All Past Time and Almanack for - Jabez Bunting Dimbleby

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...or Siveh, and was the "So" of scripture. See 2 Kings xvii. 4. He ascended in the 9th of Hoseah. 3298 Tirbarfcah ascended and reigned 26 years. He was contemporary with Sennacherib nnd Esarhaddon of Assyria and Hezekiah of Jerusalem. See 2 Kings xix. 9. In this chapter all these tour kings are mentioned. 3328 Six years are required here, probably owing to change of dynasty. Hebrew or " First Line of Time," and Assyrian history, published in minute and coi.secntive form by the British Chronological Asscciation, should be consulted for comparison with all dynasties. DYNASTY XXVI. 3384 Psammaticbus I. ascended 662 B.c., and reigned 54 years. 3388 Necho ascends and reigns 16 years. Sec Jeremiah xlvi. 2. 3404 Psammatichus II. ascends, reign 6 yrs. 3410 Apries ascended and reigned 25 years. He was also called Hophra. Seo Jer. xliv. 80. 8435 Amasis ascended, reign 44 years. 3479 Psammatichus HI. ascended and had reigned six months when he was conquered by Cambyses, in 517 B.c. See Persian kings. There were four more dynasties, but history from this point is followed in greater detail by the records of Greece, Rome, &c. B.C. dates are from 3996, the true year. CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE. The inscription placed on the base of this column in London is very erroneous. Instead of 1500, it was erected about 1700, B.c. Thothmes 111., whose reign it speaks of, ascended in 2289, A.m., which was 1707, B.c. Such an error would not have been, made if the proper chronological methods had been considered. See important Concluding Note in the Appendix to Egyptian history. APPENDIX TO EGYPTIAN HISTORY. Nte A., Dynasty xvii. All the difculties of readers of Egyptian b'ntory fuisc L/orn the want of a knowledge of the contemporary dynasties, the...