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Bible History

Complete 7 Volume EditionBy Alfred Edersheim

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Bible History is a fascinating study that gives incredible insights into the Old Testament. Alfred Edersheim removed layers of mystery, allowing readers to engage completely with the text. The readers are provided with a chronological history of the Jewish people resulting from his close examination of the books. The work is divided into seven volumes to make it easy for the reader to comprehend each significant period covered in the Old Testament. Edersheim's deep knowledge and understanding of Judaism are witnessed throughout the work. In addition, one can also notice his love for scripture and his desire for every Christian to learn and become familiar with the story of God's redeeming work in history.

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1PREFACE

72CHAPTER II: THE SIN OF ELI’S SONS — ELI’S WEAKNESS — A PROPHET’S MESSAGE — SAMUEL’S FIRST VISION — HIS CALL TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE.

2INTRODUCTION

73CHAPTER III: EXPEDITION AGAINST THE PHILISTINES — THE TWO BATTLES OF EBENEZER — DEATH OF ELI’S SONS, AND TAKING OF THE ARK — DEATH OF ELI — JUDGMENT ON THE PHILISTINE CITIES — THE RETURN OF THE ARK.

3CHAPTER I: CREATION — MAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN — THE FALL.

74CHAPTER IV: SAMUEL AS PROPHET — THE GATHERING AT MIZPEH — BATTLE OF EBEN-EZER; ITS CONSEQUENCES — SAMUEL’S ADMINISTRATION — THE DEMAND FOR A KING.

4CHAPTER II: CAIN AND ABEL — THE TWO WAYS AND THE TWO RACES.

75CHAPTER V: THE CALLING OF SAUL — OCCASION OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL — SAMUEL COMMUNES WITH SAUL — SAUL IS ANOINTED KING — THE THREE “SIGNS “ — THEIR DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE.

5CHAPTER III: SETH AND HIS DESCENDANTS — THE RACE OF CAIN

76CHAPTER VI: SAUL CHOSEN KING AT MIZPEH — HIS COMPARATIVE PRIVACY — INCURSION OF NAHASH — RELIEF OF JABESH-GILEAD — POPULAR ASSEMBLY AT GILGAL — ADDRESS OF SAMUEL.

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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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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, &amp; 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.