It is not certain whether the brass altar was at Bethel at this time, or whether it may not have been elsewhere, for example, at Shiloh with the ta…

Built there an altar. —We find David doing the same at the threshing-floor of Araunah (2 Samuel 24:25), and S…

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early ,
&c.] The day after their fasting and prayer, and a s…

Israel lamented for the Benjamites and was perplexed by the oath they had taken not to give their daughters to them in marriage. People are more ze…