Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Volumes 3-4

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Page 31 - middle court, that is, the middle court of the palace, he was commanded to return and say to Hezekiah, " Thus saith the Lord,"—" I •will add unto thy days fifteen years : and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria,"'—
Page 66 - be broken, that it be not a people." Isaiah vii, 1, 8. "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, my father and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." viii, 4. Sabbatical year, 3.
Page 8 - is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city" (chap, i, 7, 8). Such was the abject state of Palestine and Jerusalem about the year BC 732.
Page 66 - not Samaria as Damascus ? Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols." x, 9, 10, 11.' "And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet TiglathPileser king of Assyria." 2 Kings xvi, 10. Chronology of the Kings of Tabal and
Page 23 - be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate." All which literally came to pass about the year 718, when Pekah king of Samaria "carried away captive (from Judah) of their brethren 200,000, women,
Page 72 - king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. And at the end of three years they (that is the kings Shalmanezer and Sennacherib) took it " — 2 Kings xviii, 9. " even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
Page 72 - And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel into Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medea.
Page 78 - to 1475 490 years from thence to ... 1965 " Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days", or years = AD 1965.
Page 1 - and Razor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." And again "In those days (that is in the days of Jotham after 734) the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king
Page 31 - to mark the length of shadow at noon-day. This "upper chamber" probably was a gallery running at right angles to the staircase towards the east, and led to " the entering in of the house of the Lord by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain,

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