J. W. McGarvey's Class Notes on Sacred History II [First Kings and Second Chronicles].

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J. W. McGarvey
Class Notes on Sacred History, Volume II (1894)

The Reign of Solomon. 1 Kings 1:-11:43; 2 Chron. 1:1-9. 31.
From the Division of the Kingdom to the Captivity of Israel. 1 Kings 12:1-2 Kings 17:41; 2 Chron. 10:1-28:27.
The Chronology of Israel.
Review: The Reign of Solomon.
Review: The History of Israel.
Review: Judah from the Division of the Kingdom Till the Fall of Israel.

FIRST KINGS
AND
SECOND CHRONICLES.

THE REIGN OF SOLOMON.

I. Ki. i. 1-xi. 43; II. Chron. i. 1-ix. 31.

§ I. SOLOMON IS MADE KING. I. Ki. i. 1-53.

1. David's Decrepitude. i. 1-4. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why not use stimulating medicine?

2. Adonijah's Conspiracy. 5-10. (Not in Chronicles.)

Ground of his pretensions? See II. Sam. iii. 4, 5.
Why the remark about the king's kindness to him? 6.
Why the defection of Joab and Abiathar? 7.
Why did Zadok and other stand firm? 8.
Where is En-rogel?

3. Nathan's Counterplot. 11-27. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why were Bath-sheba and Solomon in danger? 12, 21.
Why this method adopted?
Why speak as if David had authorized Adonijah? 27.

4. The Oath Renewed and Solomon Anointed. 28-40.
(Not in Chronicles.) [52]

Why did David now act so promptly?
Why on the king's mule? 33.
What horn of oil? and what tent? 39.

5. The Conspiracy Abandoned. 41-53. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why did the guests scatter? 49.
Why flee to the altar? and what altar? 50.
On what condition spared? 52.

§ II. DAVID'S DEATH AND SOLOMON'S FULL ACCESSION. I. Ki. ii. 1-46.

1. Charge to Solomon in Regard to the Law. ii. 1-4;
I. Chron. xxviii. 9, 10, 20.

Did they then have the law of Moses? 3.
What similar charge before this? See Josh. i. 7-9.

2. Charges Concerning Joab, Barzillai's Sons and Shimei.
5-9. (Not in Chronicles.)

How, on his girdle and his shoes? 5.
Why was Joab yet to be slain? and when? 6.
Why Shimei? 8, 9.

3. David's Death. 10, 11; I. Chron. xxix. 26-30.

How buried in the city?
What the exact length of his reign? Cf. II. Sam. v. 4, 5.
When the proceedings of I. Chron. xxviii. 1-xxix. 30?

4. Death of Adonijah. 12-25. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why so ceremonious with his mother? 19.
Why the petition so offensive? 22.

5. Ejectment of Abiathar, and Death of Joab. 26-35.
(Not in Chronicles.) [53]

Where was Anathoth? 26.
Why did Joab flee? 29.

6. The Death of Shimei. 36-46. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why specify the brook Kidron? 37.
Why did he venture out? 39, 40.

§ III. SOLOMON'S MARRIAGE, AND HIS WISDOM. iii. 1-28.

1. His Marriage and Sacrifices. iii. 1-3; II. Chron. i. 1-6.

Policy of this marriage? iii. 1.
Why have to build the wall of Jerusalem?
In what sense, "no house built for the name of the Lord"?
What, "the high places"?
Why sacrifice at those contrary to the law?

2. His Choice of Wisdom. 4-15; II. Chron. i. 7-13.

Who went with him to Gibeon? and why did he go there? II. Chron. i. 2-5.
Why say, "I am but a little child"?
What New Testament text illustrated by his choice? I. Ki. iii. 11-14, cf. Matt. vi. 33.

3. His Wisdom Tested. 16-28. (Not in Chronicles.)

Had the case been brought before the lower court?
What made it difficult?
What the purpose of ordering the child to be divided?
What knowledge did this display?

§ IV. SOLOMON'S CHIEF OFFICERS, AND HIS MAGNIFICENCE.
I. Ki. iv. 1-34.

1. His Ten Princes. iv. 1-6. (Not in Chronicles.)

In what sense princes? 1, 2.
Meaning of priest, in 4, 5?
Why Benaiah put over the host?
Why Abiathar still named as [54] a priest? 4, cf. ii. 27.
What, the office of scribe?
What, the office of recorder?
What, the "levy"? 6, cf. v. 13-16.

2. His Twelve Commissaries. 7-19. (Not in Chronicles.)

What the design of this? 7.

3. Peace and Prosperity. 20, 21. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why say, "eating and drinking and making merry"?
Meaning of, "brought presents"?

4. His Provisions, Horses and Chariots. 22-28; II. Chron. i. 14-17.

Why so much food?
Meaning of, "under his vine and under his fig tree"? 25.
What about the number of horses? 26, cf. II. Chron. ix. 25.

5. Another Statements of His Wisdom. 29-34. (Not in Chronicles.)

Who the men with whom he is compared? 31.
Where his proverbs and songs? 32.
What the other subjects of his study?

§ V. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. I. Ki. v. 1-vi. 38.

1. Solomon's Contract with Hiram. v. 1-12;
II. Chron. ii. 1-16.

Hiram's purpose in sending servants? 1, cf. I. Sam. x. 2.
Why send to Lebanon? 6.
Why the Sidonians skilful hewers? 6.
Means of transportation? 9, cf. II. Chron. ii. 16.
Why pay in food? 11, cf. Acts, xii. 20.

2. The Levies of Workmen. 13-18; II. Chron. ii. 17, 18.

Meaning of levy? 13.
Why by courses? 14.
Why so many bearers of burdens? 15.
Hewers of what in the mountains? 15. [55]
Whence the last two bodies? 15, cf. II. Chron. ii. 17, 18.
Discrepancy as to number of overseers? 16; ix. 23, cf. II. Chron. ii. 18; viii. 10.
Why say, "great stones," etc.? 17, cf. Lands of the Bible, 205, 562; Josephus Antiquities, Book V, chapter v, 1.

3. Date of the Foundation. vi. 1; II. Chron. iii. 1, 2.

[This was B. C. 1000.]

4. Dimensions of the House and Chambers. 2-10;
II. Chron. iii. 3-8.

Size as compared with the tent of meeting?
Height of the porch? II. Chron. iii. 4.
Purpose of the latticed windows? 4.
What were the side-chambers? 5.
Their use?
How were the upper stories the wider? 6.
Why no tools of iron used? 7.
What kind of roof? 9.

5. Solomon Encouraged. 11-13. (Not in Chronicles.)

Purpose of this?

6. The Inside Finish, and the Divisions. 14-30;
II. Chron. iii. 9-13.

How was the oracle twenty cubits high, and the temple thirty? 20.
Why the wooden wainscoting? See 21, 29.
Why the golden chains? 21, cf. vi. 31.
Quantity of gold? and how fastened on? II. Chron. iii. 8, 9.
Which way did the cherubim face? II. Chron. iii. 13.
Design of these?

