Bible History - Old Testament

- 165- may see it discussed in my edition of Kurtz's History of the Old Covenant, vol. 1., p. 96, etc. (^14) The most exaggerate ...

- 166- (^24) As a German writer expresses it: "What are we all but descendants of Japheth, who dwell in the tents of Shem; and w ...

- 167- (^37) A very considerable price for those times. (^38) See "Those Holy Fields; Palestine illustrated by Pen and Pencil, p ...

- 168- (^51) So the words should be translated. (^52) As Jacob was seventy-seven years old when he went into Mesopotamia, he mus ...

- 169- (^60) This would not have been true of other countries. Thus, in Italy and Spain, women carry their loads on their heads. ...

- 170- (^74) Among the Spartans a double, among the Cretans a fourfold portion was set before princes and rulers. In Egypt the p ...

- 171- (^85) A young lion for agility and grace; a full-grown lion for strength and majesty; a lioness whose fierceness defends ...

- 172- (^94) It deserves notice that the person of Joseph is not mentioned in the Old or the New Testament as a type of Christ. ...

VOLUME II THE EXODUS and THE WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS ...

- 5 - PREFACE THE period covered by the central books of the Pentateuch is, in many respects, the most importantin Old Testament ...

- 6 - myself of the best recent geographicalinvestigations, that so the reader might, as it were, see before him the route follo ...

- 2 - CONTENTS PREFACE 5 THE EXODUS 7 CHAPTER 1: Egypt And Its History During The Stay Of The Children Of Israel, As Illustrated ...

- 3 - CHAPTER 10: Israel At The Foot Of Mount Sinai - The Preparations For The Covenant - The "Ten Words?" AndTheir Meaning Exod ...

- 4 - Israel Enters The Land Of The Amorites - Victories Over Sihon And & Og, -The Kings Of The Amorites And Of Bashan - Isr ...

- 8 - CHAPTER 1: Egypt And Its History During The Stay Of The Children Of Israel, As Illustrated By The Bible &Ancient Monum ...

- 9 - stock of knowledge. And here it is specially remarkable, that every fresh historicaldiscovery tends to shed light upon, an ...

- 10- drawing stones, or cutting them in thequarries, and in completing or enlarging the fortified city of Rameses, which their ...

- 11- From the fourth king of the 13th to the accession of the 18th dynasty Egyptian history is almost ablank. That period was o ...

- 12- preserved in Egypt. Everyage indeed witnessed fresh corruptions, until at last that of Egypt became the most abjectsuperst ...

- 13- had conquered. Of course, one could not expect to find onEgyptian monuments an account of the disasters which the nation s ...