The Tyrian
had perhaps cast a wistful eye on the noble bay and harbor of Acco, or
Ptolemais, which the prudent Hebrew either would not, or could
not--since it was part of the promised land--dissever from his
dominions. So strict was the confederacy, that Tyre may be considered
the port of Palestine, Palestine the granary of Tyre. Tyre furnished the
shipbuilders and mariners; the fruitful plains of Palestine victualled
the fleets, and supplied the manufacturers and merchants of the
Phoenician league with all the necessaries of life.[36]
[Footnote 36: To a late period Tyre and Sidon were mostly dependent on
Palestine for their supply of grain. The inhabitants of these cities
desired peace with Herod (Agrippa) because their country was nourished
by the king's country (Acts xii., 20).]
RISE AND FALL OF ASSYRIA
DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH
B.C. 789
F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
Mesopotamia for many centuries was the field of battle for the
opposing hosts of Babylonia and Assyria, each striving for mastery
over the other. At first each city had its own prince, but at
length one of these petty kingdoms absorbed the rest, and Nineveh
became the capital of a united Assyria.
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