_AHAZ REIGNS SIXTEEN YEARS OVER JUDAH: HE SENDS THE TREASURES OF THE TEMPLE TO TIGLATH-PILESER, WHO TAKES DAMASCUS, AND PUTS TO DEATH REZIN, KING OF SYRIA. HEZEKIAH SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER AHAZ._ _Before Christ 739._... [ Continue Reading ]
RECOVERED ELATH TO SYRIA— _Elath,_ or _Elam,_ was a famous port on the Red Sea, which David in his conquest of the kingdom took, and there established a great trade to divers parts of the world.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT UP AGAINST DAMASCUS— In the time of Abraham, Damascus was in being; for it is certain, that one whom he had made free and appointed steward of his house was of Damascus, Genesis 15:2 at the time that he pursued Chedorlaomer, and the five confederate kings as far as Hoba, which lies northward of... [ Continue Reading ]
URIJAH THE PRIEST BUILT AN ALTAR, &C.— It must not be denied, that the high priest carried his complaisance much too far in obeying the king's injunction, which he ought to have opposed with all his interest and power. God prescribed to Moses in what form and with what materials he was to make the a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH— Something, perhaps, which was made for this purpose, that, on the sabbath days, there coming a great throng, the porch not being able to contain them, they might be kept under this covering from the injuries of the weather. Houbigant supposes that it was something of... [ Continue Reading ]