# THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS ## BY LOUIS GINZBERG #### VOLUME IV ### BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM JOSHUA TO ESTHER
# CONTENTS ### I. JOSHUA The Servant of Moses--Entering the Promised Land--Conquest of the Land--The Sun Obeys Joshua--War with the Armenians--Allotment of the Land. ### II. THE JUDGES The First Judge--Campaigns of Kenas--Othniel--Boaz and Ruth--Deborah--Gideon--Jephthah--Samson--The Crime of the Crime of the Benjamites. ### III. SAMUEL AND SAUL Elkanah and Hannah--The Youth of Samuel--Eli and His Sons--The Activities of Samuel--The Reign of Saul--The Court of Saul. ### IV. DAVID David's Birth and Descent--Anointed King--Encounter with Goliath--Pursued by Saul--Wars--Ahithophel--Joab--David's Piety and His Sin--Absalom's Rebellion--David's Atonement--Visitations--The Death of David--David in Paradise--The Family of David--His Tomb. ### V. SOLOMON Solomon Punishes Joab--The Marriage of Solomon--His Wisdom-- The Queen of Sheba--Solomon Master of the Demons--The Building of the Temple--The Throne of Solomon--The Hippodrome--Lessons in Humility--Asmodeus--Solomon as Beggar--The Court of Solomon. ### VI. JUDAH AND ISRAEL The Division of the Kingdom--Jeroboam--The Two Ahijabs--Asa-- Jehoshaphat and Ahab--Jezebel--Joram of Israel. ### VII. ELIJAH Elijah before His Translation--After His Translation--Censor and Avenger--Intercourse with the Sages--God's Justice Vindicated--Elijah and the Angel of Death--Teacher of the Kabbalah--Forerunner of the Messiah. ### VIII. ELISHA AND JONAH Elisha the Disciple of Elijah--The Shunammite--Gehazi--The Flight of Jonah Jonah in the Whale--The Repentance of Nineveh. ### IX. THE LATER KINGS OF JUDAH Joash--Three Great Prophets--The Two Kingdoms Chastised--Hezekjah--Miracles Wrought for Hezekiah--Manasseh--Josiah and His Successors. ### X. THE EXILE Zedekiah--Jeremiah--Nebuchadnezzar--The Capture of Jerusalem-- The Great Lament--Jeremiah's Journey to Babylon--Transportation of the Captives--The Sons of Moses--Ebed melech--The Temple Vessels--Baruch--The Tombs of Baruch and Ezekiel--Daniel--The Three Men in the Furnace--Ezekiel Revives the Dead--Nebuchadnezzar a Beast--Hiram--The False Prophets--Daniel's Piety. ### XI. THE RETURN OF THE CAPTIVITY Belshazzar's Feast--Daniel under the Persian Kings--The Grave of Daniel--Zerubbabel--Ezra--The Men of the Great Assembly. ### XII. ESTHER The Feast for the Grandees--The Festivities in Shushan--Vashti's Banquet--The Fate of Vashti--The Follies of Ahasuerus--Mordecai--Esther's Beauty and Piety--The Conspiracy--Haman the Jew-baiter-- Mordecai's Pride--Casting the Lots--The Denunciation of the Jews--The Decree of Annihilation--Satan Indicts the Jews--The Dream of Mordecai Fulfilled--The Prayer of Esther--Esther Intercedes--The Disturbed Night--The Fall of Haman--The Edict of the King.