, 1875-01-31
NINEvEH.
Its Fast Glory and Present
Desolation.
The Rise and Fall Of Tho Assyrian En-
pire-Its Record in Sacred and
Profano History.
Kings Of. Nineveh---Wars with the
Jews--:Final Destruction.
Fror,1 fhs Ns1o ToYk 7i11t<a.

From. ths Ne.o FORK Times.
I'M IN the word Of tho Lord came unto Jonah,
sayin.;, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
aud CT against it, for their wlckedneas is come
up bt,fore me. Now Ninoveh was M
excec dug great city, Of three days journey"
In Il lis command to the prophet VIC have the
earl st Scrptu1ai reference, in point Of date, to
the City Of Nineveh after the mention Of its
foun dation by Nimrod. Jonah prophesied
iu Il 10 reign OF King Jeroboam the Second.
KIM: Of Israel; and, though tho date can
not be exactly set, it was probably between
the years SEQ B. c. and 700 B. c. when the COM
ma;nd was given him to denounce tho Assyrian
capital, nnd in its streetB to foletel its mpend-
i9; g.: destruction 1t vas then rapidly ''fSA''s
HEIGHT or ITS PRIDE AND MAoEIF1cENCE,
and the terror Of tue prophet on recaiy!ns the
command to testify against 1t, and bus LIVING IN
the opposite diractiou to Jaffa~ may fairly ua m
'te1preted as indicative Of the ave and fear With
wLic!, i. was regarded BY the Je"1sh nation:
But tho command being again repeated:
Jonah arose and went unto Ninevsh, and
began to enter into the city days journey, aud
he clied, aud sad. Yet forty days, and Nineveh
shall be over,hrown.'" The repentance OF the
people turned aside the Divine vengeance for
the time, aud the city waa spared. 1t Was to
resch greater height Of pride and glory, to ex-
tend still wider its dominion. before tue nver
which flowed by its wallis should rise and throw
them down before the basieglug armies but
the day cams at Inst. "The gates OF the river
sha1l be- opened" cried tie Prophet Ma
hum, " and the palaces shall dissolve away.
| That day came about two centuries after Jonah
bad called its inhabitanss to repentance; Lae
city was taken. sacked. and destroyed; and when
| tho "Teu Thousand marched by the Tl5fls on
their memorable retreat, two centuries later, the
city was empty aud void isB walls we're crumbling
to ruin, and they pointed it ons to Aenopaon "a as
| pire had run its course; the capital
| HAD LOST EVEN Irs NAME.
| OF the date OF its origin nothing certain has
vet been determined. thong ID future discoveries
lnay do something to clear up tho darkness III
wlich it is now obscu1ed Theologiaus say that
! it received its name from Assh1r, the second
| sou Of Shem; while the city was founded by
| Niurod, 12o years after the De!use. 1t is rather
singular tina: ono Of the latest. as it Is one OF
tho most interesting OF the tablets found IL
N,neyeh, gives us remarkably full and
graphic account Of the food and the building
| Of the ark. The record is w:itten in the first
| first person, rs it by Noah himself; and agrees
That Kings resigned in Assyria twelve centuries
| before Christ we have the Assynan records them
| selves to pfoya From these records, necessari-
| " f.agmsntary and incomplete as they are, 3
| chronological table las been compiled OF the
| various Kings who reigned from about 1850 g.
G. 10 500 3. C. Among these we have Ful, or
| Tiglath-pileser, SaEgon, 6ennacherib Esar-
| haddon, and Sardauapalus, or Saracus: Tho
Inst is supposed to be that King who, when the
combined armies Of tne Meles and Bab5lonians
stormed tho capital in B. c. 6oG, made Of his
| palace, his treasures, aud his wives
ONE GREAT FUNERAL PILE
| That the Empire was destroyed ab3ut that date
there is scarcely any doubt; ind as BY two Egvp-
| found taat Assyria and Niueveh then oxiEted. it
is safe to assume that the Empire lasted At least
! 800 years. After the saoking OF the city BY the
| victorious armies OF Meala. Niueyeh was almost
unknown aud forgotten; though the laIgest &c OF
! nacherib was buried, Was used b7 moro than one
people as tho site Of castle, it not town. Sill
yer coins Of Max,mus aud Trajan have been
| found here, which were struck on the spot: and
| the Persians held the place Tor many years.
But. in the end, all men deserted it; it became
/ an utter desolahon and N1nevah WAS one VI
| the great cities OF Scripture which our early
text-booHs used to tell US had persisted from the
| fAce OF the earth. Even its sits became mat
| tor of conjecture.
| Mora than two centuries ago An English tray
eler. Sir Anthony Shirley, 7is,tsd tie SPOT In
his book OF 'Tfavcls ii Persia" he writes: ~ Mn
iue rthnt which God himself calleth that Great
give n,etnorie of the being Of towne. Ona
English mile from it il place called Nosut,
| small thing rather to be wltncs8o OF tho
| others mightnesse and Of Gods Judgment,
than Of any fashion OF mnsnihcence IN it.
seize" Forty years or SO ago countr7man
| OF that traveller, who held tho pace OF
English Consul ut this little town, ses shout ex-
ploring the great mound OF Koyunjik, on the op-
posite bank Of the TEris. believing that he
might possibly find there Bous remains Of the
ouce great kssyrian city. His discoveries have
identified the name Of Layard with Nineveh for
all time. He
BROUGHT THE BURIED CITY TO 1IoHT,
after thirty centuries OF The darkoess Of the
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