The Prophecies of Balaam Numbers Xxii to Xxiv Or the Hebrew And the Heathen
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23. And he took up liis parable and said, Woe, Avho may live, when God doeth this ! 24. And ships from the coast of Kittim, They humble Asshur and humble Eber, And he also is for destruction. 'Until Asshur carrieth thee away captive. '^' What Hebrew citizen in the time of Hezekiah could write or read these words without being agitated by the strongest and most conflicting emotions ? They naturally prompted another prophecy, which, however, in a still higher degree than the preceding utterance, ...is covered by un- certainty and mysteiy. Will it be possible to lift the veil of so many ages ? After an unbroken and almost unparalleled succession of brilliant victories and conquests, east and west of the Euphrates ; after Assur-nasir-pal (Sardanapalus), as early as the first part of the ninth century, had exacted heavy imposts from Tyre and Sidon, Arvad, and other Phoenician towns ;" when his successor Shalmaneser II. Liad repeatedly, in the battle of Karkar and elsewhere, routed with terrible slauo-hter twelve allied kings of « J|3V'Jil l-lt^''^?
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