Identifier: studentsoldtesta02kent (find matches)
Title: The student's Old Testament ...
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Charles Foster, 1867-1925
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Chronicler fitting, of the children of the captiv-ity, ■• • ^, take their place. In addition to the animal offerings in ■*, twelve he-goats areoffered as a sin-offering in accordance with the very late law in Lev. 43-. The Chroniclerspeculiar ideas and expressions also abound. Cf. » and I Chr. 23-272, II Chr. SS-* . As in IIChr. .35-, he introduces in conclusion a solemn passover feast, observed in accordance with theritualistic ideals of his own day. b 516. 19 Aram., children of the captivity. 6* I Esdr. 7 adds, likewise the porter at each door. This may possibly be original. i 6- Here the Chronicler projects back the work and standards of a later age. These in-cluded not proselytes but .Jews who had remained in ,Iudah. Ci. § 162. • 6^ This historical slip is doubtless due to the fact that to students of the earlier propheciesAssyria figured still as the ancient foe and master of Israel—of course, the Chronicler meant tosay, king of Persia. 348 THE JERUSALEMOF NEHEMIAH.
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NEHEMIAHS INTEREST IN JERUSALEM (Neh. l^ II THE WORK OF NEHEMIAH IN RESTORING THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM AND IN REFORMING THE JUDEAN COMMUNITY, Ezra 4^-23, Neh. li-T^b, ni- 2^ i227_i33i (lEsdr. 216-30, 61 2) § 149. Nehemiahs Interest in the Afflicted Judean Community, Neh. 1^- Nehemiahs Memoirs Neh. 1 ^Now it transpired in the month of Chislev,^ in the twentieth jear The(of Artaxerxes), as I was in Shushan the royal palace,* 2that Hanani,^ one ^^^3of my kinsmen came, together with certain men from Judah, and I asked t™ Jeru- them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left from the cap- salemtivity, and concerning Jerusalem. ^And they said to me, The survivors whoare left from the captivity there in the provinces are in great misfortune andreproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates havebeen destroyed by fire. *Now when I heard these statements I sat down and wept and mourned Nehe-certain days; and I fasted and made supplication before the God of heaven, ^^^

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