Bible History - Old Testament

- 138- and, softly lifting the coverlet, lays herself at his feet. At midnight, accidentally touching the form at his feet, Boaz ...

- 139- 25:5); or else a forced sale of property through poverty, when the next-of-kin of the original proprietor may redeem the ...

- 140 - In this instance the kinsman handed his shoe to Boaz - that is, ceded his possession to him. Alike the assembled elders, ...

- 141- (^7) It is of curious interest, that precisely the same names occur in the royal Edomitish family: Genesis 36:32. (^8) By ...

- 142- (^17) The prophecies of Balaam certainly go far beyond the range of the prophetic vision of that time. Could it be, becau ...

- 143- (^33) Agag - literally, "the fiery" - was not the name of one special king (1 Samuel 15:8), but the general designation o ...

- 144- (Numbers 36) that his daughters should not marry out of their father's tribe; and this was afterwards made a general law. ...

- 145- (^57) Our description here, and of the view from the top is from Canon Tristram's Land of Israel, pp. 539-543, of course, ...

- 146- (^70) In Joshua 3:11 and 13 it is significantly designated, "the Ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth," as Calvin re ...

- 147- (^79) In Joshua 12:7-24, no less than thirty-one such "kings" are enumerated, as vanquished by Joshua. And it must be rem ...

- 148- raised over him a great heap of stones." In that case, the plural number which follows ("and burned them," etc.) would re ...

- 149- (^95) All travelers are agreed on two points: 1. That there could be no difficulty whatever in distinctly hearing both fr ...

- 150- (^105) The reader will notice the significant change from Melchi-Zedek, "My King righteousness," to Adoni-Zedek, "My Lord ...

- 151- (^117) It seems even to have been practiced by the Byzantine emperors long after the Christian era. See the reference giv ...

- 152- (^126) Literally: "from Shichor, in the face of Egypt," or rather "from the black (river) to the east of Egypt." This was ...

- 153- territories of Simeon and Dan have no boundary mark, only a register of cities, because they really formed part of the te ...

- 154- (^143) Ephraim numbered 32,500 and half Manasseh 26,350 men capable of bearing arms (Numbers 26:34, 37), or, both togethe ...

- 155- (^150) From Joshua 22:9 we learn that they "departed out of Shiloh," hence after the land had been finally apportioned am ...

- 156- (^161) In the Hebrew with the article "the God," to indicate that it was the only true and living Elohim. Israel in Canaa ...

- 157- (^172) Tola (10:1), Jair (10:3), Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon (12:8-15). (^173) It is difficult to resist the impression that C ...