CHAP. PAGE A.D. 49 or XVI. ST. PAUL'S SECOND, OR GREAT MISSIONARY JOUR- XIX. THE LAST DAYS OF ST. PAUL AND ST. PETER; AND THE COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE I. The Persian Domination....... II. The Hellenistic Domination...... III. The Maccabees and Asmonæan Kings....... IV. Kingdom of Herod the Great, subject to and under the protec- GENEALOGICAL TABLES. The Asmonæan Family....... LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. SEPARATE MAPS. PAGE 1. The Holy Land under the Maccabees and Herod the Great. 2. The Holy Land under the sons of Herod the Great. 3. The Holy Land, showing the kingdom of Agrippa I. 4. Roman province of Judæa and the kingdom of Agrippa II. The Holy Land, to illustrate the New Testament.. A Chart of St. Paul's Voyage to Rome...... MAPS INSERTED IN THE TEXT. 257 454 511 568 CONNECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT HISTORIES, AND SECULAR HISTORY OF THE JEWS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. B.C. 400-A.D. 70. CHAPTER I. FROM NEHEMIAH TO THE PERSECUTION OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES. B.C. 400-168. § 1. Interval of four centuries between the Old and New Testaments-Four periods:-Persian, Greek, Asmonæan and Herodian. § 2. Judæa under the Persians-The high-priests ELIASHIB, JOIADA, JONATHAN or Johanan-Murder of Joshua. § 3. JADDUA-Close of the Old Testament Canon-Alexander the Great-Rebellion of the Samaritans. § 4. ONIAS I. -Division of Alexander's Empire-Jerusalem taken by Ptolemy I.Judæa subject to Egypt. § 5. SIMON I. THE JUST-The ideal of a highpriest-The New Synagogue-Antigonus Socho. § 6. ELEAZAR, under |