7. The Doors and the Court. 31-38. (Not in Chronicles.)

Material of the hinges? vii. 50.
How a fifth part of the [56] wall? 31.
What of the veil? II. Chron. iii. 14.
How the stone and cedar combined? 36.
What implied as to an outer court?
Why so long in building so small a house? See Lands of the Bible, 148-150.

§ VI. OTHER BUILDINGS AND THE HOLY VESSELS. I. Ki. vii. 1-51.

1. Solomon's Palace. vii. 1-12. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why the name, "house of the forest of Lebanon"? 2.
Design of it?
Why a porch for judging? 7.
Where did this palace stand?

2. Hiram the Brass-founder. 13, 14; II. Chron. ii. 13, 14.

King Hiram's account of him? II. Chron. ii. 13, 14.
How his mother of Naphtali and also of Dan? Cf. Judg. xviii. 27, 28.

3. Jachin and Boaz. 15-22; II. Chron. iii. 14-17.

Meaning of the names?
Design of the pillars?
Their whole height? 15, cf. II. Chron. iii. 15.

4. The Brazen Sea. 23-26; II. Chron. iv. 1-5.

Its use? II. Chron. iv. 6.
Why called a sea?
How was the water drawn?
Capacity of the sea. 26, cf. II. Chron. iv. 5.

5. The Ten Lavers and Their Bases. 27-39; II. Chron. iv. 6.

Why the wheels? 30.
What kind? 33.
What their design? and why their positions?

6. Recapitulation of the Brass Work. 40-47; II. Chron. iv. 7-18.

Why do the casting in the plain of Jordan? 46.

7. The Golden Vessels and the Dedicated Treasuries. 48-51;
II. Chron. iv. 19-v. 1. [57]

Why the altar and table made of gold? 48.
Why so many candlesticks? 49.
What, "the treasuries of the house"? 51.
The brazen altar? II. Chron. iv. 1.
Why so large?

§ VII. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE. I. Ki. viii. 1-66.

1. The Ark and the Holy Vessels Put in Place. viii. 1-11;
II. Chron. v. 2-14.

At what feast was this? 2, cf. Lev. xxiii. 34.
Why the remark about the length of the staves of the ark? 8.
What had become of the pot of manna, and of Aaron's rod? 9, cf. Ex. xvi. 33, 34; Num. xvii. 10.
Significance of the cloud of glory? 10, 11, cf. Ex. xl. 34, 35.
What service accompanied the taking in the holy vessels? II. Chron. v. 11-14.

2. Solomon Addresses God and the People. 12-21;
II. Chron. vi. 1-11.

Why the remark about thick darkness? 12.
Why specify "a place for the ark"? 21.

3. The Dedication Prayer. 22-53; II. Chron. vi. 12-42.

Plan of the prayer?
(1.) Praise to God for keeping his promise. 23, 24.
(2.) Prayer for perpetuity of David's throne. 25, 26.
(3.) Expressions of surprise that God would dwell in the house. 27.
(4.) Petition that all prayers toward this house may be heard. 28-53. [58]
Why was all prayer to be toward this place? 29.

4. The Benediction. 54-61. (Not in Chronicles.)

When did he kneel? 54, cf. 22.
Universality of his aim? 60.

5. Sacrifices and Feasting. 62-66; II. Chron. vii. 4-11.

How so many peace offerings eaten? 63.
Which altar too little? 64.
Where the entering in of Hamath? 65.
Connection of "the eighth day"? 66.

§ VIII. SOLOMON'S PROSPERITY CONTINUED. I. Ki. ix. 1-x. 29;
II. Chron. vii. 12-22.

1. Answer to Solomon's Prayer. ix. 1-6. (Not in Chronicles.)

When was this answer given? 1, cf. 10.

2. An Exchange of Presents with Hiram. 10-14. (Not in Chronicles.)

How long did the contract continue?
Meaning of Cabul? 13.
What was then known as Galilee? 11, cf. Josh. xx. 7.

3. Solomon Fortifies His Country. 15-19; II. Chron. viii. 1-6.

What done in Millo and the wall of Jerusalem?
Where Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer? and why these "built"?
Same of Baalath, Beth-Horon, and Tadmor? II. Chron. viii. 4, 5.

4. The Laborers Employed. 20-23; II. Chron. viii. 7-16.

Why make them bondservants?

5. Pharaoh's Daughter, and the Three Annual Festivals. 24, 25.

What three occasions?
Did he officiate at the altar?

6. Solomon Builds a Navy. 26-28; II. Chron. viii. 17, 18. [59]

What waters navigated? 26.
Why need Phoenician sailors? 27.
Where was Ophir, and what kind of gold mines? 28.

7. The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon. x. 1-13;
II. Chron. ix. 1-12.

What kind of questions? 3.
What his ascent to the house of the Lord? 5.
Why think his servants happy? 8.
Did she worship the same God? 9.
Where was Sheba? 1.
What are almug trees? 12.
Why did the queen ask for any thing?

8. Solomon's Golden Shields, Ivory Throne, and Other Items
of Grandeur. 14-29; II. Chron. ix. 13-24.

Difference between targets and shields? 16.
Design of these?
Why the ivory overlaid with gold? 18.
Why the lions?
Why the fleet so long on a voyage? 22.
Why so many cedars? 27.
Value in our money of the chariots and horses? 29.
Why for the kings of the Hittites and of Syria? 29.

§ IX. SOLOMON'S SINS AND DEATH. I. Ki. xi. 1-43.

1. He Is Guilty of Polygamy and Idolatry. xi. 1-8.
(Not in Chronicles.)

What was the sin of having so many wives? 2, cf. Deut. xvii. 16, 17.
What was, "the mount that is before Jerusalem"? 7.

2. A Penalty Announced. 9-13. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why for David's sake? 12, 13.
Why for Jerusalem's sake? 13.
Why not the penalty of the law?

3. Hadad Becomes an Adversary. 14-22. (Not in Chronicles.) [60]

Why so honored by Pharaoh? 19, 20.
In what way did he trouble Solomon?

4. Rezon the Syrian an Adversary. 23-25. (Not in Chronicles.)

In what way an adversary?

5. Jeroboam Made an Adversary. 26-40. (Not in Chronicles.)

What the design of Ahijah's prediction?
Why the conditional promise? 38.
How did Solomon hear of this? 40.
Why flee to Egypt?

6. Solomon's Death. 41-43; II. Chron. ix. 25-31.

What book was this? 41.
Why the length of his reign the same as with those of David and Saul? 42.

THE EPOCH NOW REACHED.

FROM THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM
TO THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL.

I. Ki. xii. 1-II. Ki. xvii. 41; II. Chron. x. 1-xxviii. 27.

§ I. THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM. I. Ki. xii. 1-24.

1. A Petition of the People to Rehoboam. xii. 1-4; II. Chron. x. 1-5.

Why to Shechem?
Did Jeroboam hear that the meeting had been? or was to be? 2.
How was Solomon's yoke grievous? Cf. v. 13-18.

2. Rehoboam's Response. 5-15; II. Chron. x. 6-15.

Where did the people go? 5.
What the theory of the policy adopted?
How brought about by the Lord? 15.

