This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...troops, which, pursuing him as he fled from the presence of the king, mortally wounded him in his chariot-his amhitious mother usurped the kingdom, and, with a view to her political security, ordered all the children which Jehoram had hy another wife to he destroyed, tngether with all their oflspring. "Dut Jehoshaheath ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...troops, which, pursuing him as he fled from the presence of the king, mortally wounded him in his chariot-his amhitious mother usurped the kingdom, and, with a view to her political security, ordered all the children which Jehoram had hy another wife to he destroyed, tngether with all their oflspring. "Dut Jehoshaheath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a hedchamher. So Jehoshaheath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jchoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah, ) hid him from Atlmliah, so that she slew him nots." Jehoshaheath was the sister of Ahaziah hy a different mother; she was, however, the daughter of Jehoram, and therefore one of those whom the vindictive queen had doomed to destruction. While the royal mandate was in course of execution, she escaped the family massacre, and taking the infant son of her late hrother, kept him and his nurse concealed for the space of six years, in an apartment of the temple. How signally did the divine chastisements fall on the families of the idolatrous kings of Israel 1 The whole offspring of Jerohoam, Baasha, and Ahah. was cut off. The kings of Judah, likewise, having contracted an affinity with the house of Ahah, and heing hy them seduced into the practice of idolatry, their families were destroyed hy three successive massacres. First, Jehoram slew all his hrethren; then Jehu put to death all his hrother's children; and next Athaliah destroyed all that remained. Thus arc human delinquencies visited with the severest punishments. In the print, Jehoshaheath is seen fleeing with the infant, accompanied hy its nurse, from the destroyers of her relatives; when her hushand, Jehoiada ...
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