This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...those filthy barbarians, easily succumbed to the rising power of the Babylonian arms. His heart had been chilled by the defeat of the beloved King Josiah at Megiddo before the Egyptian host (609 B. C.). He had heard the news of Nebuchadnezzar's accession to the throne of Babylonia (604 B. c); he had seen the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...those filthy barbarians, easily succumbed to the rising power of the Babylonian arms. His heart had been chilled by the defeat of the beloved King Josiah at Megiddo before the Egyptian host (609 B. C.). He had heard the news of Nebuchadnezzar's accession to the throne of Babylonia (604 B. c); he had seen the combination of the Syrian states against him in their futile effort to check his victorious power in the west; he had heard tidings of the advance of the Babylonian host to Tyre, and a little later had seen it with Nebuchadnezzar at its head advancing 1 Diestel in Riehm's Handwbrterbuch des Biblischen Altertums, Leipzig, 1884, vol. 1., p. 606, says of his deportation 598 B. c, " It is improbable that this deportation came to him at a youthful age: his exact knowledge of the sanctuary in every part, his ripened priestly spirit, the interpenetration of his language with ritualistic expressions and representations which are found in him in afar higher degree than in all the other prophets, finally, his term of service, which was not very long.... All this makes it probable that he had been active for a series of years in the Temple, and was probably first carried away in the midst of the thirties i. e., when he was about thirty-five." 2 The reason for maintaining that substantially our Book of Deuteronomy and not the entire Pentateuch was brought to light at this time is in the nature of the reforms introduced in the reign of king Josiah, which corresponds with the demands made in Deuteronomy. Plumptre, The Expositor, London, 1884, p. 5, estimates that in 610 B. c. Ezekiel was fifteen and that Jeremiah was about 38-43. Skinner, The Book of Ezekiel, New York, 1895, pp. 13 ff. says, " Their ministries were contemporaneous for five years.... We...
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