Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd his habitation shouldbe completely destroyed, and made only fit for a dunghill. Tatnai imme-diately obeyed the commands of the king. And the elders of the Jewsbuilded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai, the prophet,and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, that is,the temple— according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and ac-cording to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, kingof Persia. The writer of the history here mentions the different kings whofavored the Jews after their captivity; respecting the last named there is,however, some difference of opinion; Darius had a son named Xerxes, whowas his successor, but some think Artaxerxes Longimanus, his grandson, ishere intended, for history states that he sent Ezra to Judsea with new priv-ileges, and that he was kind to Nehemiah. Thus the house was finished in the sixth year of the reignof Darius the king. When the building was com-pleted, the children of Israel,
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TOMB OF CYRUS. that is, those of the ten tribesthat remained after the body ofthe people were carried captive,or came with the Jews at theirreturn—the priests and theLevites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, those of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, keptthe dedication of this house of God with joy. And they offered an hun-dred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offer-ing for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes ofIsrael. And they arranged the order of the priests to do the work in thetemple by turns. And at its proper time they kept the passover. They alsokept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy. And God turnedthe heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in thework of the house of God, the God of Israel. Cyrus and his successorspossessed all the rights of the kings of Assyria as well as of Persia, andtherefore were called by both names. We should have thought that, after such

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