The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Volume 25)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. *, The chronology of the kings is perplexed and uncertain. From the Assyrian inscriptions the following dates have been obtained (see Schrader, The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, translated by Whitehouse. Jehu was alive in 842 (tribute to Shalmaneser).--Azariah or Uzziah 742-740.--Menahem 738 (tribute to Tiglath Pileser). --Pekah 734 (conquered by Tiglath Pileser).--Hoshea 728-721 (fall of Samaria). -- Hezekiah 701 (invasion of Judah). Various systems have been framed, partly on the basis of the Assyrian, partly on that of the Biblical data. The table which follows is a fragment of Duncker's (History of Antiquitv, vol. ii.). HOSEA. 'T'HE word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son 1 J- of Been, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The beginning of the a word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and chil Chap. I. Hosea And His Wife. A Parable For The Israelites. 1. On the heading, see Introduction. 2. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea] If we render the Hebrew text thus, the words are a heading to the first part of the book, viz. chaps, i.--iii.; they are apparently taken thus by the LXX., the Vulg., and perhaps the Targ. and the Peshitu. It would however be better to translate with the Vulg., 'The beginning of Jehovah's speaking by (or, with) Hosea', because 'by Hosea' goes better with a verbal than with a common noun; or, with Kalisch, 'The beginning of that which Jehovah spoke' (comp. Job xviii. 21; Ps. Ixxxi. 6); or, with Ewald, 'At the first, when Jehovah spoke with Hosea' (comp. Ps. iv. 8, xc. 15, and possibly Gen. i. i). 'With Hosea' is the preferab...