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THE SAMARITAN
CHRONICLE
OR
THE BOOK OF JOSHUA
THE SON OF NUN
TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC, WITH NOTES
BY
OLIVER TURNBULL CRANE, M.A.
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY
NEW YORK
JOHN B. ALDEN, PUBLISHER
1890
Copyright, 1890,
OLIVER TURNBULL CRANE.
II. The account of the investiture of Yûsh'a the son
of Nûn with the Khalifate of the Prophet-
peace be upon him.......
III. The affair of Bila'âm with the king of Mâb....
IV. The account of the stratagem and artifice used
by Bila'âm against the children of Isrâîl.....
V. The history of Midyan.....
VI. The account of what our master Mûsa, the Pro-
phet-peace be upon him--expounded, before
his death..
VII. The account of what Yûsh'â, his disciple, said,
after the disappearance of his lord and mas-
ter...
VIII. The account of what was done after the return
of Yûsh'a to the people......
IX. The beginning of the book of Yûsh'â the son of
Nûn, the disciple of the master Mûsa, the Pro-
phet-peace be upon
him..
X. The account of Yûsh'â's assembling the children
of Isrâîl, and his renewing the covenant with
them...
XI. The account of how they answered him, and the
covenant that they entered into at that time.. 38
XII. The account of what Yûsh'â the son of Nûn did
in organizing the army, and the members
thereof......
38
XIII. The account of the spies whom Yush'a the king
sent forth.....
41
XIV. The account of the summoning of the children
of Isrâîl to undertake the journey...
45
XV. The account of the passage of the children of
Isrâîl through the Urdun (Jordan)........... 46
XVI. An account of the hymn of praise which Yûsh'â
the king offered up..
XVII. An aecount of ancient Yarîha (Jericho), at the
time of its conquest
XVIII. An account of the discovery of the one who
took the devoted thing.
......
XIX. The account of how certain peoples of the
Kanâ'anites practiced a stratagem, and obtain-
ed protection of the king
XX. An account of the Kanâ'anites, whose territories
the land was...
XXI. The account of this army, and its triumph, and
the destruction of its enemies...
XXII. An account of the apportionment of the territo-
ries belonging to the children of Isrâîl, and
their boundaries..
61
XXIII. The account of what Yûsh'â did until the sur-
veyors returned unto him.......
63
XXIV. The account of the return of the men who were
eminent in making surveys and estimating
just proportions unto Yûsh'â the son of Nân
the king..
66
XXV. An account of the circumstances of the children
of Isrâîl, after the distribution......
68
XXVI. The history of Shaubak the son of Hamân, the
king of the Persians....
XXVII. Statement of a copy of the letter which the
giants sent unto Yûsh'â the son of Nûn, the
king..
XXVIII. The history of the messenger, and what came of
him.....
XXIX. An account of the reply sent to the giants.....
XXX. The account of what happened before the de-
parture of the messenger from Yûsh'â the
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XXXI. An account of the return of the messenger, and
what he did when he reached them (i. e., the
enemies)..
XXXII. The account of the reading of the letter, and
what the enemy did when it was read.......
XXXIII. The account of the setting out of Yûsh'â the
king upon his expedition...
XXXIV. The account of what happened to the children
of Isrâîl in this place...
XXXV. The account of how God facilitated the escape
of the children of Isrâïl from the magicians... 89
XXXVI. A statement of a copy of the letter..
XXXVII. An account of Nabîh, and what he did........
XXXVIII. An account of what was done during the days of
Divine favor.....
XXXIX. The history of the duration of the days of Divine
favor, up to the time of the beginning of error.
XL. The history of the vicegerents of the Lord, and
of the ministers of the days of Divine favor,
during the preceding period that has been
mentioned
89
90
95
98
100
XLI. The history of the beginning of error after the
death of Shamsham, the king of that time.... 102
XLII. An account of how the beginning of error was
stopped among the people..
XLIII. The history of the erring man who was envious
of the descendant of Finahas-peace be upon
him....
.........
104
108
XLIV. The account of the cause of the destruction of
this erring man, and of his sons and company. 110
XLV. The history of Bokhtonassar (Nebuchadnezzar),
the king of el-Mausil (Mosul); which is found
in the books of the chronicles of his deeds... 111
XLVI. The history of el-Iskandar (Alexander the Great) 116
XLVII. The history of Adrînûs (Hadrian), and how he
destroyed el-Quds (Jerusalem), and what hap-
pened to him with Afrîm (Ephraim) and Man-
ashshîh (Manasseh)..
120
XLVIII. The history of 'Aqbûn the imâm.........
126
XLIX. The history of what happened unto Natanal
from the Romans, after the death of his
father.....
128
L. The history of Babâ Rabba, and what hap-
pened to him with the Romans...
130