This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...about the year 974 B.C. For hundreds of years they had been numbered and referred to separately even when under one king. Just here note that it is the lack of this knowledge and its application to Bible prophecies made about either Judah or Israel that is the cause of Churches' failure to properly grasp, interpret and see the prophecies concerning Israel's future and God's plan for her redemption after their dispersion by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, and their being taken across the Euphrates. You will see, in First Kings, Chapters 11 and 12, how these Hebrews were finally separated into two nations by God. King David had joined Judah and Israel together and ruled over them, yet note how in II Samuel 5:4, 5 Israel is mentioned separate from Judah: 4. "David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5. "In Hehron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah." Solomon, David's son--born in 1033 B.C., crowned King of Israel in 1015, and died in 975 B.C.--was told that because of his idolatry and so forth (mostly so forth, as you will see by reading this interesting chapter), nine out of the ten tribes of Israel would be taken from his kingdom, not in his day but in his son's time. "And unto his Solomon's son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have' a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there." (I Kings 11:36.) This was the tribe of Benjamin whom Moses blessed and said: "The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders." (Deut. 33:12.) This...

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