TEXTS FROM THE HOLY BIBLE EXPLAINED BY THE HELP OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS, WITH A FEW PLANS AND VIEWS. BY SAMUEL SHARPE, AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF EGYPT." CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DRAWINGS ON WOOD, CHIEFLY BY JOSEPH BONOMI. LONDON: DAY AND SON, LIMITED, Lithographers and Publishers, GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C. 1866. 101. f. 62. PREFACE. THE following Illustrations are argumentative and explanatory, rather than ornamental. The earlier are taken chiefly from the Egyptian and Assyrian sculptures; the later include some coins. A few maps and plans are given, but only such as explain points in geography that are not shown in the more common maps. It would have been easy to have added a number of landscape views, which most agreeably illustrate Scripture history; but of these only two or three are given, of which the features are very distinctly pointed to in the Bible narrative. The writer has wholly forborne from using the more common class of Scripture plates, which are simply ornamental; as he wished to confine himself to such Illustrations as either distinctly explain an obscure passage, or as prove the truth of the historian's statement. The Texts are quoted in the words of the Authorised Version, but in many cases the translation has been corrected by the help of the Hebrew or Greek original; as the translators of our Authorised Version often thought it unnecessary to point out peculiarities in manners and customs which it is the aim of these pages to explain. 32 HIGHBURY PLACE. TEXTS FROM THE HOLY BIBLE EXPLAINED. GENESIS, II. 10. "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah [or Arabia]. The name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [or the Tigris]: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." A MAP of the world, as known to the Israelites before the time of Solomon, with Eden at the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates. Josephus (Ant. I. i. 3) considers the Gihon as the Nile, and the Pison as the Ganges; and Virgil (Geor. iv. 288) makes the Nile rise in India, as if B |