Monuments to the Truth of the Scriptures. 297 that, on account of the horror created by the idolatrous sacri fi.ce of his eldest son upon the walls before them, the Israelites departed from the land and returned to their own country. THE EXPEDITION OF SHISI-IAK. In the fourteenth chapter of 1 Kings we have a brief ac count of an expedition of Shishak, king of Egypt, against Je rusalem i n the fifth year of Rehoboam. To the humiliation of Judah, it is told that Shishak succeeded i n taking away the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the king's h0use, among them the shields of gold which Solomon had made; so that Rehoboam made shields of brass in their stead. To this simple, unadorned account there is given a wonderful air of reality as one gazes on the southern wall of the court of the temple of Amen at Karnak and beholds the great expanse of sculptures and hieroglyphics which are there inscribed to rep resent this campaign of Shishak. One hundred and fifty-six places are enumerated among those which were captured, the northernmost being Megiddo. Among the places are Gaza, Adullam, Beth-Boron, Aijalon, Gibeon, and Juda-Malech, i n which Dr. Birch is probably correct in recognizing the sacred city of Jerusalem,-Malcch being the word for royalty. ISRAEL IN EGYPT. The city of Tahpanhes, in Egypt, mentioned by Jeremiah as the place to which the refugees fled to escape from Nebu chadnezzar, was discovered in 1886 in the mound known as Tel Defenneh, in the northeastern portion of the delta, where Mr. Flinders Petrie found not only evidences of the destruc tion of the palace caused by Nebuchadnezzar, but apparently the very "brick work or pavement" spoken of in Jer. 43 :8: "Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in mor tar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah," adding that
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