Prisoners Bridled
Isaiah 37:29 Prisoners Bridled
Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
The Assyrians often led their captives by ropes attached to hooks in their noses.
In 1843, Botta, Paul-Emile French consul and archaeologist, made a momentous discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq. Among sculptures discovered in later diggings on the site, were some depicting prisoners who had iron rings thrust through their lower lips. Cords were attached to these rings so that they could be led or held with ease. See 2 Kings 25:7 Prisoners Blinded—Shackles. See also 2 Kings 19:28, and Ezekiel 29:4 and 38:8.
Freeman, James M., and Harold J. Chadwick. Manners & Customs of the Bible. North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1998. Print.
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