6CHAPTER IV: GENEALOGY OF THE BELIEVING RACE, THROUGH SETH.
77CHAPTER VII: SAUL MARCHES AGAINST THE PHILISTINES — POSITION OF THE TWO CAMPS — JONATHAN’S FEAT OF ARMS — SAUL RETREATS TO GILGAL — TERROR AMONG THE PEOPLE — SAUL’S DISOBEDIENCE TO THE DIVINE COMMAND, AND REJECTION OF HIS KINGDOM.
7CHAPTER V: THE UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION OF MAN — PREPARATION FOR THE FLOOD.
78CHAPTER VIII: CAMPS OF ISRAEL AND OF THE PHILISTINES — JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOR-BEARER — PANIC AMONG THE PHILISTINES, AND FLIGHT — SAUL’S RASH VOW — THE “LOT” CAST AT AJALON — CESSATION OF THE WAR.
8CHAPTER VI: THE FLOOD
79CHAPTER IX: THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK — SAUL’S DISOBEDIENCE, AND ITS MOTIVES — SAMUEL COMMISSIONED TO ANNOUNCE SAUL’S REJECTION — AGAG HEWN IN PIECES.
9CHAPTER VII: AFTER THE FLOOD — NOAH’S SACRIFICE — NOAH’S SIN — NOAH’S DESCENDANTS.
80CHAPTER X: SAMUEL MOURNS FOR SAUL — HE IS DIRECTED TO THE HOUSE OF JESSE — ANOINTING OF DAVID — PREPARATION OF DAVID FOR THE ROYAL OFFICE — THE “EVIL SPIRIT FROM THE LORD” UPON SAUL — DAVID IS SENT TO COURT — WAR WITH THE PHILISTINES — COMBAT BETWEEN DAVID AND GOLIATH — FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN.
10CHAPTER VIII: GENEALOGY OF NATIONS — BABEL — CONFUSION OF TONGUES
81CHAPTER XI: SAUL’S JEALOUSY, AND ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID’S LIFE — DAVID MARRIES MICHAL — RIPENING OF SAUL’S PURPOSE OF MURDER — DAVID’S FLIGHT TO SAMUEL — SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS — DAVID FINALLY LEAVES THE COURT OF SAUL.
11CHAPTER IX: THE NATIONS AND THEIR RELIGION — JOB
82CHAPTER XII: DAVID AT NOB — OBSERVED BY DOEG — FLIGHT TO GATH — DAVID FEIGNS MADNESS — THE CAVE OF ADULLAM — SHELTER IN MOAB — RETURN TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL — JONATHAN’S LAST VISIT — PERSECUTIONS BY SAUL.
12CHAPTER X: THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BIBLE — COMMENCEMENT OF THE HISTORY OF GOD’S DEALINGS WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED
83CHAPTER XIII: SAUL IN DAVID’S POWER AT EN-GEDI — THE STORY OF NABAL — SAUL A SECOND TIME IN DAVID’S POWER.
13CHAPTER XI: THE CALLING OF ABRAM — HIS ARRIVAL IN CANAAN, AND TEMPORARY REMOVAL TO EGYPT
84CHAPTER XIV: DAVID’S SECOND FLIGHT TO GATH — RESIDENCE AT ZIKLAG — EXPEDITION OF THE PHILISTINES AGAINST ISRAEL — SAUL AT JEZREEL — HE RESORTS TO THE WITCH AT ENDOR — APPARITION AND MESSAGE OF SAMUEL — DAVID HAS TO LEAVE THE ARMY OF THE PHILISTINES — CAPTURE OF ZIKLAG BY THE AMALEKITES — PURSUIT AND VICTORY OF DAVID.
14CHAPTER XII: THE SEPARATION OF ABRAM AND LOT — ABRAM AT HEBRON — SODOM PLUNDERED — LOT RESCUED — THE FLEETING WITH MELCHIZEDEK
85CHAPTER XV: THE BATTLE ON MOUNT GILBOA — DEATH OF SAUL — RESCUE OF THE BODIES BY THE MEN OF JABESH-GILEAD — DAVID PUNISHES THE FALSE MESSENGER OF SAUL’S DEATH — DAVID KING AT HEBRON — ISH-BOSHETH KING AT MAHANAIM — BATTLE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF ABNER AND JOAB — ABNER DESERTS THE CAUSE OF ISH-BOSHETH — MURDER OF ABNER — MURDER OF ISH-BOSHETH.
15CHAPTER XIII: THE TWOFOLD PROMISE OF “A SEED” TO ABRAHAM — ISHMAEL — JEHOVAH VISITS ABRAHAM — THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM — ABRAHAM’S SOJOURN AT GERAR — HIS COVENANT WITH ABIMELECH
86CHAPTER XVI: DAVID ANOINTED KING OVER ALL ISRAEL — TAKING OF FORT ZION — PHILISTINE DEFEAT — THE ARK BROUGHT TO JERUSALEM — LITURGICAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS.
16CHAPTER XIV: BIRTH OF ISAAC — ISHMAEL SENT AWAY — TRAIL OF ABRAHAM’S FAITH IN THE COMMAND TO SACRIFICE ISAAC — DEATH OF SARAH — DEATH OF ABRAHAM
87CHAPTER XVII: DAVID’S PURPOSE OF BUILDING THE TEMPLE, AND ITS POSTPONEMENT — THE “SURE MERCIES” OF DAVID IN THE DIVINE PROMISE — DAVID’S THANKSGIVING.
17CHAPTER XV: THE MARRIAGE OF ISAAC — BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB — ESAU SELLS HIS BIRTHRIGHT — ISAAC AT GERAR — ESAU’S MARRIAGE
88CHAPTER XVIII: WARS OF DAVID — GREAT AMMONITE AND SYRIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL — THE AUXILIARIES ARE DEFEATED IN TURN — THE CAPITAL OF MOAB IS TAKEN — EDOM SUBDUED — RECORD OF DAVID’S OFFICERS — HIS KINDNESS TO MEPHIBOSHETH.
