This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...Assyrians. 6. ii. 1-3. A similar fate the prophet foresees for Moab, the relative of 'Aminon, although at that time it had not been enraged against Israel, but against Edom, its border-neighbour. The king of this people, Moab's enemy, who had probably fallen into its hands, it had not merely retained ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...Assyrians. 6. ii. 1-3. A similar fate the prophet foresees for Moab, the relative of 'Aminon, although at that time it had not been enraged against Israel, but against Edom, its border-neighbour. The king of this people, Moab's enemy, who had probably fallen into its hands, it had not merely retained but with all the inventiveness of barbarity had burned his bones into lime (dust) for the purpose of casting them into the water or scattering them into the air; a means of depriving the dead of the rest of the grave, which occurs elsewhere only in the case of great criminals (comp. Jos. vii. 25). From v. 3 it appears that Moab itself had at that time no king of its own: this accords entirely with what we learn elsewhere of the great victories of Yeroboam II. (comp. vi. 14), who had left them only a vassal-prince, here called its judge. This judge might nevertheless carry on a war with Edom, since Edom was then in the condition of a tributary land of Yuda. 7. Vv. 4-7. Among the transgressions of Yuda there is none of such moment as that it again left the true God, who tad revealed himself to it from the earliest times, and was going after the false deceiving gods. 8. V. 6-16. With the northern kingdom the subject comes to be handled on a larger scale. In ver. 6, a transgression having been named in the former manner, we have, with a new vigorous opening, in vv. 7-8, an enumeration of four crimes: --1. Trade in men, Israelites often being taken for slaves on the ground of the most insignificant debt. Comp. viii. 6, and something similar for which the Heathen were blamed, i. 6, 9; see also the Alterthiimer des v. Isr. p. 246, sq. (211, sq.)--2. Severity towards the unprotected before the tribunals, as if they found a pleasure in seeing those who...
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