510. About four hundred years.

511. Isaiah began to prophesy two hundred and sixteen years after David's death.

512. In the mountains of Nebo, in the land of Moab (Deut. xxxiv. 5).

513. No; God buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, but the precise situation of his sepulchre was never known (Deut. xxxiv. 6). 514. Deut. viii. 12—18.

515. Jeremiah.

516. Ezekiel, xx.

517. By the death of four of his sons, namely, the child of Bathsheba, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah.

518. The fast of the fourth month is the 17th of Tamuz (July), observed for five misfortunes happening thereon (see Quest. 176). The fast of the fifth month is the 9th of Ab (July or August), kept in commemoration of the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. lii. 12), and the burning of the Second Temple by Titus; this day is also remarkable for the death of those that rebelled with Korah in the wilderness, and the taking of Bither by Severus. The fast of the seventh month is the 3rd of Tishri (September, October), called the fast of Gedaliah, in memory of his assassination

(2 Kings, xxv. 25); and that of the tenth is the 10th day of Tebet (December, January), in commemoration of the commencement of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings, xxv. 1).

519. Three thousand three hundred years.

520. He prepared him chariots and horsemen, and attempted to take possession of the kingdom (1 Kings, i. 5—10).

521. Cousins (Esther, ii. 7).

522. He slew his brethren (2 Chron. xxi. 4), and married the daughter of Ahab, who increased his wickedness (ibid. 6).

523. His servants entered into a conspiracy against him, and killed him (2 Kings, xii. 20). 524. Of the tribe of Judah (Dan. i. 6).

525. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judah, and carried away the king and many of the vessels of the house of the Lord (Dan. i)..

526. His son Amaziah (2 Kings, xiv. 1).

527. He was killed by conspirators (2 Kings, xiv. 19).

528. He relied not on his God, but on the king of Syria (2 Chron. xvi. 7).

529. Saul (1 Sam. xiv).

530. The divine messenger said, "Boast thyself over me if thou canst, by fixing a time for the destruction of the frogs."

531. "And the Lord led the way."

532. It should be translated thus: " and he caused the sea to become dry land, after the waters had been divided."

533. Joseph's dreams, and the peculiar and wonderful manner of his advancement in Egypt, coupled with what God had revealed to Abraham (Gen. xv. 13), with which Joseph was no doubt well acquainted, clearly proved God's designs; and Joseph was fearful of revealing to the usually inspired patriarch that which Heaven had thought proper to conceal.

534. Because he had been appointed by God to execute justice on certain nations.

535. About six months.

536. No; but in consequence of his not having prevented his wives from doing so, it is accounted to him as a sin.

537. The monument erected by the two and a half tribes on their return to their country (Jos. xxii).

538. Manasseh.

539. A woman cast a piece of a mill-stone upon his head and brake his skull; upon which he

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called hastily to his armour-bearer to draw his sword upon him, and he thrust him through (Judg. ix. 53, 54).

540. Those of Absalom (2 Sam. xv—xviii.), of Sheba the son of Bichri (2 Sam. xx.), and of Adonijah (1 Kings, i).

541. Because he would not sell the inheritance of his fathers.

542. He was stoned to death (1 Kings, xxi. 13) at the instigation of Jezebel.

543. The Lord sent Elijah to tell Ahab "Hast thou killed, and hast thou taken possession? Thus saith the Lord, in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood" (1 Kings, xxi. 19).

544. Yes; and in consequence of his humility the Lord said, "I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days, I will bring the evil upon his house" (1 Kings, xxi. 29).

545. In Samaria (1 Kings, xxii. 37).

546. He was wounded in his chariot, the blood flowing from the wound into the middle of the chariot; and, on its being washed, the dogs licked the blood (1 Kings, xxii. 38).

547. The five kings that fought against Gibeon (Jos. x. 27).

548. Caleb the son of Jephunneh (Jos. xiv. 10, 11).

549. In Jos. xviii. 9.

550. Three of each tribe (Jos. xviii. 4).
551. Into seven parts (Jos. xviii. 5).

552. Simeon, Benjamin, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan.

553. They died by the plague before the Lord (Num. xiv. 36, 37).

554. The children of Israel (Jos. xix. 49).

555. The man that pointed out to the spies the entrance of the city (Judg. i. 25.)

556. Balaam (Num. xxiii. 8, etc.)

557. To renew the daily sacrifice (Ezra, iii. 2, 3).

558. About eighty years, beginning from the time that the books of Chronicles conclude.

559. About thirty-six years.

560. To the south of Judah and the Dead Sea.

561. To the south of Palestine, and west of the Edomites.

562. Thirty-three years; and he had previously reigned seven years in Hebron over Judah (1 Chr. xxix. 27).

563. A.M. 1656.

564. When their destruction was threatened by their captivity in Babylon (Jer. xxx. 10, 11).