18CHAPTER XVI: ISAAC’S BLESSING OBTAINED BY JACOB DECEITFULLY — ESAU’S SORROW — EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ERROR TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY — JACOB IS SENT TO LABAN — ISAAC RENEWS AND FULLY GIVES HIM THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM
89CHAPTER XIX: SIEGE OF RABBAH — DAVID’S GREAT SIN — DEATH OF URIAH — TAKING OF RABBAH — DAVID’S SEEMING PROSPERITY — GOD’S MESSAGE THROUGH NATHAN — DAVID’S REPENTANCE — THE CHILD OF BATHSHEBA DIES — BIRTH OF SOLOMON.
19CHAPTER XVII: JACOB’S VISION AT BETHEL — HIS ARRIVAL AT THE HOUSE OF LABAN — JACOB’S DOUBLE MARRIAGE AND SERVITUDE — HIS FLIGHT FROM HARAN — PURSUIT OF LABAN, AND RECONCILIATION WITH JACOB
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20CHAPTER XVIII: JACOB AT MAHANAIM — THE NIGHT OF WRESTLING — RECONCILIATION BETWEEN JACOB AND ESAU — JACOB SETTLES AT SHECHEM — JACOB PROCEEDS TO BETHEL TO PAY HIS VOW — DEATH OF RACHEL — JACOB SETTLES AT HEBRON
91CHAPTER I: JEWISH VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF DAVID — AMNON’S CRIME — ABSALOM’S VENGEANCE — FLIGHT OF ABSALOM — THE WISE WOMAN OF TEKOAH — ABSALOM RETURNS TO JERUSALEM — HIS CONSPIRACY — DAVID’S FLIGHT.
21CHAPTER XIX: JOSEPH’S EARLY LIFE — HE IS SOLD BY HIS BRETHREN INTO SLAVERY — JOSEPH IN THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR — JOSEPH IN PRISON
92CHAPTER II: AHITHOPHEL’S TWOFOLD ADVICE — HUSHAI PREVENTS IMMINENT DANGER — DAVID IS INFORMED, AND CROSSES THE JORDAN — THE BATTLE IN THE FOREST — DEATH OF ABSALOM — MOURNING OF DAVID — DAVID’S MEASURES — RETURN TO GILGAL — BARZILLAI AND JOAB AS REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THEIR PERIOD — FEDERAL REPUBLICAN RISING UNDER SHEBA — MURDER OF AMASA — DEATH OF SHEBA.
22CHAPTER XX: JOSEPH IN PRISON — THE DREAM OF PHARAOH’S TWO OFFICERS — THE DREAM OF PHARAOH — JOSEPH’S EXALTATION — HIS GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT
93CHAPTER III: APPENDIX TO THE HISTORY OF DAVID. THE FAMINE — THE PESTILENCE — THE TEMPLE ARRANGEMENTS — DAVID’S LAST HYMN AND PROPHETIC UTTERANCE.
23CHAPTER XXI: THE SONS OF JACOB ARRIVE IN EGYPT TO BUY CORN — JOSEPH RECOGNIZES HIS BROTHERS — IMPRISONMENT OF SIMEON — THE SONS OF JACOB COME A SECOND TIME, BRINGING BENJAMIN WITH THEM — JOSEPH TRIES HIS BRETHREN — HE MAKES HIMSELF KNOWN TO THEM — JACOB AND HIS FAMILY PREPARE TO DESCEND INTO EGYPT
94CHAPTER IV: ADONIJAH’S ATTEMPT TO SEIZE THE THRONE — ANOINTING OF SOLOMON — GREAT ASSEMBLY OF THE CHIEFS OF THE PEOPLE — DYING CHARGE OF DAVID — ADONIJAH’S SECOND ATTEMPT AND PUNISHMENT — EXECUTION OF JOAB AND OF SHIMEI
24CHAPTER XXII: DEPARTURE OF JACOB AND HIS FAMILY INTO EGYPT — JACOB’S INTERVIEW WITH PHARAOH — HIS LAST ILLNESS AND COMMAND TO BE BURIED IN CANAAN — ADOPTION OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH AMONG THE SONS OF ISRAEL
95CHAPTER V: SOLOMON MARRIES THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH — HIS SACRIFICE AT GIBEON — HIS DREAM AND PRAYER — SOLOMON’S WISDOM — SOLOMON’S OFFICERS AND COURT — PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY — UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE KING.
25CHAPTER XXIII: THE LAST BLESSING OF JACOB — DEATH OF JACOB — DEATH OF JOSEPH
96CHAPTER VI: THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE — PREPARATIONS FOR IT — PLAN AND STRUCTURE OF THE TEMPLE, INTERNAL FITTINGS — HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE — JEWISH TRADITIONS.
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97CHAPTER VII: DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE — WHEN IT TOOK PLACE — CONNECTION WITH THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES — THE CONSECRATION SERVICES — THE KING’S PART IN THEM — SYMBOLICAL MEANING OF THE GREAT INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL — THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION — ANALOGY TO THE LORD’S PRAYER — THE CONSECRATION — THANKSGIVING AND OFFERINGS.
27CHAPTER I: EGYPT AND ITS HISTORY DURING THE STAY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE BIBLE & ANCIENT MONUMENTS
98CHAPTER VIII: THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE TEMPLE — DESCRIPTION OF JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF SOLOMON — THE PALACE OF SOLOMON — SOLOMON’S FORTIFIED CITIES — EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF THE KINGDOM — INTERNAL STATE — TRADE — WEALTH — LUXURY — THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA.
28CHAPTER II: THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT — THEIR RESIDENCES, OCCUPATIONS, SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS, CONSTITUTION, AND RELIGION — “A NEW KING WHO KNEW NOT JOSEPH.”
99CHAPTER IX: SOLOMON’S COURT — HIS POLYGAMY — SPREAD OF FOREIGN IDEAS IN THE COUNTRY — IMITATION OF FOREIGN MANNERS — GROWING LUXURY — SOLOMON’S SPIRITUAL DECLINE — JUDGMENT PREDICTED — SOLOMON’S ENEMIES: HADAD, REZON, JEROBOAM — CAUSES OF POPULAR DISCONTENT — AHIJAH’S PREDICTION OF THE DISRUPTION — JEROBOAM’S REBELLION AND FLIGHT INTO EGYPT — DEATH OF SOLOMON.
