ON THE

HISTORICAL PASSAGES

OF

THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND

JOSEPH HA LL, D.D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH.

IN TWO VOLUMES,

VOL. II.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BAYNES AND SON,

PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND. H. S. BAYNES, EDINBURGH.

1825.

LONDON : R. CLAY, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK XX.

CONTEMPLATION I. The Shunamite suing to Jehoram-Elisha con-

ferring with Hazael .................

11. Jehu with Jehoram and Jezebel ....

III. Jehu killing the Sons of Ahab, and the Priests

of Baal...

IV. Athaliah and Joash .........

V. Joash with Elisha dying ..........

VI. Uzziah leprous .....................

VII. Ahaz with his new altar ......

VIII. The utter destruction of the kingdom of Israel

IX. Hezekiah and Sennacherib ......

X. Hezekiah sick, recovered, visited ..........

XI. Manasseh ...........

XII. Josiah's reformation ..

XIII. Josiah's death, with the desolation of the Temple

and Jerusalem ........................

BOOK XXI.

CONTEMPLATION I. Zerrubbabel and Ezra .................... 88

II. Nehemiah building the walls of Jerusalem .... 102

III. Nehemiah redressing the extortion of the Jews. 109

IV. Ahasuerus feasting ;—Vashti cast off;—Esther

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.

BOOK I.

Page

157

165

CONTEMPLATION I. The Angel and Zachary ... ......

II. The Annunciation of Christ...

III. The Birth of Christ .......

IV. The Sages and the Star ....

V. The Purification ...

VI. Herod and the Infants .......

170

175

181

186

BOOK II.

CONTEMPLATION I. Christ among the Doctors..

II. Christ's Baptism .....

III. Christ tempted .........

IV.

Simon called ............

V. The Marriage in Cana ......

VI. The good Centurion....

238

BOOK III.

CONTEMPLATION 1.' The Widow's Son raised ......

234

• " Ir. The Ruler's Son cured ...

**** III.' The Dumb Devil ejected ........

242

** *IV. Matthew called ........

250

V. Christ among the Gergesens, or Legion and the

** "***"Gadarene herd........

......... 255

289

BOOK IV.

CONTEMPLATION I. The faithfal Canaanite ......

273

II. The Deaf and Dumb Man cured..

283

III. Zaccheus .....................

IV. John Baptist beheaded ...........

304

V. The five Loaves and two Fishes, .....

319

''VI.' The Walk upon the Waters .......

330

VII, The bloody Issue healed .................. 343

VIII. Jairus and his Daughter ........ .......... 352

IX. The Motion of the two fiery Disciples repelled 356

X. The ten Lepers..........

...... 363

XI. The Pool of Bethesda .......

372

XII. The Transfiguration of Christ ......

382

XIII. The same .......

391

XIV. The same .....

402

XV. The Woman taken in Adultery ...... ..... 406