THE HISTORICAL RESULTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS 

 AT BUBASTIS. By EDOUARD NAVILLE. 



THE King of Babylon had led into captivity part of the 

 population of the kingdom of Judah ; the inhabitants of 

 Jerusalem had turned a deaf ear to the warnings of the 

 prophet Ezekiel, and the threatened judgment had fallen on 

 them. Standing near the river Chebar, in a strange land, the 

 prophet turns for a while from his unfortunate countrymen, 

 and, looking towards the neighbouring nations, predicts that 

 some day the storm will burst upon them. The curse of 

 Egypt is one of the most striking and the most terrible. Thus 

 saith the Lord God : " I will also destroy the idols, and I will 

 cause the images to cease from Noph ; and there shall be no 

 more a prince out of the land of Egypt ; and I will put a fear 

 in the land of Egypt. And I will make Pathros desolate, and 

 will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in N.o. 

 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt ; 

 and I will set a fire in Egypt ; Sin shall be in great anguish, 

 and No shall be broken up : and Noph shall have adversaries 

 in the day-time. The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth 

 shall fall by the sword : and these cities shall go into captivity " 

 (Ezek. xxx. 13-18). 



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