29CHAPTER III: THE BIRTH, AND THE TRAINING OF MOSES, BOTH IN EGYPT AND IN MIDIAN, AS PREPARATORY TO HIS CALLING
100CHAPTER X: FAMILY OF SOLOMON — AGE OF REHOBOAM — HIS CHARACTER — RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH — THE ASSEMBLY AT SHECHEM — JEROBOAM’S RETURN FROM EGYPT — REHOBOAM’S ANSWER TO THE DEPUTIES IN SHECHEM — REVOLT OF THE TEN TRIBES — THE REIGNS OF REHOBOAM AND OF JEROBOAM — INVASION OF JUDAH BY SHISHAK — CHURCH AND STATE IN ISRAEL — REHOBOAM’S ATTEMPT TO RECOVER RULE OVER THE TEN TRIBES — HIS FAMILY HISTORY — RELIGIOUS DECLINE IN ISRAEL, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
30CHAPTER IV: THE CALL OF MOSES — THE VISION OF THE BURNING BUSH -THE COMMISSION TO PHARAOH AND TO ISRAEL -AND THE THREE “SIGNS,” AND THEIR MEANING
101CHAPTER XI: POLITICAL MEASURES OF JEROBOAM — THE GOLDEN CALVES — THE NEW PRIESTHOOD AND THE NEW FESTIVAL — THE MAN OF ELOHIM FROM JUDAH — HIS MESSAGE AND SIGN — JEROBOAM STRUCK BY JEHOVAH AND MIRACULOUSLY RESTORED — INVITATION TO THE MAN OF ELOHIM — HEATHEN VIEW OF MIRACLES — THE OLD PROPHET — RETURN OF THE MAN OF ELOHIM TO BETHEL — JUDGMENT ON HIS DISOBEDIENCE — CHARACTER OF THE OLD PROPHET AND OF THE MAN OF ELOHIM — SICKNESS OF THE PIOUS CHILD OF JEROBOAM — MISSION OF HIS MOTHER TO AHIJAH — PREDICTED JUDGMENT — DEATH OF THE CHILD — REMAINING NOTICES OF JEROBOAM.
31CHAPTER V: MOSES RETURNS INTO EGYPT — THE DISMISSAL OF ZIPPORAH -MOSES MEETS AARON — THEIR RECEPTION BY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL — REMARKS ON THE HARDENING OF PHARAOH’S HEART
102CHAPTER XII: ABIJAH AND ASA (2ND AND 3RD) KINGS OF JUDAH. ACCESSION OF ABIJAH — HIS IDOLATRY — WAR BETWEEN JUDAH AND ISRAEL — ABIJAH’S ADDRESS TO ISRAEL AND VICTORY — DEATHS OF JEROBOAM AND OF ABIJAH — ACCESSION OF ASA — RELIGIOUS REFORMATION IN JUDAH — INVASION BY ZERAH THE ETHIOPIAN — VICTORY OF ZEPHATHAH — AZARIAH’S MESSAGE TO THE ARMY OF ASA — GREAT SACRIFICIAL FEAST AT JERUSALEM — RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT WITH JEHOVAH.
32CHAPTER VI: MOSES AND AARON DELIVER THEIR MESSAGE TO PHARAOH — INCREASED OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL — DISCOURAGEMENT OF MOSES — AARON SHOWS A SIGN — GENERAL VIEW AND ANALYSIS OF EACH OF THE TEN “STROKES,” OR PLAGUES
103CHAPTER XIII: ASA (3RD) KING OF JUDAH - NADAM, BAASHA, ELAH, ZIMRI, TIBNI, AND OMRI (2ND, 3RD, 4TH, 5TH, 6TH, 7TH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. REIGN OF NADAB — HIS MURDER BY BAASHA — WAR BETWEEN JUDAH AND ISRAEL — BAASHA’S ALLIANCE WITH SYRIA — ASA GAINS OVER BEN-HADAD — PROPHETIC MESSAGE TO ASA — RESENTMENT OF THE KING — ASA’S RELIGIOUS DECLINE — DEATH OF ASA, DEATH OF BAASHA, REIGN OF ELAH — HIS MURDER BY ZIMRI — OMRI DETHRONES ZIMRI — WAR BETWEEN OMRI AND TIBNI — REBUILDING OF SAMARIA.
33CHAPTER VII: THE PASSOVER AND ITS ORDINANCES — THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LEAVE EGYPT — THEIR FIRST RESTING-PLACE THE PILLAR OF CLOUD AND OF FIRE — PURSUIT OF PHARAOH PASSAGE THROUGH THE RED SEA — DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH AND HIS HOST — THE SONG “ON THE OTHER SIDE.”
104CHAPTER XIV: ASA AND JEHOSHAPHAT (3RD AND 4TH) KINGS OF JUDAH — AHAB (8TH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF AHAB — FURTHER RELIGIOUS DECLINE IN ISRAEL — POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JUDAH — ACCESSION OF JEHOSHAPHAT — AHAB’S MARRIAGE WITH JEZEBEL — THE WORSHIP OF BAAL AND ASTARTE ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL — CHARACTER OF AHAB — RELIGIOUS REFORMS IN JUDAH — JEHOSHAPHAT JOINS AFFINITY WITH AHAB — MARRIAGE OF JEHORAM WITH ATHALIAH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
34CHAPTER VIII: THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR — THE SINAITIC PENINSULA — ITS SCENERY AND VEGETATION — ITS CAPABILITIES OF SUPPORTING A POPULATION — THE WELLS OF MOSES -THREE DAYS MARCH TO MARAH — ELIM ROAD TO THE WILDERNESS OF SIN — ISRAEL’S MURMURING — THE MIRACULOUS PROVISION OF THE QUAILS — THE MANNA
105CHAPTER XV: AHAB, (8TH) KING OF ISRAEL. REBUILDING OF JERICHO — THE MISSION OF ELIJAH — HIS CHARACTER AND LIFE — ELIJAH’S FIRST APPEARANCE — PARALLELISM WITH NOAH, MOSES, AND JOHN THE BAPTIST — ELIJAH’S MESSAGE TO KING AHAB — SOJOURN BY THE BROOK CHERITH — ELIJAH WITH THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA — THE BARREL OF MEAL WASTES NOT, NOR DOES THE CRUSE OF OIL FAIL — LESSONS OF HIS SOJOURN — SICKNESS AND DEATH OF THE WIDOW’S SON — HE IS MIRACULOUSLY RESTORED TO LIFE.
