APPENDIX.

No. I.

TABLES OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MONEY, MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES.

Extracted chiefly from the Second Edition of Dr. Arbuthnot's Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures.

A digit

2. Scripture Measures of Length reduced to English Measure.

4 A palm

13|10| A schoenus or measuring line 145

4. Scripture Measures of Capacity for Liquids, reduced to English Wine

A caph
14 A log

Measure.

5. Scripture Measures of Capacity for dry Things, reduced to English

Corn Measure.

7. Roman and Greek Money, mentioned in the New Testament, reduced to

In the preceding table, silver is valued at 5s. and gold at £4 per ounce.

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No. II.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE

PRINCIPAL EVENTS RECORDED IN THE SCRIPTURES.

The true Date of the Birth of Christ is FOUR YEARS before the common Æra, or A.D.

PART I.

FROM THE CREATION TO THE DEATH OF SOLOMON.'

Eve, tempted by the serpent, disobeys God, and persuades her
husband Adam to disobedience also. God drives them out of pa-

A. D.

4004

1422 Jared dies, aged 962 years.

3998

3997

3876

3874

3769

3679

3609

3544

3382

3317

3130

3074

3017

2962

2948

2864

2769

2714

2582

1535 God informs Noah of the future deluge, and commissions him to preach 2468 repentance to mankind, 120 years before the deluge.

1651 Lamech dies, the father of Noah, aged 777 years.

2353

1655 Methuselah dies, the oldest of men, aged 969 years. Noah, being 600 2349 years old, by divine command enters the ark, which he had been 120 years in preparing.

The First Part of this Chronology is abridged from Archbishop Usher's Annals of the Bible.

A. M.

PERIOD II.

From the Deluge to the Birth of Abraham.

B. C.

1657 Noah and his family quit the Ark. He offers sacrifices of thanksgiving. 2347
God appoints the rainbow as a pledge that he would send no more
an universal deluge.

1658 Arphaxad born, the son of Shem.

1693 Salah born, son of Arphaxad.
1723 Heber born, son of Salah.

1757 Phaleg born, son of Heber.

1770 The building of the tower of Babel.

2346

2311

2281

2247

2234

1770 The confusion of languages, and dispersion of the nations.

1771 The beginning of the Babylonian or Assyrian monarchy by Nimrod; 2233

and of the Egyptian empire by Ham the father of Mizraim.

1787 The trial of Job probably took place about this time.

Reu born, the son of Phaleg.

1819 Serug born, son of Reu.
1849 Nahor born, son of Serug.
1878 Terah born, the son of Nahor.
1948 Haran born, the son of Terah.
2006 Noah dies, aged 950 years.

2008 Abraham born, the son of Terah.

2130

2217

2185

2155

2126

2056

1998

1996

PERIOD III.

From the Birth of Abraham to the Departure of the
Israelites out of Egypt, and their Return into the Land
of Canaan.

2018 Sarai born, wife of Abraham.

1986

2083 The call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran in Mesopotamia, 1917
where his father Terah died, aged 205 years.

2083 The second call of Abram from Haran. He comes into Canaan 1921

with Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew; and dwells at Sichem.
2084 Abram goes into Egypt; Pharaoh takes his wife, but soon restores 1920
her again. Abram returns from Egypt; he and Lot separate.

2091 Abram's victory over the five kings, and rescue of Lot.
2093 Sarai gives her maid Hagar for a wife to her husband Abram.
2094 Ishmael born, the son of Abram and Hagar. Abram was 86 years old.
(Gen. xvi. 16.)

1913

1911

1911

2107 The new covenant of the LORD with Abraham. (Gen. xvii.) Sodom, 1897
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, burnt by fire from heaven. Lot is
preserved; retires to Zoar; commits incest with his daughters.
2108 Abraham departs from the plains of Mamre to Beer-sheba. Isaac 1896

born.

2133 Abraham offers his son Isaac for a burnt-offering.

2245 Isaac blesses Jacob, who withdraws into Mesopotamia, to his uncle 1760

Laban; and marries first Leah, and then Rachel.

2276 Joseph, being 17 years old, tells his father Jacob his brethren's faults ; 1728
they hate him, and sell him to strangers, who take him into Egypt.
Joseph sold again, as a slave, to Potiphar.

2289 Pharaoh's dreams explained by Joseph, who is made governor of 1715

Egypt.