When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE LAND OF PROMISE. • The difference of latitude and longitude in the land actually occupied by ancient Israel, and that which was promised in the everlasting covenant, and still remains to be fulfilled, is as follows: Kings iv. 25-Judah and Israel dwelt safely from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.” Bat Solomon, like his father David, exercised a nominal or real sovereignty over all the regions which the Lord had given to the seed of Jacod.-See 1 Ki. iv. N.) THE LAND OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE, OR JUDEA — for all the land which then seest, to thee will I give Was given in an everlasting covenant to Abraham it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy and his seed for ever.-Se Gen. xii. 6,7; xiii. 14-7. seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can It was washed on the W. by the Mediterranean, or number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed Great sea, as it is called in the Bible: Nu. xxiv. 6. also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land, in •And as for the western border, ye shall even have the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will the great sea for a border: this shall be your west give it unto thee.-xvii & And I will give unto border. Josh. i. 4. From the wilderness and this thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Eu- thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an phrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the everlasting possession; and I will be their God." great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall It was called the LAND OF CANAAN, because, upon be your coast." NORTHWARD, it reached along the Mediterranean sea to Mount Casis at the mouth of the dispersion of the three great familles of manthe Oronces, which is the entrance into Hamat kind, the country lying at the south-eastern extre from the great ses ve shall point out for you MOUNT And the name of PALESTINE was derived from the Numb. xxxiv. 7-8 This shall be your worth border:ity of the Meernen, from Siden to Gara, was usurped by Canaan, the eldest son of Ham. Hos (Heb. Hor-a-hor⚫ From mount Hor ye shall Philistines, whose ancestors were the Philistim, or point out unto the entrance into Hamath, &c. children of the Caphtorim and Caslahim, we were Is Sorrs border-is the River of Egypt,' - see descendants of Mizraim, (see Gen. x. 13.4) and came Gen. xv. 18. Unto thy seed have 1 given this land, from Egypt. They passed into Canaan, whence they from the river of Beypt unto the great river, the drove out the ancient inhabitants, and they possessed river Euphrates. And the East border,-see Deut. a considerable tract of country at the time Abraxi. 24, Every place whereon the soles of your feet ham sojourned in Cansan- Gen 11. 34 And shall tread shall be yours: ... from the river, the Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall days."-See also arri. 14 5. They extended their your coast be." conquests as far northward as Ekron, and nearly to Jong, and divided their territory into five lordships, called after their principal cities, viz. Ekron, Ash 352, Gath, Ascalon, and Gaza-See Josh x 3 From Stror, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Earve northward zitas counted to the Cansanine: five lords of the Philistines: the Garathites, and the Ashlochites, the Eshiklonites, the Girites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites. These dwelt in the western or maritime part of it, bordering on Egypt: and, though they were subjected by David, and kepo in obedience by some of his successors, they became afterwards so powerful as to furnish the Greek and Lane writers, as well as the mighbouring people, with a general appellation for the whole ev iztry. The Israelites left Egypt B.C. 56 and after wan• The latitude of the north point of the Elanitie dering forty years in the wüderness, rwo tribes and a gulf of the Bed set, on which Enon-reber, a port of half of them were settled E. of the Jordan by M7875. Solomon's, stood, is 29 deg. 30 min. Tus is the truth who died shortly afterwards: the children of Isruel border promised to Abraham The mouth of the crossed