Part 8 (1/2)

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4) Est ar 5) Est rel 6) Conq surr nat 7) Rei theo

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QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

What event marks an epoch in Israelite history? What were the causes leading to the es show a tendency toward settled govern nations helped to bring on the er lead the Israelites to desire a king? How had Sadom? What worldly spirit prodododoulated? Nas

Into what two parts n be divided? Wherein was Saul a failure? How did he fail in gaining and holding friends?

What was the condition of Israel when David careat incoanization of his kingdoeion? What nations did he conquer? What was the extent of his empire? In what spirit did he rule?

Subjects for Special Papers

HOW THE REPUBLIC BECAME A MONARCHY

THE EARLY LIFE OF DAVID

DAVID AS HERO, STATESMAN, AND POET

DAVID'S TRAINING FOR THE THRONE

SAMUEL, THE FOUNDER OF THE PROPHETIC ORDER

THE CAUSES AND RESULTS OF ABSALOM'S REBELLION

FOOTNOTE:

[G] With regard to David's criainst Uriah and his wife, note that no other ancient monarch would have hesitated to commit such an act, or would have cared for it afterward; while David submitted to the prophet's rebuke, publicly confessed his sin, and showed every token of a true repentance

SIXTH STUDY

THE GOLDEN AGE OF ISRAEL

The reign of Solo period in the history of Israel But, strictly speaking, the latter part of David's reign and only the fore of Israel;” for Solomon's later years rew to a fall

I =THE REIGN OF SOLOMON=

1 =His claiest of David's sons, the second child of Bath-sheba, born during the culn (1 Chron 22 7-9) He obtained the throne by the decree of David, by the choice of God, as the one an (1 Chron 28 5, 6) The principle of priht of the eldest son, was not fixed in those times

2 =His accession= was s 2 24, 25), Joab (1 Kings 2 28-34), and shi+ainst him, and the third was the last survivor of the house of Saul, and a possible rival for the throne

Their death was dictated by policy, and probably by justice His throne would not be secure while these men lived

3 =His empire= embraced all the lands from the Red Sea to the Euphrates, and from the Mediterranean to the Syrian desert, except Phenicia, which was isolated by the Lebanon Mountains 1) Besides Palestine he ruled over Edo Damascus as its capital), Zobah, and Haeber was his southern port (1 Kings 9 26); on the Mediterranean, Gaza (Azzah) was his lis 4 24); in the desert, Tadn relations= were extensive, for the first and only time in the history of Israel 1) His earliest treaty ith Tyre_ (Phenicia), whose king had been his father's friend (1 Kings 5 1) What this alliance brought to Solos 5 6-10; 2 Chron 2 3-14)