Les trones et les palais de Babylone et Ninive de la mer à la mer; mille miles à cheval .. . e les mots prophétiques ont reçu un accomplissement obéissant à leur portée apparente. De Lachish et Libna, Sen-nacherib avança à Palusium, où Setos était campé avec son hôte égyptien. Le temps était proba-coïncidant avec la prière d'Ézéchias dans la maison du Seigneur. La journée avait décliné, et les ombres de ni^ht étaient des erreurs^ sur les hôtes battus. Le plus de monde devait être le jour de la bataille. A l'arrivée de thatmorn, les Égyptiens ont cherché à faire face à des craintes anxieuses, les Assyriens, en toute confiance

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The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . e prophetic words received a fulfillment beyondtheir seeming scope. From Lachish and Libnah, Sen-nacherib advanced to Pelusium, where Sethos was en-camped with his Egyptian host. The time was proba-bly coincident with the prayer of Hezekiah in the houseof the Lord. The day had declined, and the shadows ofni^ht were fallins^ on the embattled hosts. The mor-row was to be the day of battle. To the coming of thatmorn the Egyptians looked forward with anxious fears;the Assyrians, with confidence as to the issues of thecombat. But no morrow was to come to the hosts sleep-ing peacefully in the tents of Assyria. And it came topass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, andsmote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscoreand five thousand: and when they arose early in themorning, behold, they were all dead corpses.t From that unfought battle Sennacherib returned toNineveh shorn of his glory, and leaving, as the ghastly * 2 Kinffs xix. t 3 Kings xix., 35. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 313. JEWISH CAPTIVES. monument of his defeat, one hundred and eighty-fivethousand Assyrian corpses, to be swept by the simoomand devoured by the vulture and hyena. It is notstrange that he has left no record of that terrible reverseto his military success. His annals thereon are silentas the voiceless dead he had abandoned unburied. Hewould not perpetuate the memory of his own overthrow.Jerusalem and Pelusium were cities to be forgotten.Hezekiah and Sethos were names to be consigned tooblivion. In all time to come, the West was to beavoided as the land of ill-fortune. He was content tohand down to coming generations that he had compelledHezekiah to pay him tribute, and to have sculptured onthe walls of his palace the forms of the Jewish captivestaken in a previous campaign. His subsequent yearswere spent in wars against Babylon, Susiana, and Cili-cia; and his obituary is thus written by the i

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