35CHAPTER IX: REPHIDIM — THE DEFEAT OF AMALEK AND ITS MEANING — THE VISIT OF JETHRO AND ITS SYMBOLICAL IMPORT
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36CHAPTER X: ISRAEL AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT SINAI — THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE COVENANT — THE “TEN WORDS?” AND THEIR MEANING
107CHAPTER I: AHAB, KING OF ISRAEL. THREE YEARS’ FAMINE IN ISRAEL — ELIJAH MEETS OBADIAH AND AHAB — THE GATHERING ON MOUNT CARMEL — THE PRIESTS OF BAAI — DESCRIPTION OF THEIR RITES — THE TIME OF THE EVENING SACRIFICE — ELIJAH PREPARES THE SACRIFICE — ELIJAH’S PRAYER — THE ANSWER BY FIRE — ISRAEL’S DECISION — SLAUGHTER OF THE PRIESTS OF BAAL- THE CLOUD NOT BIGGER THAN A MAN’S HAND — ELIJAH RUNS BEFORE AHAB TO JEZREEL.
37CHAPTER XI: CIVIL & SOCIAL ORDINANCES OF ISRAEL AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD — THEIR RELIGIOUS ORDINANCES IN THEIR NATIONAL ASPECT — THE “COVENANT MADE BY SACRIFICE” AND THE SACRIFICIAL MEAL OF ACCEPTANCE
108CHAPTER II: DIFFERENT STANDPOINT OF THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT — ANALOGY BETWEEN ELIJAH AND JOHN THE BAPTIST — JEZEBEL THREATENS ELIJAH’S LIFE — THE PROPHET’S FLIGHT — HIS MIRACULOUS PROVISION — ANALOGY BETWEEN MOSES AND ELIJAH — ELIJAH AT MOUNT HOREB — WHAT DOEST THOU HERE, ELIJAH? — THE WIND, THE EARTHQUAKE, THE FIRE, AND THE STILL SMALL VOICE — THE DIVINE MESSAGE AND ASSURANCE TO ELIJAH — CALL OF ELISHA.
38CHAPTER XII: THE PATTERN SEEN ON THE MOUNTAIN — THE TABERNACLE, THE PRIESTHOOD, AND THE SERVICES IN THEIR ARRANGEMENT AND TYPICAL MEANING — THE SIN OF THE GOLDEN CALF — THE DIVINE JUDGMENT — THE PLEA OF MOSES — GOD’S GRACIOUS FORGIVENESS — THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD VOUCHSAFED TO MOSES
109CHAPTER III: GENERAL EFFECT OF ELIJAH’S MISSION — THE TWO EXPEDITIONS OF SYRIA AND THE TWOFOLD VICTORY OF ISRAEL-AHAB RELEASES BEN-HADAD — THE PROPHET’S DENUNCIATION AND MESSAGE
39CHAPTER XIII: MOSES A SECOND TIME ON THE MOUNT — ON HIS RETURN HIS FACE SHINETH — THE REARING OF THE TABERNACLE — ITS CONSECRATION BY THE SEEN PRESENCE OF JEHOVAH
110CHAPTER IV: THE VINEYARD OF NABOTH — MURDER OF NABOTH — THE DIVINE MESSAGE BY ELIJAH — AHAB’S REPENTANCE.
40CHAPTER XIV: ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS — THE SIN OF NADAB & ABIHU — JUDGMENT UPON THE BLASPHEMER.
111CHAPTER V: AHAB AND AHAZIAH, (EIGHTH AND NINTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. — JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH. THE VISIT OF JEHOSHAPHAT TO AHAB — THE PROJECTED EXPEDITION AGAINST RAMOTH-GILEAD — FLATTERING PREDICTIONS OF FALSE PROPHETS — MICAIAH — THE BATTLE OF RAMOTH-GILEAD — DEATH OF AHAB.
41CHAPTER XV: ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF NUMBERS — THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL — AND THAT OF THE LEVITES — ARRANGEMENT OF THE CAMP, AND ITS SYMBOLICAL IMPORT — THE MARCH
112CHAPTER VI: JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH. THE REPROOF AND PROPHEY OF — JEHU — RESUMPTION OF THE REFORMATION IN JUDAH — INSTITUTION OF JUDGES AND OF A SUPREME COURT IN JERUSALEM — INCURSION OF THE MOABITES AND THEIR CONFEDERATES — NATIONAL FAST AND THE PRAYER OF THE KING — PROPHECY OF VICTORY — THE MARCH TO TEKOA — DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY — THE VALLEY OF BERAKHAH — RETURN TO JERUSALEM AND TO THE TEMPLE.
42CHAPTER XVI: THE OFFERINGS OF THE PRINCES — THE SETTING APART OF THE LEVITES — SECOND OBSERVANCE OF THE PASSOVER
113CHAPTER VII: JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH, AHAZIAH AND (JEHORAM) JORAM, (NINTH AND TENTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. THE JOINT MARITIME EXPEDITION TO OPHIR — AHAZIAH’S REIGN AND ILLNESS — THE PROPOSED INQUIRY OF BAAL-ZEBUB — THE DIVINE MESSAGE BY ELIJAH — ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE THE PROPHET, AND THEIR RESULT — ELIJAH APPEARS BEFORE THE KING — DEATH OF AHAZIAH — ACCESSION OF JORAM — THE ASCENT OF ELIJAH — ELISHA TAKES UP HIS MANTLE.
43CHAPTER XVII: DEPARTURE FROM SINAI — MARCH INTO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN — AT TABERAH AND KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH
114CHAPTER VIII: ELISHA THE PROPHET. RETURN TO JERICHO — ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS — HEALING OF THE WATERS OF JERICHO — JUDGMENT ON THE YOUNG MEN AT BETHEL — SETTLEMENT IN SAMARIA.
