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The Biblical repository and quarterly observer (1836)
The Biblical repository and quarterly observer - 1836 Author:Bela Bates Edwards Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: well as possible with circumstances ; as moreover this chapter is classical in respect to the topography of that region ; 1 have sketched a small chart on the ba... more »sis of Seetzen's, by a careful comparison of passages of Scripture with modern accounts from Eusebius down to the time of Burckhardt and Legh. The chart is designed likewise for the passage 10: 28 seq. Seetzen's corrections are indeed adopted in the chart of Kloeden (in his Geography of Palestine, Berlin 1817), and that chart is in many respects valuable ; but it results from the nature of a general chart, that it cannot answer all the demands of the critical reader of a single passage of this nature. Besides, I have added the later illustrations of the south country by the Englishmen already named. II. General contents of the prophecy. The capitals of Moab are destroyed suddenly in one night (15: 1). In the midst of the joy of harvest resounds the battle cry of the enemy, who destroy their beautiful vineyards (16: 8—10), and their fountains (15:9). A universal cry of lamentation and mourning arises (15: 2—5, 8) ; some hasten to the altars of the gods (15: 2. 16: 12); some hurry away their possessions beyond the borders (15: 7). Some arrive at length on the borders of Judah, praying for reception and protection, and invoking blessings on the country (16: 2—5); but are repulsed by Judah (v. 6). The prophet himself utters lamentations over Moab (15: 5. 16: 11), and advises her to procure the forfeited favour of Judah by paying the tribute which she had withheld (16:1). Such are the contents as far as 16:12. A postscript then says, that such a prophecy respecting Moab had been uttered before, but now in a short time—within three years—it would be fulfilled (16: 13, 14). The threatening moreover is altogether general; an...« less