Bible History - Old Testament

- 23- impulses. These impulses are not such as we may, perhaps, imagine, or suppose them to have become under the influence of r ...

- 24- On the other hand, we may, at this stage of our inquiries, be allowed to place by the side of Barzillai another representa ...

- 25- again to have recourse to Abishai, or rather, through him, to Joab.^35 There was now no lack of trusty warriors, and the e ...

- 26- Jerusalem. So ended the last rising against David - and, we may add, the political history of his reign. (^) ...

- 27- CHAPTER 3 : The famine — the pestilence — the temple arrangements — David’s last hymn and prophetic utterance. 2 SAMUEL 21 ...

- 28- Israelites, they would be left, at least socially, isolated. This will account for their ferocious persistence in demandin ...

- 29- over to them that they might be nailed to the cross - of course after they were dead, for so the law directed^42 - as they ...

- 30- It seems a confirmation of the view, that the sin of David, in wishing to ascertain the exact number of those capable of b ...

- 31- entreating that, as the sin had been his, so the punishment might descend on him and his household, rather than on his peo ...

- 32- God and His law (1 Chronicles 22:6-12). Only such principles would secure true prosperity to his reign (ver. 13). For hims ...

- 33- accordance with the Divine message that Nathan had been commissioned to bring to him. Hence these "last words" must be reg ...

- 34- CHAPTER 4 : Adonijah’s attempt to seize the throne — anointing of Solomon — great assembly of the chiefs of the people — d ...

- 35- from maternal fondness and ambition. At any rate, the prospect of gaining a crown was worth making an effort; and the more ...

- 36- the king's gardens, under an over-arching rock, close by the only perennial spring in Jerusalem - that of the Valley of Ki ...

- 37- prophet. The ceremony ended, the blast of the trumpets proclaimed the accession of the new monarch, and the people burst i ...

- 38- reign he had accumulated, always with this great purpose in view (1 Chronicles 28:11- 29:5). But this was not a work which ...

- 39- such feelings on the part of David, it is impossible to read his parting directions and suggestions to Solomon without dis ...

- 40- the extreme penalty of the law, but for his former and still unpunished crimes, which his recent treasonable conduct seeme ...

- 41- CHAPTER 5 : Solomon marries the daughter of Pharaoh — his sacrifice at Gibeon — his dream and prayer — Solomon’s wisdom — ...

- 42- To Israel and to the countries around, such a union would now afford evidence of the position and influence which the Jewi ...