Bible History - Old Testament

- 124- ** So the Massoretic text. The Qeri has: "court" for "city" -which looks like an emendation to heighten the miraculous. * ...

- 125- ** The suggestion of a solar eclipse (made by Mr. Bosanquet in the Journal of the As. Soc. Vol. 15.), which seems adopted ...

- 126- experience of the truth of prophetic promise, but because he had learned, as he could not otherwise have been taught, tha ...

- 127- who was by turns successful, vanquished, driven away and restored, and once more a fugitive. This is not the place to giv ...

- 128- and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his domin ...

- 129- twofold occasion which forms the subject of the present narrative, so did he now rise to the full height of his office. N ...

- 130- CHAPTER 14 - MANASSEH (FOURTEENTH), AMON (FIFTEENTH), KINGS OF JUDAH. Popular Mourning for Hezekiah - Accession of Manass ...

- 131- from the prophetic writings, be regarded as not only the outcome, but also partly the explanation of the measures of Ahaz ...

- 132- deepest moral degradation,* and by their side, and in fellowship with them, that of priestesses of Astarte, must have bee ...

- 133- reached the mouth of Isaiah, he gave up the soul. This, because Isaiah had charged his people with being of "unclean lips ...

- 134- reformation. For these defenses of Judah were useless; the captivity of Manasseh was temporary; and his reformation was, ...

- 135- This is the correct rendering. ** Comp. Schrader, u.s., pp. 366-372. Holy Scripture tracing this restoration - not, as ...

- 136- ** The reference in 2 Chronicles 33:19 to "the history of Hozai," may be to a prophetic book, now lost, or else a clerica ...

- 137- CHAPTER 15 - JOSIAH, (SIXTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. Accession of Josiah - His Early Life - Arrangement of the Narrative - Col ...

- 138- events in the order of their time, and as given in the Book of Kings, from which the arrangement in the Book of Chronicle ...

- 139- similar. The collections for the Temple repairs, to which reference is made, must have begun some years previously (2 Kin ...

- 140- And as we derive our knowledge of it from the pages of Jeremiah, we bear in mind that the beginning of his prophetic acti ...

- 141- And plainly it must have been accepted and its genuineness attested by Jeremiah, who at that time had already been five y ...

- 142- when during many reigns the Mosaic law and order of worship were so often set aside, "the book" should have been removed ...

- 143- position of "the prophetess." Why a Jeremiah or a Zephaniah should not have been sought - whether they were not in Jerusa ...