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Moses, died 1426 B. C. ; and was succeeded by the Judges, Othniel, 

 Ehud, and Shamgar, to 1312 B. C. ; Deborah, the prophetess, and 

 Barak, who defeated the Canaanites, about 1290 B. C.; Gideon, 

 (surnamed Jerubbaal), who defeated the Midianites, 1245 B. C., and 

 whose son, Abimelech, made himself a king; Tola and Jair ; Jeph- 

 thah, who defeated the Ammonites, 1188 B. C.; Ibzan, Elon, and 

 Jlbdon; Samson, who died amid the Philistines, 1117 B. C. ; Eli ; 

 and lastly, Samuel, the prophet, by whom Saul was anointed king, 

 1095 B. C. Saul was slain 1055 ; David died 1015; and Solomon 

 died 975 B. C. (See p. 202). 



After the division of the kingdom, the kings of Israel, with the 

 dates of their accession, were Jeroboam I., 975 B. C. ; Nadab, 954 ; 

 Baasha, (or Baasa), 953 ; Elah, (or Ela), 930 ; Zimri, 929 ; Ahab, 

 918; Jlhaziah, 897 ; Joram, (or Jehoram), 896; Jehu, 884; Jeho- 

 ahaz, 856 ; Joash, 839 ; Jeroboam II., 825 ; Zcchariah, 771 ; 

 Menahem, 770 ; Pekahiah, (or Pekaiah), 760 ; Pekah, 758 ; and 

 Hosea, (or Hoshea), 729 B. C.; with whom the kingdom of Israel 

 became extinct. The contemporary kings of Judali and the dates 

 of their accession, were, Rehoboam, 975 B. C. ; Abijali, (or Abia), 

 958 : Jlsa, the pious, 955 ; Jehosaphat, the wise, 914 ; Jehoram, (or 

 Joram), 889; Jlhaziah, 885; Jlthaliah, the usurper, 884; Joash, 

 (or Jehoash), 878 ; Jlmaziah, 838 ; Uzziah, (or Azariah), the vir- 

 tuous, 809; Jotham, 757; Ahaz, the idolater, 741 ; Hezekiah, the 

 pious, 726 ; Manasseh, the cruel, 697 ; Jimon, 642 ; Josiah, the 

 good, 640 ; Jehoahaz, (or Shallum), and Jehoiakim, both 608 ; and 

 Zedekiah, 597 B. C., the last of whom was carried a captive to 

 Babylon. 



Of the Jewish prophets; besides Samuel, and Nathan, 1055 

 B. C. ; and Elijah and Elisha, 896 B. C. ; the four greater, so 

 called, were Isaiah, the evangelical, who flourished 750 ; Jeremiah, 

 the warning and weeping, about 629 ; Ezekiel, the speculative and 

 mysterious, 595 ; and Daniel, the historical, who flourished 569 

 B. C. The twelve lesser prophets, with the dates at which they 

 flourished, were Jonah, 830 B. C. ; Amos, 820 ; Hosea, 750 ; 

 71/zc#7i, 740 ; Nahum, probably 735 ; Joel, probably 680; Zepha- 

 niah, 630 ; Habakkuk, 610 ; Obadiah, probably 600 ; Haggai, 

 520 ; Zechariah, 520 ; and Malachi, about 420 B. C. The leaders 

 in rebuilding the Temple, were Zerubbabel, the governor, and Joshua, 

 the priest, 535 B. C. Ezra, the priest, 467 B. C., restored the 

 temple worship ; and Nehemiah, 455 B. C., rebuilt the walls of 

 Jerusalem. The succession of high-priests, thenceforward till the 

 destruction of Jerusalem, we have no room to present. 



Sadoc, founder of the sect of Sadducees, flourished about 250 

 B. C. ; and Hillel, founder of the sect of Pharisees, about 200 B. C. 

 The Targum writers, Jonathan and Onkelos, we have already 

 mentioned, (p. 144). Philo of Alexandria, called the Platonist, or 

 follower of Plato, flourished A. D. 40; and Josephus, the Jewish 

 historian, died at Rome, about A. D. 80. The biography of distin- 

 guished modern Jews, as Spinoza, Menasseh, Mendelssohn, and 

 others, belongs, we think, to the countries in which they resided. 



2. Of early Egyptian Biography, very little is known ; for 

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