"Kingdoms of the Lord" - David F. Payne

KINGDOMS OF THE LORD
A History of the Hebrew Kingdoms from Saul
to the Fall of Jerusalem

David F. Payne

Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 0 85364 284 2. pp.310.
© Paternoster Press 1981. Reproduced by permission.

Table of Contents

Pages

Frontpiece map: The Near East in the time of the Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires

List of Illustrations
xiii

Abbreviations xv

Preface xvii

PART I - THE KINGS

1. Israel before the Monarchy 3

2. Prelude to Monarchy 13

3. The First King: Saul 22

4. David's Rise to Power 36

5. David's Later Years 48

6. The Reign of Solomon 59

7. The Early Divided Monarchy 66

8. Syria Rampant 85

9. New Prosperity 91

10. The Fall of Samaria 97

11. The Reign of Hezekiah 106

12. Judah's Decline and Fall 114

PART II - THE ENEMIES

13. The Philistines 135

14. Transjordan and Amalek 143

15. Syria 152

16. Phoenicia 161

17. Egypt 167

18. Assyria 177

19. Babylon 189

20. The Enemy Within: the Canaanites 198

21. The Enemy Within: False Religion 207

PART III - THE PROPHETS

22. The Early Period 225

23. The Eighth Century 236

24. Jeremiah and his Contemporaries 249

PART IV - THE FAITH

25. The God Who Speaks 261

26. The God Who Acts 271

27. The Future Perspective 281

Appendix: The Chronology of the Hebrew Kings 291

Select Bibliography 295

Index of Biblical Passages 299

General Index 304

Endpiece Map: The Hebrew Kingdoms

KINGDOMS OF THE LORD A History of the Hebrew Kingdoms from Saul to the Fall of Jerusalem

David F. Payne

Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 0 85364 284 2. pp.310. © Paternoster Press 1981. Reproduced by permission.

Table of Contents

Pages

KINGDOMS OF THE LORD
A History of the Hebrew Kingdoms from Saul
to the Fall of Jerusalem

Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 0 85364 284 2. pp.310.
© Paternoster Press 1981. Reproduced by permission.