Bible History - Old Testament

- 84- the substance of religion, and in this trust set lightly by the warning of the prophets (Isaiah 1:11- 15). In their overwe ...

- 85- deportation of the golden calves to Assyria (Hosea 10:5, 6), Hoshea had abolished the military posts which since the time ...

- 86- The king of Israel had good reason for looking hopefully to an alliance with this monarch. He was the first Pharaoh of the ...

- 87- And for this silence, or even the ascription of this campaign wholly to Shalmaneser, there may be reasons, unknown to us, ...

- 88- The account of the Ten Tribes by Josephus adds little to our knowledge. He describes them as "an immense multitude, not to ...

- 89- And rightly so, since all who are in sympathy with things Divine must by the spiritual instinct of their new nature rise t ...

- 90- *** The wife of the god Merodach, and with him, next to Bel and Beltis, a favorite object of worship. As the god of Cuth, ...

- 91- the close of Israel's national history the writer passes in review the leading characteristics. The Divine calling of Isra ...

- 92- CHAPTER 10 - HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. Accession of Hezekiah - Political C ...

- 93- world-empire. And, as will appear in the sequel, Hezekiah himself was to feel the power of Assyria even before he came int ...

- 94- the ground. Once we read of an image of Asherah (2 Kings 21:7). Comp. the elaborate Art. Astarte, by Professor Schlottmann ...

- 95- in the enumeration we find the representatives of the three ancient divisions of Levite musicians - the sons of Asaph, of ...

- 96- to the canon of Holy Scripture then existing as is expressly mentioned in connection with the Book of Proverbs. ** For the ...

- 97- Hence such a provision seems like an unspoken pledge of a future transformation of the law, in accordance with the higher ...

- 98- Chronicles 30:12). From the other parts of the country "a multitude of people, even many," came from out of five of the tr ...

- 99- calculated to have amounted to "nearly 1,100 lambs, 113 bullocks, 37 rams, and 30 goats, besides vast quantities of flour, ...

- 100- being a double parenthesis): "and [viz., to give] to the registration [the names registered] of all their little ones...f ...

- 101- The only other Asaphite Psalm is in Book II, Psalm. 1. Alike the Korahite and the Asaphite Psalms are exclusively in Boo ...

- 102- CHAPTER 11 - HEZEKIAH (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH Outward Events of the Reign of Hezekiah - Victory over the Philistines - ...

- 103- Possibly the Assyrian proclivities of the southern Philistine cities may be explained by their proximity to Egypt, and t ...