A general history for colleges and high schools (1889) (14741624926)

Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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er. And from these places I captured and carriedoff as spoil 200,150 people, old and young, male and female, to-gether with horses and mares, asses and camels, oxen and sheep,a countless multitude. And Hezekiah himself I shut up in Jeru-salem, his capital city, like a bird in a cage, building towers round 50 ASSYJilA. the city to hem him in, and raising banks of earth against thegates, so as to prevent escape. ^ While Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem, the king of Egyptappeareci in the field in the south with aid for Hezekiah. Thiscaused Sennacherib to draw off his forces from the siege to meetthe new enemy; but near the frontiers of Egypt the Assyrian host,according to the Hebrew account, was smitten by the angel ofthe Lord, ^ and the king returned with a shattered army and with-out glory to his capital, Nineveh. Sennacherib employed the closing years of his reign in the dig-ging of canals, and in the erection of a splendid palace at Nineveh.He was finally murdered by his own sons.
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SIEGE OF A CITY, SHOWING USE OF BATTERING-RAM. (From Nimrud.) Asshur-bani-pal (668-626? b.c). — This king, the Sardanapa-lus of the Greeks, is distinguished for his magnificent patronage ofart and literature. During his reign Assyria enjoyed her Augustanage. But Asshur-bani-pal was also possessed of a warlike spirit. He 1 Rawlinsons Ajtcieni Monarchies, Vol. II. p. i6i. 2 This expression is a Hebraism, meaning often any physical cause of de-struction, as a plague or storm. In the present case, the destroying agencywas probably a pestilence. ESARHADDON 11. 51 broke to pieces, with terrible energy, in swift campaigns, the en-emies of his empire. All the scenes of his sieges and battleshe caused to be sculptured on the walls of his palace at Nineveh.These pictured panels are now in the British Museum. They area perfect Iliad in stone. Saracus, or Esarhaddon II. (?-6o6 b.c). — Saracus was thelast of the long line of Assyrian kings. His reign was filled withmisfortunes for himself and