30. "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, ... thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment" (Deut. xvii, 8, 9). This court was established by Jehoshaphat (2 Chron. xix, 8-11). Jehoshaphat commenced his reign 914 B.C., 537 years after Moses. 31. "But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there shalt thou do all that I command thee" (Deut. xii, 14). "Is it not he [the Lord] whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?" (Is. xxxvi, 7). Up to the time of Hezekiah the Hebrews worshiped at many altars. Hezekiah removed these altars and established the one central altar at Jerusalem. This was in 726 B.C.--725 years after Moses. 32. "And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships" (Deut. xxviii, 68). This, critics affirm, was written when Psameticus was king of Egypt. He reigned from 663 to 609 B.C. 33. "Neither shalt thou set thee up any image [pillar]" (Deut. xvi, 22). This proves the late origin of the Pentateuch, or at least of Deuteronomy. Isaiah (xix, 19) instructs them to do the very thing which they are here forbidden to do, and as he would not have advised a violation of the law it is evident that this statute could not have existed in his time. Isaiah died about 750 years after Moses died. 34. The worship of the sun, moon, and stars by the Jews, is mentioned and condemned (Deut. iv, 19; xvii, 3). This nature worship was adopted by them in the reign of Manasseh, 800 years after Moses. 35. "Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the Lord, what he did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon" (Num. xxi, 14). The author of the Pentateuch here cites a book older than the Pentateuch, which gives an account of the journeyings of the Israelites from Egypt to Moab--from the Exodus to the end of Moses' career. 36. "And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly" (Deut. xxvii, 8). "And he [Joshua] wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses" (Josh. viii, 32). Christians affirm that the Law of Moses and the Pentateuch are one. That this Law of Moses was not the one hundred and fifty thousand words of the Pentateuch is shown by the fact that after the death of Moses it was all engraved upon a stone altar. 37. "Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (Num. xii, 3). No writer would bestow such fulsome praise upon himself. This was written by a devout admirer of Moses, but it was not written by Moses. 38. "And this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death" (Deut. xxxiii, 1).