When Jehoash repaired the temple The chronicler contradicts this he placed a money-box beside the assertion point blank, and altar for voluntary affirms that with the money so contributions, but (says the collected “were made vessels for writer) there was not money the house of the Lord, vessels to enough collected to make “bowls minister and to offer, and of silver, snuffers, basins, spoons, and vessels of gold and trumpets, nor _any_ vessels of silver.” gold or silver.” 2 Chron., xxxiii., 15. 2 Kings, xxiii., 6. Manasseh is represented as having But in the reign of Manasseh’s taken the strange gods and idols grandson, whose name was Josiah, out of the house of the Lord . . . these strange gods and idols were and of having “cast them out of still in the temple, for Josiah the city.” “took them out of the house of the Lord . . . and stamped them to powder.” Psalm, lxxii., 20. 1 Chron., xvi., 7–36. We read, here “the prayers Here is given a psalm which the [_i.e._, the psalms] of David, chronicler says “David delivered the son of Jesse, are ended.” first.” From verse 8 to 22 is Psalm cv., 1–15; the next 11 verses are Psalm xcvi.; and the remaining verses are Psalm cvi., 1, 47, 48. In the “headings” 18 of the psalms, after the lxxii., are ascribed to David, viz., ciii., cviii., cix., cx., cxxii., cxxiv., cxxxi., cxxxiii., cxxxviii., cxxxix., cxl.–cxlv. Matt., i., 23. Matt., i., 16. Matthew says the birth of Jesus The son of Mary was Jesus, called fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah the Christ. (vii., 14), “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel” [God with us.] (1) The child referred to by Isaiah was to be still an infant when Rezin and Pekah should be cut off. Isaiah says, “Before the child [Emmanuel] shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, [Syria and Israel] shall be [deprived] of both her kings.” It required no great penetration to foretell that the league of Ahaz with Tiglath-pileser the great king, would soon annihilate the petty princes of Damascus and Israel. (2) All scholars, both Jewish and Christian, agree that the child referred to was the expected infant of Isaiah himself. Within two years Pekah fell by the hand of Hoshea, and Resin by the sword of the Assyrians.