Fresh Leaves in the Old Testament Part of the Book and Its Story (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SACKED IREE AND HEATHEN- CHERT7BIM. very often accompanied by the symbol of the "presence" of Ashur over it (see p. 39) to which presence alone belonged worship and sacrifice. This presence attended the king in his battles, and wasWhat a beautiful reminder though from a heathen source, that all the acts of kings and rulers should be done as in the presence of the Lord ! But what does Achan confess that he has stolen ? "A goodly Babylonish garment." In the British Museum we have a fine carved specimen of such a garment, with no less than ten sacred trees embroidered upon it. It is found under a glass in the lobby chamber of the Assyrian department, and the date attached to it is 1120 before Christ, and three hundred years after Joshua's time. Nevertheless, there is evidence in the Book of Joshua of a goodly garment coming from Babylon, and being an "accursed thing," probably from its idolatrous embroidery. It is fringed with the Assheerah, dress and helmet also, and similar emblems odious to God, as caricatures of the Cherubic forms at THE PRESENCE OF ASSHUH IN THE TRIUMPHAL PRC CESSION. carved on his signet, and embroidered on his robes. A ROYAL CYLINDER OR SIGNET. Eden's gate, are found by careful search, though not at first obvious to the eye, on the dress of the kings of Nineveh, as well as on the winged figures that SACBED IREE AND GRIFFINS ON DRESS OF KINGS OF NINEVEH. attend them; so that there was long-enduring meaning in this peculiar ornament, and owing no doubt to its widespread use among the Canaanitish nations also, did it become such a snare to Israel in the after times of the Judges and the Prophets. We now see how closely connected with the worship of Baal were the Chammdnem, rendered in the margin of most passages " Sun Images" (see 2 Chro...