Identifier: pictorialhistory01kitt (find matches)
Title: The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Kitto, John, 1804-1854
Subjects: Jews -- History Palestine -- History
Publisher: London C. Knight
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heir power. Hence to go forth,or to come out, in certain connections meansthe same as to surrender by capitulation. Inthe most ancient ages the enemy surroundedthe city with a band of men, sometimes onlyone, and at most only two or three deep, andeffected their object by assault; hence thevery common Scriptural phrases, to encampagainst a city, or, to pitch against, or tostraighten it.t The troops employed in the assault of fortifiedplaces were all provided with shields. This is shown by the Scriptural phrase, whirh expressesa siege of a town by the lifting up of shieldsagainst it ;* and in Egypt so closely was theidea of a siege connected with the shield, thatthe figure of a king who is sometimes intro-duced in the scvdptures as the re))resentativeof the whole army, advancing with his shieldbefore him, is intended to show that the placewas taken by assault.f There is much reason to conclude that thepractices of the Hebrews in besieging townswere the same as with the Egyptians, and in
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(6. Storming a Fort.) Figures a, b, c, d, are four sons of the king (Remeses the Greit), each commanding a testudo, e,f, g, h; i, one of the Shairetanaallies of the Egyptians, climbing up the rock by means of a short spike of metal thrust into the fissures of the stone; It, anotherof the same with a round shield ; I, m, n, Egyptian light infantry and archers; o, two of the royal princes scaling the walls,—oneis apparently thrown down, alluding, perhaps, to some accident which really occurred ; p, q, heralils sent out of the fort to treatwith the besiegers; r, s, t, the towers of the fort; u, the keep on which is hoisted the standard, .r, pierced with arrows, the signof defeat. This explanation is from Wilkinson, who has engraved the same subject. * 1 Sam. xi. 3, 10, 11; 2 Kings xviii. 31 ; xxiv. 12; Jer.xxi. 9 ; xxxviii. 17, 18 ; 1 Mac. vi. 49. + .Tosh. X 5; Judg. ix. 10; 1 Sam. xi. 1 ; 2 Kings xxv. 1;Isa. xxix. 3. * 2 Kings xix. 32; Isa. xxwii. 33.t Wilkinson, i. c59. Chap. IX.) NO

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