A

NEW AND COMPLETE

UNIVERSAL HISTORY

OF THE

HOLY BIBLE,

FROM THE

CREATION OF THE WORLD,

TO THE

FULL ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY,

BY OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR

JESUS CHRIST,

AND HIS HOLY EVANGELISTS, APOSTLES,
DISCIPLES, &c.

CONTAINING A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF EVERY REMARKABLE
TRANSACTION RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, DURING
A PERIOD OF UPWARDS OF FOUR THOUSAND YEARS,

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY THE REV. EDWARD KIMPTON,
VICAR OF ROGATE, IN SUSSEX, MORNING PREACHER OF ST. MATTHEW'S, BETH
NAL-GREEN, AND LATE OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

ASSISTED BY MANY LEARNED GENTLEMEN, WHO HAVE MADE
THE SACRED WRITINGS THEIR PECULIAR STUDY.

VOL. II.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

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700

HITY SCHO

DIVIN

LIBRAR

HARVARD

RY.

TRENTON:

PUBLISHED BY J. J. WILSON, AND D. FENTON,
James J. Wilson, Printer.

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1813.

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1

The History of that stupendous Work the Creation of the
World.

The Creation of Adam and Eve-their Temptation, Fall, and
Expulsion from Paradise -Its fatal consequences, &c.

The Wickedness of Mankind. The General Deluge. The
Preservation of Noah and his Family, &c.

The Building of Babel-Confusion of Tongues, and Dispersion
of the People..

History of Abraham and his Family.-Destruction of Sodom
and Gomorrah, &c.

History of Joseph and his Brethren, &c.

Persecutions of the Israelites by Pharaoh King of Egypt, with
the various Transactions that took place previous to their
being miraculously released from Bondage.

The astonishing Miracles performed by Moses in Egypt, the
Wilderness and other places.

The Travels and various Revolutions of the Israelites, with the
great Miracles wrought in their favor by Divine Interposi-
tion before their Settlement at Jerusalem.

History of Sampson, Saul and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth.
Judith and Holofernes, Susanna and the Elders, Haman and
Mordecai, Deborah and Barak, &c.

History of the Babylonish Captivity.-Destruction of Jerusa-
lem, &c. &c.

Account of the ancient State of Jerusalem, with an accurate
description of that magnificent Building, Solomon's Temple.
The various Predictions of the Prophets, concerning the Com-
ing and Offices of the Messiah, the Restoration of the Jews,
&c. with other Prophecies that have been, and are now ful-
filling, in different parts of the World.

INCLUDING PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS

OF THE

LIVES AND TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

MOST EMINENT PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS,

AND

OTHER SERVANTS OF GOD,

Who, by an inspired Grace, have distinguished themselves in the
Display of Divine Wisdom;