Thank you for the link to the book's archive.org location. I noticed that the pdf version is only 85.7 MB on archive.org despite being 715 pages long. It has good quality scans of each page and seems to be fully searchable. Of course, King David is mentioned many times, but his Ahitophel, his counselor is mentioned only twice in the main body of the book and once in the index. A (ctrl F) search of that term takes you immediately to page 190 in the pdf which is Page 96 in the scanned book where “125. THE FOUNDATION STONE” is located.
My wife reads and studies every part of the Bible over and over again as part of her daily morning meditation. She makes it completely through all of the books of the Bible every few months. She has an encyclopedic mind, so it is always amusing when someone tries to challenge her biblical knowledge.
To me it is more interesting to find books like this one and transfer them to a tablet or “Kindle” to enjoy them. I do enjoy the commentary and the easy-to-understand translations. The book is a marvel, and I appreciate you so much for bringing it to my attention.
The various descriptions in this story are quite interesting: “He took snow from beneath the Throne of Glory and cast it into the waters, where it congealed into a stone in the midst of the Deep.”
“They descended into the pit, and there, at the bottom, they saw the immense stone, shining like the darkest emerald.”
There are also warnings that this stone should not be disturbed. And of course, in reality being located over 400 miles below the surface of the earth... it is not very likely that deposits of “the stone” will be disturbed in any way during our lifetimes.
To me it is always interesting when tales from the ancient world somehow manage to correlate fairly well with modern discoveries.
Glad you are enjoying new-found treasure.
Another nice thing about the vast content, is that so much can be used as a springboard to bounce into an internet search for the sources or more information about any particular subject.
Maybe nothing seemingly important as far as search engines ‘think’, so I suspect they leave the information unmolested for the most part.
The extensive TOC and index add to its research value.