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    kini > collected such of the &gypirans as were willing to accompany hinft and encamped at Pelit-Mniro ,, where the pass is into the coufttrv . His attendant consist-< pfl not of any soldiers , but were

    a mere rabble of yedlars , artisans , and the . lowest of the people . ¦ When they at rived then , they found' i hat a multitude of field - ixiica had by night over-run the £ » nem-y , and had gnawed their uuiveF ** . their bow-strings , and

    ? he straps of their shields , so that on the next day ,, they fled , destitute of arms , and many of them JeU . A stone statue of this king is still standing in the temple of Vulcan , holding a mouse in his luind ^ and wit h this inscription .

    WHOSO BEHOLDS MJi , LET HIM SEVERE THE GODS . " This is the passage in which , according to Chariclo ^ s hardy assertion ,, **¦ Herodotus minutely describes one of the statues injhe

    temple of Jerusalem ! V * But as foe considers llc ^ ekiah and Setijon to he k ( r the sa < me person , " he makes no- difficulty I presume , in transforming the temple © f Vulcan at Memphis , into the temple * xf Jehovah at Jerusalem . ——

    !* et it be-observed however , that this story of Sethon was among the traditions related to tlie thther of history by the priests oi this ^' tf-ry $ emplc ; : tbut he mentions tkfs tfnipie describes it from fej ^ own accurate observuiions , aiud

    acjlduccs theauthorrty of its priests , coit ^ y tin ^ s in the fc ^ i te r p ^; { vide ^ 3 a § 9 , 10 J , 110 , 136 , & : c . and irt iIxjq Thalia ,, ^ . 37 . ) and tbs * t in jifiis temple he s » w the fiurnerouss Srtsji'ttyeis pf priests arid kings , t ^> wi ^ icb tt > q prints appeg , lp 4 as evi * $ ' ew ; f& ; fp f tiiei ^ , prete i > d ^ < i anti-W ty , -ft ^ . ^^ SSW *^ ** a * : ra , ti ; ves .

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    ( Eut . § . 143 , 144 . ) Indeed to one who conipares the passages referred to , there can remain ^ I conceive , no doubt that Herodo * tus saw the statue of Sethon

    which he describes . It cannot be p / uved that he know even of the existence of Jerusalem ; though it may be deemed probable that he slightly mentions it in two places ( Eut . l $ 9 , z Thai . 5 . ) under the i \ ame of Gadytis *

    I still therefore ? maintain that the text of Herodotus furnishes no just ground for the construe * tion put upon it by Chariclo ; a construction which outrages all rational probability , and violates all historical evidence .

    That the story of the deliverance of Sethon * , was derived frosm the facts related in the Jewish history , and was moulded by the Egyptian priests , as was their manner , into a shape convenient for them , cannot be thought an

    u . nreasona ] bJ- £ conjecture . 1 $ is fully discussed by Larcher , who was no friend lo the scriptural history , in his notes on . the pass * age in 7 Herodotus , . and by Rosen * -

    mullcr , j . un . on Is . -xxxvii . 36 ± \ Vitli « o «; t entering into the detail and examination of contending opinions ^ I shall briefly state what appears to me to have been the order of the facts *

    > . He # ekijah was supposed to be in ulliance with the king of Kgypt * Is . xx . xvr .. 6 . Sennachci . rib , therefore makes war upon both . 2 . The Assyrian monarch lays siege to Lachish , a city , the , po * sition of MfHich seems to maiiifesst

    ii to have vKen . fais . iotcntioifc firfet ito , invade Egypfy an ^ l ; afterwards to Reduce J ^ iMOiaalerai i Fro m Lachti * h he iiejfi . te . iRabsbakeh ;; wit 4 : a

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    SO Examination of & ' Passage in Herodotus , tri Kcply to AJfiancto *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/24/