they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch | read it in their ears. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber: and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Acts xiii, 15. And after the readIng of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Acts xv, 21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the [synagogues every sabbath-day. OBLIGATION TO HEAR IT. Josh. iii, 9. And Joshua said into the children of Israel, Come ither, and hear the words of the LORD your God. 1 Sam. ix, 27. And as they were oing down to the end of the city, jamuel said to Saul, Bid the serant pass on before us, (and he assed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the Ford of God. 2 Kings xx, 16. And Isaiah said nto Hezekiah, Hear the word of be LORD. P3. 1, 7. Hear, O my people, and will speak; O Israel, and I will stify against thee: I am God, ven thy God. Ps. lxxviii, 1. Give ear, O my eople, to my law: incline your ars to the words of my mouth. Isa. xxviii, 23. Give ye ear, and sar my voice; hearken, and hear y speech. Isa. xxxiii, 13. Hear, ye that are r off, what I have done; and, ye at are near, acknowledge my ight. Isa. xxxiv, 1. Come near, ye naons, to hear; and hearken, ye ople: let the earth hear, and all at is therein; the world, and I things that come forth of it. Jer. vi, 18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. which the LORD speaketh unto Jer. x, 1. Hear ye the word you, O house of Israel. Jer. xvii, 19, 20. Thus said the LORD unto me, Go and stand in people, whereby the kings of the gate of the children of the Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates. Jer. xxix, 20. Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon. Jer. xliv, 24. Moreover, Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt. Ezek. xvi, 35. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD. Ezek. xxxiv, 7. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD. Amos iii, 1. Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying. Amos v, 1. Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. Matth. xi, 15. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Deut. iv, 1, 5, 14. Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes, and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. statutes and judgments, even as Behold, I have taught you the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Deut. v, 1, 31. And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your them, and keep, and do them. ears this day, that ye may learn But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the Mark iv, 23. If any man have which thou shalt teach them, that and statutes, the judgments, ears to hear, let him hear. Mark vii, 16. If any man have which I give them to possess it. they may do them in the land ears to hear, let him hear. Matth. xili, 9. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Luke viii, 8. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundred-fold. And when he had said these things, he Isa. xxxix, 5. Then said Isaiah cried, He that hath ears to hear, Hezekiah, Hear the word of e LORD of hosts. Isa. li, 4. Hearken unto me, my ople; and give ear unto me, O y nation: for a law shall proceed m me, and I will make my igment to rest for a light of the ople. Jer. ii, 4. Hear ye the word of e LORD, O house of Jacob, and the families of the house of rael. let him hear. Rev. ii, 29. He that hath an ear, unto the churches. let him hear what the Spirit saith Rev. iii, 6, 13, 22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. He that hath an ear, let him hear churches. He that hath an ear, what the Spirit saith unto the let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Rev. xiii, 9. If any man have an Jer. v, 21. Hear now this, O ar not. Prov. xxviil, 9. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the 657 Deut. vi, 1, 3. Now these are and the judgments, which the the commandments, the statutes, LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to pos sess it: Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. shall observe to do in the land statutes and judgments which ye Deut. xii, 1, 28. These are the which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it thy children after thee for ever, may go well with thee, and with when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God, Deut. xxx, 14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Ps. cv, 45. That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD. Ps. cxix, 17, 101, 102, 129. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. Prov. v, 7. Hear me now there fore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. James i, 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Rev. i, 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. NEGLECT OF THIS DUTY, AND ITS DANGER. Ps. cxix, 150. They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Jer. viii, 8, 9. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the 1.ORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made be it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? Jer. xx, 8. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Jer. xxiii, 33, 34, 35-40. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD, Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; Therefore, behold, I, even 1, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a per- tude away, and went into the house: and his disciples case unto him, saying, Declare auto the parable of the tares of the field. Matth. xv, 10. And be called t multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand. Mark iv, 13. And he said l them, Know ye not this para and how then will ye kaos L parables? Mark vii, 14. And when be bat called all the people in he said unto them, Hearken me every one of you, and mer stand. Luke viii, 11. Now the p is this: The seed is the word God. Luke xxiv, 27. And begini at Moses and all the proposa bi expounded unto them is il te scriptures the things co himself. Jer. xxxvi. 