vree the river, under the comfort of Josh na Orences, or the entrance into Hamath from the Ma- and, after six years' successful ferung against the Canaanites divided their land amongst the time diterranean, is deg, and that of Beer, or Berochah en the Euphrates, 57 beg But the range of Azan 218 tribes and a half. The southern part of the country, becween the Dend sea and the Nonce Ses beyond it, and the medium bagitude of the mortà the Firment of Egypt to Jabneel, now called From bamiary is more than 3 dag. 3 min. Nor in an ideal time, from south to north, the length of the was at first alveted to the tribe of buish: duc as land is upwards of seven degrees, or 300 mies, init was subsequently found that this was too muOÀ stead of 15) as of old.. for them, the western part of it was given to the tribes of Suzeva and Dun, and that be the north -The breadth of IWANTED's land, instead of ins was bestowed agua Benjam The last-mentioned amely contracted sac. from the MalineITIONER tride, en whose southern limits was the city of derssea v the west, to a few miles on the east of Dorian salem, touched to the E. on a stat part of the Jsoaps moe schort of a sanggable treats SWEXWDIOR čar, and to the W. apon Dua - tie the brain of and on every suba. The bougerade of the river Ne is 30 ng min. & that of the Buphrates, as in Bows the Iscarios became subject the surshrvaga the Persian Cuz is in mounting macies but amber Saul and Dani they regained their imbegendence. service of nearly 15 dng, and a half, er mace than The latitude of Beersheba is 31 deg. 15 min; of Dan. 33 Jeg. 15 min. the south point of the Dead sca, the ancient border of Israel, is 31 deg 7 min in the same longitude with Dun, the intervening distance, in a line from north to south, being 18 geographical, or about 150 English, miles. vari, ami szurawaci, ani mastvari, ami westward: and the ediüren of iscari, his companions, viet He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.-Deut. xxxii. 8. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.-Psalm cxvi. 5. river Jordan, the former being also called Galilee of from that time called the kingdom of Judah.' into Upper and Lower, so named with respect to the After the defection of the ten tribes from under, Rehoboam, the two kingdoms maintained their freedom for many years, amidst the continual wars by which they were harassed; but Hazael, king of Syria, at last subdued Israel, and for a long time kept it in subjection. The king of Assyria next in-ceived; and here, in an obscure village, he lived with vaded them, and having besieged their city Samaria for three years, reduced it to ashes.-See SAMARIA. Such of the inhabitants as survived the dreadful carnage which ensued, were carried away captive into Assyria, B. C. 719; and the kingdom of Israel, which had stood divided from that of Judah for more than 250 years, was now at an end. After this, Judah also was attacked by the Babylonians, and subsequently by the Egyptians, the latter of whom reduced it to subjection; but upon the defeat of the Egyptians by the Babylonians, Nebuchadnezzar seized upon Jerusalem, and, after having tyrannized over the people for some years, at last levelled the city and the temple with the ground, and carried away the inhabitants to Babylon, and thus put an end to the kingdom of Judah, about B. C. 588, or 476 years from the time that David began to reign over it.-See 2 Chr. xxxvi. Seventy years after, when Cyrus was king of Persia, a remnant of the Jews returned, and built again their city and temple, around which they settled; and the southern part of PALESTINE was henceforth called JUDEA. To the N. of them, in the former inheritance of Ephraim and the half tribe of Manasseh, sate a mixed race of people, among whom may have been some families casually left behind in the great captivity. More certain are we, that colonies of idolatrous heathen were placed there by the Assyrian monarch, 2 Ki. xvii. 24 34; and that these were subsequently joined by some Jews, such as Joiada, mentioned Neh. xiii. 28. They were called Samaritans, from their dwelling round the old capital of the kingdom of Israel; and were looked upon by the Jews as so impure, that they had no dealings with them. Alexander