Bible History - Old Testament

- 128- CHAPTER 19 : Siege of Rabbah - David's great Sin - Death of Uriah - Taking of Rabbah - David's seeming Prosperity - God's ...

- 129- then, when all else had failed, the dispatch of the murderous missive by Uriah's own hands, followed by the contest, with ...

- 130- was David's conscience quiet? To take the lowest view of it, he could not be ignorant that the law of God pronounced sent ...

- 131- The king had listened in silence, like one staggering and stunned under the blows that fell. But it was not sorrow unto d ...

- 132- now and ever afterwards, the sunlight of autumn rather than that of summer; a sunlight, not of undimmed brightness, but a ...

- 133- (^12) This in all probability is the correct rendering. (^13) That Eli was a descendant of Ithamar, not of Eleazar, appea ...

- 134- and retaining the Chethib to translate interrogatively, "And are not deeds weighed?" (^23) The verb which agrees with her ...

- 135- history of the priesthood under Samuel, Saul, and latterly under David, until the deposition of the line of Ithamar. (^36 ...

- 136- (^46) In vers. 7 and 8 the Philistines speak of God in the plural number, regarding Him from their polytheistic point of ...

- 137- (^57) Comp. Robinson's Bibl. Researches, 2. pp. 223-225; 3. p. 153. (^58) In vers. 14, 15 we read of a "great stone," whi ...

- 138- between vers. 2 and 3; while Ewald regards vers. 3, 4 as a later addition. Impartial students, however, will fail to perc ...

- 139- (^72) According to Jewish tradition, Samuel, like Solomon, died at the age of fifty- two. He is said to have become prema ...

- 140- (^81) 1 Samuel 9:1; comp. 14:51. The notice, therefore, in 1 Chronicles 8:33, 9:39, must probably be a clerical error, th ...

- 141- (^89) We may here give a curious extract from Siphre, all the more readily that this commentary on Numbers and Deuteronom ...

- 142- (^98) This is the view of Bunsen, and especially of Oehler, and seems to afford the only correct interpretation of the sa ...

- 143- (^110) Most critics seem to imagine that they had first gone all round Israel, and only ultimately arrived at Gibeah, whe ...

- 144- Holy Ghost, personal interposition on the part of God - miracle and prophetic inspiration - was the rule, not the excepti ...

- 145- (^124) This Beth-aven is mentioned in Joshua 7:2, and must not be confounded with Bethel, east of which it evidently lay, ...

- 146- (^131) The Chaldee paraphrast has "serpents" - this valley being supposed to have been their lurking-place. But I have ta ...

- 147- (^139) See Vol. 2 of this History. (^140) This accommodation of the law to each stage of man's moral state, together with ...