[27] Fulleylove and Kelman, _The Holy Land_, pp. 103, 104. Note the “Scriptural” language. Such talk, when we find it in the Bible, is neither pedantic nor is it a “religious” dialect. To a Western it seems affected, but let us remember that to an Eastern our manner of speech, with its tortuous sentences, might savour of an unholy cunning. [28] Appius Planius, 188 (McKail’s translation). [29] e.g., _Hosea_ 5^{10}, _Isaiah_ 5^{8}, _Deut._ 27^{17}, _Job_ 24^{2}. [30] Cp. _Joshua_ 7^{24, 25}. The earliest form of the narrative clearly implies that all, and not Achan alone, were destroyed by burning or stoning. [31] Not but what the belief is at least as old as the Hebrew Law, _I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and shewing mercy unto the_ thousandth _generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments_. [32] A _study_, not a half-hearted perusal of the text in the English Bible. [33] Cp. _Numbers_ 21^{27}, _Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say_ “_Come ye to Heshbon_,”... [34] For these titles see Chapter II., p. 37. That such a phrase as _The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel_ (Pr. I^{1}) at the head of a section does not necessarily imply or even claim authorship, may seem astonishing to those unacquainted with ancient literature, but it is easily understood by those who have made so much as a moderate study of the subject. The ancient title in modern parlance would be represented by some such heading as the following, “A collection of sayings representative of Hebrew wisdom dedicated to the memory and example of that royal lover of Wisdom, King Solomon.” To suppose that the propriety of the ancient procedure ought to be judged by modern canons of literary right and wrong would be both unjust and foolish. Similarly from the heading prefixed to Pr. 25-29, _These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied out_; it does not follow that the proverbs in those chapters were old in Hezekiah’s time. Probably Hezekiah, like Solomon, showed special interest in literary work, and it may be that a collection of proverbs formed in his reign is the nucleus of the present chapters 25-29 (So Volz, _Weisheit_, p. 95). On the other hand it is possible that nothing more should be inferred than that, there being a tradition of literary activity in Hezekiah’s reign, the compilers of the Book of Proverbs made use of the tradition in order to indicate (by this title) that in their opinion the proverbs of chaps. 25-29 were later than or secondary to the “Solomonic” proverbs which precede in chs. 1-24 (So Toy, _Proverbs_, § vi., and p. 457); and see also Driver, _Literature of the Old Testament_, p. 405.