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.It is accessible through ravines at thenorth and the south; but the cliffs, which define it on the east andwest, are precipitous, and vary from two hundred to one thousand feetin height.The main passage into the city is on the east, and beginsbetween cliffs forty feet high and fifty yards apart, which soonbecome higher, nearer, and full of excavated tombs.This windingravine is a mile long, and gives entrance to a small brook; its sidesat one place are but twelve feet apart and two hundred and fifty feethigh.At the termination of this narrow gorge you confront the mostsplendid of all the structures of Petra, el-Khusneh, the templefile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (42 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Smentioned by Burckhardt, hewn out of the face of the opposite cliff.Here you enter a wider ravine, which leads northwest, passes theamphitheatre in a recess on the left, and at length opens on the greatvalley of the main city towards the west.The tombs excavated inthese, and in all the side gorges, are without number, rising rangeabove range; many of them are approached by steps cut in the rock,while others are inaccessible, at the height of nearly four hundredfeet.The theatre was so large as to accommodate more than threethousand persons.The palace, called Pharaoh's house by the Arabs, isthe chief structure not excavated in the mountain that survives in anygood degree the ravages of time; it was evidently a gorgeous building.Most of the valley is strewn with the ruins of public edifices andwith fragments of pottery.The brook flows through the valley towardsthe west, and passes off through a narrow gorge like that by which itentered.One of the finest temples, the Deir, stands high up in aravine on the west side.It is hewn out of the solid rock, are eightfeet in diameter.A singular charm is thrown over the whole by thebeauty of the stone from which these various structures are wrought.It is fine and soft sandstone, variegated with almost every variety ofhues, red, purple, black, white, azure, and yellow, the deepestcrimson and the softest pink blending with each other, while highabove the sculptured monuments the rocks rise in their native rudenessand majesty.The whole strange and beautiful scene leaves on thespectator's mind impressions, which nothing can efface.Petra was an ancient city, a strong fortress, and for many ages animportant commercial center.It was the chief city among scores, whichonce filled that region.Yet the prophets of God foretold itsdownfall, and its abandonment to solitude and desolation, in termswhich strikingly agree with the facts."Thy terribleness hath deceivedthee, and the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the cleftsof the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thoushouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee downfrom thence, saith the Lord," Jer 49:7-22.See also Isa 34:5-15 Eze35:1-15 Joe 3:19 Am 1:11,12 Ob 1:3-16.When its ruin took place we arenot informed.There were Christian churches there in the fifth andsixth centuries, but after A.D.536 no mention is made of it inhistory.SELAHA musical term which occurs seventy-three times in the Psalms, and isfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (43 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Sfound also in Hab 3:3,9,13.It usually occurs at the end of a periodor apostrophe, but sometimes at the end only of a clause.Thisdifficult word, it is now generally believed, was a direction for ameditative pause in the singing of a psalm, during which perhaps therewas an instrumental interlude.SENATEAc 5:21.See SANHEDRIN.SENIRA name given to Mount Hermon by the Amorites, De 3:9 1Ch 5:23 Eze27:5.See HERMON.SENNACHERIBKing of Assyria, son and successor of Shalmaneser, began to reign B.C.710, and reigned but a few years.Hezekiah king of Judah havingshaken off the yoke of the Assyrians, by which Ahaz his father hadsuffered under Tigloth-pileser, Sennacherib marched an army againsthim, and took all the strong cities of Judah.Hezekiah, seeing he hadnothing left but Jerusalem, which he perhaps found it difficult topreserve, sent ambassadors to Sennacherib, then besieging anddestroying Lachish, to make submission.Sennacherib accepted histribute, but refused to depart, and sent Rabshakeh with an insolentmessage to Jerusalem.Hezekiah entreated the Lord, who sent adestroying angel against the Assyrian army, and slew in one night185,000 men.Sennacherib returned with all speed to Nineveh, andturned his arms against the nations south of Assyria, and afterwardstowards the north.But his career was not long; within two or threeyears from his return from Jerusalem, while he was paying adorationsto his god Nisroch, in the temple, his two sons Adrammelech andSharezer slew him and fled into Armenia.Esar-haddon his son reignedin his stead, 2Ki 18:1-19:37 2Ch 32:33.A most remarkable confirmation of the above Bible history has beenfound in the long buried ruins of ancient Nineveh.The mound calledKouyunijik, opposite Mosul, has been to a good degree explored, andits ruins prove to be those of a palace erected by this powerfulmonarch.The huge stone tablets which formed the walls of its variousfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (44 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Sapartments are covered with bas-reliefs and inscriptions; and thoughlarge portions of these have perished by violence and time, thefragments that remain are full of interest.One series of tabletsrecounts the warlike exploits of Sennacherib, who calls himself "thesubduer of kings from the upper sea of the setting sun to the lowersea of the rising sun," that is, from the Mediterranean to the PersianGulf.The most important of these mural pages to Bible readers, are thoserecounting the history of his war against Syria and the Jews, in thethird year of his reign.Crossing the upper part of Mount Lebanon, heappears to have conquered Tyre and all the cities south of it on theseacoast to Askelon.In this region he came in conflict with anEgyptian army, sent in aid of King Hezekiah; 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.It