Bible History - Old Testament

- 123- him - perhaps the only quiet happy season in all his life. And as day by day he had been the dispenser of God's goodness ...

- 124- (^1) I do not mean for the credibility of one or another special miracle, but for that of miracles in general. This, no d ...

- 125- (^11) It is remarkable and exceptional that the name of his daughter is mentioned, and not those of his sons. (^12) Keil ...

- 126- (^23) Speaker's Commentary, Vol. 2. p. 429. (^24) This is the correct reading, as in 1 Chronicles 2:17. The word "Israeli ...

- 127- (^35) The text mentions only dealings between David and Abishai, but the subsequent narrative shows that Joab was in comm ...

- 128- enumerations we prefer that in 2 Samuel 24:9. However, 1,300,000, or even, according to 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1,570,000 men ...

- 129- (^55) It is, of course, impossible here to enter into any critical examination of the chapters in 1 Chronicles, summarize ...

- 130- (^67) The fire a symbol of the Divine wrath. (^68) Other renderings have been proposed, but the one in the text conveys t ...

- 131- works from which the author of the Book of Kings quoted, were themselves based on earlier prophetic writings. It is only ...

- 132- (^80) The law only forbade alliance with the Canaanites (Exodus 34:16 Deuteronomy 7:3). (^81) Comp. the views expressed i ...

- 133- computation of Thenius seems too large, bearing in mind that cattle and sheep in the East are much smaller than in the We ...

- 134- Kings 9:28; 2 Chronicles 8:17, 18). Remembering that this wood had to come from Tyre, there is not the slightest inaccura ...

- 135- Art. "Temple "). Mr. Ferguson, and after him most English writers, have maintained that the roof, both of the Tabernacle ...

- 136- the Mishnic Tractate Middoth, in the Appendix to Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ. Our present limits ...

- 137- (^122) At the same time, I confess that I am by no means convinced that such was the case. The language of 1 Kings 9:1 sh ...

- 138- extant. To this we may add, that the whole tone and conception is not at all in accordance with, or what we would have ex ...

- 139- daring feat of climbing up into Jebus by this "gutter," and opening the gates to his comrades. This would also account fo ...

- 140- (^148) See Sir Edward Strachey's very thoughtful book on Hebrew Politics in the Times of Sargon and Sennacherib, p. 200. ...

- 141- (^157) So literally. (^158) Bahr gives a number of instances, both from ancient and modern history, of far larger harems ...

- 142- of Rehoboam; Tabrimon (Hadad III.), contemporary of Abijam; Ben-hadad (Hadad IV.), contemporary of Asa. (^167) Most criti ...