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Excerpt from Upward Footsteps
An examme of this occurs in the account of the reign Of Omri which, in spite of its being one of the greatest in the history Of Israel, is dismissed in four verses. NO historian, writes one of the finest living scholars, would have dreamt Of omitting all mention Of Omri's conquest of Edom, which we know from the Moabite stone, or of his relations with Damascus, which we learn inci dentally from the conversation between Ahab and Benhadad related in Kings. The natural infer ence is that the compiler Of Kings was not attempting to write a history (in our sense Of the term), but to give an account of Jehovah's deal ings with Israel, deriving his material from docu ments which he believed to be historical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
