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Here we are simply told of the two things, his sin, and the divine judgment which it drew after it. I. Verses 4-8 tell the black story of Solomon's apostasy. What was its extent? Did he himself take part in idolatrous worship, or simply, with the foolish fondness of an old sensualist, let these foreign women have their shrines? The darker supposition seems correct.
Besides, it is evident that this company of 144,000 are the legitimate successors of those sealed in ch. vii. 4-8; or rather, from the perpetual identity of the covenant society as a moral person, we may view this company as the same with the sealed ones of the seventh chapter, the two witnesses of the eleventh chapter, and as in the wilderness in the 12th chapter.
Ramusio's preface, containing this account, and also the story of how Rusticiano came to write the book at Marco Polo's dictation at Genoa, is translated in Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., pp. 4-8. He mentions these in Marco Polo, op. cit., pp. 136, 138, 344. Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., p. 79. Paulin Paris, quoted ibid., Introd., p. 61. Ibid., Introd., pp. 67-73.
There are a few riddles or questions arising out of this narrative, the solving of which may afford instructive amusement to the reader. What is meant by the drum of Diabolus, which so terrified Mansoul? Refer to Galatians 3:10; Hebrews 6:4-8; 1 John 5:16; Hebrews 12:29.
Luke xvi. 4-8. Such trusts were never reposed in hired servants. The master shall not eat fine bread, and his servant bread of bran. Nor yet drink old wine, and give his servant new; nor sleep on soft pillows, and bedding, and his servant on straw.
The highest water of the valley of the city of Mexico is the pond of Chalco, in the extreme southeast, being 4-8/12 feet above the level of the Grand Plaza of the city, and 20 miles distant therefrom, and 11-2/12 feet above Tezcuco; but its volume being small for the last 400 years, the slight impediments of long grass and a few Indian dikes have prevented any injury to the city by a too rapid flow to the northward.
So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe.” We have here an indication of the close relation between father-right and property. Gen. xxx, 18-30; xxxi, 14, 41. Gen. xxxi, 43. Gen. xxiv, 5, 53. Judges xv, 1. Numb., xxxii, 8-11. See Letourneau, Evolution of Marriage, p. 326. Gen. xxiii, 13. Numb. xxxvi, 4-8.
Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. Vs. 4-8. The number sealed was "a hundred forty and four thousand;" of "each tribe twelve thousand." At the time referred to, in the fifth century, the "middle wall of partition" had been long removed.
He also later appears as the "desolator" of Dan. 9:27; the "willful King" of Dan. 11:36; the "abomination of desolation" of Matt. 24:15; the "Man of Sin" of II Thes. 2:4-8; the rider on the white horse of Rev. 6:2; and the first Beast of Rev. 13.
Reigned 3 months and was dethroned and carried into Egypt where he died. Jehoiakim, 2 K. 23:34-24:6; 2 Chron. 36:4-8. Reigned 11 years and died. Jehoiachin. 2 K. 24:6-16; 2 Chron. 36:9-10. Reigned 3 months and was carried captive to Egypt. Zedekiah. 2 K. 24:17-25; 2 Chron. 36:11-21. Reigned 11 years and carried captive into Egypt. The Principal Events of the Period.
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