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we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Hosea X, 12. . . . . . It is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

RAIN PROMISED.

Lev. xxvi, 4. Then I will give you rain in due season. . . . .

Deut. xi, 14. . . . I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain, and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine

oil.

1 Kings xviii, 1. And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

Jer. xiv, 22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things. I will Ezek. xxxiv, 26. cause the shower to come down

not yield her increase, give the sin of thy servants, and I shall of thy people Israel, when thou neither shall the trees of the land hast taught them the good way yield their fruits. wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

Zech. x, 1. Ask ye of the LORD
rain in the time of the latter rain;
so the LORD shall make bright

clouds, and give them showers of
rain, to every one grass in the
field.

DROUGHT.

Job xxxviii, 38. When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Isa. xli, 17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, the God of Israel will not for

sake them.

Jer. v, 24, 25. Neither say they
in their heart, Let us now fear
the LORD our God, that giveth
Your
rain, both the former and the
latter, in his season.
iniquities have turned away these
things, and your sins have with-
holden good things from you.

Jer. xiv, 4. Because the ground in his season; there shall be show is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were covered their ers of blessing. ashamed, they heads.

Joel ii, 23. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God; for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

AND PRAYED FOR. 1 Sam. xii, 17. Is it not wheatharvest to-day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 1 Kings vill, 35, 36. When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

2 Chron. vi, 26, 27. When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them: Then hear thou from heaven, aud for

Ezek. xxii, 24. Son of man, say

unto her, Thou art the land that
is not cleansed, nor rained upon
in the day of indignation.

Joel i, 19. O LORD, to thee will
I cry: for the fire hath devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
burnt all
and the flame hath
the trees of the field.

Amos iv, 7, 8. And also I have
withholden the rain from you,
when there were yet three months
to the harvest: and I caused it to
rain upon one city, and caused it
not to rain upon another city: one
piece was rained upon, and the
piece whereupon it rained not
withered. So two or three cities
wandered unto one city, to drink
water; but they were not satisfied:
yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith the LORD.

Haggai i, 10. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

DROUGHT THREATENED.

Lev. xxvi, 18-20. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as And your strength shall brass. be spent in vain: for your land

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Deut. xxviii, 23, 24. And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under

The LORD thee shall be iron. shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust. . . . . .

1 Kings xvii, 1. And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

Isa. v, 6. And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also conmand the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Hosea xiii, 15. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilcome dry, and his fountain shall derness, and his spring shall bebe dried up. . . . .

Haggai i, 11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

SEASONS.

Gen. xiii, 22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Ps. xxxii, 4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my is turned into the moisture drought of summer. Selah.

Ps. lxv, 10. . . . . Thou blessest the springing thereof.

Ps. lxxiv, 17. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.

Cant. ii, 10, 11. My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come the rain is over and gone. away: For, lo, the winter is past,

Ezek. xvii, 9. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GoD, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring.

Zech. xiv, 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

Matth. xxiv, 32, 33. Now learn a

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1 Kings xviii, 41, 43-45. And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. And

[Elijah] said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Alab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. And it came to pass in the mean while,

that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.

Job xxxvi, 33. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

Job xxxvii. 22. And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds; but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. Fair weather cometh out of the north.

Prov. xxv, 23. The north wind driveth away rain; so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Matth. xvi, 2, 3. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather; for the sky is red: And in the morning. It will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Luke xii, 54-57. And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower, and so it is. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? Yea, and why even of yourselves Judge ye not what is right?

DEW.

Gen. ii. 5. 6. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground..

Gen. xxvii, 39. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be

the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.

Num. xi, 9. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Job xxxviii, 28. Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Prov. iii, 20. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Cant. v, 2. . . . . . My head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Daniel iv, 15. Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

2 Sam. xvii, 12. So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground.

Job xxix, 19. My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Ps. cx, 3. . . . . Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Ps. cxxxiii, 3. As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion.....

Prov. xix, 12. . . . . . His [the king's] favour is as dew upon the grass.

Hosea xiv, 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Micah v, 7. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

THUNDER.

1 Sam. vii, 10. And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

1 Sam. xii, 17. Is it not wheat harvest to-day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain. . . . . .

2 Sam. xxii, 14. The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

Job xxxvii, 4, 5. After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency: and he will not stay them when his voice is heard. God thundereth marvellously with his voice.....

