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CLAUDE

Aged 83 Years

Glorificavit illam Deus in conspectu Regum.

Published by W.Baynes, March 11805.

THE

MANNERS

OF THE

ANCIENT ISRAELITES;

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR

PECULIAR CUSTOMS, CEREMONIES, LAWS, POLITY,
RELIGION, SECTS, ARTS AND TRADES,

Division of Time, Wars, Captivities, Dispersion,

CLAUDE FLEURY,

ABBE OF ARGENTEUIL, and one of THE FORTY MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL
ACADEMY, PARIS.

WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF

The Ancient and Moden Samazitans.

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THE WHOLE MUCH ENLARGED FROM THE PRINCIPAL WRITERS ON
JEWISH ANTIQUITIES,

BY

ADAM CLARKE, LL. D.

THE THIRD EDITION,

WITH MANY ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

LONDON:

SOLD BY WILLIAM BAYNES, NO. 54, PATERNOSTER ROW;
J. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET STREET; AND

T. BLANSHARD, CITY ROAD,

(ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.)

Printed by Heney and Haddon, Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury.

HODLFIAN
! 18-4-1912)
LIBRAR

PREFACE.

EVERY attempt to illustrate the BIBLE, the oldest and most important book in the world, a book that has GOD for its Author, and the eternal happiness of the human race for its end, deserves the most serious attention of all those who profess the Christian religion.

It is granted on all hands, that this book has many difficulties but this is not peculiar to the Jewish Scriptures; all ancient writings are full of them: and these difficulties are generally in proportion to the antiquity of such writings; for the customs, manners, and language of mankind are continually changing; and were it not for the help received from the records of succeeding ages, which are only accessible to the learned, many valuable works of primitive times must have remained in impenetrable obscurity. Scholars and critics have exerted themselves in the most laudable manner to remove or elucidate the difficulties occurring in ancient authors; and, (thanks to their industry) they have rendered the study of these writers not only easy but delightful; and brought the literature of ancient Greece and Rome within the reach even of our children.

But the heathen writers have not been the only objects of regard in the grand system of critical disquisition. A host of the most eminent scholars that ever graced the republic of letters, or ennobled the human character, have carefully read, and diligently studied, the Sacred Writings; have felt their beauties, and prized their excellencies; and, by their learned and pious works, have not only recommended them to