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Title: A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible
Second Edition

Author: Frank Nelson Palmer

Commentator: J. Wilbur Chapman

Release Date: August 7, 2005 [EBook #16461]

Language: English

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A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE BIBLE

[SECOND EDITION]

BY

FRANK NELSON PALMER

Instructor of English Bible, Winona Schools, 1903-1911

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

REV. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D.D.

(To First Edition)

CINCINNATI
MONFORT & COMPANY
1914

Copyright, 1914, by FRANK N. PALMER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 7

PREFACE TO THE SERIES 8

PREFACE TO THE BOOK 10

CHART OF THE SIXTY-SIX BOOKS OF THE BIBLE 13

THE KINGDOM FORESHADOWED 17

THE KINGDOM FORMING 29

THE KINGDOM CONQUERING 39

THE KINGDOM UNDIVIDED AND THE KINGDOM DIVIDED--
The Historical Books 47
The Poetical Books 55
The Prophetical Books 65

THE KINGDOM IN CAPTIVITY 73

THE KINGDOM RESTORED 79

THE KINGDOM'S TRUE KING 89

THE KINGDOM CONQUERING THE WORLD 97
The Acts 98
The Pauline Epistles 103
The General Epistles 111

THE KINGDOM TRIUMPHANT 117

INTRODUCTION

TO FIRST EDITION

The Bible is a Lamp to our feet and a light to our pathway. To know it
thoroughly is to be kept from stumbling, and to walk in the light is
fellowship with Him who is the heart of the Book.

The Bible is a Rock; to be familiar with its pages is to be established
in character