the Great subdued Palestine, and at his death its possession was disputed by Antigonus and the Egyptians, until Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, united it to his dominions. The Jews, under Judas Maccabeus, revolted, and established their freedom. They over-ran Samaria, and planted colonies in the northern part of the country, which assumed henceforward the name of GALILEE; and raised up a king about B.C. 107. His successors called in the Romans to settle their disputes; and the Roman general, Pompey, irritated by the little respect shewn to him, marched against Jerusalem and reduced it, B.C. 63, and soon after completed the subjugation of the whole country. In the time of Marc Antony, Herod was made king of Judæa; and it was during his reign that our Saviour was born. Judæa remained subject to the Romans till A.D. 66, when a contest arose between the Jews and Syrians respecting the possession of Cæsarea: the case being referred to Nero, he decided in favour of the latter; upon which the Jews took up arms, and, after committing some dreadful massacres, succeeded in driving all the Romans and Syrians from Judæa. Vespasian was sent against them with a powerful army, and would soon have brought them to subjection, but, on his march to Jerusalem, he received the intelligence of his having been chosen emperor: he accordingly left the command of the army to his son Titus, who, A.D. 70, reduced the city to ashes, and put an end to the Jewish nation, as had been prophesied for ages beforehand. The name of the HOLY LAND is applied to it by Christians in nearly all the languages of Europe; chiefly and eminently from its having been the scene of our Blessed Lord's life, death, and resurrection. SAMARIA.-Touched to the W. on the Mediterranean, to the N. on Phoenice and Galilee, to the E. on Peræa, and to the S. on Judæa; it contained 1,330 square miles. It occupied the whole country between the Jordan and the sea; and therefore such as travelled from Judæa into Galilee 'must needs go through Samaria.' Samaria derived its name from its metropolis Samaria, which was so called after one Shemer, of whom Omri, king of Israel, bought the ground, for the building of the city; and from the circumstance of this city having become the subsequent capital of the kingdom of Israel, the name of Samaria is frequently used by the sacred writers of the Old Testament, to denote the whole of that kingdom. Samaria is inter sected by a range of mountains connected with Mnt. Hermon of Galilee; where this range enters the provinces it is called Gilboa. Mount Gilboa, celebrated for the death of Saul and Jonathan, and for the defeat of the Israelites by the Philistines, was in the northern part of Samaria, and formed part of that range of hills which traverses the whole province from north to south; towards the city of Samaria, it is known by the names of Phinehas, Ebal, and Gerizim, and upon the borders of Judea as the mountains of Ephraim. Upon the division of the tribes into the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Jeroboam, king of the latter, built Sichem, or Shechem, in mount Ephraim, about the centre of Samaria, and made it the capital of his dominions.-See Sect. 13. Samaria, the subsequent metropolis of the kingdom of Israel till the time of the Assyrian captivity, was only a few miles to the north of Sichem; it was nearly destroyed by the Assyrians, but was restored by the colonists, whom they sent into the country; and who, from this city, first assumed the name of Samaritans. It was very flourishing under the Maccabees, but being once more destroyed, it was again rebuilt and beautified by Herod, who named it Sebaste, in honour of Augustus; it is still called Sebaste, or Kalaat Sanour. In the time of the events recorded in the history of the New Testament, Palestine was divided into five principal parts. These were Galilee, Samaria, Judæa, properly so called, Batanæa, and Peræa; the JUDEA, properly so called.-Was bounded on the N. three first of which were on this side Jordan, and the by Samaria, on the E. by the Dead sea, on the S. by two last beyond it: over all of which Herod, sur-Arabia Petræa, and on the W. by the Mediterranean named 'the Great,' was king.