The verse will thus be "thou shalt love thy fellow-creature as thyself," etc.

1159. Deut. xxiii. 7, 8; Lev. xix. 16-18; Ex. xxiii. 4, 5, etc.

1160. With forbearance and humanity (Ex. xxi. 2-11; Lev. xxv. 39-53, etc.).

1161. He was slain by the children of Israel with the sword (Num. xxxi. 8).

1162. It was destroyed by Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, by whom Rezin king of Syria was defeated and slain, Damascus taken, and the inhabitants carried away into captivity (2 Kings, xvi. 9).

1163. Twenty thousand men (2 Sam. xviii. 7).

1164. It is probable that the first list was made in the earlier part of David's reign, and the other some time afterwards.

1165. Joseph (Gen. xli).

1166. At the direct command of God.

1167. Without including the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, there were one million three hundred thousand men, fit to bear arms (1 Kings, xxiv. 9). According to the usual proportion of adult males to the whole population of a country the whole amount must have exceeded five millions, without including the two above mentioned tribes.

1168. With kindness and consideration (Deut. xvi. 11; xxvi. 12; xxvii. 19).

1169. Yes; they are commanded not to treat them with cruelty (Exod. xxiii, 12; Levit. xxii. 28; Deut. xxii. 6, 7).

1170. They are thought to have been the Gibeonites, who had been appointed by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Israelites. The word is derived from in (natan) "to set apart, to appoint."

1171. No; it was probably fabricated in the hope of obtaining a reward from David, as a different account of Saul's death is given in 1 Sam.

xxxi. 4.

1172. That they should return home, lest their brethren's hearts should faint as well as their own hearts (Deut. xx. 8).

1173. That in Gen. xiv. 2.

1174. The general custom was to bury them.

1175. It is generally supposed to have been written by Samuel. In the ancient Hebrew manuscripts this book forms part of the book of Judges.

1176. In the time of the Judges (Ruth i. 1). We are told (ibid.) that Elimelech left his own country and went into Moab, on account of a famine in the land-now the only famine recorded

in the book of Judges is that in the time of Gideon (Judg. vi. 4); and if the events recorded in the book of Ruth happened at that time, the time of Elimelech's going into Moab would be about A. M. 2676.

1177. By taking two Canaanitish wives (Gen. xxvi. 34, 35).

1178. Levit. xix. 16.

1179. Yes; the Israelites are commanded to avoid all fraud, as an abomination in the eyes of the Almighty (Deut. xxv. 13—16).

1180. Jehoiada in the reign of Joash, “because he had done good in Israel” (2 Chr. xxiv. 16). 1181. A hundred and thirty years (2 Chr. xxiv. 15).

1182. He listened to the evil counsel of the princes of Judah, forsook the Lord God of his fathers and worshipped idols (2 Chr. xxiv. 17, 18).

1183. By prophets whom the Lord sent; among others Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada (ibid. 19, 20).

1184. No; but, on the contrary, conspired against him and stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord (ibid. 21).

1185. The same year the army of the Syrians came up against Judah, slew the princes, and desolated the country. After this, the servants of

Joash conspired against him and slew him. Thus the Lord looked upon this iniquitous transaction and requited it (2 Chr. xxiv. 23—26).

1186. Yes; in Gen. iv. 23, 24.

1187. The Unity of the Deity. 1188. About twenty-three years.

1189. Exactly a hundred years. 1190. Ophir is no doubt intended.

1191. It was promised that the sixth year should produce enough for three years (Levit. xxv. 21).

1192. Once in every three years (2 Chr. ix. 21).

1193. A great quantity of gold and silver, together with much ivory, besides different kinds of valuable timber, and precious stones of all kinds (2 Chr. ix. 10-21).

1194. On the principle that is followed by modern nations, which denounces death against those who incite subjects against their sovereign, as the Midianites had incited the children of Israel against the Lord, who had declared himself their king.

1195. In Gen. xxvi, 11.

1196. The word pwy (ngeseck) means "conten

tion."

1197. It was the name given to the civil rulers of the Persian provinces. The ecclesiastical duties were performed by Ezra.

1198. The priests were the most powerful class in Egypt, and possessed nearly all the political influence.

1199. It was situated in Lower Egypt, and was afterwards known to the Greeks by the name of Heliopolis, or the City of the Sun. It was so called because it contained a very large and ancient temple dedicated to the sun. It appears from ancient history, that the priest of On held the first rank in the priesthood of Egypt, and was consequently one of the most considerable persons in the kingdom.

1200. The Egyptian, which was celebrated through all the known world for its progress in the arts and sciences and all kinds of learning. In the words of Rollin, "This kingdom bestowed its noblest labours and finest arts on the improvement of mankind; and Greece was so sensible of this, that its most illustrious men-as Homer, Pythagoras, Plato; and even its great legislators, Lycurgus and Solon, with many more, travelled into Egypt to complete their studies, and draw