Bible History - Old Testament

- 63- CHAPTER 8 : The surroundings of the temple — description of Jerusalem at the time of solomon — the palace of solomon — Sol ...

- 64- the western hill as Mount Zion, the arguments in favor of identifying it with the eastern hill seem very strong. These it ...

- 65- notices of its partial destruction (2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chronicles 25:23), and of its repair (2 Chronicles 32:5). We have pur ...

- 66- his daughter as dowry on her marriage with Solomon. Not far from Gezer, and serving a similar defensive purpose, rose the ...

- 67- (Keil, whose estimate seems the most probable). We suppose it was in repayment of this sum that Solomon ceded to Hiram twe ...

- 68- The two last-mentioned articles of import indicate the commencement of a very dangerous decline towards Oriental luxury. I ...

- 69- whatever may have specially influenced her to undertake so novel a pilgrimage, three things in regard to it are beyond que ...

- 70- CHAPTER 9 : Solomon’s court — his polygamy — spread of foreign ideas in the country — imitation of foreign manners — growi ...

- 71- Solomon's harem must be attributed. Had it been coarse sensuality which influenced him, the earlier, not the later years o ...

- 72- It need scarcely be said, that public sin such as that of Solomon would soon bring down judgment. As preparatory to it we ...

- 73- upon difficult and dangerous enterprises. But, although Hadad returned to his own country in the beginning of Solomon's re ...

- 74- of Saul, who was only too painfully conscious of the objections which tribal jealousy would raise to his elevation (1 Samu ...

- 75- a matter of course, came to know him as their chief and leader, while in daily close intercourse he would learn their grie ...

- 76- (Genesis 37:29; 44:13; 2 Samuel 13:19), though sadness must have been in the prophet's heart, but as symbol of what is to ...

- 77- Solomon lay. No bright sunset here, to be followed by a yet more glorious morning. He had done more than any king to denat ...

- 78- CHAPTER 10 : Family of Solomon — age of Rehoboam — his character — religious history of israel and judah — the assembly at ...

- 79- which Rehoboam and his young friends entertained, appeared only too clearly in the first act of the king's reign. In gener ...

- 80- among the people, and this for three reasons. There was, first, the continued influence for good of the Temple at Jerusale ...

- 81- chain of natural causation, of which He holds the first, and man the last, link. This grand truth, as fully expressed and ...

- 82- they seem to imply not only a lightening of the "heavy" burden of forced labor and taxation, but of the "grievous yoke" of ...