Bible History - Old Testament

- 24- The Book of Chronicles traces his fate to the murder of "the son [grandson]*** of Jehoiada" - not, indeed, in the sense of ...

- 25- CHAPTER 3 - JOASH, (EIGHTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEHOASH, (TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH) KINGS OF ISRAEL Accession of Jehoahaz - Chron ...

- 26- us the more likely from the circumstance (fully explained in the Chronological Note A, Vol. 6. of this History) that the t ...

- 27- Thence, during the reign of Jehoahaz, he extended his conquests over the Israelitish territory west of the Jordan, till, i ...

- 28- Indeed, many interpreters understand the words "all the days" (A.V. "all their days "), as meaning "all the days of Jehoa ...

- 29- With this the writer connects (in verses 22-25)what really resumes and fully carries out the more summary remarks in vets. ...

- 30- in the repentant prayer of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:4), and lastly in the visit of Jehoash to the deathbed of Elisha (2 Kings ...

- 31- their support of certain acts and facts. It required spiritual discernment to understand that the prophets were neither po ...

- 32- The king's was language of respectful affection, indeed, but also of unbelief, as if with the removal of Elisha's presence ...

- 33- Mark here the use of the definite article, "the arrows," while in ver. 15 it is only "bow and arrows." Instead of obeyin ...

- 34- to where the mourners were gathered. Only a hasty flight could save them from death or bondage. There was not time for hes ...

- 35- CHAPTER 4 - AMAZIAH, (NINTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEHOASH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF ISRAEL Accession of Amaziah - Character of his R ...

- 36- This explanation is both natural and sufficient. There is not any reason for thinking of a "confirmation" of his accessio ...

- 37- Gold talents would have been so designated, and they would have amounted to the incredible figure of about 675,000 pounds ...

- 38- It is at least doubtful whether these cliffs are identical with the Akrabbim, or "scorpion- stairs," of Numbers 34:4; Jos ...

- 39- The other objections are weak. ** According to Badeker, the whole journey from Jebel Usdum to Petra occupies only from 1 ...

- 40- For further description this is not the place.* It was into the midst of all this wondrous glory of nature and wealth of m ...

- 41- divinity is probably the Qaziu of the Nabathean and Hauranitic inscriptions, and the Kassios of the Phoenicians. Comp. Her ...

- 42- to him the counsel of God to his destruction.* It would now appear how the king's own chosen counselors would themselves b ...

- 43- the present Damascus gate)to that in the north-west corner of the wall, where it runs southward. Here the Philistines fir ...