3. The Division Consummated. 6-20; II. Chron. x. 16-19.

Why send Adoram? and why was he stoned? Cf. iv. 6.
Why did Judah stand by Rehoboam?
Why Jeroboam selected for king? 20, cf. xi. 21.

4. Rehoboam Forbidden to Attempt Coercion. 21-24;
II. Chron. xi. 1-4.

Who was Shemaiah? 22.

§ II. THE REIGN OF JEROBOAM. xii. 25-xiv. 20.

1. He Builds Two Cities and Establishes Illegal Worship.
xii. 25-33. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why Shechem and Penuel? 25.
Why his fear of reaction among the people? 27.
Why adopt worship of a calf? 28.
Why at Dan? and why at Beth-el? 29.
Why make priests of common [62] people? 31, cf. II. Chron. xi. 13, 14.
Why put his feast in the eighth month? 33.

2. The Worship at Beth-el Denounced. xiii. 1-10.
(Not in Chronicles.)

When was this? 1, cf. xii. 33.
Why denounce the altar and not the image? 2.
What character exhibited by the prophet?

3. The Prophet Deceived and Slain. 11-25.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why the old prophet so urgent with his invitation? 18.
Why had he not denounced the sin?
Why the young man slain and the old one spared?
Why the young man slain when misled by a prophet? Cf. Gal. i. 8.
When will believing a lie prove fatal?

4. Further Conduct of the Old Prophet. 26-32.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why the carcase not eaten nor the ass disturbed? 28.
Why wish to be buried with him? 31.
How the altar and the high places regarded?

5. Jeroboam's Obduracy. 33, 34. (Not in Chronicles.)

6. His Sin Denounced and His Ruin Predicted. xiv. 1-20.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Inconsistency of the wife's mission? 2, 3.
Why did Ahijah anticipate her? 6.
Where was Ahijah's home?
Where was Jeroboam's later residence? 17.
Why the change from Shechem?
What this book of chronicles? 19. [63]

§ III. REIGNS OF REHOBOAM, ABIJAM AND ASA, OVER JUDAH. xiv. 21-xv. 24.

Relation of these kings to those in Israel? xiv. 30; xv. 6, 16.

1. The Reign of Rehoboam. xiv. 21-31.

At what age of Solomon was he born? 21, cf. xi. 42.
Who, then, was Solomon's first wife? 21.
Comparative sinfulness of Judah? 22, 23.
How did Rehoboam conduct himself at first? II. Chron. xii. 1, 2.
What did he do to strengthen his kingdom? ib. xi. 5-12.
What the treasures of the house of the Lord? 26, cf. I. Ki. vii. 40-51.
Why make shields of brass? 27, 28.
What this book of chronicles? 29.
How much longer Jeroboam's reign than Rehoboam's? 21, cf. 20.

2. The Reign of Abijam over Judah. xv. 1-8.

Whose daughter was his mother? 2, cf. II. Chron. xi. 21.
How was David's heart perfect with God? 3, cf. 5.
Describe a battle which he fought against Jeroboam. II. Chron. xiii. 3-22.
Why say Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted? xiii. 7, cf. xii. 13; I. Ki. xiv. 21.
What, "the commentary of the prophet Iddo"? II. Chron. xiii. 22.

3. The Reign of Asa. 9-24; II. Chron. xiv. 1-xv. 19.

How could his mother be the same as his father's mother? 10, cf. 2, 13.
Who the Sodomites? 12.
How could he remove his mother from being queen? 13.
How the high places not removed, yet Asa's heart perfect? 14, cf. II. Chron. xiv. 2, 3, 5. [64]
Why Ramah selected by Baasha? 17.
On what principle did Ben-hadad act? 20.
What disease in his feet? 23.
What other war did Asa wage? II. Chron. xiv. 8-15.
What reformation did he effect, and at whose suggestion? ib. xv. 1-19.
When the movement of Baasha? ib. xvi. 1.
How was Asa dealt with for hiring the Syrians? ib. xvi. 2-10.
What fault in reference to his feet? 12.
Why a fault?
Why the bed of spices and the burning? 14.

§ IV. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IN ISRAEL, AND THE HOUSE
OF OMRI ESTABLISHED. I. Ki. xv. 25-xvi. 34.

1. The House of Jeroboam Cut Off by Baasha. xv. 25-32.
(Not in Chronicles.)

How could Nadab begin in the second year of Asa, and die in his third year, yet reign two years? 25, 28. See also xv. 32; xvi. 8, cf. 15; et al.
What the sin that Jeroboam made Israel to sin? xv. 26, 30, 34.
Why exterminate Jeroboam's seed? 29.

2. The Reign of Baasha. xv. 33-xvi. 7. (Not in Chronicles.)

Meaning of, "exalted thee out of the dust"? xvi. 2.
Why censured for smiting Jeroboam's house? 7.

3. The Reigns of Elah and Zimri. xvi. 8-20.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why so much bloodshed and treason?

4. The Reign of Omri. 21-28. (Not in Chronicles.)

What of the interval of four years? 23, cf. 15.
Why the purchase, [65] and the new city? 24, cf. Lands of the Bible, 295, 296.

5. The Reign of Ahab: Its General Character. 29-34.
(Not in Chronicles.)

How the thirty-eight years counted? 29, cf. 23, 15.
Why so bad to take Jezebel? 31.
When was Baal-worship last seen before this? 31, 32, cf. I. Sam. vii. 1-4.
How account for Hiel's act? 34.
How account for the steady increase of wickedness? 33.

§ V. THE STRUGGLE OF ELIJAH AGAINST BAAL-WORSHIP. I. Ki. xvii. 1-xix. 21.

1. He Delivers His Message and Hides at the Brook Cherith. xvii. 1-7.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Meaning of Tishbite? 1, cf. margin.
Where was Gilead?
How had he obtained this power? Cf. Jas. v. 17.
His design?
Where the brook Cherith? See Lands of the Bible, 234.
Why fed by ravens? 4, 6.

2. He Is Sent to a Widow of Zarephath. 8-16.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Where was Zarephath? 9; Lands of the Bible, 532.
Why not sent to some person in Israel? 15, cf. Luke, iv. 25, 26.
Design of the miracle? 16.

3. The Widow's Son Dies and Is Resuscitated. 17-24.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why think her sin was the cause? 18.
Why think God [66] had slain the child? 20.

4. Elijah Is Sent to Ahab. xviii. 1-19. (Not in Chronicles.)

In the third year after what? 1, cf. Luke, iv. 25; Jas. v. 17.
When the prophets cut off? and why? 4, cf. 13.
What of the animals of the poor? 5.
Why Obadiah's fear? 10-12.
Why such a search for Elijah? 10.
Why call Elijah the "troubler of Israel"? 17.
In all similar cases who is the troubler?

5. The Trial on Mount Carmel. 20-39. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why no answer to Elijah's demand? 21.
Why mock the prophets? 27.
Why cut themselves? 28.
What, "the evening oblation"? 29.
When and why an altar of Jehovah there? 30.
Why the water? 33, 34.
Difference in the prayers? 36, 37, cf. 26, 28.
How consume the stones and the dust? 38.
State all that overcame the people.

