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The historical poetry of the ancient Hebrews
The historical poetry of the ancient Hebrews Author:Michael Heilprin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XXIV. The hostility between the Israelites and Damascene Syria was of old standing. . When David warred with Hadadezer. king of Zobah in the Euphrates regions... more », the Syrians of Damascus came to succor the latter, but were totally vanquished, and subjected to the Hebrew kingdom. Subsequently, however, a leader of a band. Rezon. made himself master of Damascus. reigned as king, and was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon. One of his successors, Ben-Hadad I.—in Biblical order— was bribed by Asa, king of Judah. to break his peace with Baasha of Israel, and made a powerful invasion into the northern territories of the ten tribes. Ben-Hadad II. fought against Ahab. He also made war on Joram, Ahab's son, and again vainly besieged Samaria. His murderer and successor, Hazael, not only successfully resisted an alliance of Joram with Ahaziah of Judah, but, continuing his hostilities against the successors of both Hebrew kings, conquered all Transjordanic Palestine from Jehu, threatened Jerusalem and extorted a heavy ransom from Ahaziah's son Joash, and brought the kingdom of the ten tribes, under Je- hoahaz, the son of Jehu, to the very verge of destruction. Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, however, three times defeated Ha/a el's son Ben-Hadad III.,and recovered a portion of the Israeli tish territory, and Ms son Jeroboam II. reconquered the rest, triumphantly extending his power to the north and east. Some of these wars and invasions were carried on with utmost tierceness.' Equally lierce were, during- the same centuries, the contests between the Israelites and the Ammonites. Moabites. and Edomites. David terribly chastised Kabbah and the other cities of Ammon for an offense of their king Hanun. but the country seems not to have been held in subjection for any length of time. Afte...« less