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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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reater Egypt, could not have differedmuch from the Nubia of to-day; there were the samenarrow strips of cultivation along the river banks, gigantictemples half buried by their own ruins, scattered townsand villages, and everywhere the yellow sand creepinginsensibly down towards the Nile. The northern part ofthis province remained in the hands of the Saite Pharaohs,and the districts situated further south just beyond Abu-Simbel formed at that period a sort of neutral groundbetween their domain and that of the Pharaohs of Napata.While all this was going on, Syria continued to plot insecret, and the faction which sought security in a foreignalliance was endeavouring to shake off the depressioncaused by the reverses of Jehoiakim and his son; and ZEDEKIAH OP JUDAH 417 the tide of popular feeling setting in the direction of Egyptbecame so strong, that even Zedekiah, the creature ofNebuchadrezzar, was unable to stem it. The prophets■who were inimical to religious reform, persisted in their
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THE FAQADE OF THE GREATTEJIFLE OF ABU-SIMBEL. belief that the humiliationof the country was merely temporary.Those of them who still remained inJerusalem repeated at every turn, Ye shall not serve theKing of Babylon ... the vessels of the Lords house shallnow shortly be brought again from Babylon.^ Jeremiahendeavoured to counteract the effect of their words, butin vain; the people, instead of listening to the prophet,waxed wroth with him, and gave themselves more andmore recklessly up to their former sins. Incense was 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Daniel H^ron. 2 Jer. xxvii. 9, 16. VOL. vni. 2 E 418 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE burnt every morning on the roofs of the houses and atthe corners of the streets in honour of Baal, lamentationsfor Tammuz again rent the air at the season of hisfestival; ^ the temple was invaded by unciroumcised priestsand their idols,^ and the king permitted the priests ofMoloch to raise their pyres in the valley of Hinnom.* Theexiled J

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