44CHAPTER XVIII: MURMURING OF MIRIAM AND AARON — THE SPIES SENT TO CANAAN — THEIR “EVIL REPORT” — REBELLION OF THE PEOPLE, AND JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED UPON THEM — THE DEFEAT OF ISRAEL “UNTO HORMAH”
115CHAPTER IX: JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH — JORAM, (TENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. THE ALLIED EXPEDITION AGAINST MOAB — RECENT DISCOVERY OF “THE MOABITE STONE” — LESSONS OF ITS INSCRIPTION — THE MARCH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF EDOM — WANT OF WATER — INTERVIEW WITH ELISHA — DIVINE DELIVERANCE — DEFEAT OF MOAB AND ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES — THE SIEGE OF KIR-HARASETH — MESHA OFFERS UP HIS SON — WITHDRAWAL OF THE ALLIES.
45CHAPTER XIX: THE THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS — THE SABBATH-BREAKER — THE GAINSAYING OF KORAH AND OF HIS ASSOCIATES — MURMURING OF THE PEOPLE; THE PLAGUE, & HOW IT WAS STAYED — AAKON’S ROD BUDDING, BLOSSOMING, AND BEARING FRUIT
116CHAPTER X: THE MINISTRY OF ELISHA AS THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIVING GOD IN ISRAEL. THE PROPHET’S WIDOW AND HER MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE — THE SHUNAMMITE AND ELISHA — THE GOD-GIVEN CHILD — HIS DEATH AND RESTORATION TO LIFE — ELISHA AT GILGAL WITH THE “SONS OF THE PROPHETS” — “DEATH IN THE POT” AND REMOVAL OF THE HARM — THE MAN FROM BAAL-SHALISHA — GOD’S SUFFICIENT AND UNFAILING PROVISION FOR HIS OWN.
46CHAPTER XX: THE SECOND GATHERING OF ISRAEL IN KADESH — THE SIN OF MOSES AND AARON — EMBASSY TO EDOM — DEATH OF AARON -RETREAT OF ISRAEL FROM THE BORDERS OF EDOM — ATTACK BY THE CANAANITISH KING OF ARAD
117CHAPTER XI: ILLUSTRATION AND CONFIRMATION OF BIBLICAL HISTORY FROM THE ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS — THE DELIVERANCE OF SYRIA THROUGH NAAMAN — NAAMAN’S LEPROSY AND JOURNEY TO SAMARIA — ELISHA’S MESSAGE TO JORAM AND TO NAAMAN — NAAMAN’S HEALING AND TWOFOLD REQUEST — GEHAZI’S DECEIT AND CONVICTION — GEHAZI IS STRUCK WITH THE LEPROSY OF NAAMAN.
47CHAPTER XXI: JOURNEY OF CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN “COMPASSING” LAND OF EDOM — THE “FIERY SERPENTS” AND THE “BRAZEN SERPENT” — ISRAEL ENTERS THE LAND OF THE AMORITES — VICTORIES OVER SIHON AND OVER OG, — THE KINGS OF THE AMORITES AND OF BASHAN — ISRAEL CAMPS IN “LOWLANDS OF MOAB” CLOSE BY THE JORDAN
118CHAPTER XII: TWO WONDERFUL MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIS PROPHET: THE INTERPOSITION ON BEHALF OF “THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS” BY THE BANKS OF JORDAN, AND THAT IN THE DELIVERANCE OF ELISHA AT DOTHAN — INFLUENCE OF ELISHA’S MINISTRY — GOD, THE EVER-PRESENT HELP AND DELIVERER IN TIMES OF DANGER — THE SYRIANS LED BLINDED INTO SAMARIA — THE CONDUCT OF THE KING AND OF THE PROPHET.
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119CHAPTER XIII: SIEGE OF SAMARIA BY THE SYRIANS — TERRIBLE STRAITS AND TRAGEDY IN THE CITY — THE KING SENDS TO SLAY ELISHA, BUT ARRESTS HIS MESSENGER — ANNOUNCED DELIVERANCE AND JUDGMENT ON THE UNBELIEVING “LORD” — THE DISCOVERY BY THE FOUR LEPERS — FLIGHT OF THE SYRIANS — RELIEF OF SAMARIA — THE UNBELIEVING TRODDEN TO DEATH IN THE GATE.
49CHAPTER I: ISRAEL ABOUT TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE LAND OF PROMISE — DECISIVE CONTEST SHOWING THE REAL CHARACTER OF HEATHENISM — CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF BALAAM.
120CHAPTER XIV: CLOSE OF ELISHA’S PUBLIC MINISTRY: THE BEGINNING OF JUDGMENT. THE SHUNAMMITE ON HER RETURN FROM PHILISTIA RESTORED TO HER PROPERTY — ELISHA’S VISIT TO DAMASCUS — THE EMBASSY OF HAZAEL — PREDICTION OF FUTURE JUDGMENT THROUGH HIM — THE MURDER OF BEN-HADAD AND ACCESSION OF HAZAEL.
50CHAPTER II: THE “PROPHECIES” OF BALAAM — THE END OF BALAAM — PARALLEL BETWEEN BALAAM AND JUDAS
121CHAPTER XV: JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH, (FIFTH AND SIXTH) KINGS OF JUDAH. JORAM, (TENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF JEHORAM — MURDER OF THE ROYAL PRINCES — INTRODUCTION OF THE SERVICE OF BAAL IN JUDAH — REVOLT OF EDOM — AND OF LIBNAH — THE WRITING FROM ELIJAH — INCURSION OF THE PHILISTINES AND OF ARAB TRIBES — SICKNESS, DEATH, AND BURIAL OF JEHORAM — STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING.
51CHAPTER III: THE SECOND CENSUS OF ISRAEL — THE “DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD” — APPOINTMENT OF MOSES’ SUCCESSOR — SACRIFICIAL ORDINANCES — THE WAR AGAINST MIDIAN — ALLOCATION OF TERRITORY EAST OF THE JORDAN — LEVITICAL AND CITIES OF REFUGE.
122CHAPTER XVI: JORAM AND JEHU, (TENTH AND ELEVENTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. AHAZIAH, (SIXTH) KING OF JUDAH. ACCESSION OF AHAZIAH — CHARACTER OF HIS REIGN — EXPEDITION OF JORAM AND AHAZIAH AGAINST HAZAEL AND TAKING OF RAMOTH-GILEAD — JORAM RETURNS WOUNDED TO JEZREEL — VISIT OF AHAZIAH — JEHU ANOINTED KING — RAPID MARCH ON JEZREEL — JORAM KILLED — PURSUIT AND DEATH OF AHAZIAH — JEZEBEL KILLED — FULFILLMENT OF THE DIVINE SENTENCE BY ELIJAH.
