_THE ARK IS BROUGHT TO KIRJATH-JEARIM: BY SAMUEL'S MEANS, THE ISRAELITES REPENT SOLEMNLY AT MIZPEH: SAMUEL PRAYS UNTO THE LORD, AND THE PHILISTINES ARE DISCOMFITED: HE ERECTS A STONE IN MEMORY OF THE VICTORY._ _Before Christ 1074._... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE TIME WAS LONG—TWENTY YEARS— Houbigant renders this verse much more intelligibly: _but after many days had passed from the time that the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, and when the twentieth year was passed, the whole house of Israel sought after the Lord with tears._ Samuel was now grown up,... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT AWAY THE STRANGE GODS, AND ASHTAROTH— _Put away the strange gods, Baalim and Ashtaroth._ Houb.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, AND DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT— The reason why they _drew water and poured it out,_ says Houbigant, is expressed in the next words; for they _fasted that day._ So David poured on the ground the water which some of his soldiers brought him at the hazard of their l... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER— Baldwin the Second, with other princes, marching to Damascus, fully resolved to take it by surrender or storm, met with a check in foraging, which enraged the army so much, that they immediately flew to their arms to chastise the affront; when suddenly God, a... [ Continue Reading ]
UNDER BETH-CAR— _Beth-shan,_ says Houbigant, after the Syriac and Arabic.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE AMORITES— The misfortunes which befel the Philistines influenced the conduct of all the other Canaanites. The Amorites, who, on account of their superiority, sometimes gave name to all the rest, continued in a respectful peace, without attempting any thing to d... [ Continue Reading ]
_1 SAMUEL 7:15_, &C. _AND SAMUEL JUDGED ISRAEL_— "According to Le Clerc," says Mr. Locke, "these words could not have been written by Samuel. But surely the objection is very weak; for all that the text says comes only to this, that Samuel discharged his office with the greatest exactness, and that... [ Continue Reading ]