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elaov with which the ojskere Were uai ^ eithec byrtic ^ c ^ ciiim ^ n ^ QHy , w a senae of krfericar sfcreagtb . ; ¦ ¦ 'c . ¦ L 1 - / - ; ¦ .- ' v-o-i ¦ - ¦ ¦* . ? .- ¦
" TH &iug £ of £ Ja $% of jgto ^|( jof . pias ^ r , ^^^/ cQ ^ de ra ^ Tidal ^ the king of nations , on the one hand , and Bera , an 4 , Bir ^^ \ yit ]^ J ^ ir j ^ Uie , s , on tW other * W ; ere ^ Qth ^ g n ^ ore Jkan t ^ to ads of . tyaiis ^ V ^ p . ^^ ye ^^ ie privilege of carrying awaV o ^ ne another * s cattle ,, or imposing a tribute as a price of forbearance .. T * ne $ r a £ e , rt is true , called kings , and Iso were the JMkes of Edom , andas every ' nead of a house who owned a Sock , arid could protect it in th £ desetfr or on the mountain , was entitled to t&e proud appelifation of a King of Edora , so every chieftain in Elani or Shlnar who eovM muster men enough to form a mauraudiiig expedition , was known by his
enemies as well as by his friends , as a king of those countries . " The King of Mesopotsnaia ,, who was the first instrument ia the hands of the Almighty for punishing the ingratitude and idolatry of the chosen people , was not the Assyrian monarch . In the time of the Hebrew judges * tjie domjnipn of Assyria did not e * ten 4 westward of the Euphrates . It is naor §
probable that the King q £ Mesopotamia was at the . head , of an independeat and separate state * After this king was defeated by Othniel , the next pepr pie who oppressed the Israelites were the Moahites , who , were the descend ^ ants Cjf Lot . Qn their march frora Egypt to Canaan , the Israelites had been forbidden to waste the lands or injure the persons of the Moabites ,., The apprehensions raised by so numerous a body of inV / aders wer § not removed by this peaceful conduct , and fearing to attack them in the field s the . chief of Moab , by the insidious counsel of Balaam , tried the * more sgafe ^ nd e&V
cacious method of corruption . Enmity was thus excited , and aftec a , lapse of seventy or eighty years in conjunction , with Aoan > pn aod . Acnale ^ : f .. Ujey invaded the invaders , but their military force was so broken , b y the stratagem © f Ehud , thattheymade . no further attack on the Hebrews during the tiiwte of the Judges , After this follows an account of this people ^ till they were finally subdued by Nebuchadnezzar . Th § CanaaniteS ; are . tlie , ?> ext people
brought to our notice ; a powerful and warlike race , said to have derived their lineage from Canaan , and at an early period to have branched opt into eleven $ sijnct tribes or nations . These people ,, it is well known , rer sisted tbe invasion ot their country with great spirit and perseverance . Every clan acknowledged the authority of its own chief , who , in th § Hebrew records , is called king ; and it is probable that , the thtfty-one kingfc who w £ te . qonqueiied by . Joshua , were all included in the sev , en n ^ tion& which he
w ( a ^ en jo ined toj destroy . Their early history is little Jyipwn ,, It ip certain that tjtieir tribe 3 were npt all expelled or exterpainated by the , invasion of the Hebrews , for they were afterwards powerful enough to reduce tlsrael to subjection ,, till the success of Barak delivered them from tjheip servitude . The Micjiajiites are thought to have descended n-pmj \ fidian , the fourth ^ pn ^ pf ^ brahaiii , by Keturah . They were ,,, at , a , very eajly period ^ divided into ^ wo clasps , the pastoral and the mercantile , ana are suppose ^ . by sonie
, tp hav ? £ attuned to spn ^ e dpgree of Jearningjv ap ^ science ^ They a ^ e also thought to , i > ave preserved the worship , of one , ' GofJL . « " Job , who is supposed to have , lived in tfeose qarly ( llays , yrwcnth si fine example of an eiill | litened Theist , wno nad iitiioM studied tlie m ^ cMnism of tfte mai ^ nal world , but had ' also founded ii ^ bh m ph ^ ic ^ f reyettf ^ h e ^ ttie wisest ' atid ' most consolatory doiiUitieB tel ^ tivti io tifc& foivi n ^ ^ f ^ but ^ s . JQthra sgainy < ¥ && of * thfe priests of l the : tribb , possessed a inind-nmch too elevated to stoop to the degrading / usages of the popular 8 iiperstition . ?? ¦ '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/34/
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