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1681 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 13.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of the dedication of her child. one of the women who served at the door of the tabernacle. Once more Hannah “prayed;” this time not in the language of sorrow, but …
1682 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 20.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , did the aged high-priest seek to intrude into what might pass between that Levite youth and the Lord, before Whom he had stood for so many years in the highest …
1683 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… reading the numeral letters ([for x), the Arabic and Syrian versions represent Eli as seventy-eight instead of ninety-eight years old. We regard the first clause …
1684 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 24.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in the fall by “the side of the gate” of the sanctuary. Thus ends a judgeship of forty years! The LXX. give it as twenty years, probably misreading the numeral letter …
1685 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 35.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of the life and administration of a Samuel. It traces the history of the kingdom of God. As we have no account of events during the twenty years which preceded …
1686 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 41.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were brothers, the sons of Abiel (comp. 1 Samuel 14:51 ). The former is described in the text as “a hero of might,” by …
1687 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 58.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the statistical data of his age at the commencement, and the duration of his reign. But unfortunately the numeral letters have wholly fallen out of the first …
1688 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 130.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… where the camp of Israel—lay open to them. As we imagine the scene, the three had gained the height just above the camp. Faithful as was the Hittite, and none more …
1689 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 158.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . And the king who was surrounded by such a splendid array was in the prime of his vigor, having just reached the age of thirty-seven and a half years ( 2 Samuel 5 …
1690 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 160.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… died. The building of David’s palace must have taken place in the first years of his reign in Jerusalem. This is evident from many allusions to this palace …
1691 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 184.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in the thirty-second Psalm. In general, we have in this respect also in the Psalter a faithful record for the guidance of penitents in all ages—to preserve them …
1692 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 15.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the four years Absalom’s plot was ripening, the king was partially incapacitated by some illness. These two Psalms, then, mark the period before the conspiracy …
1693 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 40.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… twenty years of age. These were not only foreign settlers, but the descendants of the original inhabitants of the land whose lives had been spared. Such was …
1694 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 45.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… from the silence of Scripture concerning him. These were the three eldest sons of David. The next in point of age was Adonijah the son of Haggith ( 2 Samuel 3:2 …
1695 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 51.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… were the means by which the promises given to David and his house would be inherited. But all the greater were the political dangers which beset the path of …
1696 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 56.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to the reader, the numeral indicating the age of Rehoboam ( 1 Kings 14:21 ) seems to be a copyist’s mistake for 21. The law only forbade alliance with the Canaanites …
1697 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 80.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ,” (the later Tishri), of the year after the completion of the Temple (eleven months after it), and immediately before the Feast of Tabernacles, which, with the concluding …
1698 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 110.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… eighty years. But this must either be a clerical error, or depend on one in Josephus’ copy of the LXX. Solomon probably died at the age of about sixty. The question …
1699 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 111.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to the throne, which, of course, would be implied if Rehoboam was forty-one years old at the time of his father’s death. The Rabbis find a parallel to the marriage …
1700 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 121.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… for the wife of Rehoboam. This appears clearly from 2 Chronicles 13:2. At the death of Solomon the daughter of Absalom would be about fifty years of age. In 2 Chronicles …