-See Less. v. 'Herod.' sea. It contained 3,135 square miles, and constituted GALILEE-Was the northernmost province of Palestine, and was exceedingly fertile and populous, having 204 towns and villages, containing, upon an average, 15,000 souls, making in all above 3,000,000 inhabitants. It touched to the W. on Phoenice, to the N. on CaloSyria, to the E. on Batanæa, and to the S. on Samaria. It contained 930 square miles. It was subdivided the inheritance of four out of the twelve tribes, viz. of Benjamin, Dan, Judah, and Simeon, the two last being in the southern part of the province. The frontier between Judæa and Arabia Propria is formed by a range of mountains, connected with mount Seir, and known by the names of Halak and Maaleh Acrabbin; this latter gives the adjacent district the * See Sections 1. & xcvi. † Page viii. first paragraph, et seq. Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.-Psalm cxiv. 2. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.-Psalm cxxi. 4. The Tamen inveth the gutes of Zion more than all the dwellings of fre Psalm lxxxvii. 9. PRE-Was houndeč at the K. b Ratanen, or the W by Samana at the 5 baraba, anč of the I. br Syric It containeč 150 some miles. I: de TITEL is name from the fireek Fari temas, ultra tram is lying beyanı durdai. The souther na a P Te hetweet, the two rivers Árnot, and Jatok, former the kingdom of the Amorites, whose king. Sihat, was defeated by the Israelites In the Pers the lot moun treal 1 Baised stil calted Dream near which Jasot and jahat raised & hear a stones ir toker a friendshi *therefore was the name of it culier Gateen is The neat of witness.” G E Of the LANT OF PROMISE HOS said. Tent. xi. The land, whither thou pres: 11 to possess fi, i no as the land of Egy from whence v zame out where that soweds: th see and watereds: i will. the foot as garder of herbs hu: the lang, whither VEDU Mosses 12 & ani a nilk and valiers, ani drinker water o the rail a heaver Elahe waset the Lour the God waratt for the eves of the Lour the End are always unor fi from the beginning ai the year weer unto the end a thɛ year. The Jordan, is the principa, river -Ber Res: 5. Few of the BILIS approach to the character of mountains QUARANTINa narti a’Jericho, risas ar. almos: parrendtoula rock 190 a 150 feet. The The wonhecies ennerning the LouD OF IRRATI ha heat sea arrumh.shed that they may be 1act as instry. The Travelist, however careless of dvine Sention,, and eat the senna, shundantly zestifies u the resus desolation of the land the ance strong farms and was at heanme dens-defenced rizues $TE unished and iniż waste. The once incur and vel wateral mins are THE com haal, and the herbs ar feit vahe inhas. Tone hears witness to the run of prophers; far as that hest înretnià, he writes The remnies &TE TUDEL DDT, The nalaces or demolished THE INSTIS are fet un the the descrived, and the el. sinned is inhabitants seams a dreary buying pare." Almost duit, accounts reach is vir mucTTEVINE the curs thac is unor fi Jerusalem, the Cits of our God has become hea and Zin.. as was rediered is niwel as a full and the place of the temple of the ins: Het is desecrated t The erection of a Wotammeint DSOs where deart awaits the Tut Washine that dur inrude with the polluted pinne The ancien nonulation was for the fans of the counts freate that that are other na: of the ther know weid In the time a Devin.the panulation muse he amountsë 7 svara millions, as the men whit u heat arms were numbered, at the lowes: con putation, unt, afte at impertec cepsis. I 1,386,806. In the time a dahashantal the mer a wa i Judat alons amounted to.. Josephus tells us that one raishrutint the Passive If the re of Nero, than were presem a Jerusalem 5,706,000 parKons The valiers wry composed of a desi rict, soil. free fron stones. The racks a rincipal's a gre limesions and the rantributet freath wards the sustenane na large nonation, as the ware terraceć ual directions will embankments huit: ut with loose stones, or whitel pres melons encumbers and other creening plants as well as the vins, the fig and the al as now seer at a fer cultivated shots 1: would he wrong to argue the former canahilities a the Holy Land fran is mesen: nenes, as is now under the curs 