Publisher's Description

It is remarkable that so large a portion of Scripture, and especially the earlier part of it, should consist of biography. The circumstance is unique, for we find nothing of the kind in what are called the sacred books of other religions, and not much in books of history. It is easily explained when we consider that the great purpose of God in the Scriptures is to throw light, and to effect a change, on the relation between God and man; to picture that relation as it was originally, as it is now, and as, by God's grace, it may become. — From the Author's Introduction Few writers have bequeathed to posterity such a legacy of devout exposition and reverent scholarship as William Garden Blaikie. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, when Sir William Robertson Nicoll began work on The Expositor's Bible, he wisely invited Dr. Blaikie to contribute commentaries on the Book of Joshua and the Books of First and Second Samuel. Blaikie's studies of these portions of the Old Testament rank among the finest ever produced. — Cyril J. Barber