52CHAPTER IV: DEATH AND BURIAL OF MOSES.
123CHAPTER XVII: JEHU, (ELEVENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. ATHALIAH, (SEVENTH) QUEEN OF JUDAH. MURDER OF THE “SONS” OF AHAB AND OF JORAM — DESTRUCTION OF THE ADHERENTS OF AHAB IN JEZREEL — MARCH ON SAMARIA — SLAUGHTER OF THE “BRETHREN” OF AHAZIAH — JEHONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB — MEANING OF THE RECHABITE MOVEMENT — THE FEAST OF BAAL AT SAMARIA — DESTRUCTION OF THE WORSHIPPERS — CHARACTER OF THE REIGN OF JEHU — DECLINE OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM — COMMENCING DECLINE OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
53CHAPTER V: THE CHARGE TO JOSHUA — DESPATCH OF THE TWO SPIES TO JERICHO — RAHAB.
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54CHAPTER VI: MIRACULOUS PARTING OF THE JORDAN, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL — GILGAL AND ITS MEANING — THE FIRST PASSOVER ON THE SOIL OF PALESTINE.
125CHAPTER I: ATHALIA, (SEVENTH) QUEEN, AND JEHOASH, (EIGHTH) KING OF JUDAH. MURDER OF THE REMAINING PRINCES OF JUDAH BY ATHALIAH — RESCUE OF JEHOASH, AND HIS PRESERVATION IN THE TEMPLE — REIGN OF ATHALIAH — THE REVOLUTION INAUGURATED BY JEHOIADA — PROCLAMATION AND CORONATION OF JEHOASH — DEATH OF ATHALIAH — DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF BAAL — NEW SETTLEMENT IN CHURCH AND STATE.
55CHAPTER VII: THE “PRINCE OF THE HOST OF JEHOVAH” APPEARS TO JOSHUA — THE MIRACULOUS FALL OF JERICHO BEFORE THE ARK OF JEHOVAH.
126CHAPTER II: JEHOASH, OR JOASH, (EIGHTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEHU, (ELEVENTH) KING OF ISRAEL — CHARACTER OF ATHALIAH, OF JEHOIADA, AND OF JOASH — LESSONS OF THIS HISTORY — EARLY REIGN OF JOASH — REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE — DEATH OF JEHOIADA — COUNTER-REFORMATION — MURDER OF ZECHARIAH — INVASION BY THE SYRIANS — CONSPIRACY AGAINST JOASH — MURDER OF THE KING.
56CHAPTER VIII: UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACK UPON AI — ACHAN’S SIN, AND JUDGEMENT — AI ATTACKED A SECOND TIME AND TAKEN.
127CHAPTER III: JOASH, (EIGHTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEHOASH, (TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF JEHOAHAZ — CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD — CHARACTER OF HIS REIGN — WARS WITH SYRIA — THE ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS — THE PRAYER OF JEHOAHAZ AND ITS ANSWER — RE-ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEXT — SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF THIS HISTORY — ACCESSION OF JEHOASH — THE DYNASTY OF JEHU AND REVERSAL OF THE POLICY OF AHAB — THE NEW RELATION TO THE PROPHETS — EXPLANATION OF IT — THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN THE BEARING OF THE PROPHETS — LAST INTERVIEW BETWEEN JEHOASH AND ELISHA — ITS LESSONS — THE MIRACLE AFTER ELISHA’S DEATH — VICTORIES OVER SYRIA.
57CHAPTER IX: SOLEMN DEDICATION OF THE LAND AND OF ISRAEL ON MOUNTS EBAL AND GERIZIM — THE DECEIT OF THE GIBEONITES
128CHAPTER IV: AMAZIAH, (NINTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEHOASH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF AMAZIAH — CHARACTER OF HIS REIGN — MILITARY PREPARATIONS — THE HIRING OF ISRAELITISH MERCENARIES, WARNING OF THE PROPHET, AND DISMISSAL OF THE AUXILIARIES — “THE VALLEY OF SALT” — DEFEAT OF THE EDOMITES — MARCH UPON PETRA — DESCRIPTION OF PETRA — SLAUGHTER OF THE CAPTIVES — INTRODUCTION OF EDOMITE IDOLATRY — THE CHALLENGE OF AMAZIAH TO JEHOASH, AND HIS REPLY — DEFEAT OF JUDAH — CAPTURE AND PLUNDER OF JERUSALEM — CONSPIRACY AGAINST AMAZIAH — FLIGHT TO LACHISH — MURDER OF THE KING.
58CHAPTER X: THE BATTLE OF GIBEON — CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH OF CANAAN — THE BATTLE OF MEROM — CONQUEST OF THE NORTH OF CANAAN — STATE OF THE LAND AT THE CLOSE OF THE SEVEN-YEARS’ WAR.
129CHAPTER V: AZARIAH, OR UZZIAH, (TENTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEREBOAM II., (FOURTEENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF AZARIAH OR UZZIAH — REIGN OF JEROBOAM II. — RESTORATION OF ISRAELITISH TERRITORY — POLITICAL CAUSES AND DIVINE AGENCY IN THESE SUCCESSES — CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE — SCATTERED HISTORICAL NOTICES — NEW PHASE IN PROPHECY — ITS CHARACTERISTIC — THE TWO PROPHETS ON THE BOUNDARY-LINE — PROPHETS OF THAT PERIOD: JOEL, AMOS, HOSEA, JONAH.
59CHAPTER XI: DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND — UNCONQUERED DISTRICTS — TRIBES EAST OF THE JORDAN — “THE LOT” — TRIBES WEST OF THE JORDAN — THE INHERITANCE OF CALEB — DISSATISFACTION OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH — THE TABERNACLE AT SHILOH — FINAL DIVISION OF THE LAND.
