A CLASS-BOOK OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY BY THE REV. G. F. MACLEAR, D.D. WARDEN OF ST AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE, AND HONORARY CANON OF CANTERBURY. LATE HEAD MASTER OF KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL, LONDON. _WITH MAPS._ London: MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK. 1894 [_The Right of Translation is reserved._] _First Edition printed January 1865. Second Edition printed November 1865. Reprinted with slight alterations 1866, with slight alterations 1868, with slight alterations 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1894._ NOTICE. THE present Volume forms a Class-Book of Old Testament History from the Earliest Times to those of Ezra and Nehemiah. In its preparation the most recent Authorities[1] have been consulted, and wherever it has appeared useful, Notes have been subjoined illustrative of the Text, and, for the sake of more advanced students, references added to larger Works. The Index has been so arranged as to form a concise Dictionary of the Persons and Places mentioned in the course of the Narrative, while the Maps, which have been prepared with considerable care at Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, will, it is hoped, materially add to the value and usefulness of the Book. _London, Christmas, 1864._ SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. BOOK I. _From the Creation to the Dispersion of Mankind._ CHAP. I. The Creation CHAP. II. The Fall CHAP. III. The Flood CHAP. IV. The Confusion of Tongues CHAP. V. Rise of Idolatry. The Patriarch Job. BOOK II. _The Patriarchal Age._ CHAP. I. The Call of Abraham CHAP. II. Life of Abraham continued CHAP. III. The History of Isaac CHAP. IV. Life of Jacob CHAP. V. History of Joseph CHAP. VI. Jacob’s Descent into Egypt, and Death of Joseph NOTE. _Survey of the Patriarchal Age_ BOOK III. _From the Settlement of the Israelites in Egypt to the Giving of the Law._ CHAP. I. The Birth and Call of Moses CHAP. II. Signs and Wonders in Egypt CHAP. III. The Last Plague――The Passover――The Exodus CHAP. IV. The Journey from the Red Sea to Rephidim CHAP. V. Sinai and the Giving of the Law CHAP. VI. Moses in the Mount. The Construction of the Golden Calf BOOK IV. _The Mosaic Worship and Polity._