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1701 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 162.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… prove the vainness of idols as against the power of the Living God, the reality of the prophetsmission, and of the authority which the LORD had delegated to …
1702 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 167.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… nine years old, since he ascended the throne about thirteen years later, after the death of his grandfather and his father, at the age of twenty-two ( 2 Kings 8 …
1703 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 65.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… -five years ( 1 Kings 22:42; 2 Chronicles 20:31 ), it follows that he died at the age of sixty, which, when we consider the annals of the royal houses of Judah and Israel …
1704 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 175.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… marking the crisis in the history alike of the northern and the southern kingdom. The young prince was twenty-two years old when he ascended the throne ( 2 Kings …
1705 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 183.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . After the Oriental fashion, she put paint on her eyes, “and tired her head.” Thus arrayed as a queen, she took her place at the window, awaiting the arrival of Jehu.A …
1706 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 21.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , the restoration of the Temple under Jehoiada took place in the twenty-third year of Joash, the high-priest must have been about 107 years old at the accession …
1707 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in the most careful manner, having first consulted with, and secured the co-operation of, all the estates of the realm. Similarly, the execution of the plan was …
1708 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 24.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… from the age of her son, Amaziah, at his succession, we infer that he must have been born when his father, Joash, was twenty-two years of age ( 2 Chronicles 25:1 ).Joash …
1709 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 24.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
But the most notable act of the reign of Joash was the restoration of the Temple. The need for it arose not so much from the age of the building, which had only …
1710 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 39.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in the last interview between Jehoash, the king of Israel, and Elisha. Forty-five years had elapsed since the anointing of Jehu, and as Elisha was grown up even …
1711 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 44.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the throne at the age of twenty-five, extended over twenty-nine years. Its beginning was marked by a continuance of what on the whole might, as in the case …
1712 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 56.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of the two books had copied it from the same historical record. But considering the youth of the new king on the death of his father, Amaziah, at the age of fifty …
1713 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 66.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , and the twelfth after the elevation of Uzziah to the throne, when that monarch was twenty-eight years of age. This is the view of Kleinert in Riehm’s Hand-Worterb …
1714 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 74.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
Of the record of his deeds by Isaiah, to which the sacred text refers ( 2 Chronicles 26:2 ), no portion has been preserved. Although the activity of the prophet began …
1715 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 81.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ascended the throne, in the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah ( 2 Kings 16:1 ). He was probably twenty-five years of age when he succeeded his father.So …
1716 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 112.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , the son of Ahaz, ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five, towards the close of the third year of Hoshea’s reign in Israel.A comparison with the dates in …
1717 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 156.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… -nine years, especially amidst the troubles and the disorganization connected with the Assyrian invasion. In fact, we know that even among the intimate counselors …
1718 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 181.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… writer, the twenty-three years which elapsed between the decease of Josiah and the final deportation to Babylon, were only “the dying time” of the kingdom of …
1719 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 186.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… )—in the fifth year of the reign of Jehoiakim—the Jewish king, in abject fear, proclaimed a national fast ( Jeremiah 36:9 ). Whether this was done from superstition …
1720 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 7.7 (John Foxe)
… to the Platonic, in which he took great delight. About the year 133, when he was thirty years of age, he became a convert to Christianity, and then, for the first …