Bible History - Old Testament

- 44- Comp. Guerin, La Judee i. pp. 299, etc.; Badeker, p. 203. As usually, the ancient city lay on the top of a hill. Among i ...

- 45- CHAPTER 5 - AZARIAH, OR UZZIAH, (TENTH) KING OF JUDAH. JEREBOAM II., (FOURTEENTH) KING OF ISRAEL Accession of Azariah or U ...

- 46- This would accord with the persistent use of the latter name in 2 Chronicles - considering the view-point of the writer an ...

- 47- Arabah "). The Dead Sea unquestionably marked on that side the southern boundary originally of united Palestine, and after ...

- 48- political events. And the more clearly to mark the agency of God in what might seem the natural course of events, the conn ...

- 49- light on the political history of the time as described in the strictly historical books, with which alone we are concerne ...

- 50- Comp. Hasse, Gesch. des a. Bundes, apud Bahr, u.s. p. 370. Generally we refer here also to the remarks of Bahr on the who ...

- 51- Joel seem already referred to by Amos, "the burden-bearer" (comp. Amos 1:2; 9:13 with Joel 3:16, 18, 20). Amos himself was ...

- 52- connection with the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, as its author. And, as Bleek has pointed out, the book does not any ...

- 53- CHAPTER 6 - AZARIAH, OR UZZIAH, (TENTH) KING OF JUDAH State of Judah at the Accession of Uzziah - Account of his Reign in ...

- 54- Important though the reign of Uzziah was - chiefly from a political, but also from a religious point of view - the writer ...

- 55- as the place which the narrative occupies in the sacred text, lead us to infer that this was the first military undertakin ...

- 56- 26:6). The general policy seems wisely to have been not to destroy nor depopulate the Philistine cities, but to render the ...

- 57- angle. Moreover, these forts were armed with new and powerful engines for projecting arrows and great stones upon any besi ...

- 58- the more flat portions, as in the district of Carmel (1 Samuel 15:12; 25:2, 5), agriculture was carried on; whilst, alike ...

- 59- stricken, hastened thence. So the king, whose heart had been lifted up to the utter forgetfulness of the help hitherto giv ...

- 60- CHAPTER 7 - UZZIAH (TENTH), JOTHAM (ELEVENTH), AND AHAS, (TWELFTH) KING OF JUDAH. ZACHARIAH (FIFTEENTH), SHALLUM (SIXTEENT ...

- 61- Ant. u.s. ** According to Josephus, with his army, and gave battle to Shallum. *** For a description of Tirzah see Vol. ...

- 62- Arpad, in the neighborhood of Hamath, and not far from Damascus* (comp. Isaiah 10:9, 36:19; 2 Kings 18:34; Jeremiah 49:23) ...

- 63- lion" (comp. 1 Chronicles 12:8), fell, probably in defending the king. As we read it, Pekah, with fifty of the Gilead guar ...