. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. obably situated on somepart of the eastern coast of Africa, and in about three yearsbrought back an immense weight of gold and silver, besidesseveral kinds of precious stones, spices, ebony, and otherrarities. Besides these, there were the traffic of the Medi-terranean, carried on through the Tyrian merchants, and theinland commerce
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. obably situated on somepart of the eastern coast of Africa, and in about three yearsbrought back an immense weight of gold and silver, besidesseveral kinds of precious stones, spices, ebony, and otherrarities. Besides these, there were the traffic of the Medi-terranean, carried on through the Tyrian merchants, and theinland commerce of Egypt, Arabia, and Assyria, all of whichwere highly important. Prom these various sources it was,that the precious metals, and all other valuable commodities,were in such abundance that, in the figurative language ofthe sacred historian, silver was in Jerusalem as stones, andcedar trees as sycamores. Besides the works already mentioned, Solomon built somefortresses in Lebanon, probably to secure a free communica-tion between his kingdom and that of Syria. He built twocities, as stations, to protect his inland commerce; thesewere Tadmor and Baalath, the one the celebrated Palmyra,and the other Baalbec. Solomon exceeded in wisdom all who went before him ;. c —-i d o CQ O THE KINGS OF ISRAEL. 217 but in his old age he took many wives and concubines outof the idolatrous nations around him, who corrupted hisheart. The Lord, therefore, declared by the proj >het Abijah,that he would divide the kingdom after his death, and giveten tribes to Jeroboam, one of his domestics. As an imme-diate punishment of his effeminacy and idolatry, i he I^ordstirred up certain adversaries against him; and though theprincipal evil threatened against Israel was not to occur inhis day, yet he had the mortification of knowing that itwould be inflicted under the administration of his son, andthat his own conduct was the procuring cause. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, began to reign over theIsraelites
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