6. The Prophets Killed and the Rain Brought. 40-46.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why slain? 40.
Why eat under such circumstances? 42, cf. 36.
On what part of the mountain was this trial? 42, 46.
Why Elijah's strange posture? 42, cf. Jas. v. 17, 18.
How did this rain come? 44, 45.
How far did Elijah run? 46, cf. Lands of the Bible, 308, 512.

7. Elijah's Flight. xix. 1-8. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why did Jezebel send him word? 2.
Why flee for this? 3.
Why to Judah and Beer-sheba? 3.
Why wish to die? 4.
What [67] occupied the forty days?

8. God Appears to Him at Mount Horeb. 9-18.
(Not in Chronicles.)

What covenant? 10.
What altars?
Significance of the wind, the earthquake, the fire, and the voice? 11-13, cf. 18.
What the wilderness of Damascus. 15.

9. Elisha Is called To Be a Prophet. 19-21.

Who drove the other oxen? 19.
How could he understand the act of Elijah? 19, 20.
Why the feast?

§ VI. WAR BETWEEN AHAB AND BEN-HADAD. I. Ki. xx. 1-43.

1. Samaria Besieged and Its Pillage Demanded. xx. 1-12.
(Not in Chronicles.)

How did he get to the city without a battle? 1.
Why willing to concede the first demand? 3, 4.
Why reject the second? 5-9.
Meaning of the boast? 10.
A notable saying? 11.
Was this the Ben-hadad hired by Asa? 34, cf. xv. 18-20.

2. The Besieging Army Defeated. 13-22. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why a prophet sent to Ahab? 13.
Who these young men? 14.
Why had Ahab so small a force? 15.
Why go out at noon? 16.
How account for the flight? 20, cf. 16.
Why the prophet's warning? 22.
Meaning of, "the return of the year." 22.

3. Another Invasion. 23-30. (Not in Chronicles.)

Syrian conception of gods? 23.
Why put captains in the room of the kings? 24, cf. 16.
Why the Lord with Ahab again? [68] 28.
How could a falling wall kill twenty-seven thousand? 30.

4. Ben-hadad Captured and Released. 31-34. (Not in Chronicles.)

Significance of the ropes? 34.
Ingenuity of the scheme?
Meaning of remark about the streets? 34.

5. Ahab Rebuked for Sparing Ben-hadad. 35-43.
(Not in Chronicles.)

Why the fate of the disobedient prophet? 36.
Why the smiting? 37.
Why Ahab censured for mercy? 42.

§ VII. THE VINEYARD AT NABOTH. xxi. 1-29.

1. Ahab Tries To Buy the Vineyard. xxi. 1-4. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why the vineyard wanted?
Why Naboth's refusal?
Why Ahab so bitterly disappointed?

2. The Vineyard Obtained by Jezebel. 5-16. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why in Ahab's name? 8.
Why "proclaim a fast"? 9.
Why did the elders and nobles comply? 11.
Did Ahab know what she had done? 15, 16.

3. The Crime Denounced. 17-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why say, "O mine enemy"? 20.
Meaning of, "him that is shut up and him that is left at large"? 21.
Chief cause of Ahab's wickedness? 25.
Why Ahab so penitent? 27.

§ VIII. RENEWAL OF WAR WITH SYRIA, AND THE DEATH
OF AHAB. I. KI. xxii. 1-40.

1. A League between Ahab and Jehoshaphat. xxii. 1-4;
II. Chron. xviii. 1-3. [69]

Why Jehoshaphat's visit? 2, cf. II. Chron. xviii. 1; II. Ki. viii. 16-18
Why did Jehoshaphat consent? 4.
Why had not Ramoth-gilead been given up according to agreement? Cf. xx. 34.

2. The Kings Inquire of the Lord. 5-12; II. Chron. xviii. 4, 5.

Why the proposal made by Jehoshaphat? 5.
How so many prophets? 6.
Why not satisfied with their answer? 7.
When had Micaiah prophesied evil? Cf. xx. 42.
Why not call Elijah?
Significance of the horns? 11.

3. Micaiah's Prediction. 13-28; II. Chron. xviii. 6-27.

Why the messenger's advice to Micaiah? 13.
How was Micaiah's first answer understood? 15, 16.
Point in the second answer? 17.
Significance of his vision? 19-23.
Was the vision real or imaginary?
Meaning of Zedekiah's demand? 24.
What the bread and water of affliction? 27.

4. The Battle Fought and Ahab Slain. 23-40;
II. Chron. xviii. 28-34.

Why did Ahab disguise himself? 30, cf. 20.
Why the order of Ben-hadad? 31.
Why spare Jehoshaphat? 33.
What was their report after the battle?
How does this illustrate the providence of God?
Which army was victorious? 36.
What is meant by an ivory house? 39. [70]

§ IX. THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT. I. Ki. xxii. 41-50.

How and why were his ships broken? 48, cf. II. Chron. xx. 37.
What educational enterprise under Jehoshaphat? II. Chron. xviii. 7-9.
What "book of the law of Jehovah" was this?
How many men in his militia? II. Chron. xvii. 14-19.
What rebuke did he receive for his connection with Ahab? II. Chron. xix. 1-3.
What was thought of the friendship by the people?
What judiciary arrangement did he make? II. Chron. xix. 4-11.
What authority for this? Deut. xvi. 18-20.
Give a brief account of an invasion of Jehoshaphat's kingdom by Moab and Ammon? II. Chron. xx. 1-30.

§ X. THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH. I. Ki. xxii. 51-II. Ki. i. 18.
(NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

To what extent was Baal-worship revived? xxii. 53.
What is said of Moab at this time? II. Ki. i. 1, cf. iii. 4, 5.
How did he fall through the lattice?
Who was Baal-zebub?
Why the men slain?
Who was Jehoram? 17, cf. iii. 1.

§ XI. THE REIGN OF JEHORAM AND THE CAREER OF ELISHA.
II. Ki. ii. 1-viii. 15.

1. Elisha Clings to Elijah. ii. 1-18. (Not in Chronicles.)

Was this the Gilgal near the Jordan? 1, cf. 2.
How did they know what was to be done? 3, 5.
Why Elisha's persistency? 2, 4, 6.
Where did the fifty stand? and why? 7.
Meaning of, "a double portion of thy spirit"? 9.
Meaning of Elisha's [71] exclamation? 12.
Why the search by the fifty? 16-18.
What proved by the search?

2. Waters Healed and Children Devoured. 19-25.

Why was the situation pleasant? 19.
Are those waters good now?
Which way to Beth-el?
Meaning of, "cursed them in the name of the Lord"? 24.
Purpose of the death of the children?
In which kingdom were Beth-el and Jericho?

3. General Character of Jehoram's Reign. iii. 1-3.

4. Jehoram and Jehoshaphat March against Mesha King of
Moab. 4-10.

Why the king called a sheepmaster? 4.
What the line of march? 8, 9.
Where were they? and why their fear? 9, 10.

5. They Inquire of the Lord. 11-19.

Significance of pouring water on hands? 11.
Why was Elisha there?
Why his contempt for Jehoram? 13, 14.
Why call for a minstrel?

