The Four Gospels Explained by Their Writers. with an Appendix. Ed. by J. B. Roustaing, Tr. [from the Fr. ] by W. F. Kirby

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... land on this side Jordan from the river of Anion unto Mount Hcrmon, and all Gilead, and all Bashan unto Salcah, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan;" and we are again told in Joshua xii. 5, that "Og reigned in Hermon and in Salcah, and in all Bashan." From "Hermon to Salcah" is also as from Dan to Beersheba. The fifth chapter of the 1st Book of Chronicles (9, 10 to 26) shows that Salcah must have stood on the eastern border of the children of Gad, whence Eeuben was enabled to extend his border still eastward to "the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. And in the days of Saul, they (the Eeubenites) made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents, upon all the face of the land east of Gilead." The Hagarites were delivered into the hand of the Eeubenites, and "there fell down many slain, because the war was of God;--and they took of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of men an hundred thousand." And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity, ie., for 300 years, till "God stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, to carry captive the Eeubenites themselves into the land from which Abram came out. Of the sons of Ishmael, Nebaioth, the first-born, was the father of the Nabatheans, who long afterwards governed northern Arabia. The second son, Kedar, was so famous among his Arab descendants that the name came to be applied to Bedouins in general. The Moabites and Ammonites who shared the land with the Ishmaelites, were, as we know, the children of Lot's daughters. And now, to connect Esau's history with the rest of "the mingled people," we must, for the present, pass...