mily, the captivity in Egypt, the restoration from bondage, and the giving of the ten commandments.

Q. What is recorded in Joshua?

A. The conquest of the land of Canaan by the Jews.

Q. What in Judges?

A. The sins, punishment, and deliverances of the Jews under the government of the successors of Joshua, called Judges.

Q. What is recorded in the book of Ruth?

A. The touching history of an affectionate young woman, of whom King David was a descend

ant.

Q. Of what have we a history in the books of Samuel?

A. Of his own life, and of the lives of Saul and David.

Q. What is recorded in the books of Kings?

A. The history of the Jews from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.

Q. What do the books of Chronicles contain?

A. The genealogies and annals of the Jewish nation.

Q. What does the book of Ezra recount?

A. The return of the Jews from Babylon, and the rebuilding of the temple.

Q. Of what does the book of Nehemiah give an aocount?

Of the labors of this good Jewish governor rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem after the ptivity.

Q. What is recounted in the book of Esther?

A. The history of a young Jewish captive, who became the queen of the Persian King Ahasuerus, and secured great blessings to her nation.

Q. What are the poetical books of the Bible?

A. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the
Canticles, or Song of Solomon.

Q. What are the names of the prophetical books?
A. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel,
Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah,
Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Hag-
gai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

Q. How many years passed after the last records of the
Old Testament before Christ appeared?

A. Four hundred.

Q. How many years from the creation to the coming of Christ?

A. Four thousand and four.

Q. How many from the creation to the flood?

A. Sixteen hundred and fifty-six years.

Q. How many from the deluge to the bondage in Egypt?

A. About eight hundred years.

Q. How many years were the children, of Israel in Egypt?

A. About two hundred years.

Q. How long from the entrance into Canaan to the Babylonish captivity?

A. Eight hundred and forty-five years.

Q. How long did the captivity in Babylon continue ?
A. Seventy years.

Q. Why is the history of the Jewish nation preserved in the Bible?

A. Because to them was committed the keeping of the oracles, or commandments of God, and from this nation Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, was born, after the flesh.

Q. What can we learn from Jewish history?

A. The Divine providence exercised over the people of God; his abhorrence of sin, and the punishment he certainly will bring upon us if we remain impenitent; and his love for the obedient, and the rewards connected with a virtuous life.

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