Bible History - Old Testament

- 149- (^27) So literally. (^28) The expressions in 1 Kings 19:15-17 must, of course, not be pressed in a literal sense. As a ma ...

- 150- (^45) Or, "battle." This, and not "order the battle," as in the A.V. The same expression occurs in 2 Chronicles 13:3, and ...

- 151- (^67) The judgment on Jezebel was to be executed "by the wall of Jezreel" (21:23). The expression means properly: on the ...

- 152- (^85) Keil and Ewald suggest that the Edomites had taken part in the expedition of Ammon and Moab against Judah (2 Chroni ...

- 153- (^103) See Robinson, u.s., pp. 490, 491; Vol. 3., p. 275. It has been supposed by some (Thenius, Hitzig) that the valley ...

- 154- (^115) The word "messenger" in Hebrew is the same as that for "angel." (^116) "Thou sendest to inquire" (ver. 6), instead ...

- 155- (^131) The same symbolic presentation of the Lord in His manifestation appears in Psalm 104:3, 4; Isaiah 66:15; Habakkuk ...

- 156- (^143) It may here be noticed that, if the event had not really taken place, the inventor would have ascribed the destruc ...

- 157- (^158) * As Canon Rawlinson reminds us, in the Speaker's Commentary, by Herodotus and Polybius. Even Deuteronomy 20:19, 2 ...

- 158- (^177) Lamentations 4:4: "The tongue of the yonek cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the olalim asks bread." ( ...

- 159- (^195) For, evidently, the conquest of Syria could not have been either permanent or even complete, since Shalmaneser req ...

- 160- introduction of Rimmon in the worship of Damascus casts light on the historical relations between Syria and Assyria forme ...

- 161- the Old Testament as in preparation for a journey (comp. Genesis 19:2, 27; 21:14; 22:3; 28:18; 31:55; Joshua 3:1; Judges ...

- 162- (^245) The verbs in vers. 1:2 must be given in the pluperfect, not the imperfect tense. (^246) Ver. 8 shows that it could ...

- 163- (^261) Only a hypercriticism can see any real difference between this statement and that in 2 Kings 8:24. (^262) Jeho-ach ...

- 164- (^280) Her adornment could not have been intended to attract Jehu, since, having a grandson twenty-three years old (2 Kin ...

- 165- that of "the prophets" of Baal. On other grounds also this view seems to commend itself, and it is certainly not incompat ...

VOLUME VII FROM THE DECLINE OF THE TWO KINGDOMS TO THE ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY ...

- 3 - PREFACE THE volume herewith introduced to the reader brings, according to the original plan of the series, this Bible Hist ...

- 4 - from their writings we obtain the most vivid account, not only of the moral and religious state of the people, and even of ...