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CONTENTS

 

PREFACE                                                                                                                                                                               site stats

        The Bible Contains the Material for a Complete System of Chronology; and the purpose of this Volume is to Set Forth that System, and to Follow the Dated Line, which Runs Through the Entire Bible, Taking Notice of the Persons, the Events and the Lessons to which it Conducts Us.

 

CHAPTER I 

Outline of the Chronology found in the Bible                                                                                                           

The Basis of the Present Work—Characteristics and Defects  of Chronologers as Usually Compiled—Remarkable Differ­ences Between The Bible and Human Histories as Regards Dates.

 

CHAPTER II

 Chronology in General 

        The Received Chronology, How Arrived At—The “Canon” of Ptolemy—The Work of Usshur, Lloyd, Lightfoot, Clinton, Anstey, and other Chronologists—The One Definite Subject of Bible-Chronology, the “Infallible Connecting Link” Between Sacred and Profane Chronology.

 

CHAPTER III

 The Patriarchs Before the Flood

        Chronology Begins With Adam—Genesis V is a Perfect Chronological Table, Carefully Guarded against Error— “That is not First which is Spiritual “—The Noah-Shem Connection—Table I.

 

CHAPTER IV

  From the Flood to Abram

        The Terah-Abraham Connection—The Definite Historical Character of the Hebrew Records—Table II.

 

CHAPTER V                                                                                                                                                         

        The Fathers of Israel                                                                                                                                                  

                              From the Birth of Abram to the Death of Joseph—Jacob’s Departure from Canaan into Egypt—Tables III and IV.

 

CHAPTER VI                                                                                                                                                                       

  The Days of Moses

The Exodus—Israel in The Wilderness—Tables V and VI.

 

CHAPTER VII

 Joshua and Judges            

How the Break Between the Two Periods is Mended— Table VII.

 

 

CHAPTER VIII    

                                                                                                                                                               

The Kingdom                                                                                                                                                           

 Saul, David and Solomon—Table VII—The Disruption— Peculiarities of the Chronology of the Two Kingdoms.

 

 

 

CHAPTER IX

  The Divided Kingdom

   From Rehoboam and Jeroboam to Jehu— Table IX— Jehoshaphat’s Affiliations with Ahab. 

 

CHAPTER X                                                                                                                                                   

The Divided Kingdom to Fall of Samaria

Distinguishing Features of this Period of History—Table X.

 

CHAPTER XI                                                                                                                                                                       

Failure of Seven Prominent Kings of Judah

Solomon, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Hezekiah.

 

 

CHAPTER XII                                                                                                                                                                     

 From the Fall of Samaria to the Captivity

         Table XI

 

 

CHAPTER XIII                                                                                                                                                                    

  The Captivity to the Messiah 

Table XII— The Christian Era, How determined.

 

CHAPTER XIV                                                                                                                                                                    

 The “Seventy Weeks”

When Do They Begin and End—The Commandment to Restore and to Build Jerusalem.

 

 

CHAPTER XV                                                                                                                                                                                     

Conclusion  “The Fullness of Time