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Judges 3-4 : Twenty-Third Week Autor: JOHN KITTO

The Repentance of God—Jdg_3:18 God is more than once described in Scripture as repenting of something that he had done. In the text before us, it is said, when his people had been allowed to fall under the oppression of their enemies, to punish them for their sins, and they at length turned to him—the … Continue reading ““180. THE REPENTANCE OF GOD—JUDGES 3:18””

Subjection—Jdg_3:1-17 The first subjugation under which the Israelites fell was to a foreign prince named Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. As early as the time of Abraham, we see princes from the Euphrates undertaking expeditions and making conquests in this quarter, and the present is but another instance of the same kind. It is much to … Continue reading ““181. SUBJECTION—JUDGES 3:1-17””

Thumbs and Great Toes—Jdg_1:1-7 One is shocked to learn that when the Israelites had taken captive AdoniBezek the king of Jerusalem, they cut off his thumbs and his great toes. The man who has studied the war usages of ancient times cannot, indeed, feel much surprise at anything of barbarity or savageness of which he … Continue reading ““177. THUMBS AND GREAT TOES—JUDGES 1:1-7””

Government—Judges 2 Attention has more than once, in the course of these papers, been called to the fact, that before the time of Moses the Hebrew tribes had been severally governed patriarchally by their own chiefs, and under them by the heads of the great families or clans into which the tribes were divided; and … Continue reading ““178. GOVERNMENT—JUDGES 2””

The Altar of The Reubenites—Joshua 22 We have sometimes wondered that no traveller in Palestine has ever thought of looking for the great monumental altar which was erected near the Jordan by the men of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, on their return to their own land. As it was “a great altar to see to,” … Continue reading ““175. THE ALTAR OF THE REUBENITES—JOSHUA 22””

Joshua After a long career of victorious warfare, followed by an old age of comparative repose, during which, upon his estate at Timnath-Serah, in the mountains of Ephraim, he was permitted to enjoy the blessings of the land he had conquered, Joshua consciously drew near to the term of his existence, and, like Moses, determined … Continue reading ““176. JOSHUA””

Caleb—Jos_14:6-12 The distribution of the southern land which had been conquered, although some strong cities in it remained unsubdued, was attended with one interesting incident. The allotment to Judah brought forward the pious old Caleb, one of the twelve spies who explored the land forty and five years before, and whose concurrence with Joshua in … Continue reading ““172. CALEB—JOSHUA 14:6-12””

The Book-City—Jos_15:15 One of the towns taken by the Israelites in the course of their war for the conquest of Canaan, was Kirjath-sepher. It is historically famous as the strong city, for the capture of which Caleb, in whose lot it lay, held forth the hand of his daughter Achsah as the prize—which prize was … Continue reading ““173. THE BOOK-CITY—JOSHUA 15:15””

Surveying—Joshua 18 The war which commenced with the defeat of the confederate kings ceased not until the whole of the south country had been subdued by the Israelites. This portion of the land was assigned by lot to the tribe of Judah and Ephraim, and the unprovided half-tribe of Manasseh. The withdrawment of three populous … Continue reading ““174. SURVEYING—JOSHUA 18””