Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jevons, Stanley" to "Joint"

book is Yahweh's answer to the people's prayer. The answer begins with a

promise of deliverance from famine, and of fruitful seasons compensating for the ravages of the locusts. In the new prosperity of the land the union of Yahweh and his people shall be sealed anew, and so the Lord will proceed to pour down further and higher blessings. The aspiration of Moses (Num. xi. 29) and th...