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dated at 841 B. C. and the lines of special! interest to Biblical students read: “The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri. Silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden beaker, golden goblets, pitch ers of gold, lead, sceptres for the hand of the king, javelins I received from him."‘ In addition to the above narrative, the Obelisk contains a sculptural relief of Jehu, prostrate before Shalmameser, and represents the only picture of the Hebrew mon arch so far discovered.* 1 See article iw King’s Business for January, 19b 7. * Price, The Monuments and the Old Testament, Philadelphia, 1925, p. 47. * Ibid. 4 Caiger, Bible and Spade, London, 19bb, P- IS- 4 Ibid, p. lbl. * Ibid. TITHER Years ago, a salesman for a whole sale grocery concern read of the covenant which Jacob made with the Lord, as d e s c r i b e d in Genesis 28:22. Thereupon this young sales man made a covenant with God to give Him one-tenth of his in come. Three months after he began tithing, God enabled him to set up his own business and he made a vow to the Lord, giving Him 'one-tenth of the net profits of the business at the close of each year. That was in 1902. In 1912 he wrote a leaflet giving his testimony and urging others to tithe. Since that time this man has gone to his Heavenly reward, but the firm, un der the supervision of his wife, con tinues to tithe its net profits regu larly each year and they can truly testify that God more than abun dantly keeps His word, as promised in Malachi 3:8-12. The wife later wrQte four additional tracts on tith ing. Being anxious to bring this glori ous truth contained in God’s Word to the attention of others, these five different tithing leaflets are offered free in quantities up to 1,000 copies to any evangelical pastor, mission ary superintendent, or Sunday school superintendent, if he will agree to preach a sermon or give a talk on tithing before or after the distribu tion of the leaflets. Those writing in are requested to designate the number of leaflets they can use ad vantageously. If more than 1,000 copies of any one of the five leaflets are desired, a minimum charge covering only the actual cost of printing is made. Write to: Tither, 807-K Flower St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
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The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser In 1872, a young man named George Smith, an employee of the British Museum, began an examina tion of some tablets which had been found in the library of Assurbanipal n , one of the last kings of Nineveh. Deciphering a broken portion of the tablet, Smith read, "I released a dove; it flew about, and having no resting place, it returned.” When Smith an nounced that he had discovered a Babylonian record of the flood, simi lar to that of the Bible, excitement ran high. Immediately, the proprie tor of The Daily Telegraph contribut ed money to send Smith in search of the several fragments of the flood tradition still missing. He set out on this mission, and in January, 1873, he had the extraordinary good for tune to unearth the missing portions. Along with these, he found many other important records of interest to the students of Old Testament and secular history alike. Among the tablets recovered from the Nineveh library are the Babylonian legends of Creation and the Fall. The first long cuneiform inscrip tion to be translated into Ehglish was the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. This inscription revealed the first Biblical name to be discovered by archaeology—Jehu, the son of Omri, king of Israel.4The monument discovered by Layard at Calah in 1845, and deciphered by Rawlinson in 1850, is important because it both confirms and supplements the Bibli cal history. The inscription has been FEBRUARY, 1947
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