Bible Characters Vol. 6 - Our Lord's Characters

✍ Scribed by Alexander Whyte

• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

11. The book of the Law : Moses the author of the Pentateuch ; Subsequent editorial insertions ; Further difficulties met ; Mr. Greg's "Creed of Christendom" ; It's errors and unfounded statements ; Miracle in the time of Joshua ; The Mosaic books not forgeries ; Confirmations of their accuracy -- 12. Solomon, Rehoboam, and Shishak : Early training of Solomon ; He is proclaimed king ; His marriage with the daughter of Pharaoh, who was probably Pinetem ; His commercial dealings ; His great wealth ; His buildings ; Declension of his character ; Hadad the Edomite ; Shishak, king of Egypt ; Probably a native Egyptian ; Rehoboam's folly ; Plunder of Jerusalem by Shishak ; Important inscription ; Egyptian gods and temples -- 13. Assur-Nasir-Pal : Sir Henry Layard ; Sketch of his career ; King Assur-Nasir-Pal ; His buildings ; Wars and cruelties ; Bas-reliefs in Nimroud gallery of British museum ; King on his throne, etc. ; Other representations ; Symbolical tree ; Hunting scenes ; Warlike operations depicted ; Processions, etc. -- 14. Ahab, Elijah, and Shalmaneser : Kings of Judah and Israel ; Asa and Jehoshaphat ; Omri and Ahab ; Ahab's wickedness and idolatry ; His marriage with Jezebel ; Elijah the prophet ; Drought and famine ; Sacrifice on Mount Carmel ; Description of the place ; Impressive scene ; Cessation of the drought ; Threatened by Jezebel, Elijah goes to Horeb ; Divine commissions given him there ; Ahab's palace at Jezreel ; Judicial murder of Naboth by Jezebel ; Deaths of Ahab and Jezebel ; King Shalmaneser II., son of Assur-Nasir-Pal ; Black obelisk ; Its inscriptions ; Their confirmation of Scripture history ; Excavations at Balawat ; Assyrian basement at the British museum ; Shalmaneser's buildings, wars, and cruelties ; Moabite stone -- 15. Hezekiah and Sennacherib : Kings of Judah ; Uzziah and Ahaz ; Ahaz attacked by Pekah and Rezin, calls in aid of Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria ; Becomes his vassal ; Idolatry re-introduced ; The prophet Isaiah ; Great interest of his writings ; Ahaz succeeded by Hezekiah ; His goodness and piety ; Restores purity of worship ; Isaiah his counselor ; Sennacherib, king of Assyria ; His wars in Babylonia ; Siege of Jerusalem ; Hezekiah seeks divine aid, which is promised by Isaiah ; Miraculous destruction of Assyrians ; Byron's poem ; Death of Sennacherib ; Supplementary remarks upon the siege of Lachish ; Taylor cylinder ; Invaluable slabs and inscriptions in the British museum confirmatory of the Biblical story ; Excavations at Nimroud;16. Sardanapalus : Erroneous views formerly held respecting this king ; Lempriere's "Classical dictionary" ; Bryon's drama ; Professor Sayce ; Assur-Bani-Pal, true name of Sardanapalus ; His wars in Elam ; Cruelties ; Assyrian customs and handicraft ; Representatives of hunting and other scenes -- 17. Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Cyrus : Successors of Assur-Bani-Pal, or Sardanapalus ; League between Medes and Babylonians ; Joined by the Egyptians ; Death of Josiah, king of Judah ; Downfall of Nineveh ; Nabopolassar of Babylon, and his son Nebuchadnezzar ; Victory by the latter over the Egyptians ; Jerusalem taken and destroyed by the Babylonians ; Daniel the Prophet ; His high position at Babylon ; Interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream ; Nature of the king's illness ; His restoration of Babylon after its destruction by Sennacherib ; Inscriptions confirming the Biblical story in reference to Nebuchadnezzar ; Belshazzar ; Son of Nabonidus, and probably grandson of Nebuchadnezzar ; Associated with his father in the kingdom ; Slain during the taking of Babylon by Cyrus ; Mildness of that king ; Darius the Mede ; Daniel's high position under him ; His danger, deliverance, and thanksgiving -- 18. Unto us a child is born : Scheme of our redemption ; Birth of Christ our Lord at Bethlehem ; Some mistakes in reference to some of the circumstances connected with his birth : Social position of the holy family ; Piety of the blessed virgin ; Divinity of our Lord ; Episode on Mary Magdalene, who was not the woman "which was a sinner" ; "Magdalene hospital a misnomer" ; Women present at the crucifixion ; Testimony of heathen writers to Christ ; Tacitus ; Pliny the younger ; His correspondence with the Emperor Trajan concerning the Christians ; Evidential