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NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY

OF THE

HOLY BIBLE,

AS CONTAINED IN THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

FROM THE

CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE FULL ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY:

CONTAINING

A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF EVERY REMARKABLE TRANSACTION
RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES DURING A PERIOD OF

UPWARD OF FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.

WITH COPIOUS NOTES, CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY,

FORMING AN

ILLUSTRATED COMMENTARY OF THE SACRED TEXT.

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

PART I.-THE OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.

BY ROBERT SEARS.

AIDED BY THE WRITINGS OF OUR MOST CELEBRATED BIBLICAL SCHOLARS, AND OTHER LEARNED
PERSONS, WHO HAVE MADE THE SCRIPTURES THEIR STUDY.

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

SEVENTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

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SOLD ALSO BY BOOKSELLERS and AUTHORIZED AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

MDCCCXLVII.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842,

BY ROBERT SEARS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York