Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . d by having a princess given 1 1 Kings xii. 26. Se^t, 2 1 xings xi. 28-38. ^ 1 Kings xii. 25. Sept. THE LATEE DAYS OF SOLOMON. 455 to him in -marriage. As long as Solomon lived, lie couldnot venture to return, but communications, eagerlymaintained with his countrymen, prevented his beingforgotten, and in due time he was to re-appear as theNemesis of Solomons guilt, by breaking up his kingdom.^ ^ The extent of territory occnpled by the Twelve Tribes at thedeath of Solomon is calculated by Kiepert as havin
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . d by having a princess given 1 1 Kings xii. 26. Se^t, 2 1 xings xi. 28-38. ^ 1 Kings xii. 25. Sept. THE LATEE DAYS OF SOLOMON. 455 to him in -marriage. As long as Solomon lived, lie couldnot venture to return, but communications, eagerlymaintained with his countrymen, prevented his beingforgotten, and in due time he was to re-appear as theNemesis of Solomons guilt, by breaking up his kingdom.^ ^ The extent of territory occnpled by the Twelve Tribes at thedeath of Solomon is calculated by Kiepert as having been aboafc13,000 English square miles. This is exclusive of the Philistineterritory, or of the subjugated regions outside. Of the 13,000,Israel occupied about 9,400, and Judah 3,600 square miles. Thewhole area of Palestine was thus nearly equal to that of the king-dom of Holland, or of the six northern counties of kingdom of Judah was rather less than Northumberland,Durham, and Westmoreland; that of Israel was very nearly aslarge as Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cumberland,. CHAPTER XYIII. THE BOOK OP PROVERBS AND THE SONG OF SONGS. A BRIEF notice of the Book of Proverbs has alreadybeen given in the preceding* pages, but it forms socharacteristic a feature of Hebrew literature that a fullerreference to it seems demanded. As it now stands, this collection of sententious utter-ances on all subjects embraced by the Jews under thename of Wisdom, appears to have been gradually formed inthe three hundred years between Solomon and Hezekiah ^:a great part of it, but not the whole, being the compositionof the wise king. Ewald^s opinion is that the oldest sec-tion dates from about two centuries after Solomon, thoughstill breathing the spirit of his age; that under Hezekiaha second part was formed, with much in it from Solomonstime; that the introduction followed a hundred yearslater; then some additions in the body of the Book, andfinally the last two chapters immediately bef
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