This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...took possession of the territory of Gedor, inhabited of old times by the descendants of Ham. The description here given represents most graphically a land of olden times--"wide, and quiet, and peaceable: " not long so, however.... "These written by name," of verse 41, are the same with those adverted to in verse 38 The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...took possession of the territory of Gedor, inhabited of old times by the descendants of Ham. The description here given represents most graphically a land of olden times--"wide, and quiet, and peaceable: " not long so, however.... "These written by name," of verse 41, are the same with those adverted to in verse 38 The exploit here recorded as having taken place in the days of Hezekiah, is mentioned nowhere else in Scripture, and would have vanished from the knowledge of the world, but for this brief and incidental statement of it in the Chronicles By " the rest of the Amalekites," is meant those who had escaped from the hands of David and Solomon. 1 Chronicles v. 1-10.--The birthright was given to Joseph; and he, in consequence, had a double portion--the portion of two tribes instead of one. Yet his genealogy is not given first, but that of Judah, as from him came the chief ruler--(Gen. xlix. 8,10; Mic. v. 2; Matt, ii. 6)--so that among these names we have a prophecy regarding Christ adverted to The genealogy of Reuben is given here after that of Judah, because of the indelible disgrace which he had contracted.--My God, let me be alive to the moral influence of this piece of history Reuben forfeited his precedency in these catalogues by his misconduct; yet the birthright did not secure that precedency to Joseph, but it was given to Judah, pre-eminent among his brethren because of the illustrious progeny that came from him. In tracing downward the generations of Reuben, the point of time is noticed at which the Assyrian captivity of three tribes took place. And little fragments of history can be gathered out of these brief annals. which are not to be met with in other scriptures--more particularly here, the extension of Reuben's...
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