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Identifier: hourswithbibl03geik (find matches)
Title: Hours with the Bible; or The scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York J.B. Alden
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the pilesof hands and heads of the foe gathered before the tent of the kingafter a battle. Assyria flayed its captives alive ; put rings throughtheir lips and noses, and led them like beasts by a cord ; blindedthem, and in fact multiplied their tortures of every kind.^^ jt jgnot, moreover, to be forgotten, that even in the middle ages it wasusual to kill all common soldiers taken in battle, reserving onlyknights and the rich, who could pay ransom. The massacre atLimoges, under the sanction of one commonly so gentle as ourClack Prince, shows how easy it was for David, nearly threethousand years before, to be stern under great provocation. Beforethe invention of gunpowder, men fought hand to hand, and the pas-sions were roused to far wilder fierceness than now, when theenemy is almost too far off to be seen. We must therefore, I fear,accept the plain statement in its literal sense, that, on the taking ofKabbah and the other Ammonite cities, David allowed the same Plati> VIIL Vol. ni.
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18 3 4 Fig. 14.—Siege of Dapur, in the country of the Amorites, by the Army of Rameses II.—See Page 147. 1. 2, .3, 4. Four sons of Rameses in command of four testudos, under cover of which an approach is made to the fortress. .>. A soldier climhing tlie rock bythrusting an iron spear into the crevices. The soldiers on a line with him reiiresentthe light infantry and archers. 6. Two of tlie princes on a scaling ladder—the onethrown off. 7. Two heralds let down from the fort, to treat with the bcsietrers.Above are the towers of the citadel, and at the tiip, the standard of the Amorites.The three arrows in it are iniderstood l)y Willtinson to be a sign of defeat, added bythe Egyptian painter. Others think them part of the standard. en. X.) THE WARS OF DAVID. 149 terrible punishments to be inflicted on some of the prisoners, as theAmmonites themselves were accustomed to inflict on their captivesof war. Xot to have done so would have kindled a spirit in hisown army which he cou

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