Hours with the Bible or the Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... JT/DAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. The Prophets Micah And Isaiah. WHILE the strenuous exertions required of Hezekiah in restoring the ancient religion, reveal the moral and social corruption of the time, the utterances of the prophets of his reign speak no less forcibly of the deep shadow which accompanied its splendours. So far as we know, the first of the national prophetpreachers of these later times had been Micaiah or Micah, in the reign of Ahab. After him, men like Joel, Amos and Hosea had risen, the Savonarolas and Bernards of their day; culminating in the great inspired orators of the reign of Hezekiah. His reign was the Augustan age of prophecy in every sense. Not only the transcendent genius of Isaiah, but that of Micah of Moresheth, still show in the inspired writings which bear their names, the wondrous addresses to which their generation listened. Very little is known of Micah beyond the fact that he came from the neighbourhood of Gath,1 and was thus a native of the Maritime Plain, with its fiery summer heat; 1 Micah i. 14. As late as the time of Jerome a hamlet in the neighbourhood of Bleutheropolis was famous as the home of Micah, and a grave there, over which a Christian church had been built, was shown as his. Biehrn. ssi its luxuriant vineyards, orchards, and cornfields; its busy towns, and its glimpses of the great sea from every undulation of the landscape. The days of the old prophets had passed away. Elisba had lived as a staid citizen in Samaria; Joel had passed his days quietly in Jerusalem; Isaiah was a member of its higher society. The hairy cloak and leathern girdle of Elijah, his locusts and wild honey, were traditions of the past. But in Micah his austerity and fierce energy seemed to have returned. The strange Oriental fervour of his...