OF.

SCRIPTURE HISTORY

BEING AN

ABRIDGMENT

OF A

MANUAL OF THE WHOLE SCRIPTURE HISTORY

AND OF THE

HISTORY OF THE JEWS

BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

With Questions for Examination.

BY THE

REV. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A.

INCUMBENT OF ST. PHILIP'S, LECKHAMPTON;

AUTHOR OF 'AN ENGLISH-LATIN AND LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY'
'A MANUAL OF CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES''BAMPTON LECTURES FOR MDCCCLII.'

&c. &c.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.
1859.

110. d. 289.

PREFACE.

WHILE my "Manual of Scripture History" has found,

I am thankful to say, large acceptance among College

Students, the higher classes in Schools, and intelligent

private readers, there still exists a demand for a more

compendious Narrative of the same kind, adapted to the

use of junior pupils in Schools and Families. With a view

to supply this want, I have prepared the present Abridg-

ment; omitting the large body of Notes contained in

the Manual, making bare mention of many events which

are there more fully described, leaving out the notices of

Contemporary History giving one set of Questions instead

of two, and dispensing with the Appendix and the Index.

I trust that, in this way, while rejecting much that is

valuable to the more advanced student, I have retained
all that may be especially useful to the younger.

J. E. R.

LECKHAMPTON, CHELTENHAM,

December 6th, 1858.

* A Manual of the Whole Scripture History, and of the History of

the Jews between the Periods of the Old and New Testaments: includ-

ing Notices of Biblical Antiquities and Geography, Oriental Manners

and Customs, Historic Parallels and Contemporary Events, the Struc-

ture and Import of the Jewish Ritual, and a Survey of the Nature

and Design of the successive Dispensations, Mosaic, Patriarchal, and

Christian. By the Rev. J. E. RIDDLE, M. A. Sixth Edition. Price 4s.

Birth and Mission of Moses. - The Plagues of Egypt

CHAPTER XII.

Institution of the Passover.- Departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

- Passage of the Red Sea

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CHAPTER XIII.

Journey of the Israelites from the Red Sea to Horeb -

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