BY THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, M. A.

(OF ST. JOHN'S COLlege, cambridge,)

Curate of the united parishes of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and St. Leonard, Foster Lane,

FROM THE FOURTH CORRECTED EDITION.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS MAPS AND FAC-SIMILES OF
BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

VOLUME III.

Philadelphia:

PUBLISHED BY E. LITTELL.

SOLD ALSO BY

WILDER & CAMPBELL, NEW-YORK; AND CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & CO. BOSTON.

1825.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

SUMMARY OF BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES,

PART I. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORICAL AND PHYSICAL GEO-

GRAPHY OF THE HOLY LAND.

CHAPTER I. Historical Geography of the Holy Land.

I. Names.-II. Boundaries.-III. Inhabitants before the conquest of Canaan by

the Israelites.-IV. Divisions by Joshua.-Allotments of the Twelve Tribes.

V. The Kingdom under David and Solomon.-VI. The Kingdoms of Judah

and Israel. VII. Divisions in the time of Jesus Christ.-VIII. Account of the

City of JERUSALEM:-Its situation ;-2. Names ;-3. Fortifications and Walls;

4. Remarkable Buildings;-5. Notice of the successive Captures of the City;

-6. Sketch of its Present State.-IX. Historical Epochs.
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CHAPTER II. Physical Geography of the Holy Land

I. Climate.-II. Seasons.-1. Seed Time.-2. Winter.-3. The Cold Season, or

Winter Solstice.-4. Harvest.-5. Summer.-6. The Hot Season.-Heavy

dews.-III. Rivers, lakes, wells, and fountains.-IV. Mountains.-V. Vallies.

-VI. Caves.-VII. Plains.-VIII. Deserts.-Horrors and dangers of travel-

ling in the Great Desert of Arabia.-IX. Productions of the Holy Land.-Ve-

getables, Animals, and Mines.-Testimonies of antient and modern authors to

its Fertility and Population.-Its present degraded and comparatively unculti-

vated state accounted for.-X. Calamities with which this Country was visited.

-1. The Plague.-2. Earthquakes.-3. Whirlwinds.-4. The Devastations
of Locusts.-5. Famine.-6. Volcanoes.-7. The Simoom or Pestilential Blast

of the desert.

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PART II. POLITICAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS.

CHAPTER I. Different Forms of Government from the Patriarchal

Times to the Babylonian Captivity.

1. Patriarchal government.-II. Government under Moses-a theocracy; its na-
ture and design.-1. Notice of the heads or princes of tribes and families.-2.

Of the Jethronian Prefects or judges appointed by Moses.-3. Of the Senate,
or council of seventy assessors.-4. Scribes.-III. Government of the Judges.

-IV. Regal government instituted ;-the functions and Privileges of the
Kings;-Inauguration of the kings;-Scriptural Allusions to the courts of

sovereigns and princes explained.-V. Revenues of the kings of Israel—VI.