value of this ; Circumstances of our Lord's passion and death ; The death real, and also the resurrection ; Ascension of Christ into heaven.;6. Jacob and Joseph : Deception on Isaac ; Jacob leaves his father's home ; His dream ; His marriages in Padan-Aram ; His return to Canaan ; Joseph and Benjamin ; Joseph sold into Egypt ; His career there ; Becomes prime minister to the Pharaoh, probably Apepi ; Egyptian customs ; Confirmation of Biblical accounts of famine ; Death of Jacob in Egypt ; His embalmment ; Death of Joseph -- 7. Uniting links : Succession of Egyptian kings ; Hyksos dynasty expelled ; Aahmes I. ; Amenophis I. ; Thothmes I. and II. ; Queen Hatshepsut ; Expeditions sent out by her ; Scientific voyage ; Remarkable sculptures of fishes ; Thotmes III. ; "Cleopatra's needles" ; Other Egyptian kings ; Colossal statues ; Vocal Memnon -- 8. A new king : Theories as to who was the new king "which knew not Joseph" ; Shown not to have been Aahmes, but Seti I., son of Ramses I. ; His character ; Barbarous decree respecting Hebrew male children ; Moses saved ; The princess Thermuthis ; Buildings of Seti ; Treasure cities ; Seti's tomb -- Discovered by Belzoni ; Sarcophagus brought to England ; Deposited in Sir John Soane's museum ; Seti's mummy -- 9. Moses and Ramses : Education of Moses in Egypt ; Languages, music, etc. ; Birth of Ramses II. ; United with his father, Seti I., on the throne ; Afterwards sole king ; Military career of Moses in Egypt ; Pentaur his contemporary ; Flight of Moses into Midian ; Reign of Ramses II. ; His wives ; His statues ; His mummy -- 10. The Exodus : Life of Moses in Midian ; Divine commission given him there ; Menephtah II., the Pharaoh of the Exodus ; Return of Moses to Egypt ; He confronts the Pharaoh ; The Israelites leave Egypt ; Colenso's objections to the details of the history refuted ; The Israelites are pursued by the Egyptians ; Destruction of the greater part of their army in the Red Sea ; Menephtah, in the rear-guard, escaped ; Song of Miriam ; Death and character of Menephtah II;1. Graven in the Rock : Plan of the work ; Reference to Biblical difficulties ; Monuments in the British museum ; Decipherment of inscriptions ; Early attempts ; Grotefend ; Lassen ; Sir Henry Rawlinson ; Sketch of his career ; The Behistun rock ; The trilingual inscriptions of Darius ; Extraordinary dangers undergone by Sir Henry in copying them, who also translates the Persian text ; Other Cuneiform inscriptions read ; Fox Talbot ; Sketch of his career ; Hincks ; Oppert ; Hieroglyphics ; Chinese characters ; Rosetta stone ; Champollion ; Sketch of his career ; Discovers key to Egyptian hieroglyphics -- 2. A help meet for him : Reference to "Moses and genealogy" ; Order of creation events ; Erroneous views in "Lux Mundi" ; The evolution controversy ; Views of Darwin and Herbert Spencer ; Darwin on the "Descent of Man" ; Production of varieties in animals ; Their so-called instincts ; Darwin on evolution ; Garden of Eden ; Creation of woman ; Temptation ; Serpent of evil ; Egyptian ideas ; Sir William Dawson on Creation of man ; Survival of the fittest ; Modifications necessary when applied to man ; The queen's Jubilee ; General Gordon's Bible -- 3. He begat sons and daughters : Children of Adam and Eve ; Cain and Abel ; Death of Abel probably an act of manslaughter for which Cain was afterwards penitent ; Music in Eden ; Early forging of metals ; Longevity of antediluvians ; Book of Enoch ; That found by Bruce in Abyssinia a comparatively recent production, and not the one referred to by St. Jude in his epistle -- 4. The waters prevailed : The Noachian deluge ; Colenso's objections ; His errors refuted ; Region of the flood ; The ark ; Assyrian deluge tablet ; Size of ark ; How lighted and ventilated ; Destruction of the human race except occupants of ark ; Cessation of deluge ; Mount Ararat ; Gradual subsidence of waters ; Professor Huxley in the "Nineteenth Century" ; His erroneous views ; The rainbow in existence ages before, but ordained to be a sign after the flood -- 5. The Hittites : Episode on the book of Job ; The Hittites ; Sale of a field to Abraham ; Esau's wives ; Hittites in later times ; Their wars with the Assyrians ; With the Egyptians ; Victory of Ramses II ; Pentaur's poem ; Dr. Wright's "Empire of the Hittites ; Hamah inscriptions ; Meteoric shower ; Difficulties overcome ; Casts of inscriptions obtained for the British museum ; Tarkutimme seal ; Tarsus and Yazgat seals