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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...of Egypt, taunted Hezekiah with the forlornness of any hope which was based upon 1 Is. xix. 13; Jer. ii. 16; xlvi. 14, 19; Ezek. xxx. 13-16. 2 The Tirhakah of 2 Kings xix. 9; Is. xxxvii. 9; and the Egyptian assistance, and compared Egypt's king to 'a bruised reed.'1 In the beginning of the reign of Assurbanipal, Esarhaddon's son, Tirhakah made another attempt to become sole king of Egypt; and having collected a large army he entered Memphis and scattered the Assyrian rulers. Assurbanipal marched promptly against the rebel, and defeated him with great slaughter. Tirhakah then fled to Napata, where he with others made arrangements for another rebellion; and he succeeded so well that he conquered Upper Egypt, and actually gained possession of Thebes. Assurbanipal sent an army against him, and Tirhakah was compelled to retire to Napata, where he died, and so the twentyfifth dynasty came to an end. Two of the kings of the next dynasty are mentioned in in battle at Megiddo, where Josiah was slain, and set up Jehoiakim as king in the place of Josiah's eldest son Jehoahaz, the lawful heir. His power was, however, broken by Nebuchadnezzar II., king of Babylon, and we read that 'the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land.'2 The second, Pharaoh Hophra, assisted Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, kings of Judah, to rebel against their lord, Nebuchadnezzar; but this was merely inviting the conquest of Egypt at the hands of the Babylonian king, and a few years after the prophecies of 2 Kings xviii. 21. 2 Kings xxiv. 7. G Ezekiel and Jeremiah regarding its destruction were fulfilled. During the reign of Psammetichus I. the great temples at Sais, Thebes, Memphis and elsewhere were repaired. This king made use of the Greeks in the battle-field, and after the wars gave t...