The History of Israel Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...resolutely disengaged from the errors which disfigured the times; and lived the more vigorously in the eternal truths and hopes.2 By the length and consistency of his pious labours, he attracted to himself so much of men's higher confidence, that younger prophets like Micah (and others) rose up quite in his spirit to take part in his work; and even the son and heir of Ahaz, the flower of the young men of the rising generation, learned to share his purpose and his faith. 2. This son and successor of Ahaz was Hezekiah,3 one of the most glorious princes who ever adorned the throne of David, and whose reign of nine-and-twenty years exhibits an almost unclouded picture of persistent struggles against the most embarrassed and difficult circumstances crowned with elevating victories. He was thoroughly noble, wanting neither in the military spirit nor in personal valour,4 yet devoted by preference to the arts of peace. Careful economy in the kingdom and the promotion of the cultivation of the land were objects which he, like his great grandfather Uzziah, had very much at heart; and even in unfavourable times his treasury was not empty.5 The tenderness of his disposition and the genuine thankfulness of his spirit are proved most clearly by a hymn of his own composition, which has been preserved.6 1 2Kingsxvi. 17 sq.; cf.iii.pp.251.244. In Is. i. 1, Hos. i. 1, Mic. i. 1, and in "DD is a covered seat or stand; and 3prj theChronieles.thelongerandmoreoriginal is to change, i.e. here to disfigure, strip of form of th, e name is found Jehezekiah; in its ornament; and it is easy to see that t'le 'Effitfcw. the last words, 'from fear of (or shorter 2 Klngs 20. because of) the Assyrian king, ' are only a 2 Chron. xxxii. 27-29, comp. with 2 brief...