Ps. Ixxvii,18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Ps. civ, 7. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Isa. xxix, 6. Thou shall be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder. . . . . .

John xii, 29. The people therefore that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.

Rev. iv, 5. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices. . . . .

LIGHTNING.

2 Sam. xxii, 15. And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

Job i, 16. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burnt up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job xxxviii, 35. Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

Ps. xviii, 14. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and

discomfited them.

Ps. xxix, 7. The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

Ps. xcvii, 4. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Ps. cxliv, 6. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Jer. x, 13. . . . . . He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

Matth. xxiv, 27. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.

Exod. xix, 16. And it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so

That all the people that was in the Camp trembled.

Exod. xx, 18. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and, when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

Job xxxvii, 1, 3, 4. At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency.

Joshua x, 11. And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hail-stones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Ps. Ixxviii, 47, 48. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. gave up their cattle also to the

hail.

He

Isa. xxviii, 2, 17. Behold, the Lord hath a mightyand strong one, Job xxxviii, 25. Who hath which, as a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall

cast down to the earth with the

divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder. P3. xviii, 12, 13. At the bright-hand. Judgment also will I lay to ness that was before him his thick the line, and righteousness to the clouds passed, hail-stones and plummet; and the hail shall sweep coals of fire. The LORD also thun- away the refuge of lies, and the dered in the heavens, and the waters shall overflow the hidingHighest gave his voice; hail-stones place. and coals of fire.

Rev. vili, 5. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

A DESCRIPTION OF A THUNDERSTORM. P3. xxix, 1-11. Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth; the LORD is upon many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. The Voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire. The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the LORD maketh the binds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever. The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

HAIL.

Exod. ix, 18. Behold, to-morrow about this time, I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until

Isa. xxxii, 19. When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Ezek. xiii, 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury, to consume it.

Ezek. xxxviii, 22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and

brimstone.

Haggai ii, 17. I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Rev. viii, 7. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Rev. xvi, 21. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

SNOW.

Job ix, 30. If I wash myself with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean.

Job xxxvii, 6. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job xxxviii, 22, 23. Hast thou

entered into the treasures of the snow; or hast thou seen the treas ures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Ps. li, 7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me. and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ps. lxviii, 14. When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

Ps. cxlvii, 16. He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes.

Isa. lv, 10..

The rain

cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth.

Jer. xviii, 14. Will a man leave snow of Lebanon which the or shall the cold flowing waters cometh from the rock of the field? forsaken? that come from another place be

Matth. xxviii, 3. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

CHANGES OF TEMPERA-
TURE.

Gen. viii, 22. While the earth cold and heat, remaineth, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Exod. xvi, 14. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar-frost, on the ground.

Job vi, 17. What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of

their place.

Job xxxvii, 9, 10, 17. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind; and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given; and the breadth of the waters is How thy garments straitened. are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Job xxxviii, 29, 30. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Ps. cxlvii, 17, 18. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow.

Jer. xxxvi, 30. Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Mark xiv, 54. And Peter followel

him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

I I.

THE SECOND OR STARRY
HEAVENS.

Gen. i, 6, 7. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Job xxxvii, 18. Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten lookingglass?

THE HEAVENLY BODIES.

Gen. i, 14-18. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Ps. xix, 5, 6. Which [the sun] is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it..

Ps. civ, 19. He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun know eth his going down.

1 Cor. xv, 40, 41. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

Ps. lxxil, 5, 7. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Ps. cxxi, 6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night,

Isa. xxx, 26. Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Rev. xii, 1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

Rev. xvi, 8. And the fouth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

REFLECTIONS.

Ps. vili, 3, 4. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Ps. xix, 1-4. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world....

Ps. xcvii, 6. The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

Ps. cxxxvi, 7-9. To him that made great lights: for his mercy

endureth for ever: The sun to

rule by day: for his mercy endur

eth for ever: The moon and

stars to rule by night: for his
mercy endureth for ever.

Ps. cxlviii, 3-5. Praise ye him,
sun and moon: praise him, all ye
stars of light. Praise him, ye
heavens of heavens, and ye waters
that be above the heavens. Let
them praise the name of the
LORD: for he commanded, and
they were created.