130CHAPTER VI: AZARIAH, OR UZZIAH, (TENTH) KING OF JUDAH. STATE OF JUDAH AT THE ACCESSION OF UZZIAH — ACCOUNT OF HIS REIGN IN THE BOOK OF KINGS — RE-OCCUPATION OF ELATH — RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF JUDAH — EXPEDITION AGAINST THE PHILISTINES AND NEIGHBORING TRIBES — OCCUPATION OF TRANS-JORDANIC TERRITORY — RESTORATION AND EXTENSION OF THE FORTIFICATIONS OF JERUSALEM — RE-ORGANIZATION — PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY — GROWING PRIDE AND CORRUPTION — THE SACRILEGE OF UZZIAH — HIS LEPROSY AND DEATH — JEWISH LEGENDS.
60CHAPTER XII: RETURN OF THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES TO THEIR HOMES — BUILDING OF AN ALTAR BY THEM — EMBASSY TO THEM — JOSHUA’S FAREWELL ADDRESSES — DEATH OF JOSHUA — REVIEW OF HIS LIFE AND WORK.
131CHAPTER VII: UZZIAH (TENTH), JOTHAM (ELEVENTH), AND AHAS, (TWELFTH) KING OF JUDAH. ZACHARIAH (FIFTEENTH), SHALLUM (SIXTEENTH), MENAHEM (SEVENTEENTH), PEKAHIAH (EIGHTEENTH),PEKAH (NINETEENTH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION AND MURDER OF ZACHARIAH — ACCESSION AND DEATH OF SHALLUM — ACCESSION OF MENAHEM — TAKING AND BACK OF TIPHSAH — ACCESSION AND VICTORIES OF PUL OR TIGLATH-PILESER II. OF ASSYRIA — TRIBUTE TO ASSYRIA — ACCESSION AND MURDER OF PEKAHIAH — MILITARY REVOLUTION AND ACCESSION OF PEKAH — AOOESSION AND REIGN OF JOTHAM IN JUDAH — SYRO-LSRAELITISH LEAGUE AGAINST JUDAH — ACCESSION OF AHAZ IN JUDAH — CHARACTER OF HIS REIGN — THE NEW IDOLATRY — CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE AND ITS WORSHIP.
61CHAPTER XIII: SUMMARY OF THE BOOK OF JUDGES — JUDAH’S AND SIMEON’S CAMPAIGN — SPIRITUAL AND NATIONAL DECAY OF ISRAEL — “FROM GILGAL TO BOCHIN.”
132CHAPTER VIII: AHAZ, (TWELFTH) KING OF JUDAH, PEKAH (NINETEENTH), HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. IMPORT OF THE CHANGES INTRODUCED BY AHAZ — PURPOSE OF THE SYRO-ISRAELITISH LEAGUE — TAKING OF ELATH, SUCCESS OF REZIN, AND VICTORY OF PEKAH — SIEGE OF JERUSALEM — APPEAL TO ASSYRIA — MESSAGE OF ISAIAH — WITHDRAWAL OF THE ALLIES — DANGER FROM ASSYRIA — THE PROPHET ODED AND LIBERATION OF THE JUDAEAN CAPTIVES — LESSONS OF IT — THE NAME SHEAR YASHUB — ASSYRIAN MARCH UPON ISRAEL — CAPTURE AND ANNEXATION OF NAPHTALI — FURTHER CAMPAIGN — TAKING OF SAMARIA — REVOLUTION, AND MURDER OF PEKAH — SUCCESSION OF HOSHEA — TRANSPORTATION OF ISRAELITES — SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF DAMASCUS — DEATH OF REZIN — CESSATION OF THE SYRIAN POWER.
62CHAPTER XIV: OTHNIEL — EHUD — SHAMGAR
133CHAPTER IX: HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. SUMMARY OF THIS HISTORY — ACCESSION OF HOSHEA — RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF HIS REIGN — DEATH OF TIGLATH-PILESER AND ACCESSION OF SHALMANESER IV. — EXPEDITION INTO PALESTINE AND SUBMISSION OF HOSHEA — ATTEMPTED ALLIANCE OF ISRAEL WITH EGYPT — HOSHEA MADE A PRISONER — SIEGE OF SAMARIA — ACCOUNT OF IT IN THE ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS — ACCESSION OF SARGON — CAPTURE OF SAMARIA — DEPORTATION OF ISRAEL — LOCALITIES OF THEIR EXILE — THE NEW COLONISTS OF SAMARIA AND THEIR RELIGION — LESSONS OF THIS HISTORY.
63CHAPTER XV: THE OPPRESSION OF JABIN AND SISERA — DEBORAH AND BARAK — THE BATTLE OF TAANACH — THE SONG OF DEBORAH
134CHAPTER X: HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH — POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE TIMES — RELIGION THE ONLY TRUE NATIONAL POLICY — THE POSITION OF ASSYRIA IN RELATION TO JUDAH — RELIGION THE CENTRAL PRINCIPLE OF HEZEKIAH’S REIGN — IDOLATRY ABOLISHED IN JUDAH — RESTORATION OF THE TEMPLE SERVICES — PURIFICATION OF THE TEMPLE — SERVICES OF RE. CONSECRATION — CELEBRATION OF THE PASS-OVER — INVITATION TO THE NORTHERN TRIBES — SUBSEQUENT FESTIVAL — RE-ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE-SERVICES — PROVISION FOR PRIESTS AND LEVITES — GENERAL INFERENCES — ACTIVITY OF HEZEKIAH IN REGARD TO THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE.
64CHAPTER XVI: MIDIANITISH OPPRESSION — THE CALLING OF GIDEON — JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD — THE HOLY WAR — THE NIGHT-BATTLE OF MOREH
135CHAPTER XI: HEZEKIAH (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. OUTWARD EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH — VICTORY OVER THE PHILISTINES — LEAGUE AGAINST SARGON — ASSYRIAN ADVANCE AND SUBMISSION OF JUDAH — SENNACHERIB — THE ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS THEIR ACCOUNT OF THE ASSYRIAN INVASION OF JUDAH — VICTORIES OF SENNACHERIB — ASSYRIAN MISREPRESENTATION OF EVENTS — THE BIBLICAL RECORD — WORKS IN DEFENSE OF JERUSALEM — THE VARIOUS SCRIPTURAL NARRATIVES OF THESE EVENTS — THE ASSYRIAN HOST BEFORE JERUSALEM — ITS LEADERS AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF HEZEKIAH — THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.
