CONTEMPLATIONS

ON THE

HISTORICAL PASSAGES

OF

THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND

JOSEPH HALL, 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.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK XX.

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

ferring with Hazael...

II. Jehu with Jehoram and Jezebel

III.

IV.

Jehu killing the Sons of Ahab, and the Priests

of Baal.....

Athaliah and Joash

V. Joash with Elisha dying

Page

18

17

25

33

VI. Uzziah leprous

88

VII. Ahaz with his new altar

43

VIII.

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

and Jerusalem

The utter destruction of the kingdom of Israel 47

Hezekiah and Sennacherib

50

59

68

76

83

CONTEMPLATION I.

BOOK XXI.

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

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