= ABRAM'S BIRTH, B.C. 1996, less 75 1921; HIS CALL, B.C. 1921, less 430 B.C. 1491; THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, B.C. 1491, less 480 B.C. 1011; THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, B.C. 1011, less 350=B.c. 661; (or, between B.C. 661 and B.C. 677), the Casting out of Israel for the sin of Manasseh. (See p. 19.) See proof of dates in Holy Scripture. .... .... GEN. xii. 1, 3, 4.-"Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country unto a land that I will shew thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran." GAL. iii. 17.—“And this I (Paul) say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." 1 KINGS vi. 1.-"And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, that he began to build the house of the Lord." 2 Chron. xxxiii. 5-7.-Manasseh, king of Judah, having "built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord: and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and set up a carved image, his idol, in the house of God," is carried captive by Esarhaddon to Babylon, B.C.661. JER. XV. 1, 4.—"Then said the Lord unto me (Jeremiah), Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be towards this people; cast them out of my sight and let them go forth. And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.” BEGINNING OF THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES. Saosduchinos, supposed the same as Nebuchadnezzar, succeeds his father Esarhaddon in the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylon, B.c. 667.-CANON OF PTOLEMY. 1 OF SINAITIC IN MOUNT SINAI-WADY FEIRAN-AMALEK—SUBJECTS HE Lord placed the sea between "the people" and their enemies. "Their persecutors Thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters," Neh. ix. 11. This was the miracle that crowned all the other ten. The first-born of Egypt had perished, but the burial alive of her peers and her princes must now attest the power of Jehovah, and humble the pride of the kingdom whose Pharaoh had defied "the Holy One of Israel." 66 Among all the events and miracles of the Exodus," says Mr. Forster, "none has given birth to a greater variety of theories and speculations, than the Passage of the Red Sea. The reason is obvious. If this first great miracle of the Exode can be established in all its fulness, none of those which follow it can be shaken or explained away; and on the other hand, if this transaction can be reduced to low proportions, and explained by natural and secondary causes (such as an ebb-tide and shoals, and a narrow crossing at Suez), all belief in the after miracles must suffer with it." 204 CROSSING THE RED SEA. How is the crossing described in the song Moses? "With the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were gathered together. The floods stood upright as an heap; The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. of The enemy said: I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with Thy wind; the sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty waters." EXOD. XV. 8-10. We must realize "the people as a whole nation encamped on the Egyptian side of the Red Sea, in Wady Tarawik, or "The Valley of the Nocturnal Travellers." Here is commemorated by its Arabic name "the night " of Exod. xii. 42; that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations. Captain Moresby has laid down Wady Tarawik in his chart as Wady Mousa, corresponding with “Ayun Mousa," the wells on the opposite coast. "When I asked our Sheikh," says Dr. Wilson, "if this name was correct, he said, 'this is indeed the path of our Lord Moses.'" This Wady Tarawik, or Mousa, is eighteen miles in length-the only level and open space in which three millions of people with their tents and flocks could encamp, in order to enter the sea at one given time, and march across the uncovered gulf like a vast army, intent on reaching the opposite shore, without the loss of a needless hour. Mr. Forster is a great and admitted authority on the geography of Arabia, and he has brought the whole force of his research to bear on the traces of Scripture narratives as borne out in the meanings of modern names of places in the present day, beginning from |