. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Scpulclire of the Kings.] Hezekiah was twenty-five years of age when he succeeded his father Ahaz, in the kingdomof Judah. He was a most pious prince, and thoroughly imhued with the principles of thetheocracy. He testified the most lively zeal for the service and honour of Jehovah; while, asa king, he was disposed to manifest the most unreserved reliance on Him and subservience toHim, as Sovereign Lord of the Hebrew people. He therefore won the high eulogium that there was none like him among all
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Scpulclire of the Kings.] Hezekiah was twenty-five years of age when he succeeded his father Ahaz, in the kingdomof Judah. He was a most pious prince, and thoroughly imhued with the principles of thetheocracy. He testified the most lively zeal for the service and honour of Jehovah; while, asa king, he was disposed to manifest the most unreserved reliance on Him and subservience toHim, as Sovereign Lord of the Hebrew people. He therefore won the high eulogium that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor any that were beforehim.* He began his reign by the restoration of the true religion and the abolishment of idolatry * 2 Kings xviii. 1—5. Such, however, must be understood as jiopular forms of describing superior character; for tlie same issaid, in the same terms, of his own great-fjranrtson, Josiali. Chap. IX.] JUDAH, FROM 725 , to 586 605 i:ff^ll^:P^?^^^l JV-f?. [Serpent Worship. Pompeii.] throughout his dominions. In the very first month he opened the doors of the temple, whichhis father had closed, and restored the worship and service of God in proper order and heautv-In extirpating idolatry he was not content, with the abolition of its grosser forms, but souo-htout the more native and intimatesuperstitions which were incen-tives thereto. The altars illegallyerected to Jehovah, which formerkings had spared, were by himoverthrown. The brazen serpent,which Moses had made in thewilderness, and which was pre-served in the temple, came intime to be regarded as a holyrelic, to which at last a sort ofsuperstitious worship was paid,and incense burned before was not unnatural, consi-dering the history of this relic,combined with the fact thatophiolatry was then, and before and after, a very common superstition in Egypt and other countries. The cut at p. 583 givesan illustration of this fact; and another may be given in the one now
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