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Excerpt from A Connection of Sacred and Profane History, Vol. 2: From the Death of Joshua to the Decline of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah; Intended to Complete the Works of Shuckford and Phideaux In the first place, we may be disposed to attribute to such catalogues as I have mentioned a greater degree of fidelity and exactness than we should otherwise ascribe to them, when we call to mind that the people of the East, and more especially the native tribes of Arabia and Syria, have always taken the greatest pains to preserve their genealogies, and to hand down an entire record of their principal families, their chiefs, their priests, and their judges. The first efforts of literature among the shepherds of Mesopotamia and Canaan, appear to have been directed to hardly any other object besides perpetuating the names and succession of their patriarchs; and the tablets which contained the genealogy of his tribe were regarded by the descendant of Abraham as the most valuable treasure that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.