Sivut kuvina
PDF
ePub

2 Kings viii. 20.

"In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves."

Numbers xxiv. 7.

"He [Jacob] shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted."

Numbers xxiv. 17-20.

"I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a possession; Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, 'Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.'"

Compare 1 Sam. xv., where Saul routs the Amalekites, and Samuel hews Agag, their king, in pieces; xiv. 47, where Saul's conquest of this nation is related; 1 Ch. iv. 43, where their destruction is completed; and 2 Sam. viii. 2, 14.

Num. xxiv. 22. "The Kenite shall be wasted until Ashur shall carry thee away captive." But this is doubtful. Compare the following:

Deuteronomy xxviii. 68.

[ocr errors]

"And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again' and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you."

Isaiah xi. 11.

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,

which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Ægypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea."

Zephaniah iii. 10.

"From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering."

IV. Names of places and regions, which were first known at a later date, also occur: - Hebron. Gen. xiii. 18, "Mamre, which is Hebron," &c. But from Josh. xiv. 15, xv. 13, it appears Hebron was a modern name, probably given in honor of the grandson of Caleb. (1 Ch. ii. 41.) [Formerly it had been called Kirjath-arba. It is even called by its ancient name in Neh. xi. 25.]

Dan is mentioned Gen. xiv. 14, and Deut. xxxiv. 1. In the last passage, it is the extreme limit of the land of Gilead. But the place did not come into the possession of Dan until long after Moses, as it appears from Judg. xviii. 29" And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: how beit, the name of the city was Laish at the first."

Beth-el is mentioned Gen. xii. 8-" And he [Abram] removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el; there he builded an altar." Again, (xxviii. 19,) Jacob comes to the place, where he passes the night, and has a remarkable dream; "And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name of the city was Luz at first." Gen. xxxv. 15, as Jacob returns from Padan-aram, Elohim appears to him, " And Jacob called the name of the place where Elohim spake with him Beth-el." But in Josh. xviii. 13, it is still called "Luz, (which is Beth-el.)"

Havoth-jair (the villages of Jair) is mentioned Num. xxxii. 41-"And Jair the son of Manasseh went

and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair;" and Deut. iii. 14, “Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, unto the coasts of Geshuri, and Maachathi, and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day." But, according to Judges, (x. 3, 4,) the place was named from Jair, who judged Israel long after Moses. "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty-and-two years. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty asscolts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead."

Ophir, also, is mentioned Gen. x. 29. Compare 1 Kings ix. 28.

In the course of such an unhistorical and arbitrary treatment, it was natural that the same thing should be differently represented, and the various writers should contradict themselves.

Compare Gen. ii. 4-25, with the very different account of the same things in i. 1-ii. 3. Compare, also, the following:

Genesis.

Chap. vi. 19-21. "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them."

Chap. ix. 8-17. "And God spake unto Noah, and to his

[blocks in formation]

sons with him, saying, 'And I, | Lord, and took of every clean behold, I establish my covenant beast, and of every clean fowl,

with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.' And God said, 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' And God said unto Noah, 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'"

and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.''

Genesis.

[Chap. xi. 26, 32. "And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

"And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."

Chap. xii. 4. "So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."]

Compare the whole of chapter xv. with the repetition of the same thing in xvii.

Compare also the

[blocks in formation]

Chap. xviii. 12-15. "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, 'After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?' And the Lord said unto Abraham, 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, "Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?" Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time. of life, and Sarah shall have a son.' Then Sarah denied, saying, 'I laughed not;' for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.'".

Here the same fact is related three times, with only

[blocks in formation]
« EdellinenJatka »