296 The Fundamentals. to have received tribute from them and "from Jehu, the son of Omri." This inscription occurs on the celebrated Black Obelisk discovered many years ago by Sir Henry Rawlinson in the ruins of Nimroud. On it are represented strings of captives with evident Jewish features, in the act of bringing their tribute to the Assyrian king. Now, though there is no mention in the sacred records of any defeat of Jehu by the Assyrians, nor of the paying of tribute by him, it is most n st a a t n u c r e a s l ; th fo a r t i t n rib t u h t e e p s e h r o io u d ld su h b av se e qu be e e n n t t p o ai t d he u b n a d t e t r le t o h f e K ci a rc r u k m ar , Damascus had turned against Israel, so that Israel's most likely method of getting even with Hazael would have been to make terms with his enemy, and pay tribute, as she is said to have done, to Shalmaneser. THE MOABITE STONE. One of the most important discoveries, giv ing reality to e O r l e d d T at es D ta i m bo e n n , t e h a i s s t to o r f y, th is e i J h o a r t da o n f , t i h n e 1 M86 o 8 a , b w ite hic S h to w ne a , s d s i e s t co u v p by King Mesha (about 850 B. C.) to signalize his deliverance from the yoke of Omri, king of Israel. The inscription is valuable, among other things, for its witness to the civilized c la o r n i d ty iti o o f n t o h f ei t r he lan M g o u a a b g i e tes to at th t a h t at of tim th e e a Hnd eb t r o ew th s. e c F lo r s o e m si t m h i i s inscription we learn that Omri, king of Israel, was compelled by the rebellion of Mesha to resubjugate Moab; and that after doing so, he and his son occupied the cities of Moab for a period of forty years, but that, after a series of battles, it was restored to Moab in the days of Mesha. Whereupon the cities p a o n p d u f la o t r e t d re , ss w es hi r le eta t k h e e n mw e e t r h e o s d t s ren o g f th w en ar e f d a , r a e nd w t e h r e e c s o i u m n i t l r a y r r t e o those practiced by Israel. On comparing this with 2 Kings 3 :4-27, we find a parallel account which dovetails in with this r in at a iv m e o tr s e t a r t e s m li a g r h k t a l b y le of m t a h n e n r e e r c , 0 t n ho q u ue g s h t n b aturally the biblical nar y Mesha, simplr stating
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