6. The Prediction Fulfilled. 20-27.

From what direction did the water come?
Why take the water for blood? 22, cf. 17.
Why make such desolation? iii. 25, cf. 19.
Meaning of, "break through unto the king of Edom"? 26.
Why sacrifice his son? 27.
Why the wrath against Israel? 27.
What else known of Mesha? See The Moabite stone.

7. Elisha Relieves a Prophet's Widow. iv. 1-7.

What right had the creditor to do this? 1.
Why adopt this [72] method of relief?

8. The Kindness of a Shunammite Rewarded. 8-17.

Where was Shunem? 8.
Meaning of, "great woman"? 8.
Why such provision for the prophet? 10.
How could the chamber be on the wall? 10.
Meaning of, "I dwell among mine own people"? 13, cf. our expression, "He lives at home."
Why say, "do not lie"? 16.

9. The Child Dies and Is Revived by Elisha. 18-37.

In what sense "grown"? 18.
What was the child's disease? 19, 20.
Why say, "it is neither new moon nor sabbath"? 23.
Why say, "Drive"? 24.
Why answer, "It is well"? 26.
Why, "to thrust her away"? 27.
Why, "salute him not"? 29.
Why send the staff?

10. Relief in Famine. 38-44.

What was pottage? 38.
Why the prophets reduced to such fare?
Why the barley bread and grain? 42.

11. Naaman Is Healed of Leprosy. v. 1-19.

How had Jehovah given victory to Syria by Naaman? 1.
Why the maid's proposal? 3.
Why was she so readily believed? 5.
Why apply to Jehoram? 5, 6.
Why did not Jehoram send for Elisha? 7, cf. iii. 13, 14.
Why return to the prophet after the healing? 15.
Why did he want some earth? 17.
Force of the answer, "Go in peace"? 19, cf. 18.

12. The Sin and Punishment of Elisha's Servant. 20-27. [73]

What the worst effect of the sin? 20-23, cf. 16.
Why speak of oliveyards, vineyards, etc.? 26.
Why, "unto thy seed"? 27.

13. A Prophet's Axe Recovered. vi. 1-7.

Why ask permission?
What kind of dwelling? 2.
Why go to the Jordan? 2.
Why not dive for the axe?
Why such trouble over an axe?

14. Elisha Captures a Syrian Band. 8-23.

Why does Elisha now help Jehoram? 9.
Why think there was a traitor among his servants? 11.
Why wish to capture Elisha? 13.
What lesson taught the servant? 16, 17.
What kind of blindness? 18-20.
Did the prophet lie to them? 19, 20.
Why fed and sent away? 22, 23.

15. Samaria Besieged and Relief Predicted. vi. 24-vii. 2.

How reconcile 24 with 23?
Force of the king's reply to the woman? 27.
Why the sackcloth? 30.
Why the threat against Elisha? 31, cf. 33.
How dare to hold the door? vi. 32.
Why say, "son of a murderer"?
Meaning of, "wait for the Lord any longer"? 33.
How much was, a "measure"? vii. 1. [It was the seah, about one third of a bushel].

16. The Prediction Fulfilled. vii. 3-20.

Why the lepers outside? and why in the gateway? 3.
Who the kings of the Hittites? 6.
Why leave the horses? 7.
Why the lepers alarmed? 9.
Why the suspicion of the king? 12.
Why did the people tread upon the captain? 17. [74]

17. Another Service to the Shunammite Woman. viii. 1-5.

Connection of this famine with the poverty of the prophets? 1, cf. iv. 38-40.
Why would the kind talk to a leper? 4.
How had she lost her lands? 6.

18. Elisha's Prediction to Hazael, and Its Effects. 7-15.

Why so respectful to Elisha? 8, 9, cf. vi. 13.
Meaning of the prophet's answer? 10.
Why say, "but a dog"? 13.
Did the prediction help to fulfil itself? 10, 13, 15.

§ XII. THE END OF THE HOUSE OF OMRI. II. Ki. viii. 16-x. 36.

1. The Reign of Jehoram of Judah. viii. 16-24;
II. Chron. xxi. 1-20.

How could Jehoram reign while Jehoshaphat was king? 16.
Why the remark about not destroying Judah? 19.
Explain his fight with the Edomites? 21, 22.

2. The Reign of Ahaziah of Judah. 25-29; II. Chron. xxii. 1-6.

How was Athaliah daughter of Omri? 26, cf. 18.
Why was Hazael at Ramoth-gilead? 28, cf. 12.
Which side victorious? See ix. 14.

3. Jehu Is Anointed and Commissioned by Order of Elisha.
ix. 1-13. (Not in Chronicles.)

When the original order for this? See I. Ki. xix. 15-18.
Why not executed sooner?
Why the house of Ahab to perish? 7.
Why say, "this mad fellow"? 11.
Why acknowledge Jehu so promptly? 13. [75]

4. Jehu Slays the Two Kings. 14-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why say, "let none escape and go forth out of the city"? 15.
How the driving recognized? 20.

5. The Death of Jezebel. 30-37. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why call him Zimri? 31, cf. I. Ki. xvi. 10, 18.
Why was she so daring?
Why were eunuchs there? 32.

6. Jehu Slaughters the Seed of Ahab. x. 1-14. (Not in Chronicles.)

How the rulers of Jezreel in Samaria? 1.
Why the challenge to them? 3.
Who were these seventy sons of Ahab? 1, 6.
Point in his question about the heads? 9.
What his justification? 10.
Who, "the brethren of Ahaziah"? 13.

7. His Meeting with Jehonadab and the Slaughter of the
Baal-worshippers. 15-28. (Not in Chronicles.)

Who was Jehonadab? 15, cf. Jer xxxv. 1-9; I. Chron. ii. 55.
Why the vestments? and why the search? 22, 23.
Meaning of "draught house"? 27.

8. The Rest of Jehu's Reign. 29-36. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why did he spare the calf-worship? 29.
Extent of Hazael's conquest? 33.

§ XIII. THE USURPATION OF ATHALIAH, AND THE REIGN OF
JOASH. II. Ki. xi. 1-xii. 21; II. Chron. xxii. 10-12.

1. Athaliah Usurps the Throne of Judah. xi. 1-3;
II. Chron. xxii. 10-12.

Why destroy her own offspring? 1.
What bedchamber in [76] the house of the Lord? 2, 3.
Crisis in the house of David?

2. Joash Crowned, and Athaliah Slain. 4-16;
II. Chron. xxiii. 1-15.

Who the captain of Carites and the guard? 4, cf. 5, 7; II. Chron. xxiii. 1-5.
Why give them spears and shields? 10.
Why cry, "Treason"? 14.
Trace the career of Athaliah? 3.

3. A Covenant Made, and Baal-worship Destroyed. 17-21;
II. Chron. xxiii. 16-xxiv. 1.

Why the covenant? 17.
Why a house of Baal in Jerusalem? 18.

4. The Early Part of the Reign of Joash. xii. 1-3;
II. Chron. xxiv. 2, 3.

How could he reign at seven? xi. 21, cf. xii. 2.
What was wrong in the high places? 3.

