Bible History - Old Testament

- 144- "Priests of the second order" (2 Kings 23:4). We regard these as younger and subordinate priests - not as the suffragans ...

- 145- by Manasseh in the two courts of the Temple, were broken down, their debris "made to run down from thence,"* and the dust ...

- 146- With the generality of critics we read sh,ytebor]j;B] comp. Psalm 109:10. It is with almost a sense of relief that we t ...

- 147- CHAPTER 16 - JOSIAH (SIXTEENTH), JEHOAHAZ (SEVENTEENTH), JEHOIAKIM (EIGHTEENTH), KINGS OF JUDAH. Retrospect - Political H ...

- 148- centuries past. The disappointment of these hopes must have shown that, even as Israel had at the first held the land, no ...

- 149- On the previous existence of such a canal, see the Note in Rawlinson's Herodotus, II. pp. 242, 243. According to Herodot ...

- 150- object of his expedition than if matters continued as they were. Of the two powers which threatened Palestine - Egypt and ...

- 151- The order in 1 Chronicles iii. 15 seems not quite exact, since Shallum or Jehoahaz (comp. Jeremiah 22:11) seems to have ...

- 152- After a not uncommon practice (Comp. Genesis 41:45; Ezra 5:14; Daniel 1:7), and to show how entirely the new king was his ...

- 153- CHAPTER 17 - JEHOIAKIM (EIGHTEENTH), JEHOIACHIN (NINETEENTH), ZEDEKIAH (TWENTIETH), KING OF JUDAH. Character of Jehoiakim ...

- 154- We are here chiefly following the researches of Schrader. Media, by which name we understand the district in Asia reach ...

- 155- successors could not maintain the supremacy of Assyria. After the final defeat of the Scythians, the Medes, under Kyaxare ...

- 156- that Jeremiah made Baruch write in a book his prophetic denunciations of judgment (Jeremiah 36:1). The conjunction of the ...

- 157- Jehoiakim was succeeded by his son, Jehoiachin ("Jehovah confirms"), a youth of eighteen years,* who reigned for only thr ...

- 158- exclusively to the male population. But this is, critically, not an easy passage, on the discussion of which we cannot en ...

- 159- precise circumstances which led up to his attempt at independence cannot be fully ascertained. Still there are sufficient ...

- 160- The next scene opens with fresh intrigues - this time chiefly with Egypt (Ezekiel 17:15- 18) - probably through the numer ...

- 161- advice and surrender to the Chaldeans. But once more fear prevented his taking that step, notwithstanding the assurances ...

- 162- The remainder of this mournful tale is soon told. After the flight and capture of the king, the city could not long hold ...

- 163- Lastly, signal punishment was dealt out to those who were regarded as ringleaders or as representative persons during the ...