[785] 1 Kings xxii. 34. "At a venture"; marg., "in his simplicity"; comp. 2 Sam. xv. 11.
[786] What the French call le défaut de la cuirasse (Keil). Luther has, zwischen den Panzer und Hengel.
[787] Josephus, Antt., VIII. xv. 6.
[788] Köster thinks that there may be reference to the fact that the name "dog" was given to the unchaste.
[789] Amos iii. 15; Psalm xlv. 8; Hom., Od., iv. 72.
[790] It is supposed that Mohammed alludes to Elijah in the Qur'an, Sura xxi. 85: "And Ishmael, and Idris, and Dhu'l Kifl ("he of the portion")—all these were of the patient; and we made them enter into our mercy; verily they were among the righteous" (Palmer's Qur'an, ii. 53).
[791] See W. Robertson Smith, Journ. of Philology, x. 20.
[792] See Reuss, Hist. d'Israel, i. 101-103.
[Transcriber's Notes:]
- Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been fixed throughout.
- Inconsistent hyphenation left as in the original text.
- Page [27]: The reign of Josiah was listed as A.D. 621, this was actually B.C. 621, corrected.
- Page [27]: The sentence beginning "Thus from the Exodus..." originally said "Thus from the Exile...". The sentence was changed to be historically accurate.
- Footnote [13]: There was a missing verse reference for 2 Kings xvi. Corrected to be 2 Kings xvi. 2.
- Footnote [29]: There was no anchor for this footnote. Left as in the original text.