1 Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, vol. i. p. 247.

2 Jowett's Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, Appendix, p. 422. See other
Testimonies of modern travellers relative to the actual state of Tyre, in vol. i. pp. 329,
330. supra.

No. II.

TABLES OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MONEY, MENTIONED IN THE

BIBLE.

Chiefly extracted from Dr. Arbuthnot's Tables of Antient Coins, Weights, and Measures.

2. Seripture Measures of length reduced to English measure.

Eng. feet. inch.

0 0.912

0 3.648

0 10.944

1 9.888

7 3.552

10 11.328

14 7.104

12

13.3 10 A schoenus or measuring line 145 11.04

4. Scripture Measures of Capacity for Liquids, reduced to English wine

measure.

5. Scripture Measures of Capacity for things dry, reduced to English

corn measure.

In the preceding table, silver is valued at 5s. and gold at £4 per ounce.

A solidus aureus, or sextula, was worth

0 12 0.5 116 6

7. Roman Money, mentioned in the New Testament, reduced to the Eng

A mite (Λεπτον Ασσαριον)

A farthing (Kolpavrns) about

A penny or denarius (Anvapiov)
A pound or mina

lish Standard.

£. s. d. far.

0 0 0 03-4 0 0 0 11-2 0073 3260

No. III.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE

PRINCIPAL EVENTS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.
Abridged from Archbishop Usher and Calmet.

The true date of the Birth of Christ is FOUR YEARS before the
common æra or A. D.

Anno

Mundi,

or Year

PERIOD I.

From the Creation to the Deluge, 1656 years.

of the

World.

1 THE creation.

Eve, tempted by the serpent, disobeys God, and persuades her
husband Adam to disobedience also. God drives them out

Year

before

Christ

4000,

before

A. D.

4004

of paradise.

2 Cain born, Adam's eldest son.

129 Cain kills his brother Abel.

3999

395 Mahalaleel born, son of Cainan.

3 Abel born, Adam's second son.

130 Seth born, son of Adam and Eve. 235 Enos born, son of Seth.

325 Cainan born, son of Enos.

460 Jared born, son of Mahalaleel.

3998

3871

3870

3765

3675

3605

3540

1536 God informs Noah of the future deluge, and commissions him to 2464

preach repentance to mankind, 120 years before the deluge.

JA. M.

B. C.

1656 Methuselah dies, the oldest of men, aged 969 years, in the year of 2349 the deluge.

The same year, Noah, being 600 years old, by divine command enters
the ark.

PERIOD II.

From the Deluge to the First Call of Abraham, 420 years
and six months.

1657 Noah, being now 601 years old, takes off the roof of the ark on the 2347
first day of the first month; and on the twenty-seventh day of the
second month Noah quits the ark. He offers sacrifices of thanks-
giving. God appoints the rainbow as a pledge that he would send
no more a universal deluge.

1658 Arphaxad born, the son of Shem.

1693 Salah born, son of Arphaxad.

1723 Heber born, son of Salah.

1757 Phaleg born, son of Heber.

2346

2311

2281

2247

1770 The building of the tower of Babel; the confusion of languages, and 2230 dispersion of the nations.

1771 The beginuing of the Babylonian or Assyrian monarchy by Nimrod; 2234 and of the Egyptian empire by Ham the father of Mizraim.

1787 Reu born, the son of Phaleg.

1819 Serug born, son of Reu.

1824 The trial of Job.

1849 Nahor born, son of Serug.

1878 Terah born, the son of Nahor. 1948 Haran born, the son of Terah.

2006 Noah dies, aged 950 years.

2008 Abram born, the son of Terah.

2018 Sarai born, wife of Abram.

2217

2185

2130

2155

2126

2056

1998

1996

1986

2083 The call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran in Mesopota-1921

mia, where his father Terah died, aged 205.

PERIOD III.

From the second Call of Abraham to the Departure of the
Israelites out of Egypt, 430 years.

2083 The second call of Aram from Haran.

and dwells at Sichem.

He comes into Canaan with Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew;

1921

2084 Abram goes into Egypt; Pharaoh takes his wife, but soon restores 1220

her again. Abram returns from Egypt; he and Lot separate.

1912

1911

2092 Abram's victory over the five kings, and rescue of Lot. 2093 Sarai gives her maid Hagar, for a wife, to her husband Abram. 2094 Ishmael born, the son of Abram and Hagar. Abram was 86 years 1910 old. Gen. xvi. 16.

2107 The new covenant of the Lord with Abram: God promises him a 1897 numerous posterity: his name changed to Abraham, and that of Sarai to Sarah. Gen. xvii. Circumcision instituted. Abraham entertains three angels, under the appearance of travellers; they promise him Isaac.

Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, burnt by fire from heaven.
Lot is preserved retires to Zoar; commits incest with his
daughters.

:

2108 Abraham departs from the plain of Mamre to Beer-sheba. Isaac 1896

born.