Produced by Charles Franks, Anne Folland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA, JUDGES, RUTH, AND FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL SECOND SAMUEL, FIRST KINGS, AND SECOND KINGS _CHAPTERS I to VII_ CONTENTS THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY GOD'S FAITHFULNESS (Deut. vii. 9) THE LESSON OF MEMORY (Deut. viii. 2) THE EATING OF THE PEACE-OFFERING (Deut. xii. 18) PROPHETS AND THE PROPHET (Deut. xviii. 9-22) A CHOICE OF MASTERS (Deut. xxviii. 47, 48) THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW (Deut. xxx. 11-20) GOD'S TRUE TREASURE IN MAN (Deut. xxxii. 9; TITUS ii. 14) THE EAGLE AND ITS BROOD (Deut. xxxii. 11) THEIR ROCK AND OUR ROCK (Deut. xxxii. 31) GOD AND HIS SAINTS (Deut. xxxiii. 3) ISRAEL THE BELOVED (Deut. xxxiii. 12) 'AT THE BUSH' (Deut. xxxiii. 16) SHOD FOR THE ROAD (Deut. xxxiii. 25) A DEATH IN THE DESERT (Deut. xxxiv. 5, 6) THE BOOK OF JOSHUA THE NEW LEADER'S COMMISSION (Joshua i. 1-11) THE CHARGE TO THE SOLDIER OF THE LORD (Joshua i. 7, 8) THE UNTRODDEN PATH AND THE GUIDING ARK (Joshua iii. 4) 'THE WATERS SAW THEE; THEY WERE AFRAID' (Joshua iii. 5-17) STONES CRYING OUT (Joshua iv. 10-24) THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST (Joshua v. 14) THE SIEGE OF JERICHO (Joshua vi. 10, 11) RAHAB (Joshua vi. 25) ACHAN'S SIN, ISRAEL'S DEFEAT (Joshua vii. 1-12) THE SUN STAYED (Joshua x. 12) UNWON BUT CLAIMED (Joshua xiii. 1-6) CALEB-A GREEN OLD AGE (Joshua xiv. 6) THE CITIES OF REFUGE (Joshua xx. 1-9) THE END OF THE WAR (Joshua xxi. 43-45; xxii. 1-9) THE NATIONAL OATH AT SHECHEM (Joshua xxiv. 19-28) THE BOOK OF JUDGES A SUMMARY OF ISRAEL'S FAITHLESSNESS AND GOD'S PATIENCE (Judges ii. 1-10) ISRAEL'S OBSTINACY AND GOD'S PATIENCE (Judges ii. 11-23) RECREANT REUBEN (Judges v. 16, R.V.) 'ALL THINGS ARE YOURS' (Judges v. 20; Job v. 23) LOVE MAKES SUNS (Judges v. 31) GIDEON'S ALTAR (Judges vi. 24) GIDEON'S FLEECE (Judges vi. 37) 'FIT, THOUGH FEW'(Judges vii. 1-8) A BATTLE WITHOUT A SWORD (Judges vii. 13-23) STRENGTH PROFANED AND LOST (Judges xvi. 21-31) THE BOOK OF RUTH GENTLE HEROINE, A GENTILE CONVERT (Ruth i. 16-22) THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL