The Ancient Workers And Artificers in Metal From References in the Old Testame
The Ancient Workers And Artificers in Metal From References in the Old Testame
Napier James
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The removing of such a vast quantity of metal to Babylon must have been a formidable undertaking, and it is exceedingly in- teresting thus to trace great and precious relics. The sacred vessels of gold and silver were preserved from destruction, and carried by the Assyrians to Babylon, who placed them in the temple of their idols. But in a very few years after the removal of the gold, silver, and brass from the temple in Jerusalem, " Ne- buchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height... was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits : he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. " i This took place in so short a time after the fall of * 2 Kings xxv. 13-16. T Jer. Lii. 19, 20, $ Dan. IiL L 120 BRONZE. Jerusalem, as to suggest that the image was likely to have been made from the metal removed from that city. The siege had been a formidable undertaking, and of sufficient importance to warrant a memorial being erected. And this image set up in Dura was, in all probability, not only for worship, but also in commemoration of the defeat of the Jews and the taking of Jerusalem.
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