272 TABLES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS AND SUCCESSIONS TABLE SIXTH. This table extends from the time of the return of the Jews from captivity, till the death of Alexander the Great, giving in connexion with the Jewish chronology, the corresponding successions in the Persian Dynasty. IN PALESTINE AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES. 273 TABLE SEVENTH. This table gives the succession of the Syrian and Egyptian kings in connexion with the History of the Jews from the year 323 to 27 before Christ. B. C. Syrian Kings. Hebrews. Egyptian Kings. 323 Ptolemy Lagus. 320 312 Seleucus I. Nicator. 4 11 21 23 31 At this time subject to the Syrians At this time subject to Egyptians. Ptolemy Philadel. Jesus, the son of Sirach. 4 24 Ptolemy Evergetes. 2 21 23 Ptolemy Philopator 221 2 5 Simon II. the High Priest dies. 5 274 TABLES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS AND SUCCESSIONS, ETC. TABLE EIGHTH. This table gives a view of the Hebrew rulers, independently of other nations and in chronological order, from the time of Christ till the destruction of Jerusalem. 35 Philip, the tetrarch dies. 38 42 44 Herod Agrippa, king of the tetrarchate of Philippi. Herod Antipas recalled, and his tetrarchate added to that of Herod Agrippa. Herod Agrippa dies. 65 66 71 Florus, procurator. Beginning of the war between the Jews and Romans. The destruction of Jerusalem. CHAPTER II. OF KINGS, OFFICERS OF STATE, AND OTHER MAGISTRATES. 223. THE ANointing of KingS. WHEN We hear of the anointing of the Jewish kings, we are to understand by it the same, as their inauguration; in as much as anointing was the principal ceremony on such an occasion, 2 Sam. 2: 4. 5: 3. As far as we are informed, however, Unction, as a sign of investiture with the royal authority, was bestowed only upon the two first kings, who ruled the Hebrews, viz. Saul and David; and, subsequently, upon Solomon and Joash, who ascended the throne under such circumstances, that there was danger of their right to the succession being forcibly disputed, 1 Sam. 10: 24. 2 Sam. 2: 4. 5: 1-3. 1 Chron. 11: 1, 2. 2 K. 11: 12--20. 2 Chron. 23: 1-21. That the ceremony of regal anointing should be repeated in every instance of succession to the throne, was not to be expected from the fact, that the unction, which the first one, who held the sceptre in any particular line of princes, had received, was supposed to suffice for the succeeding incumbents in the same descent. In the kingdom of Israel, those, who were inducted into the royal office, appear to have been inaugurated with some additional ceremonies, 2 K.9: 13. The private anointings, which we learn to have been performed by the prophets, (2 K. 9: 3, comp. 1 Sam. 10: 1. 16: 1–13,) were only prophetic symbols or intimations, that the persons, who were thus anointed, should eventually receive the kingdom. Without the consent, however, of the rulers of the nation, (of the public legislative assembly,) they communicated no legal right to the crown; no more than the prophecies of dissentions and civil wars gave a right to attempt perpetrations of that kind, 1 K. 11: 29-40. 12: 20. 2 K. 8: 11-14. The ceremonies mentioned in the Bible, which were customary at the inauguration of kings, were as follows. |