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it to be just ; for he said,—“ Threescore and ten kings,
having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered
their meat under my table; as I have done, so God
hath requited me.”

George. Seventy kings! he must have been a great
warrior.

Grandfather. And a very successful one too, George,
to have conquered so many in his time. But though a
great warrior, he had not been a great man, or he could
not wantonly have tortured so many of his fellow crea-
tures. The high places of the world are slippery places.
Adonibezek, the conqueror of seventy kings, died a
captive in Jerusalem; and in his captivity he could
think with little comfort of the power he had had, when
he so abused it. The children of Judah performed
other feats at that time; they took Jerusalem and
Hebron. Caleb, it is probable, was the leader in this
expedition. You remember he was one of the twelve
_ spies, and that he and Joshua were the only two God-
fearing men in the twelve. He was now an old man,
but still strong and vigorous. Kirjath-sepher was in
the portion that fell to Caleb. He promised that who-
ever should take that place would get his daughter
Achsah to wife.. His nephew went against it, took it
from the Canaanites, and so gained Achsah. Her
father gave her a portion of land on her marriage; but
she asked him besides for springs of water. Land is of
little use without water. Caleb gave her the upper
springs and nether springs, which some think meant