Bible History - Old Testament

- 64- derived its name. The "higher gate" opened from the "upper" [or inner] court - that of the priests - into the lower, which ...

- 65- ** I am following the calculations of Schrader (Keilinschr. u. d. A. Test. pp. 142-144, and in the Article in Riehm's Hand ...

- 66- marauding expeditions. It was otherwise when his weak and wicked son Ahaz ascended the throne, in the seventeenth year of ...

- 67- was Topheth - " the spitting out," or place of abomination -where an Ahaz, a Manasseh, and an Amon, sacrificed their sons ...

- 68- Thus, in regard to form - the many sanctuaries in opposition to the one place of worship - as well as to substance and spi ...

- 69- the king, all sacrificial worship* was now celebrated at this new heathen altar, the disposal of the old altar being left ...

- 70- is, that he removed both into the sanctuary itself, probably within the porch. We regard it as a further part of these alt ...

- 71- CHAPTER 8 - AHAZ, (TWELFTH) KING OF JUDAH, PEKAH (NINETEENTH), HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL Import of the Changes in ...

- 72- Yet in all this Ahaz found a servile instrument in the high priest Urijah (2 Kings 16:11- 16). Assuredly the prophet's des ...

- 73- evoked, in the case of Ahaz, that most full and personal Messianic prediction of "the Virgin's Son" (Isaiah 7:14). Not onl ...

- 74- spoken of in ver. 5 only referred in a more general sense to the losses inflicted on Judah by Rezin.* As it is not likely ...

- 75- The symbolic import of the name is explained in the sequel. If this "upper pool" was (as seems most likely) the present ...

- 76- Yet it scarcely required a prophet's vision to foretell the issue, although only a prophet could so authoritatively, and i ...

- 77- victorious army of Judah on its return not with words of flattery, but of earnest admonition (2 Chronicles 15:1-7), so now ...

- 78- Samaritan," there is that in the bearing of these men who are expressed by names*** which reminds us of the example and th ...

- 79- also historically the most trustworthy has in important parts been destroyed or rendered illegible by a later monarch of a ...

- 80- The jArkh of Josephus (Ant. 1. 6, 2), the Caesarea Libani of the Roman Emperors. ** Near the Nahr-el-Kebir, "the great r ...

- 81- cities, and the birthplace of Barak (Judges 4:6, 9). Although belonging to Upper Galilee, it was at the time of Christ hel ...

- 82- The majestic divine calm of these utterances, their lofty defiance of man's seeming power, their grand certitude, and the ...

- 83- CHAPTER 9 - HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. Summary of this History - Accession of Hoshea - Religious Character of his ...