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“I destroyed, I demolished, I burned. I took their warriors prisoner and impaled them on stakes
before their cities. I flayed the nobles, as many as had rebelled, and spread their skins out on the
piles [of dead corpses]. Many of the captives I burned in a fire. Many I took alive; from some I cut
off their hands to the write, from other I cut off their noses, ears and fingers; I put out the eyes of
many of the soldiers."

I slew two hundred and sixty fighting men; I cut off their heads and made pyramids thereof. I slew
one of every two. I built a wall before the great gates of the city; I flayed the chief men of the
rebels, and I covered the wall with their skins. Some of them were enclosed alive in the bricks of
the wall, some of them were crucified on stakes along the wall; I caused a great multitude of them
to be flayed in my presence, and I covered the wall with their skins. I gathered together the heads
in the form of crowns, and their pierced bodies in the form of garlands."
(Time Frame 1500-600 BC by Time-Life Books) Assyrian War Bulletin (1000 B.C.)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cfford/342worldhistoryearly.html

God used the pagan Assyrians to bring a horrendous judgment to Northern Israel. Many of the Minor
Prophets, we will see, foretold of the impending doom to come to Israel because they refused to
submit their lives to Yahweh and willfully defied His commandments. They also predicted judgment
which would come to Assyria because their wickedness.

The prophet Nahum predicted Nineveh's destruction by the Babylonians and Medes which came in 612
BC, and the famous city was never rebuilt. In the New Testament Jesus commended the inhabitants of
Nineveh for repenting at the preaching of Jonah, while condemning the Jewish leaders for resisting His
own message.

1.4 Let’s Practice…

1. Why is the term “Minor” used in reference to these 12 books?

2. List one central theme that appears in all of the 12 Minor Prophets:

3. What was the name of the Pharaoh who gave Joseph authority, and what was Joseph’s
Egyptian name found in historic documents?

4. Approximately how many Israelites departed from Egypt after 430 years?

5. Who was the Egyptian Pharaoh who was delayed at Megiddo and eventually defeated by the
Babylonians?

6. When was Egyptian pretty much defeated and no longer a significant political power?

7. What was the capital of the Assyrian empire?

8. Why does this capital play a significant importance in Biblical history?

9. List three of the contributions of the Assyrians to all mankind:

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