From Reformation to Reformation

Verse 17: [1]   And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and ( Josh. 7:26 ) laid a very great heap of stones...

Verse 10: [1]   And a certain man saw it , and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. [ I saw Absalom hanging from...

Verse 6: [1]   So the people went out into the field against Israel:  and the battle was in the ( Josh. 17:15, 18 ) wood of Ephraim… [ In...

Verse 1: [1]   And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. [ And...

Judas Maccabeus I.  To this period we assign about one hundred and sixty-four years.  For, the Principate of Judas Maccabeus begins in...

David viewing the armies in their march, giveth them charge of Absalom , 1-5 ; whose men are smitten:  he hanging by his hair on an oak,...

Verse 22: [1]   Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan:  by the morning light there lacked...

Verse 15: [1]   ( 2 Sam. 15:35 ) Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom...

Verse 5: [1]   Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith ( Heb. what  is in his mouth...

Verse 1: [1]   Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David...

Hushai, David’s friend, being, by David’s order, gone over to Absalom, by God’s appointment overthroweth Ahithophel’s counsel , 1-14 . ...

Verse 15: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 15:37 ) Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. [ They...

Verse 1: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 15:30, 32 ) when David was a little past the top of the hill , behold, ( 2 Sam. 9:2 ) Ziba the servant of...

Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtaineth of David his master’s inheritance , 1-4 .  Shimei revileth and curseth David, who...

Verse 30: [1]   And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up ( Heb. going up, and weeping [2] ), and ( 2 Sam....

Verse 19: [1]   Then said the king to ( 2 Sam. 18:2 ) Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and...

Verse 13: [1]   And there came a messenger to David, saying, ( 2 Sam. 15:6; Judg. 9:3 ) The hearts of the men of Israel are after...

Verse 8: [1]   ( 1 Sam. 16:2 ) For thy servant ( Gen. 28:20, 21 ) vowed a vow ( 2 Sam. 13:38 ) while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying,...

I.  The Years of this period, by a rougher calculation, are reckoned at three hundred and seventy.  For, it is evident, that to the...

[ 1023 BC ]  Verse 7: [1]   And it came to pass ( 1 Sam. 16:1 ) after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me...