0. God, and is panera barrenness is in full Recordance with nonhat denunciation Ru: the time fas: ahnroaching, when we snič Moses. Dein ha: ther the Low thy Boč wil turk the cantóvity, and have compassiar unar thee, and wil return and gather the tron al the nations, whither the Low- thy God hath scattered three I am a thine he driver nu unte the utmost nart để henvat, from thence will the Lord thy Goč gather thee an from thane wil the teret ther the Lour thy God wil bring the inte the land which thy fathers posseseng, ung, thou shal: possons is, and he will do the pond, and mutting the above the fathers - als Is he £tak pa anc and Amo Tr the antiomers to the loven a the sublime and beautiful and ahow all, to the chic a. frou no lanc ahounds will so Ma Hitrachom a The Land of krael Er how nounscted themwelth the earliest mos: faithfu¦ ranand a the wants fu d: no o God from the harinning a creation to the redamntiat o mali Magnineen) remains a the oldas: cities fr. the work are there Its shener of the ms diversiti MALITY. The most rint is hes: Hitm for it harming wha 3 es ayninter to he. ANY may be the earthly mentre as MRes at Kraton when its bounds were extende annording to the description of Bronhagy, as Psalm heat. For the Lo & KOTIOR 25 his Neont Jacol as the in a his inheritanes Come and see the works of God: He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. Psalm Ixvi. 5. THE ENTRANCE OF THY WORDS GIVETH LIGHT; IT GIVETH UNDERSTANDING UNTO THE SIMPLE. -Psalm cxix. 130. ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL TABLE. PART I. MATTHEW I., II. LUKE I., II., III. 23-38. ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF TIME. ORDER MY STEPS IN THY WORD: AND LET NOT ANY INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME.-Psalm cxix. 133. Comprehending the space of 31 years; viz.-From the prediction of the birth of John the Baptist, B.C. 6, to the commencement of his public ministry, A.D. 26.* SECTION 1.-THE BIRTH OF JOHN FORETOLD. Luke i. 1-25. p. 1-8. No. 1. The Preface according to Luke. ch. i. 1—4. p. 1. The conception of John the Baptist. ver. 24, .5. Hill country of Judæa. p. 6. Elisabeth humbled because of her husband's case while given occasion to rejoice. 1. 24, .5 Ver. 13-20, p. 4, 5. SECT. II. THE BIRTH OF JESUS FORETOLD. Matt. i. 18-25. Luke i. 26-56. p. 9-15. The birth of Jesus foretold. David [19. 26] 1. 26-.9 -30-.3 - 34-.7 -38 Ver. 11, .2, p. 3, 4. Mary visits Elisabeth. ch. i. 39-55. Hill country of Judæa. p. 11, .2. Mary returns home, and is taken into the house of Joseph as his espoused wife. Matt. i. 18-25. Luke i. 56. At Nazareth. p. 13, .4. -- 72 - 73-.5 76 77-9 -80 * See the Table of Supposed Chronology of the Gospel History, p. xxvi. TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF THY STATUTES.-Psa. cxix. 33. HE THAT PLANTED THE EAR, SHALL HE NOT HEAR? HE THAT FORMED THE EYE, SHALL HE NOT SEE?-Psalm xciv. 9. SECTION IV.-JESUS BORN. GENEALOGIES. PRESENTED IN THE TEMPLE. Jesus' birth announced to shepherds. ii. 8-15. In the fields of Bethlehem. p. 20. The shepherds go to Bethlehem. 1.25 2. 8-12 p. 22. 2. 16, .7 18 19 20 21 Ps. 2. Ge. 12. 1-4; Ac. 16. 10; See Lu. 1. 59-66. The genealogy of Jesus Christ, according to Matthew, being that of his supposed father, Jesus is presented in the temple: Simeon & Anna bear witness. Luke ii. 22-38. p. 24—.7. (Joseph & Mary, with Jesus, ret. to Nazareth) No. 5. 2. 22-.4 -36-8 See ver. 19, p. 22. See Addenda, p. 39. SECTION V.-WISE MEN FROM THE EAST. HEROD'S CRUELTY. Matthew ii. 1-23. Luke ii. 39. p. 31-.9. The Magi from the East inquire for the Messiah, and are sent to Bethlehem. The Magi worship Christ, and return home. Matt. ii. 9-12. Bethlehem. p. 33. Are warned of God and return home 2. 9, 10 - 12 Ver. 2, p. 31. See Ps. 72. 10, .1, .5. Joseph is warned in a dream to flee with Mary and the infant Jesus into Egypt. GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY DUE UNTO HIS NAME: BRING AN OFFERING, AND COME INTO HIS COURTS.-Psalm xcvi. 8. After the death of Herod, Joseph is directed, in a dream, to return from Egypt: he settles SECTION VI.-THE CHILD JESUS IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS. No. 6. 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