5. Joash Repairs the Temple. 4-16; II. Chron. xxiv. 4-16.

What the moneys first mentioned? 4.
Why the order not executed? 7.
What kind of breaches to be repaired? 11, 12.
Why not reckon with the workmen? 15.

6. Hazael Appeased, and Joash Slain. 17-21;
II. Chron. xxiv. 23-27.

Where was Gath? 17.
Why not fight Hazael? 18.
Why the conspiracy? 20, 21, cf. II. Chron. xxiv. 25.
What does his career illustrate? [77]

§ XIV. THE REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ AND JEHOASH OVER
ISRAEL. II. Ki. xiii. 1-25. (NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

1. The Reign of Jehoahaz. xiii. 1-9.

Why the sin of Jeroboam so serious now? 2, 6.
Why Hazael's son named Ben-hadad? 3, cf. viii. 15.
Meaning of, "dwelt in their tents, as beforetime"? 5.
Why the army so reduced? 7.

2. The Reign of Jehoash of Israel. 10-13.

His war with Amaziah described later. 12, cf. xiv. 8-16.

3. Elisha's Last Prediction. 14-19.

Why this address? 14.
Why the significance of the signs?

4. Death and Burial of Elisha. 20, 21.

Why this miracle?
Length of Elisha's career?

5. Elisha's Prediction Fulfilled. 22-25.

§ XV. THE REIGNS OF AMAZIAH AND JEROBOAM THE SECOND.
xiv. 1-29.

1. Amaziah Reigns and Avenges His Father's Death.
xiv. 1-7; II. Chron. xxv. 1-4.

Why mention the sparing of the children?

2. Amaziah's Foolish Challenge to Jehoash. 8-16; II. Chron. xxv. 17-24.

Point in the fable? 9.
What smiting of Edom? 10, cf. II. Chron. xxv. 5-16.
What lesson taught in this? and what folly exhibited?

3. The Death of Amaziah. 17-22; II. Chron. xxv. 25-28.

Why the conspiracy? 19, cf. II. Chron. xxv. 27.
How did they bring his corpse on horses? 20. [78]

4. The Reign of Jeroboam the Second. 23-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

What are Hamath and the sea of the Arabah? 25.
Meaning of, "none shut up nor left at large"? 26.
When had Damascus and Hamath belonged to Judah? 28, cf. I. Chron. xviii. 1-6.
How according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Jonah? 25, cf. the connection Elisha with Jehoram?
On what noted mission was Jonah sent? See Book of Jonah.
Describe his conduct when first told to go. Jonah i. 1-17.
Why did he flee? and why to Tarshish? 3.
How, "from the presence of Jehovah"?
Why so sound asleep? 5, 6.
Why alarmed at Jonah's statement? 10.
Why his proposal? 12.
Why not at once accepted? 13.
Why their prayer? 14.
When the sacrifice and vows? 16.
What his experiences in the fish? ii. 2, 4-6.
Why say, "bowels of Sheol," and "for ever"? 2, 6.
His conduct under a second command, and its effect? iii. 1-10.
How, "of three days' journey"? iii. 3, 4.
Why did they believe and repent? 5, 6, cf. Luke, xi. 30.
Was there a change in God? iii. 10.
Give the rest of the story. iv. 1-11.
Why angry? iv. 1-3.
Lesson from the gourd? iv. 10, 11.

§ XVI. THE REIGN OF AZARIAH IN JUDAH, AND A REVOLUTIONARY
PERIOD IN ISRAEL. II. Ki. xv. 1-31; II. Chron. xxvi. 1-23.

1. The Reign of Azariah. xv. 1-7.

What the abbreviation of his name? xv. 13, 30; II. Chron. xxvi. 3, 4.
What of his three predecessors in Matthew's genealogy? [79]
Why smitten with leprosy? 5, cf. II. Chron. xxvi. 21-23.
Meaning of "several house"?
For what was he noted in military affairs? ib. 6-9, 11-14.
For what in agriculture? ib. 10.
Why the towers and cisterns?
Why the cisterns hewn out?
Outward condition of both kingdoms?

THE PROPHET AMOS. i. 1-ix. 15.

(1.) The Man and His Time. Am i. 1.

Where was Tekoa?
Why say, "words which he saw"?
When was the earthquake? See Zech. xiv. 5, cf. Josephus, Ant. IX. x. 4; XV. v. 2.

(2.) He Denounces the Surrounding Nations, and Predicts the
Captivity of Israel. i. 2-vii. 9.

State of morals in Israel? ii. 6-12.

(3.) He Is Accused and Denounced by Amaziah Priest
of Beth-el. vii. 10-17.

Why bid him return to Judah and prophesy? 12, 13.
Point in saying, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son"? 14.
Point in the predicted fate of Amaziah? 17.

(4.) Continuation of the Prediction. viii. 1-ix. 9.

Why the allusion to Beer-sheba, Dan and Gilgal. Cf. 14, 1; v. 4, 5; iv. 1-13.

(5.) The Final Restoration of David's Throne. ix. 10-12,
cf. Acts, xv. 14-18.

(6.) The Final Restoration of Israel. 13-15.

Can this passage be a figurative reference to the church? [80]
Was it fulfilled in the return from Babylon? 15.
Explain the remark about the plowman, the reaper, etc.? 13.

2. The House of Jehu Ends with the Death of Zechariah.
xv. 8-12. (Not in Chronicles.)

Why emphasize the sins of Jeroboam? 9.
When the promise of 12. See x. 30.
How long the career of this house? x. 36; xiii. 1, 10; xiv. 23; xv. 8.

3. The Reign of Shallum. 13-16. (Not in Chronicles.)

What prompted Menahem?
Why this cruelty to Tiphsah? 16.

4. The Reign of Menahem. 17-22. (Not in Chronicles.)

How, "to confirm the kingdom in his hand"? 19.
How many men were assessed? 20.
This the beginning of Assyrian invasions.

5. The Reign of Pekahiah. 23-26. (Not in Chronicles.)

The motive of Pekah? 25.
Why were Gileadites with him? 25.

6. The Reign of Pekah. 27-31. (Not in Chronicles.)

How many kings in Israel contemporary with Azariah? 27, cf. 23, 17, 13, 8, 1.
What the extent of this captivity? 29.
What Galilee was this? Cf. I. Ki. ix. 10-14.
Cause of this invasion? See xvi. 5-9.
What the motive of Hoshea? 30.
The number of kings in this revolutionary period? and its duration? 27, 23, 17, 13.
What state of society must have existed in Israel? Cf. Am ii. 6-12, et al.
What now thought of Amos?

THE PROPHET HOSEA. i. 1-xiv. 9.

(1.) His Period. i. 1. [81]

How long was it? [From death of Jeroboam the Second, to that of Uzziah; II. Ki. xv. 2, 8, fourteen years; + Jotham's reign; xv. 32, 33, sixteen years; + reign of Ahaz, II. Ki. xvi. 2, sixteen years; + part of Jeroboam's, and part of Hezekiah's reign, say, eight years: = fifty-four years.]

(2.) His First Prophecy. i. 2-iii. 5.

