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CHAPTER XI.
direct monumental confirmation of scriptural
history.
Our task would be left incomplete, should we fail to bring
before the reader evidence to be found on the monuments con-
firmatory of historical facts, not written in the Pentateuch,
but in other parts of the Old Testament.
We must now come up to a period long posterior to the
exode of the Israelites, even to the time when dissensions
among the Hebrews had caused a division of the tribes into
two parts, which were respectively governed by Jeroboam and
Rehoboam. In the twelfth chapter of the second book of
Chronicles, we have the history of the invasion of Shishak
the king of Egypt. We find him marching against Jerusalem
with chariots and horsemen, and people without number—the
Lubims, the Sukiims, and the Ethiopians. The humiliation
and penitence of Rehoboam under the warnings of Shemaiah
the Prophet, averted from him the calamity of an entire loss
of his kingdom; but while the Lord declared that he should
not be utterly destroyed, he nevertheless added, that the
people should be the servants of Shishak, (that is, should be
made his prisoners.) Shishak came and took away the trea
sures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures—" he
direct monumental confirmation of scriptural
history.
Our task would be left incomplete, should we fail to bring
before the reader evidence to be found on the monuments con-
firmatory of historical facts, not written in the Pentateuch,
but in other parts of the Old Testament.
We must now come up to a period long posterior to the
exode of the Israelites, even to the time when dissensions
among the Hebrews had caused a division of the tribes into
two parts, which were respectively governed by Jeroboam and
Rehoboam. In the twelfth chapter of the second book of
Chronicles, we have the history of the invasion of Shishak
the king of Egypt. We find him marching against Jerusalem
with chariots and horsemen, and people without number—the
Lubims, the Sukiims, and the Ethiopians. The humiliation
and penitence of Rehoboam under the warnings of Shemaiah
the Prophet, averted from him the calamity of an entire loss
of his kingdom; but while the Lord declared that he should
not be utterly destroyed, he nevertheless added, that the
people should be the servants of Shishak, (that is, should be
made his prisoners.) Shishak came and took away the trea
sures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures—" he