291

FABLE.

THE FLOOD.

Deucalion and Pyrrha.-Xisuthrus. Dionysius I. or Bacchus 1.-Silenus. $ (Ovid. Diod. Sic. Virgil, Ecl. 6.)

PROFANE.

The Giants pile up the mountains to assail Heaven.

(Passim.)

The progenitors of a people of Asia Minor suddenly lose their primitive language, and acquire a new one. (Arrian, Exped. Alex.)

Japetus, regarded by the Greeks as the father of mankind.

Menes.

FIRST EGYPTIAN MONARCHY.

(Passim.)

ABRAHAM leaves Chaldæa to proceed to Cainaan. A famine; he goes into Egypt.

THE MESSIAH promised:-Ishmael born:-Circumcision first established.

1902 Isaac born.

1842 Jacob, or Israel.

1712 General Famine:-Nations resort to Egypt for corn.

Joseph, governor of Egypt.

1491 Moses:--commissioned by God to liberate the Hebrews:-Plagues miraculously inflicted upon Egypt, and upon all the objects of its superstitious reve

rence.

The PASSOVER instituted :-Many of the Egyptians, instructed by their recent experience, receive lasting impressions of the Hebrew rites and religion.

The Exonus, or departure out of Egypt :-The King
of Egypt pursues the Hebrew people:-
The passage
of the Red Sea :-Annihilation of the Egyptian so-
vereign, his chief officers, and army.

The kingdom is laid open to the invasion of the neighbours.

Moses receives from God the Tables of

THE LAW.

293

FABLE.

* PROFANE..

FIRST EGYPTIAN MONARCHY.

› General Famine :-Nations resort to Egypt for corn :

(Diod. Sic.)

The Red Sea dry :-(Diod. Sic.)

End of the FIRST EGYPTIAN MONARCHY.

The Arabians invade Egypt, and take possession of the country.

THE SHEPHERD KINGS.

The Hebrews journey in the Wilderness 40 years: -their progress alarms many of the adjoining nations.

1490 The Hebrews are miraculously fed with quails.

1451 Balaam prophesies of THE MESSIAH.

Moses dies.

Joshua conducts the Hebrews into Canaan.

1445 Canaan conquered:- - The Hebrew nation established.

1413 Government of the Judges.

The Hebrews subdued by the King of Mesopotamia.
They are delivered.

1245 Gideon.

1187 Jephthah.

1137 Samson, eminent for strength and heroic achievement:-Kills the lion:-Carries away the gates of Gaza, and pulls down the pillars of the Philistines.

1094 Samuel.

1079 Saul.

Commencement of

THE HEBREW MONARCHY.

295

FABLE.

PROFANE.

The Phonicians migrate from the Red Sea to Palestine. (Herodotus.)

Heracles, or Hercules, is miraculously fed with quails.

(Athenæus, ix. c. 2.)

Heracles, is renowned for strength:-Kills the lion:Carries away the pillars. (Passim.)

*The word, Heracl, is used as synonymous with y, Canaanite, and is applied, generally, to the inhabitants of that country; from whence the fabulous character seems to have been derived.