65CHAPTER XVII: FARTHER COURSE OF GIDEON — THE EPHOD AT OPHRAH — DEATH OF GIDEON — CONSPIRACY OF ABIMELECH — THE PARABLE OF JOTHAM — RULE AND END OF ABIMELECH
136CHAPTER XII: HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. MEANING AND LESSONS OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE ASSYRIAN INVASION.
66CHAPTER XVIII: SUCCESSORS OF ABIMELECH — CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD — ISRAEL’S RENEWED APOSTASY, AND THEIR HUMILIATION BEFORE JEHOVAH — OPPRESSION BY THE AMMONITES — JEPHTHAH — HIS HISTORY AND VOW — THE SUCCESSORS OF JEPHTHAH
137CHAPTER XIII: HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. DATE OF HEZEKIAH’S SICKNESS — ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH — THE PRAYER OF HEZEKIAH — THE DIVINE ANSWER — MEANING AND LESSONS OF IT. — THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN AND ITS OBJECT — RECEPTION OF THE ENVOYS BY HEZEKIAH — THE PROPHET AND THE KING — PROPHECY OF BABYLON.
67CHAPTER XIX: MEANING OF THE HISTORY OF SAMSON — HIS ANNUNCIATION AND EARLY HISTORY — THE SPIRIT OF JEHOVAH “IMPELS HIM” — HIS DEEDS OF FAITH
138CHAPTER XIV: MANASSEH (FOURTEENTH), AMON (FIFTEENTH), KINGS OF JUDAH. POPULAR MOURNING FOR HEZEKIAH — ACCESSION OF MANASSEH — TEMPTATIONS AND CHARACTER OF THE KING — IDOLATRY AND CRUELTY OF HIS REIGN — MORAL STATE OF THE PEOPLE — PROPHETIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF JUDGMEN — SUPPLEMENTARY NARRATIVE IN THE BOOK OF CHRONICLES — ITS RELIABLENESS CONFIRMED BY THE ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS — THE CAPTIVITY OF MANASSEH IN BABYLON — HIS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER — HIS RESTORATION TO JERUSALEM — SUPERFICIAL CHARACTER OF HIS REFORMATION — HIS DEATH — REIGN OF AMON.
68CHAPTER XX: THE SIN AND FALL OF SAMSON — JEHOVAH DEPARTS FROM HIM — SAMSON’S REPENTANCE, FAITH, AND DEATH
139CHAPTER XV: JOSIAH, (SIXTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. ACCESSION OF JOSIAH — HIS EARLY LIFE — ARRANGEMENT OF THE NARRATIVE — COLLECTION FOR REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE — THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL — CHARACTER OF THOSE EMPLOYED — THE REFORMATION NOT THE OUTCOME OF A GENERAL RELIGIOUS REVIVAL — TEMPLE REPAIRS — THE FINDING OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW — THE PROPHETESS HULDAH — THE ASSEMBLY AND COVENANT IN THE TEMPLE — DESTRUCTION OF THE EMBLEMS OF IDOLATRY IN JERUSALEM, JUDAH, AND IN THE NORTHERN TRIBAL POSSESSIONS — FULFILLMENT OF ANCIENT PROPHECY REGARDING BETHEL — THE GREAT PASSOVER IN JERUSALEM.
69CHAPTER XXI: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN BETHLEHEM IN THE DAYS OF JUDGES — THE STORY OF RUTH — KING DAVID’S ANCESTORS
140CHAPTER XVI: JOSIAH (SIXTEENTH), JEHOAHAZ (SEVENTEENTH), JEHOIAKIM (EIGHTEENTH), KINGS OF JUDAH. RETROSPECT — POLITICAL HISTORY — POSSIBLE REUNION OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL — THE FALL OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE — INCURSION OF THE SCYTHIANS — REVOLT AND INDEPENDENCE OF BABYLONIA — THE EXPEDITION OF PHARAOH NECHO — RESISTANCE OF JOSIAH TO HIS PROGRESS — BATTLE OF MEGIDDO — DEATH AND BURIAL OF JOSIAH — APPOINTMENT, DEPOSITION, AND CAPTIVITY OF JEHOAHAZ — ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM — TRIBUTE TO EGYPT.
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141CHAPTER XVII: JEHOIAKIM (EIGHTEENTH), JEHOIACHIN (NINETEENTH), ZEDEKIAH (TWENTIETH), KING OF JUDAH. CHARACTER OF JEHOIAKIM’S REIGN — SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MEDIA — SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BABYLONIA — FALL OF NINEVEH — THE NEW BABYLONIAN EMPIRE — SECOND EXPEDITION OF NECHO — BATTLE OF CARCHEMISH — ADVANCE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR — STATE OF THINGS IN JERUSALEM — PARTIAL SPOIL OF THE TEMPLE — RETURN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO BABYLON — JEHOIAKIM FIRST PRISONER, THEN TRIBUTARY — REBELLION OF JEHOIAKIM — DEATH OF JEHOIAKIM AND ACCESSION OF JEHOIACHIN — SIEGE OF JERUSALEM — SURRENDER OF JEHOIACHIN — HIS FATE — FIRST DEPORTATION TO BABYLON — ACCESSION AND REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH — THE REBELLION OF ZEDEKIAH — ADVANCE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR — SIEGE OF JERUSALEM — STATE OF MATTERS IN THE CITY — BRIEF RELIEF OWING TO THE ADVANCE OF AN EGYPTIAN ARMY — RESUMPTION OF THE SIEGE — CAPTURE OF PART OF THE CITY — FLIGHT AND CAPTURE OF ZEDEKIAH — THE SENTENCES AT RIBLAH — BURNING OF THE TEMPLE, DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY, AND DEPORTATION OF CAPTIVES — THE PROPHET JEREMIAH — APPOINTMENT OF GEDALIAH — THE COURT AT MIZPAH — MURDER OF GEDALIAH — PURSUIT AND FLIGHT OF THE MURDERERS — RETREAT INTO EGYPT — LAST PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH — END OF THE EARTHLY DAVIDIC RULE — THE DESOLATE LAND KEEPS HER SABBATHS.
71CHAPTER I: PURPORT AND LESSONS OF THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL — ELI — HANNAH’S PRAYER AND VOW — THE BIRTH OF SAMUEL — DEDICATION OF THE CHILD — HANNAH’S SONG.
