The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the YoungVarious
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The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the Young
Various
Christian literature for children -- Periodicals
Bible students will gladly read the account of a remarkable and
interesting discovery sent to the Council of the Egypt Exploration Fund
by their explorer, Mr. Flinders Petrie. He has apparently found the
remains of a royal palace, mentioned in the Bible as "Tahpanhes," and
referred to by the Father of History in his record of the adventures of
the first Greek colonists who, six hundred years before the Christian
era, settled in a corner of the northeastern Delta of Egypt.
These early Greeks conveyed to their countrymen the wisdom of the
Egyptians; and the science, art, and literature of the older
civilization was filtered through the artistic Greek intellect to the
western world.
Students of Egyptian and Greek history will take deep interest in this
discovery. But the finding of the remains of this royal palace appeals
to a more numerous and humbler class of students.
In the book of Jeremiah the Prophet, from chapter thirty-seven to
chapter forty-seven, the reader will find a graphic record of the events
that preceded, accompanied, and followed the destruction of Jerusalem by
Nebuchadnezzar. A great portion of the action of this story took place
in the country in which Mr. Petrie and his Arab labourers have been at
work for some time past.
After the tumults that followed the departure from Jerusalem of
Nebuchadnezzar with the captive Jews to Babylon, it was decided by
Johanan, against the advice and the prophecy of Jeremiah, to fly into
Egypt, the land of King Zedekiah's old ally. The princesses, and the
captains, and Jeremiah, were taken across the frontier by Johanan, and
hospitably received by Pharaoh Hophra, who installed his guests in the
royal residence in Tahpanhes. Jeremiah could not rest even in the
stronghold thus provided for himself and his countrymen by the kindness
of Hophra, and in the court-yard or square of the royal palace of
Tahpanhes he made a remarkable prophecy. Taking great stones in his
hands, and burying them in the pavement, the Prophet declared that in
that very spot King Nebuchadnezzar would spread his pavilion when he
came, with his destroying army, to punish the Jews, and to execute
vengeance on their Egyptian allies.
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