Bible History - Old Testament

- 158- (^185) "Baalim and the Astartes" (Ashtaroth or Asheroth). So literally. (^186) See Cassel's Comm. p. 33. Jewish tradition ...

- 159- (^194) So literally. (^195) It was common in antiquity to rise when receiving a direct message from the king. This is the ...

- 160- (^209) So, and not as the Authorized Version renders it: "he went up with 10,000 men at his feet." (^210) So also Josephu ...

- 161- (^223) The expression is not without difficulty; Cassel would render it by pack-saddled. (^224) The reference here is evi ...

- 162- Ancient Jewish tradition has it that this battle was fought on the Passover, which is not unlikely, as the Kishon is swol ...

- 163- (^252) The added notice as to its continuance at the time of the writer throws light upon the date of the authorship of t ...

- 164- (^265) So we understand the expression: "And the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley." (^266) Judges 7:11: "The ...

- 165- (^277) Wrongly rendered in our version "by the plain of the pillar," 9:6. (^278) That is, the inhabitants of Millo. Millo ...

- 166- (^291) Certain critics have imagined a discrepancy between the earlier notice in Numbers 32:4l, etc., and that in the tex ...

- 167- Jehovah could have either vowed or actually offered a human sacrificed - not to speak of the sacrifice being that of his ...

- 168- (^308) The exact locality cannot be ascertained. The Spirit of Jehovah began to push, to drive, or impel him. (^309) Henc ...

- 169- (^321) Critics differ widely as to the exact time when the events recorded in the Book of Ruth took place. Keil makes Boa ...

- 170- (^332) So correctly, and not as in the Authorized Version, which misses the meaning. (^333) It has been rightly observed, ...

VOLUME IV THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL UNDER SAMUEL, SAUL AND DAVID, TO THE BIRTH OF SOLOMON ...

- 5 - PREFACE THE history of Israel, viewed as the Theocracy, or Kingdom of God, consists of three periods: First, that under th ...

- 6 - regards the communication of the same measure of truth. But such an exhibition of power would have eliminated the moral el ...

- 7 - later period. As we read their account we are still as much overawed and solemnized as they who had witnessed them. In ill ...

- 8 - Secondly, he, of course, implies that it is used in this sense by Onkelos in the passage in question. Now, the answer to a ...

- 2 - Table of Contents PREFACE 5 CHAPTER 1 :Purport and Lessons of the Books of Samuel - Eli - Hannah's Prayer and Vow - The Bi ...

- 3 - between David and Goliath - Friendship of David and Jonathan. (1 SAMUEL 16-18:4) 57 CHAPTER 11 : Saul's Jealousy, and Atte ...