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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![athaliah, the sister of ahab, to wife, and he slew all his brethren, the sons of jehosaphat; therefore was he smitten by the rod of justice, and his bowels came down and he died. After joram, ahaziah his son [reigned] one year, and in it he sent elisha the prophet, and he anointed yAho (jehu), the son of yamshi [nimshi], over Israel, and he reigned twenty-eight years; and he slew seventy sons of ahab and the priests of idols, and he destroyed the temple of baal. After elisha had anointed jehu, the son of yamshi, jehu slew joram, the son of ahab, and ahaziah, the king of judah, and jezebel, the Sidonian woman, the wife of ahab. After ahaziah, his mother athaliah [reigned] seven years; her son ahaziah having been killed she destroyed all the royal progeny, and yoash the son of ahaziah alone escaped, yoshba' , the sister of ahaziah, hid him—now she was the wife of yoyAdhA' (jehoiada), the chief of the priests of idols. And that jehoiada gathered together judah and slew athaliah. And he set up [as king] yoash, who was seven years old, and he also sent the men of judah to the house of baal, and he destroyed mAthAn, the pagan priest. After athaliah, yoash the son of ahaziah, her son [reigned] forty years. And in the twenty-fifth year of yoash, yAhoAhAz the son of jehu reigned over Israel seventeen years. And in the thirty-sixth year of yoash, elisha the prophet died; and after [this] yoash was killed by his slaves. After yoash, ’amosyA his son [reigned] twenty-nine years; this king conquered edom and seir (or, shamIr ?), and brought their gods to Jeru¬ salem, and served them. And in the tenth year of ’AmosyA, yoash reigned over Israel sixteen years. And he went out to war against bar hAdAdh (ben hadad), king of Syria, and he brought back the cities which hAzA’il had brought back, and he smote the edomites thrice, according to the word of the Lord which was to elisha. At that time hosha', and 'amos, and nAhAm, and yonathan (yawnan or jonah) were prophesying. And in the eighteenth year of ’AmosyA, yorabh'am reigned over Israel forty years. And ’AmosyA, king of judah, fought with yoash, king of Israel, and the children of Israel went up against judah and destroyed three hundred of its men, and ’amosya was struck by a spear and died. [22] And according to certain [writers] his slaves stabbed him when he fled to lachish. And the children of Israel came to Jerusalem, and they broke down its wall for four hundred cubits, and they took the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king, and they returned to shAmrin (samaria). After ’amosya, 'azaryA his son reigned fifty-two years: he is 'oziA. And in the twenty-fourth year of his kingdom he made bold and went into the temple of God that he might place (i.e. offer) incense, and being restrained by 'azaryA (foziA) the priest, and refusing to go away, suddenly his whole body became covered with leprosy, and from that time yothAm his son judged [the people]. Up to this time isaiah the prophet prophesied](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0108.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
