The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
- Bar Hebraeus
- Date:
- 1932
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![And he took a garment and tore it into twelve pieces, and he gave ten to JEROBOAM. And in the fifth year of rehoboam, shishak, the king of Egypt, through the treachery of jeroboam, went up against Jerusalem, and he took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made, and rehoboam made shields of brass to take their place. After rehoboam, ’abhya his son reigned three [years]. And jeroboam gathered together about him eighty [20] thousand [men], and the sons of judah were gathered together, four thousand men of war, and jeroboam was de¬ feated and fifty thousand [men] of Israel fell, ’abhya took fourteen wives, and he had twenty-four sons and sixteen daughters. And ’ahiya and shama'ya prophesied. After ’abhya, ’Asa his son reigned forty-one years. And in his tenth year zarah, the Kushite king, having taken with him iobas (libwas or ’alIbwas), came with a thousand thousand [men] and six hundred thousand kushites and Libyans to fight against judah. And ’Asa went forth and smote them in gAdhAr and conquered [them]. And in the fifteenth year of his reign he burned the idols, and he cast out of the kingdom his mother who used to celebrate a festival [in honour] of 'ashtoreth, and he burnt her graven image (or, idol) and he expelled fornicators from the land. And in the twenty-ninth year of ’AsA, ’alA reigned over Israel two years, and then zamri, having killed ’alA, the son of ba'sha his lord, reigned seven days. Then Israel was divided; some [went] with tabhni and some with 'amri. And when f amri waxed strong tabhni died. And when zamri saw that the people were content with 'amri he burnt his palace and himself. And when 'amri had reigned righteously for six years, he bought the mountain of shAmrin from shAmir his lord, and built a city on it and called it ‘shamrin’. This city was afterwards called ‘sebastia’, and it is that which is nAbholos (nablos). 'amri reigned twelve years. After ’AsA, yoshAfAt (jehosaphat) his son [reigned] twenty-five years. And in his second year ahab, the son of ‘amri, reigned over Israel for twenty-three years. This king took to wife jezebel, the daughter of ’ithb'el (ethbaal), king of tyre and sidon. And he [Hiel ?] built jericho, which joshua, the son of non, cursed; he finished it with ’abhiram his firstborn, and in shakhub, his youngest, he set up its gates. At this time Elijah, and obadiah, and abhihudh, and 'ozA’il, and micah, the son of yamshi, were prophesying; and zedekiah and eliazar and four hundred others were lying prophets, zedekiah, the lying prophet, made horns of iron and set them upon his head and said to ahab, ‘With these thou shalt gore the Edomites and make an end of them.’ And in the twenty-ninth year of jehosaphat, ahaziah, the son of ahab, reigned [21] over Israel one year; and after him joram, his brother, [reigned] twelve years. After jehosaphat, joram his son reigned eight years. This [king] took](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
