1205 Amaury II. dies in the Spring.

1212 Crusade of the fifty thousand children.

1217 Fifth Crusade under the pontificate of Honorius III.

1219 Francis of a.s.sisi in Palestine.

1229 Sixth Crusade under the pontificate of Gregory IX. The sultan, Malek-Kamel, cedes Jerusalem to Frederic without combat.

1239 The Christians reconstruct the ramparts of Jerusalem, with Thibaut, count of Champagne, and king of Navarre; but the prince of Kerek enters the city and destroys the new fortifications and the Tower of David.

1240 Richard of Cornwall, brother of Henry III., king of England, arrives in Palestine with an army of English Crusaders.

1244 The Tartars under Gengis Khan take and destroy Jerusalem.

-- Palestine remains in possession of the Egyptians.

1248 Louis IX. undertakes a Crusade under the pontificate of Innocent IV.

1254 Louis IX. abandons Palestine upon the news of queen Blanche's death.

1270 Louis IX. undertakes a fresh Crusade.

-- Louis IX. dies at Tunis, August 25th.

1271 Prince Edward, son of Henry III. of England, in the East. He is wounded with a dagger by an emissary of the Old Man of the Mountain, but is saved by the princess Eleanor, his wife.

1291 The Crusaders lose S. Jean d'Acre, their last possession in Palestine.

1313 Robert of Anjou, king of Naples, causes the disciples of S. Francis of a.s.sisi to be admitted into Jerusalem.

1491 The Franciscans of Mount Sion dispersed in the reign of sultan Malec-dhaher-djahmak.

1517-18 Selim I., sultan of Constantinople, conquers Syria and Palestine.

1534 Sultan Solyman, son of Selim I., builds the wall of the city, together with many edifices and fountains.

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine.

1832 Conquest of Syria and Palestine by Ibrahim Pasha.

1841 Syria and Palestine restored to the Sultan.

1859 Surraya Pasha, governor of Palestine, subdues the chiefs of the country, and restores tranquillity.

1860 Ma.s.sacre of the Christians in the Lebanon and at Damascus.

Palestine remains tranquil under the good government of Surraya Pasha.

PRINc.i.p.aL Pa.s.sAGES FROM THE HOLY BIBLE

BEARING UPON THE STATEMENTS IN THE TEXT.

GENESIS.

[Sidenote: Valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.]

"And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale." xiv. 17. (page 1.)

[Sidenote: Salem.]

"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine." xiv. 18.

(p. 1.)

[Sidenote: Moriah.]

"And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." xxii. 2.

(pp. 17, 46.)

[Sidenote: Jehovah-jireh.]

"And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen." xxii. 14. (pp.

17, 46.)

EXODUS.

[Sidenote: Altar of stone.]

"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." xx. 25. (p. 54.)

"Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon." xx. 26. (p. 89.)

LEVITICUS.

[Sidenote: Altar.]

"And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar." i. 11. (pp. 50, 89.)

[Sidenote: Place of the ashes.]

"And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes." i. 16. (pp. 50, 92.)

DEUTERONOMY.