Give the account of his wife and three children. i. 2-9.
What symbolized by this? i. 2.
Was it a reality?
In whose reign was this spoken? i. 4.
How is the symbol continued? ii. 2-7.
What meant by the lovers? ii. 5, cf. 13, 17.
What the financial condition of the people? ii. 5, 8, 13.
What holy days observed? ii. 11.
What final result predicted? iii. 4, 5.
What apparent probability at the time of the condition described in iii. 4?

(3.) His Other Prophecies. iv. 1-xiv. 9.

Political allusions? v. 13, cf. xv. 19; vii. 7, 11, 12; viii. 9, 10; xii. 1.
Allusions to false worship. iv. 13, 14, 17; viii. 5-7.
State of morals. iv. 1, 2; vi. 6-10.
Prediction of a resurrection. vi. 1-3.
Captivity predicted. ix. 11-17; x. 5-8.
God's reluctance in punishment. xi. 8-11.
Graphic description of Israel's career. xiii. 1-16.
Invitation to return to God. xiv. 1-9. [82]

§ XVII. THE REIGNS OF JOTHAM AND AHAZ OVER JUDAH.
II. Ki. xv. 8-xvi. 20.

1. Reign of Jotham. xv. 32-38; II. Chron. xxvii. 1-9.

What the "upper gate of the house of the Lord"? 35.
In what sense did the Lord begin to send Pekah and Rezin? 37, cf. xvi. 5.

2. The Extreme Wickedness of Ahaz. xvi. 1-4;
II. Chron. xxviii. 1-4.

How make his son pass through the fire? 3.

3. His War with Rezin and Pekah. 5-9; II. Chron. xxviii. 5-15.

Why did God send these kings? Cf. 4; xv. 37.
What of some prisoners whom they took? II. Chron. xxviii. 8-15.
How get to Elath without taking Jerusalem? 6.
What territory had Assyria now south of the Euphrates? 9, cf. xv. 29.
What did Isaiah predict concerning Rezin and Pekah? Is. vii. 1-17; viii. 1-4.
State the time and circumstances of Isaiah's call to be a prophet. vi. 1-13.
In what reigns did he prophesy? i. 1.
His picture of the sin and wretchedness of Israel? i. 2-9.
At what time was this written? 5, 7, 9.

4. Ahaz Adopts a Heathen Altar and Makes Changes about
the Temple. 10-20; II. Chron. xxviii. 22-27.

Why all this?

THE PROPHET MICAH. i. 1-vii. 20.

In what reigns did he prophesy? i. 1.
How does he compare in point of time with Isaiah? Is. i. 1.
Concerning whom did [83] he prophesy? i. 1.
What disaster to Samaria did he predict? i. 1-7.
What, to Jerusalem? iii. 1-12.
What passage in common with Isaiah? iv. 1-3, cf. Is. ii. 2-4.
What prediction respecting the Messiah? v. 2, cf. Matt. ii. 4-6.
Acceptable worship. vi. 6-8.

§ XVIII. THE REIGN OF HOSEA AND THE CAPTIVITY OF
ISRAEL. II. Ki. xvii. 1-41. (NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

1. He Conspires against Shalmaneser, and Is Cast into Prison.
xvii. 1-4.

Who was Shalmaneser? 3, cf. xvi. 10.
Purpose of sending messengers to So? 4, cf. Hos. vii. 11, xii. 1.

2. Samaria Taken and Israel Carried Away. 5, 6.

Why so long a siege? 5, cf. Am vi. 1.
What king took Samaria? 6. See Rawlinson.
Where the river Gozan? and where the cities of the Medes?
Why scatter the captives?

3. God's Reasons for Sending Israel into Captivity. 7-23.

What the sum of them all?

4. The New Inhabitants of the Land. 24-41.

What the king's policy in this? 24.
Why think the lions were sent by "the God of the land"? 26.
Why say they feared Jehovah, and yet feared him not? 33, 34, 41.
What people descended from these? [84]

THE CHRONOLOGY OF ISRAEL.

§ I. AS COUNTED BY THE REIGNS OF ISRAEL'S KINGS.
1.	House of Jeroboam. I. Ki. xiv. 20; xv. 25,	= 24 years
2.	House of Baasha. I. Ki. xv. 33; xvi. 8,	= 26 "
3.	Zimri. I. Ki. xvi. 15,	= 7 days
4.	House of Omri. 1Ki. xvi. 23, 29; xxii. 51; II. Ki. iii. 1,	= 48 years
5.	House of Jehu. II. Ki. x. 36; xiii. 1, 10; xiv. 23; xv. 8,	= 102½ "
6.	Revolutionary Period. II. Ki. xv. 19, 17, 23, 27; xvii. 1,	= 41 "
		--------
	Total,	= 241½ "
7.	Interregnum Between Jeroboam and Zechariah. II. Ki. xiv. 23, cf. xiv. 2; xv. 8,	= 12 "
8.	Interregnum Between Pekah and Hosea. II. Ki. xvi. 1, cf. xv. 27; xvii. 1,	= 9 "
		--------
	Total,	= 262½ "
	Deduct, because of Jewish count, one half year from every reign over one year; e. g., I. Ki. xv. 25, 33; xvi. 8; et al.,	= 8 "
		--------
	Total,	= 254½ "

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§ II. AS COUNTED BY THE REIGNS OF JUDAH'S KINGS.
(1.)	Rehoboam.	I. Ki. xiv. 21,	17	years
(2.)	Abijam.	" " xv. 2,	3	"
(3.)	Asa.	" " xv. 10,	41	"
(4.)	Jehoshaphat.	" " xxii. 42,	25	"
(5.)	Jehoram.	II. Ki. viii. 17,	8	"
(6.)	Ahaziah.	" " viii. 26,	1	"
(7.)	Athaliah.	" " xi. 3,	6	"
(8.)	Joash.	" " xii. 1,	40	"
(9.)	Amaziah.	" " xiv. 2,	29	"
(10.)	Azariah.	" " xv. 2,	52	"
(11.)	Jotham.	" " xv. 32, 33.	16	"
(12.)	Ahaz.	" " xvi. 2.	16	"
(13.)	Hezekiah.	" " xviii. 10,	6	"
----
Total,			260	"
Deduct, for Jewish count, one half year from every reign over one year.			6	"
----
Total,			254	"
Difference from first count caused by inaccuracy of the one half year taken from each reign.

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REVIEW.
THE REIGN OF SOLOMON.

I. HIS ACCESSION.

Under what circumstance was Solomon first anointed? what were the grounds of Adonijah's pretensions?
What eminent men supported him? and why?
To whom was Solomon chiefly indebted for his accession?
What solemn charges given by David?
What became of the chief conspirators?
Describe his second anointing.

II. HIS WISDOM.

Give the account of Solomon's choice of wisdom.
What special test of his wisdom is recorded?
To what other wise men is he compared? and what was the range of his studies?

III. HIS ADMINISTRATION.

What officers did he appoint?
Who was the high priest of his reign?
What the generation condition of the people?

IV. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.

