Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History
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A. L. O. E.. Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History
CHAPTER I. FAITHFUL TO THE DEATH
CHAPTER II. THE MIDNIGHT BURIAL
CHAPTER III. LIFE OR DEATH
CHAPTER IV. FOLLOWING BEHIND
CHAPTER V. THE DREAM
CHAPTER VI. THE JOURNEY HOME
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST STRUGGLE
CHAPTER VIII. HADASSAH'S GUEST
CHAPTER IX. DEATH OF MATTATHIAS
CHAPTER X. CONCEALMENT
CHAPTER XI. DEEP THINGS
CHAPTER XII. TRIALS OF THE HEART
CHAPTER XIII. SILENT CONFLICT
CHAPTER XIV. A CRISIS
CHAPTER XV. THE TWO CAMPS
CHAPTER XVI. BATTLE Of EMMAUS
CHAPTER XVII. DEPARTED
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PASSOVER FEAST
CHAPTER XIX. A PRISON
CHAPTER XX. THE COURT OF ANTIOCHUS
CHAPTER XXI. THE MAIDEN'S TRIAL
CHAPTER XXII. A BREATHING SPACE
CHAPTER XXIII. FOUND AT LAST
CHAPTER XXIV. DECISION
CHAPTER XXV. A RETROSPECT
CHAPTER XXVI. WEARY WANDERINGS
CHAPTER XXVII. FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVIII. UNITED IN THE GRAVE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MOURNER'S HOME
CHAPTER XXX. CHANGES
CHAPTER XXXI. NIGHT TRAVELLING
CHAPTER XXXII. FRIENDS OR FOES?
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LEADER AND THE MAN
CHAPTER XXXIV. FANATICISM
CHAPTER XXXV. THE BATTLE-PRAYER
CHAPTER XXXVI. BETHSURA
CHAPTER XXXVII. AFTER THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE VICTOR'S RETURN
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE FEAST OF DEDICATION
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The sun was setting gloriously over the hills which encompass Jerusalem, pouring its streams of golden light on the valleys clothed with the vine, pomegranate, and olive, sparkling on the brook Kedron, casting a rich glow on flat-roofed dwellings, parapets, and walls, and throwing into bold relief from the crimson sky the pinnacles of the Temple, which, at the period of which I write, crowned the height of Mount Zion. Not the gorgeous Temple which Solomon had raised, that had long ago been given to the flames, nor yet the Temple as adorned by King Herod: the building before us stands in its simple majesty as erected by the Hebrews after their return from Babylon under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Jeshua. Not the might of the powerful, nor the gold of the wealthy, but the earnest zeal of a people down-trodden and oppressed had built that Temple; and its highest adornment was the promise which Haggai's inspired lips had uttered: The Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts (Hag. ii. 7). The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former (Hag. ii. 9).
The fulfilment of that promise was still a subject for faith; and seldom had faith had to breast a fiercer storm of persecution than that which was sweeping over God's ancient people at the time when my story opens, about 167 years before the Christian era. The Roman had not yet trodden the soil of Palestine as a conqueror; but a yoke yet more intolerable than his lay on the necks of the sons of Abraham. Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, one of the most merciless tyrants that ever existed, bore rule in the city of David. He had deluged the streets of Jerusalem with blood, he had plundered and polluted the Temple, offered the unclean beast upon God's holy altar, and set up the image of Jupiter Olympus in the place dedicated to the worship of the Lord of Sabaoth. It was a time of rebuke and blasphemy, of fiery persecution against the one pure faith; and if some shrank back from the trial, other Hebrews showed that the spirit of Shadrach and his brethren still lived amongst the people of Judaea.
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"Pity – I envy!" was the thought to which the blanched lips of a renegade dared not give utterance; Pollux but shook his head in reply.
"I would fain know more of the religion of the Hebrews," said Lycidas; "I have heard marvellous stories – more sublime than any that our poets have sung – of a Deity bringing this people out of Egypt, making a path for them through the depths of the sea, reining back its foaming waves as a rider his white-maned steed; giving to the thirsty – water from the rock, to the hungry – bread from the skies, and scattering the foes of Israel before them, as chaff is driven by the wind. I have heard of the sun's fiery chariot arrested in its course by the voice of a man, speaking with authority given to him by an inspiring Deity. Tell me what is the name of the Hebrew's powerful God?"
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