, on the river Balich. They feared theawe of my majesty, and the terror of my powerful weapons;and they slew with their own arms Giammu, their lord.I entered Kitlala and Til-sha-balachi. I set up my godsin his temples, and in his palaces I made a feast. I openedhis storehouse, beheld his treasures, carried away his sub-stance and goods as spoil, and brought them to my owncity of Asshur. From Kitlala I set out, and approachedFort Shalmaneser. In boats (or floats) of sheepskin I crossedfor the second time the Euphrates river at its flood. Thetribute of the kings on the farther side of the Euphrates,of Sangar of Carchemish, of Kundashpi of Kumukh, of Arameson of Gusi, Lalli of Milid, of Chayani son of Gabari, of Kal-paruda of Chattin, of Kalparuda of Gurgum: silver, gold,lead, copper, vessels of copper, I received at Asshur-utir-atsbat on the further side of the Euphrates, in the city of

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