Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We must, however, acknowledge our grat itude to those writers, who have laboured to give information respecting the idolatrous wor ship of the inhabitants of Canaan, and the sur rounding nations, before the Hebrews came out of Egypt; but had they attended to the mean ing of those words, which so frequently occur, the Hebrew pronunciation of which is constant ly retained in the English, and also in all the European Bibles, much information would at this day have been before the world.