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2 Chronicles 26:15

Uzziah' s engines seem to have corresponded respectively to the Roman balista and catapulta. The balista, which threw stones, was known to the Assyrians as early as the time of Sardanapalus I, the contemporary of Jehoshaphat. The catapult is not represented either on the Assyrian or the Egyptian sculptures. It would seem on the whole most probable that both kinds of engines were invented in Assyria and introduced from thence into Palestine.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Chronicles 26:15:

Isaiah 1:1
Amos 9:11
Micah 5:4

 

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