Excerpt from The Later Story of the Hebrews

This little volume is intended for the ordinary person who, without any special equipment as a student, is interested in the Bible and desires to gain clearer knowledge of the period under consideration.

Two objects have been kept in view. First, an attempt to make clear the relations of the Hebrew kingdoms with the greater nations and governments with which they were in touch. A background to this portion of the Old Testament is presented. As the ground is unfamiliar to many I have used, with intention, a certain amount of repetition, so that the contours of the whole may become distinct for those who give no more than normal attention to the subject. I have remembered that my readers will often enough be rather tired with a day's work when they take up this book.

Second, I have given as much space to the activities of the prophets as to those of kings and governors, interweaving what they had to say with what happened, as one might interweave newspaper comments on a political situation with the recital of facts. It seems to me important for intelligent reading of the Old Testament that a prophet should be associated with his contemporaries, just as we associate John Knox with Mary Queen of Scots and her time, and William Cranmer with Henry VIII and his successors. Further, as the line of spiritual progress is the supreme interest in the Old Testament, some care has been given to indicate the development and variety of the revelation the prophets record.

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