Prov. xxv, 3. The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Jer. xxxi, 37. Thus saith the LORD. If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also east off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

SUNRISE.

Gen. xix, 23. The sun was risen
upon the earth when Lot entered
into Zoar.

Gen. xxxii,31. And as he [Jacob]
passed over Penuel the sun rose
upon him. . . . .
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2 Sam. xxiii, 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds..

Job xi, 17. And thine age shall be clearer than the noon-day; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

Job xxxviii. 12, 13. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

Ps. lxv, 8. They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

James i, 11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth:

so also shall the rich man fade

away in his ways.

MERIDIAN.

Gen. xviii, 1. And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Exod. xvi, 21. . . . . . And when the sun waxed hot, it [manna] melted.

1 Sam. xi, 9, 11. And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of time the sun be hot, ye shall have Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow, by that help. And the messengers came

and shewed it to the men of Ja

besh; and they were glad. And it

put the people in three companies;

was 80 on the morrow, that Saul

and they came into the midst of the host in the morning-watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day. . . . .

2 Sam. iv, 5. And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

Ps. xix, 6. . . . . . And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof

Isa. iv, 6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Matth. xx, 12. Saying, these last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Rev. i, 16. . . . And his [Christ's] countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

SUNSET.

Gen. xv, 17. And it came to pass,

that, when the sun went down, and It was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Gen. xxviii, 11. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Josh. 1, 4. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Judges xiv, 18. And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day, before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey......

2 Sam. ii, 35. And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.

Jer. xv. 9. She that hath born seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone done while it was yet day; she hath been ashamed and confounded.....

Amos viii, 9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

LIGHT.

Gen. 1, 4, 5. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkAnd God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

ness.

Job xxiv, 13. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job xxxvii, 15. Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to

shine?

Job xxxviil, 19-21. Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to

the house thereof? Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days La great?

Ps. lxxiv, 16. The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Eccles. xi, 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

Jer. xxxi, 85. Thus saith the
LORD, which giveth the sun for a
light by day, and the ordinances
of the moon and of the stars for a

light by night, which divideth the
sea when the waves thereof roar;
The LORD of hosts is his name.

Luke xi, 34-36. The light of the
body is the eye: therefore, when
thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light; but when thine
eye is evil, thy body also is full of
darkness. Take heed therefore
that the light which is in thee be
not darkness. If thy whole body
therefore be full of light, having
no part dark, the whole shall be
full of light, as when the bright
shining of a candle doth give thee
light.

John v, 35. He was a burning and a shining light; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Eph. v, 13. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

1 Thess. v, 5. Ye are all the
children of light, and the children
of the day: we are not of the
night, nor of darkness.

DAY AND NIGHT.
Gen. i, 5, 8. And God called the
light Day, and the darkness he
And the evening
called Night.
and the morning were the first
day. And God called the firma-
ment Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second
day.

Job xvii, 12. They change the
night into day: the light is short
because of darkness.

Ps. lxxiv, 16. The day is thine, the night also is thine.

Eccles. 1, 5. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he

arose.

Jer. xlii, 16. Give glory to the
LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet
stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he
turn it into the shadow of death,
and make it gross darkness.

John ix, 4. I must work the
while
works of him that sent me,
it is day: the night cometh, when

no man can work.

John xi, 9. Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

MONTHS.

in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king.

ZIF.

1 Kings vi, 1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

SIVAN.

Esther vili, 9. Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, (that is, the month Sivan,) on the three and twentieth day thereof.

ELUL.

Neh. vi, 15. So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth and two days. day of the month Elul, in fifty

ETHANIM.

1 Kings viii, 2. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

BUL.

1 Kings vi, 38. And in the

eleventh year, in the month Bul (which is the eighth month.) was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it.

CHISLEU.

Neh. i, 1. The words of Nehemiah And it the son of Hachaliah. came to pass in the month Chisleu, Shushan the palace. in the twentieth year, as I was in

TEBETH.

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Esther iii, 7. In the first month, (that is, the month Nisan,) in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, Neh. ii, 1. And it came to pass they cast Pur, that is, the lot, be

NISAN OR ABIB.

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