is accessible through ravines at thenorth and the south; but the cliffs, which define it on the east andwest, are precipitous, and vary from two hundred to one thousand feetin height.The main passage into the city is on the east, and beginsbetween cliffs forty feet high and fifty yards apart, which soonbecome higher, nearer, and full of excavated tombs.This windingravine is a mile long, and gives entrance to a small brook; its sidesat one place are but twelve feet apart and two hundred and fifty feethigh.At the termination of this narrow gorge you confront the mostsplendid of all the structures of Petra, el-Khusneh, the templefile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (42 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Smentioned by Burckhardt, hewn out of the face of the opposite cliff.Here you enter a wider ravine, which leads northwest, passes theamphitheatre in a recess on the left, and at length opens on the greatvalley of the main city towards the west.The tombs excavated inthese, and in all the side gorges, are without number, rising rangeabove range; many of them are approached by steps cut in the rock,while others are inaccessible, at the height of nearly four hundredfeet.The theatre was so large as to accommodate more than threethousand persons.The palace, called Pharaoh's house by the Arabs, isthe chief structure not excavated in the mountain that survives in anygood degree the ravages of time; it was evidently a gorgeous building.Most of the valley is strewn with the ruins of public edifices andwith fragments of pottery.The brook flows through the valley towardsthe west, and passes off through a narrow gorge like that by which itentered.One of the finest temples, the Deir, stands high up in aravine on the west side.It is hewn out of the solid rock, are eightfeet in diameter.A singular charm is thrown over the whole by thebeauty of the stone from which these various structures are wrought.It is fine and soft sandstone, variegated with almost every variety ofhues, red, purple, black, white, azure, and yellow, the deepestcrimson and the softest pink blending with each other, while highabove the sculptured monuments the rocks rise in their native rudenessand majesty.The whole strange and beautiful scene leaves on thespectator's mind impressions, which nothing can efface.Petra was an ancient city, a strong fortress, and for many ages animportant commercial center.It was the chief city among scores, whichonce filled that region.Yet the prophets of God foretold itsdownfall, and its abandonment to solitude and desolation, in termswhich strikingly agree with the facts."Thy terribleness hath deceivedthee, and the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the cleftsof the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thoushouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee downfrom thence, saith the Lord," Jer 49:7-22.See also Isa 34:5-15 Eze35:1-15 Joe 3:19 Am 1:11,12 Ob 1:3-16.When its ruin took place we arenot informed.There were Christian churches there in the fifth andsixth centuries, but after A.D.536 no mention is made of it inhistory.SELAHA musical term which occurs seventy-three times in the Psalms, and isfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (43 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Sfound also in Hab 3:3,9,13.It usually occurs at the end of a periodor apostrophe, but sometimes at the end only of a clause.Thisdifficult word, it is now generally believed, was a direction for ameditative pause in the singing of a psalm, during which perhaps therewas an instrumental interlude.SENATEAc 5:21.See SANHEDRIN.SENIRA name given to Mount Hermon by the Amorites, De 3:9 1Ch 5:23 Eze27:5.See HERMON.SENNACHERIBKing of Assyria, son and successor of Shalmaneser, began to reign B.C.710, and reigned but a few years.Hezekiah king of Judah havingshaken off the yoke of the Assyrians, by which Ahaz his father hadsuffered under Tigloth-pileser, Sennacherib marched an army againsthim, and took all the strong cities of Judah.Hezekiah, seeing he hadnothing left but Jerusalem, which he perhaps found it difficult topreserve, sent ambassadors to Sennacherib, then besieging anddestroying Lachish, to make submission.Sennacherib accepted histribute, but refused to depart, and sent Rabshakeh with an insolentmessage to Jerusalem.Hezekiah entreated the Lord, who sent adestroying angel against the Assyrian army, and slew in one night185,000 men.Sennacherib returned with all speed to Nineveh, andturned his arms against the nations south of Assyria, and afterwardstowards the north.But his career was not long; within two or threeyears from his return from Jerusalem, while he was paying adorationsto his god Nisroch, in the temple, his two sons Adrammelech andSharezer slew him and fled into Armenia.Esar-haddon his son reignedin his stead, 2Ki 18:1-19:37 2Ch 32:33.A most remarkable confirmation of the above Bible history has beenfound in the long buried ruins of ancient Nineveh.The mound calledKouyunijik, opposite Mosul, has been to a good degree explored, andits ruins prove to be those of a palace erected by this powerfulmonarch.The huge stone tablets which formed the walls of its variousfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/s.htm (44 of 112)8/10/2005 3:51:13 AM ATS Sapartments are covered with bas-reliefs and inscriptions; and thoughlarge portions of these have perished by violence and time, thefragments that remain are full of interest.One series of tabletsrecounts the warlike exploits of Sennacherib, who calls himself "thesubduer of kings from the upper sea of the setting sun to the lowersea of the rising sun," that is, from the Mediterranean to the PersianGulf.The most important of these mural pages to Bible readers, are thoserecounting the history of his war against Syria and the Jews, in thethird year of his reign.Crossing the upper part of Mount Lebanon, heappears to have conquered Tyre and all the cities south of it on theseacoast to Askelon.In this region he came in conflict with anEgyptian army, sent in aid of King Hezekiah; this host he defeated anddrove back.See 2Ki 19:9 Isa 37:1-38 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]