LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; ARCHDEACON OF WESTMINSTER =London= HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCIII _Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ CONTENTS. BOOK I. _INTRODUCTION._ CHAPTER I. PAGE THE HIGHER CRITICISM 3 CHAPTER II. THE BOOKS OF KINGS 14 CHAPTER III. THE HISTORIAN OF THE KINGS 30 CHAPTER IV. GOD IN HISTORY 39 CHAPTER V. HISTORY WITH A PURPOSE 46 CHAPTER VI. LESSONS OF THE HISTORY 50 BOOK II. _DAVID AND SOLOMON._ CHAPTER VII. DAVID'S DECREPITUDE 61 1 KINGS i. 1-4. CHAPTER VIII. AN EASTERN COURT AND HOME 70 1 KINGS i. CHAPTER IX. ADONIJAH'S REBELLION 81 1 KINGS i. 5-53. CHAPTER X. DAVID'S DEATH-BED 94 1 KINGS ii. 1-11. CHAPTER XI. AVENGING JUSTICE 105 1 KINGS ii. 13-46. CHAPTER XII. THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM 120 1 KINGS iii. 5-28. CHAPTER XIII. SOLOMON'S COURT AND KINGDOM 134 1 KINGS iv. 1-34. CHAPTER XIV. THE TEMPLE 149 1 KINGS v., vi., vii. CHAPTER XV. THE IDEAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPLE 172 1 KINGS vii. 13-51; viii. 12-61. CHAPTER XVI. THE ARK AND THE CHERUBIM 177 1 KINGS vi. 23-30; viii. 6-11. CHAPTER XVII. THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF THE LEVITIC RITUAL 186 1 KINGS viii. 1-66. CHAPTER XVIII.