Sir James Simpson's introduction of chloroform / By his daughter.

  • Eve Blantyre Simpson
Date:
[1894]
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    , (j(/cu'«jdii.- THE BIBLE AND THE is the blast and rumor to which Isaiah re- fers as driving Sennacherib away from the walls of Jerusalem. Others, again, conjecture that an insurrection at home forced him to abandon the siege, and to return to Assyria with all possible speed. This latter supposition is supported by the fact that the next expedition of Sennacherib is directed against Babylonia. But whatever the cause of abandoning the siege may have been, it is certain that he did jiot carry out his plan. That Sennacherib does not tell us of the failure need not surprise us, for the Assyrian kings, with genuine official partiality, speak in their annals only of their victories, and never of the discomfitures they incurred. The Second Book of Kings, in closing the narrative, says: So Sennacherib returned to Nineveh. And it happened as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, his sons Adrammelekand Sharezer killed him, and they fled to the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. We now know that the murder of Sen- nacherib, which is here made to appear as though following directly upon the events narrated, did not occur until twenty years after the attack on Jerusalem. In an Assyrian- Babylonian chronicle which was discovered a few years ago among the tablets of the British Museum, we read the following confirmation of the murder: In the month of Tebet [January], on the twen- tieth day, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, was killed in an insvirrection by his son.l 1 Polyhistor and Abydenus also speak only of one son. ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. Xii After an interregnum of six months : ' In the month of Siman [May-June], on the eighth day, Esarhaddon, his son, ascended the throne of Assyria [680 B. C. ]. As a further curious detail it may be noted that, incidentally, Ashurbanabal in one of his in- scriptions speaks of the great bull-statue in the temple at Nineveh, where my grandfather Sennacherib was murdered. Both Esarhaddon (680-68 b. c.) and his son Ashurbanabal (668-26 b. c.) mention in their annals Manasseh,the successor of Hezekiah, as among the kings who pay tribute to them, but further than this we learn nothing in the cunei- form records from this time on concerning the Judean kingdom. After the death of Ashur- banabal, the Assyrian power begins to decline with great rapidity. Babylonia succeeds once more in obtaining the supremacy. Nineveh is destroyed, and under Nebuchadnezzar II. (604-562 B. c.) Babylon reaches the highest point in her development. Of Nebuchadnezzar a large number of inscriptions have been foupd, but they tell almost exclusively of the temples he erected, repaired, and enlarged, and of other building operations which he directed at Baby- lon and elsewhere. His annals giving accounts of his military expeditions still await the spade of the explorer. When these annals shall be found,— and there is every reason for hoping that they will be,—we shall no doubt read of his expedition against Judea, of the attack upon Jerusalem, of the destruction of the city, of the capture of King Jehoiachin, and of the carrying away of Judeans to the waters of Babylon. Morris Jas/row, Jr. JEWISH SCRULLS. SACRED TREE. BABYLONIAN CYLINDERS.