The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-10

city. DaVlu Selecte0 the site OF
the Temple of Jehovah, erected
by his son Solomon.
King Followed King.
Shishak, king of Egypt, carried
off the vast accumulation of
riches gathered by Solomon. Then
Joash, king of Israel, captured
the city from Amaziah, king of
Judah.
Sennacherib, the son of Sar-
gon, ruthless Assyrian conQueror,
devastated the country, laid
siege to Jerusalem and was turn
ed back by a plague.
Nebuchadnezzer, king of Baby
Ion, in the reign of Zedekiah, the
last of the Biblical kings, pillaged
the city. RACED the temple and
carried many of the Israelites in
the "Babylonian captivity" Lat
err Nehemiah partially rebuilt the
temple and the defenses.
In 1872 b. c., the greatest con-
queror of them all, Alexander the
Great, appeared before the gates.
received the city's submission and
left it unmolested.
But in 800 the first Ptolemy,
founder of the long line of Egypt
ian kings, ancestor of Cleopatra,
partially destroyed the sacred
city
Then Rome.
In 168 B. c., after over a CEN
fury and half of wars among
the successors of Alexander, An
tiochus Epiphanes reduced Jeru-
salem to a condition as bad as at
the time of the 'Babylonian
Captivity" But soon Judas and
Simon Miccabeaus expelled the
foreign conquerors.
Then came the day of Roman
greatness. and in SIS B. c. the
conquest by Pompey, Lord of
the East"
Next Herod the Great, with
the aid of the Romans, became
first king of a new dynasty. He
restored the temple. rebuilt the
Notifications, erected walls 1.-THE
ruins of which still stand) and a
magnificent palace. But Herod's
descendants declined and the real
government was assumed by the
Roman procurators, one of whom,
Pontius PLATE, ordered the cruel
fixion Of Jesus Christ.
In " A. d. came the great
siege by Titus, at the end of
which the city capitulated. Sixty
years later the Jews, revolving
under the leadership of Bar-Co-
chebas, retook Jerusalem, but the
revolt was suppressed by the Ro-
man general, julius Severus.
Rebuilds City.
In 1870 A. d. the Emperor Had
rian rebuilt Jerusalem On the
|site of Solomon's temple he erect
ed temple to Jupiter and on the
site of the church of the Holy
Sepulchre a temple to Venus.
In 800 Constantine, Christian
ruler, erected two magnificent
churches in Jerusalem, and in the
sixth century Justinian, the great
law-giver, erected a church to the
Virgin Mary.
Jerusalem was once more cap
tured in Ga when Chosroes III of
Persia carried off the true cross
to Ctesiphon. Then ensued the
first of all crusades, which ended
when Heraclius, emperor of the
Eastern Roman empire, defeated
the Persians, recaptured the cross
and entered Jerusalem in tri-
umph.
What of Future?
In 637 the Caliph Omar took
Jerusalem and later the great
Mosque of Omar was built on the
site of the ancient Temple of
Solomon. The city remained I'M
der Mohammedan rule until 1899,
when it was captured by the Cru
saders under Godfrey of Bouillon.
The uninterrupted wars of the
Crusades followed for a century,
and in 1887 the city was taken by
Saladin, the celebrated Saracen,
said to have taught the Christians
courtesy.
Since, except for two brief
periods, Jerusalem has been held
by the Mohammedans. The for
tifications as restored by Sulei-
man the Magnificent, remain to
this day only slightly altered.
Now the wheels of the British
gun carriages roll thru the Via
Dolorosa. And what will be the
disposition of the Holy City and
of Palestine can hardly be stated.
Surely the scene of Jesus tri-
umphal entry will be made sane
| tuary for Christians of all the