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1741 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 …
1742 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 …
1743 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 …
1744 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 …
1745 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 …
1746 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 …
1747 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 …
1748 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 …
1749 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 …
1750 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 …
1751 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 …
1752 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 …
1753 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 …
1754 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 …
1755 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 …
1756 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 …
1757 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 …
1758 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 …
1759 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 …
1760 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 …