11-13, 16. 20. 23, 25, 29. When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid, both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. Nevertheless Elnathan, and Delaiah, Acts xviii, 26. And he be and Gemariah, had made intercession to the king that he would speak boldly in the STAN not burn the roll; but he would whom when Aquila and Frst had heard, they took linz not hear them. And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, them, and expounded the Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast the way of God more periscis Acts xxviii, 23. And when burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, had appointed him a day, The king of Babylon shall certain-came many to him into ly come and destroy this land, ing; to whom he exported and shall cause to cease from testified the kingdom of persuading them thence man and beast? Jesus, both out of the in Moses, and out of the progim from morning till evening, Hosea viii, 12. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE. Ezra vii, 10. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judg ments. Neh. viii, 7, 8. Also Jeshua, and Bani,and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Matth. xiii, 18, 36. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. Then Jesus sent the multi Acts viil, 28, 30, 31. [The e Was returning, and sh chariot, read Esaias the p And Philip ran thither to and heard him read the pro Esaias, and said, Unders thou what thou readest? And said, How can 1, except man should guide me? A desired Philip that he would up and sit with him. DESIRE AND BENEFIT 7 AND SEARCHING STANDING IT. Deut. vi, 7. And that s children..... teach them diligently Neh. viii, 13. And on the day were gathered togeth chief of the fathers of people, the priests, and Levites, unto Ezra the even to understand the air of the law. Ps. cxix, 12, 13, 46, 172 art thou, O LORD, teach " statutes. With my life b declared all the judgmen mouth. I will speak of th monies also before kings not be ashamed. My ༩ shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are right cousness. Dan. vii, 16. I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. Matth. xiii, 51, 52. Jesus saith into them, Have ye understood il these things? They say unto im, Yea, Lord. Then said he into them, Therefore every cribe, which is instructed unto he kingdom of heaven, is like nto a man that is an householder, hich bringeth forth out of his reasure things new and old. Matth. xv, 15, 16. Then answerd Peter, and said unto him, Delare unto us this parable. And --esus said, Are ye also yet withat understanding. Mark iv, 10-12. And when he as alone, they that were about im with the twelve asked of him e parable. And he said unto iem, Unto you it is given to now the mystery of the king om of God: but unto them that e without, all these things are one in parables: That seeing ey may see, and not perceive; id hearing they may hear, and t understand; lest at any time ey should be converted, and eir sins should be forgiven em. law of Moses my servant, which I night, and have kept thy law. | hands also will I lift up unto thy Heb. ii, 1. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 Peter ill, 1. This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. Jude 17. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. MEDITATION UPON IT. lay up these my words in your Deut. xxxii. 46. And he said Josh. i, 8. This book of the law day and night, that thou mayest Job xxiii, 12. Neither have I Ps. i, 2, 3. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 1 John ii, 13, 14. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, known the Father. I have written little children, because ye have unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beyoung men, because ye are strong, ginning. I have written unto you, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. found, and I did eat them. . . . . Jer. xv, 16. Thy words were Ezek. ii, 8, 9. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein. unto me, Son of man, eat that Ezek. iii, 1-3. Moreover, he said thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. Rev. x, 8-10. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and in the hand of the angel which take the little book which is open the earth. And I went unto the standeth upon the sea and upon angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said Ps. cxix, 11, 15, 47, 48, 82, 95, 97, unto me, Take it, and eat it up; 127, 131, 148, 167. Thy word have and it shall make thy belly bitter, I hid in mine heart, that I might but it shall be in thy mouth sweet not sin against thee. I will medi- as honey. And I took the little tate in thy precepts, and have re- book out of the angel's hand, and delight myself in thy command-sweet as honey: and as soon as I spect unto thy ways. And I will ate it up; and it was in my mouth ments, which I have loved. My had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 659 1st. PRIMEVAL LANGUAGE. Gen. ii, 19, 20. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air. and to every beast of the field: but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. ORIGIN OF DIFFERENT Gen. xi, 1, 6, 7, 9. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Deut. xxviii, 49. The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Ps. cxiv, 1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language. Isa. xxviii, 11. For with stammering lips, and another tongue, will he speak to this people. Isa. xxxiii, 19. Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. Jer. v, 15. Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. Frek. iti, 5. 6. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange SPEECH. speech, and of an hard language, thee. 1 Cor. xlv, 10, 11, 21. There are, VARIOUS LANGUAGES MENTIONED Gen. xli, 23. And they knew terpreter. Judges xil, 5, 6. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over, that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. 2 Kings xviii, 26. Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shena, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it; and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. Esther iii, 12. Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written (according to all that Haman had commanded) unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province, according to the writing thereof, and to every people atter their language; in the name of the Ahasuerus was it written, ani sealed with the king's ring. Isa. xix, 18. In that day stall five cities in the land of E speak the language of Caman and swear to the LORD of b one shall be called, The city destruction. Isa. xxxvi, 11. Then sa kim, and Shebna, and Josh, we Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray th unto thy servants in the S language; for we understand and speak not to us in the dem language, in the ears of the per ple that are on the wall. Dan. i. 4. Children ....Fis they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Challes Dan. v, 24-28. Then was 2 part of the hand sent from bi and this writing was wr And this is the writing ths: written, MENE, MENĚ, TESL UPHARSIN. This is the 37 pretation of the thing. M God hath numbered by ER dom, and finished it. TEX Thon art weighed in the false and art found wanting. PER Thy kingdom is divided given to the Medes and M sians. Dan. vi, 25. Then king Tes wrote unto all people, a and languages, that dwel ** the earth; Peace be muapé unto you. Acts ii, 8-11. And how berr every man in our own k wherein we were bort * thians, and Medes, and Eland and the dwellers in Mesta and in Judea, and Cappad Pontus, and Asia. Phryga Pamphylia in Egypt, and ** parts of Libya about Cyreba strangers of Rome, Je Proselytes. Cretes, and ians, we do hear them si our tongues the wonderful woof God. Acts xxi. 37. And as Pri to be led into the castle, be unto the chief captan N speak unto thee? Who su thou speak Greek? SIGNIFICANCY OF ANCIEN NAMES OF PERSONS Gen. ill, 20. And Adan 2 his wife's name Eve; besze was the mother of all living Gen. v, 29. And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of ourhands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. Gen. xvii, 5, 15. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram; but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee. And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. Gen. xxxv, 10. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. Gen. xli, 51, 52. And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. Exod. ii, 22. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land, Exod. xviii, 3,4. And her two sons; of which the name of the one was LORD to me, Call his name Ma- Dan. i, 6, 7. Now among these Hosea i, 4-6 9. And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel. And she couceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamab: for I will no of Israel; but I will utterly take more have mercy upon the house them away. Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Gershom; (for he said, I have been to Jesus. And when Jesus be- OF PLACES. Ruth i, 20, 21. And she said unto Gen. xvi, 13, 14. And she called hem, Call me not Naomi, call me the name of the LORD that spake Mara: for the Almighty hath unto her, Thou God seest me: for lealt very bitterly with me. I vent out full, and the LORD hath after him that seeth me? Whereshe said, Have I also here looked rought me home again empty: fore the well was called Beer-lawhy then call ye me Naomi, see-hai-roi; behold, it is between ng the LORD hath testified against Kadesh and Bered. ne, and the Almighty hath afll.ctd me? 1 Sam. iv, 21. And she named he child I-chabod, saying, The lory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was aken, and because of her fathern-law, and her husband.) 1 Sam. xxv, 25. Let not my lord, pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal; for as his name 8, so is he: Nabal is his name, and olly is with him: but I, thine andmaid, saw not the young nen of my lord, whom thou didst iend. 2 Sam. xii, 25. And he sent by he hand of Nathan the prophet; and be called his name Jedidiah, Decause of the LORD. Isa. viii, 3, 4. And I went unto he prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Gen. xix, 22. Haste ye, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing Gen. xxil, 14. And Abraham Gen. xxvi, 33. And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. Gen. xxxi, 47-49. And Laban ban said, This heap is a witness Num. x1, 3, 34. And he called the name of the place Taberah; because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. And he called the taavah: beceuse there they buried name of that place Kibroth-hatthe people that lusted. Josh. xxii, 34. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God. Judges ii, 5. And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD. Judges vi, 24. Then Gideon built called it Jehovah-shalom: unto an altar there unto the LORD, and this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. Judges xv, 17. And it came to of speaking, that he cast away pass, when he had made an end the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi. Judges xviii, 12. And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-Jearim, in Judah; wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dar. unto this day; behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim. made a breach upon Uzza: where1 Chron. xlii, 11. And David was displeased, because the LORD had fore that place is called Perezuzza to this day. 1 Chron. xiv, 11. So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like therefore they called the name of the breaking forth of waters: that place Baal-perazim. Isaiah lxii, 4. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: and thy land shall be married. for the LORD delighteth in thee, Jer. xix, 6. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The vailey of slaughter. Ezek. xx, 29. Then I said unto them Wha is the high place |