chapters of Judges would probably be between the first and second chapters.

749. Micah (iii. 12).

750. Its modern name is Acre, and it is situated on the sea-coast of Palestine, near mount Carmel.

751. In the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (Mic. i. 1).

752. He was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit (Amos, vii. 14).

753. He was the same as Jesse, the father of David.

754. The house of Dagon in 1 Sam. v. 2. The house which Samson pulled down at the time of his death (Judg. xvi. 30), is not certainly known to have been a temple; some think it was only a theatre, or place of public amusement.

755. Dagon.

756. Reuben, Dan, and Asher (Judg. v. 15, 16, 17).

757. He probably considered that the attention of Barak would be more directed towards the chariots; while, by descending from his chariot and mixing with the crowd of fugitives, he would be the more likely to escape unnoticed.

758. That of Lamech, who took unto him two wives (Gen. iv. 19). This was probably the first

instance of the kind, from its being so particularly related.

759. From the death of Joshua, till Saul was anointed king.

760. Twenty years (Judg. xvi. 31).

761. Twenty miles.

762. One thousand and one hundred pieces of silver, from each of the five lords of the Philistines. The "pieces of silver" being probably shekels, and the value of the shekel being generally reckoned at 2s.7d. English money, five thousand and five hundred shekels would amount to £710 8s.; a very great sum, when we consider the time and country in which these transactions took place.

763. Six years (Judg. xii. 7).

764. The employment of grinding corn was commonly assigned in the East to the female slaves.

765. Forty years.

766. It probably alludes to the manner in which rice is planted in the East, which is thus described by Sir John Chardin ;-"While the earth is covered with water they cause it to be trodden by oxen, asses, etc., and after the ground underneath has been thus prepared, they sprinkle the rice on the surface of the water."

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767. It alludes to a common custom in the East of treading out the corn by oxen, etc. Dr. Shaw says that the Moors and Arabs continue to tread out their corn in this way.

768. It formed the boundary between the Moabites and the tribe of Reuben, and falls into the Dead Sea.

769. Only six hundred men (Judg. xx. 47).

770. That when they went up out of Egypt they should carry his bones with them (Gen.1.25). 771. One hundred and thirty years (Gen. xlvii. 9).

772. In the land of Uz (Job. i. 1), by which is most probably meant Edom or Idumea (Lam. iv. 21).

773. From the expression "a sweet savour unto the Lord," being annexed to each.

774. From the example of the prophet who prayed for the restoration of Jeroboam's hand (1 Kings, xiii. 6).

775. The following is the probable order:— Job, the five books of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, the Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Joel, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Kings, Ezekiel, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

776. Lest, on seeing war with the Philistines, they should repent and return to Egypt. 777. Three hundred and forty years. 778. "God is my judge."

779. He called him Belteshazzar (Dan. i. 7), which means the keeper of the hid treasures of Bel. Bel, or Belus was the chief idol worshipped by the Babylonians.

780. To Jotham.

781. Tiglath Pileser, or Tiglath-pul-assur, means the tiger lord of Assyria.

782. It appears from the Tyrian annals that Eth-baal her father was priest in the temple of the goddess Astarte at Tyre.

783. Her aunt; as it appears from the history of Tyre that Dido was the grand-daughter of Eth-baal king of Tyre, and it is mentioned in the Bible that Eth-baal was the father of Jezebel.

784. In the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the reign of Jeroboam, the second king of Israel (Hos. i. 1).

785. "He sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments" (2 Chron. xvii. 4).

786. Twenty-five years (2 Chron. xx. 31). 787. To the ten tribes of the kingdom of Israel. 788. The general opinion is, that it was Mem

phis, the celebrated capital of Lower Egypt, and the capital of all Egypt after the decay of the city of Thebes.

789. 1. The river was turned into blood (Ex. vii. 20). 2. The plague of the frogs (Ex. viii. 6). 3. The dust was turned into lice (Ex. viii. 17). 4. Swarms of flies (Ex. viii. 24).* 5. The murrain of beasts (Ex. ix. 6). 6. The plague of boils and blains (Ex. ix. 10). 7. The plague of hail (Ex. ix. 23). 8. Swarms of locusts (Ex. x. 13, 14). 9. Thick darkness (Ex. x. 22, 23). The slaughter of the first-born (Ex. xii. 29). 790. Because it was a colony from that city. 791. The Great Sea (Num. xxxiv. 6).

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792. Probably the Phoenicians, and the inhabitants of the country immediately adjoining them, as it appears that the Phoenicians gave themelves this name, for the word (Canaan) is frequently found on Phoenician coins. It would be very natural that the descendants of the eldest son of Canaan (as Sidon is said to have been, Gen. x. 15) should take the name of Canaanites by way of eminence.

793. He was the son of King Josiah (Jer. xxxvii. 1).

794. Urijah the son of Shemaiah (Jer. xxvi. 3).

* See Question 64.