Bible History - Old Testament

- 28- an assault on the city. But in whatever these preparations consisted, - whether in the advance of siege engines, or amassi ...

- 29- viewed by itself, yet, as regards the means, brought about in the order of natural causation. And thus we ever learn anew ...

- 30- were waged in the plains, man against man, and not gods against men, ("but, on the other hand, we shall fight with them in ...

- 31- only that, as they camped in two divisions on the opposite side of the valley, perhaps beneath the two spurs of the ridge ...

- 32- Presently, at Ahab's invitation, Ben-hadad himself was brought, and made to stand by the side of the king in his chariot – ...

- 33- In the execution of this commission the "son of the prophet" went to one of his colleagues,^55 and, telling him that it wa ...

- 34- hesitation how to decide. He told him that in recounting his story he had already pronounced sentence upon himself. Then t ...

- 35- CHAPTER 4: The Vineyard of Naboth - Murder of Naboth - The Divine Message by Elijah - Ahab's Repentance. (1 Kings 21) IT i ...

- 36- of the palace, may be judged from the lemon-groves still existing in the near neighborhood. But Naboth, the owner of the c ...

- 37- Jezebel knew this only too well, and with a terrible frankness wrote to each member of that senate what would seem the kin ...

- 38- these two sons of Belial were suborned to say that Naboth had at the same time pronounced in their hearing a curse upon Ah ...

- 39- And the last time he met the prophet had been on Mount Carmel; the last glimpse had been when through the blinding rain he ...

- 40- The dogs would "eat Jezebel at the wall of Jezreel," while a similar fate would overtake all the posterity of Ahab in the ...

- 41- CHAPTER 5 : AHAB AND AHAZIAH, (EIGHTH AND NINTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL. - JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH. - The Visit of Je ...

- 42- had brought Israel out of Egypt. This transformation of the religion of Israel has been fully described in another place. ...

- 43- the formal alliance between them. Similarly we are not quite sure whether this "enticement" had preceded or followed the a ...

- 44- is too late to withdraw, and the only thing consistent is to be inconsistent in owning God where His will can no longer be ...

- 45- This explains the otherwise strange fact that his emphatic warning remained so entirely unheeded. It was, as we imagine, d ...

- 46- represent, evidently, a vision; and that, not of something literally real, but as we might term it a parabolic vision. It ...

- 47- difficulty in understanding his words (ver. 24). If they sounded like a satirical reproof of Micaiah's presumption in arro ...