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Excerpt from Athaliah: A Tragedy, Drawn From Holy Scripture I have thought it right to explain these points here, so that those who do not readily recall the history of the Old Testament may not be inconvenienced while reading this tragedy. The subject of the play is Joash acknowledged and placed on the throne, and I ought, in accordance with the rules, to have entitled it Joash. But most people having heard it spoken of only under the name of Athaliah, I did not think it desirable to present it to them under another title; also, because Athaliah plays so important a part in it, and because it is her death which ends the play. Here now are some of the principal occurrences which preceded this great event. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.