How was the necessary timber procured? and how transported?
How many laborers of different classes did he employ?
Where were the stone quarries?
What is known as to the size of some of the stones?
When was the foundation laid? and how much time occupied in building?
What the dimensions of the structure?
What the inside finish? and the divisions?
What figures in the oracle?
What ornaments placed in the porch?
What receptacles for water were constructed?
Who made the brass [87] work? and where was the casting done?
Describe the new altar.
How many candlesticks in the Holy Place?
How was the mountain top leveled and enlarged?
What were the ceremonies of dedication?

V. HIS GRANDEUR.

Describe his palace.
Describe his golden shields and ivory throne.
What of his horses and chariots?
Whence the money?
Describe the visit of the Queen of Sheba.

VI. HIS MILITARY POLICY.

What addition to the defenses of Jerusalem?
What other cities did he fortify? and what the special purpose of each?

VII. HIS SINS AND CONSEQUENT TROUBLES.

Describe his apostasy.
What rebuke from God?
What political troubles followed?
Who were his biographers?
Describe the new epoch now reached.

THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL.

I. THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM.

What was the occasion of Jeroboam's being made king?
What was his previous history? I. Ki. xi. 26-40.
What cities did he fortify? and which did he make his capital?
What was his great sin? and what policy prompted it?
Describe his conflict with a prophet before the altar at Beth-el.
Show the character, and describe the fate of that prophet.
What lesson taught by his career?
Describe the death of Jeroboam's oldest son.
Describe the fall of Jeroboam's house.
How long did it hold the throne? [88]

II. THE HOUSE OF BAASHA.

What the great sin of Baasha's reign? and what rebuke was administered for it?
How was his house destroyed? I. Ki. xv. 33-xvi. 7.
What was its duration?

III. THE HOUSE OF OMRI.

How long did the house reign?
How much relative space given to the history of this period?
What political change did Omri make? I. Ki. xvi. 16-58.
What the general character of Ahab's reign? and what change did he effect in religion?
What was the chief struggle in Elijah's career?
State briefly the successive steps in that struggle? I. Ki. xvii. 1-xix. 21.
What was his proof that Jehovah is God?
Give the significance of the scene on mount Horeb.
Give a brief account of the first war between Ahab and Ben-hadad. I. Ki. xx. 1-43.
Of the second war?
Give account of the crime against Naboth. I. Ki. xxi. 1-29.
Why did Ahab have a residence in Jezreel?
In the third war with Syria what help had Ahab? and how obtained? § VIII. 1.
Describe their inquiry of the Lord.
Describe the battle and its results.
Who was Ahab's successor? and what the principal events of his reign? §§ VIII-X.
Describe the translation of Elijah. § XI. 1.
What occurred with Elisha soon afterward? § XI. 2.
Who reigned after Ahaziah? and what the general character of his reign?
Describe his expedition against Moab.
Give the account of Elisha's dealings with the good Shunammite. § XI. 8, 9, 17.
Give the account of [89] healing Naaman, and the cupidity of Gehazi. 11, 12.
Of Ben-hadad's attempt to capture Elisha. 14.
Of the siege and relief of Samaria. 15, 16.
Give the prediction concerning Hazael. 18.
Describe the fall of the house of Omri. § XII. 3, 4, 6.

IV. THE HOUSE OF JEHU.

Describe the accession of Jehu. § XII. 3, 4.
The death of Jezebel. 5.
The destruction of Baal-worship, and the close of Jehu's reign. 7, 8.
What the condition of Israel under Jehoahaz? § XIV. 1.
Describe Elisha's last prediction and its fulfillment. 3, 5.
How long did Jeroboam the Second reign, and what distinguished his reign? § XV. 4.
What was Jonah's connection with him? 4.
Describe Jonah's flight from the Lord.
Describe his preaching and its effect.
What brought Nineveh to repentance?
What practical lessons illustrated by the career of Jonah?
What other two prophets appeared in the reign of Jeroboam? § XVI.
Who was Amos? and how did he become a prophet?
What the principal subjects of his prophecies?
During what period did Hosea prophesy?
What his principal subject?
What was the state of morals in Israel at this time?
Describe the downfall of Jehu's house? 2.
How long did it continue?
What changes, political and religious, did it bring about?

V. THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.

What became of Shallum? § XVI. 3.
What the chief thing in Menahem's reign? 4.
Who were the next three kings?
What [90] war in Pekah's reign? and what result? 6.
What the principal events of Hosea's reign? § XVIII. 1.
How many invasions from Assyria had now occurred?
Who was king of Assyria at the captivity? and what changes of population did he make? 2, 4.
What was his policy in this?
What the duration of the northern kingdom?

JUDAH FROM THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM
TILL THE FALL OF ISRAEL.

I. THE PERIOD OF HOSTILITY WITH ISRAEL.

What caused the rebellion of the ten tribes? § I.
What steps taken by Rehoboam to suppress the rebellion?
Character of the first part of Rehoboam's reign? § III.
Give the military events of his reign.
Describe the most conspicuous event in Abijam's reign?
What was Asa's course in religious matters?
Describe his conflict with Baasha.
What other war did he wage?
Describe his affliction in his old age.
Who succeeded Asa? § IX.
What naval enterprise did he undertake? and with what result?
What educational enterprise?
What judicial arrangements?
What friendly alliance did he form? and what battle followed?
How long had the two kingdoms been in a state of hostility?
What judgment was pronounced on this alliance?

II. THE PERIOD OF ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL.

Describe Jehoshaphat's defense against Moab and Ammon.
What punishment did he afterward inflict on Moab? § XI. 4, 5, 6.
What writing by Mesha is still preserved? § 6.
What part [91] did Elisha take in this campaign? 2.
Who was successor to Jehoshaphat? and what is known of his reign? § XII. 2.
What followed upon the death of Ahaziah? § XIII. 1.
What crisis was now reached by the house of David?
What good and what evil came to Judah from the alliance with Israel?
What brought it to a close?

III. THE PERIOD AFTER THE ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL.

Describe the coronation of Joash? § XIII. 2.
Trace the whole career of Athaliah.
With what reform did Joash's reign begin? 3, 4.
What work on the temple? and how conducted? 5.
Of what great crime was he guilty? 6.
How did his career terminate? and why?
Who succeeded Joash? and what his first act? § XV.
Of what piece of military folly was he guilty?
What was his fate?
Who was king of Judah during the revolutionary period of Israel? § XVI.
In what other form is his name written?
What attention did he give to military affairs, and to agriculture?
What disaster befell him?
What the relative condition of the two kingdoms at this period?
When did the prophet Amos appear? and what did he predict respecting Judah?
What other prophet appeared in Uzziah's reign?
Who succeeded Uzziah? and what characterized his reign? § XVII.
What was the character of Ahaz?
Give the account of his war with Israel and Syria?
What was said by Isaiah in regard to it?
Describe Isaiah's call to be a prophet.
Give his picture of the depravity [92] then prevalent.
In whose reigns did he prophesy?
Name all of the great prophets who appeared in the period from Rehoboam to Hezekiah.
What is known of the prophet Micah?
Who was king in Judah when Israel went into captivity? and who was then prophesying? § XVIII. [93]

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Class Notes on Sacred History, Volume II (1894)

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