with us, and we will serve thee. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. 1 Sam. xxviii, 1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel: and Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men. king of Assyria seut Rab-shakeh Isa. xxxvi, 2, 3, 13, 14, 16. And the from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto king Hezekiah, with a great army: and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the unto him Ellakim, Hilkiah's son, fuller's field. Then came forth which was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 2 Sam. ii, 27. And Joab said, Thus saith the king, Let not HeAs God liveth, unless thou hadst zekiah deceive you; for he shall spoken, surely then in the morn-ken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith not be able to deliver you. Hearing the people had gone up every the king of Assyria, Make an one from following his brother. and come out to me: and eat ye agreement with me by a present, every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern. 2 Sam. xx, 16, 17, 19, 20. Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. I am one of them that are peacable and faith ful in Israel: thou seekest to de stroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. 1 Kings xx, 2, 4. And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad. And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have. hast heard what the kings of AsIsa. xxxvii, 11-13. Behold, thou syria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly, and shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? Where is the as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? CAPITULATION. people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jer. xxi, 8, 9. And unto this the LORD, Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by but he that goeth out, and falleth the famine, and by the pestilence: to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 2 Kings xviii, 27-30. But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they that bring their neck under the Jer. xxvii, 11-13. But the nations may eat their own dung, and drink yoke of the king of Babylon, and their own piss with you? Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with still in their own land, saith the serve him, those will I let remain a loud voice in the Jew's language, LORD; and they shall till it, and and spake, saying, Hear the word dwell therein. I spake also to of the great king, the king of As- Zedekiah king of Judah accordsyria: Thus saith the king, Let ing to all these words, saying, not Hezekiah deceive you; for he Bring your necks under the yoke shall not be able to deliver you of the king of Babylon, and serve out of his hand: Neither let Heze-him and his people, and live. Why kiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 2 Chron. xxxii, 18. Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city will ye die, thou and thy people, Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus be burnt with fire; and thou shalt shall live, and this city shall not live, and thine house: But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the with fire,and thou shalt not escape Chaldeans, and they shall burn it out of their hand. And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen me into their hand, and they mock to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me. shall not deliver thee. Obey, I But Jeremiah said, They beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so soul shall live. But if thou refuse it shall be well unto thee, and thy to go forth, this is the word that behold, all the women that are the LORD hath shewed me: And, left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those against thee; thy feet are sunk in set thee on, and have prevailed women shall say, Thy friends have away back. So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children the mire, and they are turned to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burnt with shalt be taken by the hand of the fire. Josh. ix, 25, 27. And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemand drawers of water for the conunto us, do. And Joshua made eth good and right unto thee to do them that day hewers of wood gregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I 1 Kings xx, 34. And Ben-hadad will restore; and thou shalt make with this covenant. So he made a streets for thee in Damascus, as said Ahab, I will send thee away covenant with him, and sent him my father made in Samaria. Then away anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will diGen. xlix, 7. Cursed be their vide them in Jacob, and scatter MISCELLANEOUS. them in Israel. that was in distress, and every (Now David had said, Surely in vain pertained unto him; and he hath requited me evil for good. So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertaineth to him, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 1 Kings xvi, 21, 22. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. Neh. iv, 7, 8, 17, 22, 23. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashidohites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very Wroth. And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put theni off for washing. Isa. xv, 9. For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land, Isa. XXX, 7,9. For the Egyptians | God shall give Israel: and there shall help in vain, and to no pur- shall not be an old man in thine pose: therefore have I cried con-house for ever. And I will raise cerning this, Their strength is to me up a faithful priest, that shall sit still. That this is a rebellious do according to that which is in people, lying children, children mine heart and in my mind: and that will not hear the law of the I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before mine LORD. Anointed for ever. Jer. x1, 7. I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I havegiventhedearly-belovedofmy soul into the hand of her enemies. Jer. xxv, 13, 14, 18-20. And I will Jer. xli, 16-18. Then took Jo- Ps. lxxvi, 4, 6. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep Prov. xxi, 22. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof. Prov. xxvii, 6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend: but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Cant. vi, 12, 13. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Ammi-nadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. Isa. xl, 13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cat off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. Jer. xxix, 7. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. Jer. xxx, 17, 19. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an This is Zion, Outcast, saying, inan seeketh after. whom no And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 2 Cor. x, 4-6. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every 1 Sam. ii, 31, 32, 35. Behold, the high thing that exalteth itself days come, that I will cut off thine against the knowledge of God, arm, and the arm of thy father's and bringing into captivity every the obedience of house, that there shall not be an thought to Christ; And having in a readi old man in thine house. thou shalt see an enemy in my ness to revenge all disobedience, habitation, in all the wealth which | when your obedience is fulfilled. 760 And THE SEA. Gen. 1, 9, 10. And God sald, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to gether of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. Neh. ix, 10, 11. And shewedst Bigns and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: so didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a Stone into the mighty waters. Job xxvi, 10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. Job xxxviii, 8, 10, 11, 16. Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Ps. xxxiii, 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Ps. civ, 6-9. Thou coveredst it with the deepaswith agarment: the Waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the Voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to Cover the earth. Isa. v, 30. And in that day they shall roar against them like the WATER. compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. Dan. vii, 2. Daniel spake, and formed from under the waters, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. Ps. 1xxxviil, 6, 7. Thou hast laid heaven saith the Lord GOD, When I shall Ezek. xxvi, 15, 18, 19. For thos make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover Lord GOD to Tyrus, Shall not thee. Thus saith the the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Now shall the fall; yea, the isles that are in the isles tremble in the day of thy sea shall be troubled at thy departure. shalt die the deaths of them that thee down to the pit, and thou Ezek. xxviii, 8. They shall bring are slain in the midst of the seas. Lord GOD, In the day when he Ezek. xxxi, 15. Thus saith the went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods stayed; and I caused Lebanon to thereof, and the great waters were mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. Rev. vill, 8, 9. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the Le-third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creahad life, died; and the third part tures which were in the sea, and of the ships were destroyed. P8. cxxiv, 4, 5. Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream the proud waters had gone over had gone over our soul: Then our soul. Isa. 11, 14-16, 36. The captive the heavens, and lay the founda- the LORD, Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for Rev. xvi, 3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of died in the sea. a dead man: and every living soul ALWAYS UNDER DIVINE CONTROL eth out the heavens, and treadeth Job ix, 8. Which alone spread. upon the waves of the sea. Job xxvi, 12. He divideth the understanding he smiteth through sea with his power, and by his the proud. us, O God of our salvation; whi Ps. Ixv, 5, 7. By terrible thing! in righteousness wilt thou auswel of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Which still eth the noise of the seas, the noist of their waves, and the tumult of the people. art the confidence of all the end roaring of the sea: and if one look thee, and I will dry up her sea, Lam. iii, 54. Waters flowed over 761 Ps. xciii, 3, 4. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Isa. xvii, 12, 13. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Isa. xxiv, 14. They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. SEAS MENTIONED IN Acts xxvii, 27. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. MEDITERRANEAN-VARIOUSLY Num. xxxiv, 6. And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. Exod. xiii, 18. But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. Exod. xxiii, 81. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee. SALT OR DEAD SEA. Num. xxxiv, 12. And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. Deut. iii, 17. The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. Joel ii, 20. .... With his face toward the east sea, and his binder part toward the sea.... utmost SEA OF GALILEE OR TIBERIAS. Matth. iv, 18. And Jesus, walk ing by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. Deut. xi, 24. Every place where- John vi, 1. After these things on the soles of your feet shall Jesus went over the sea of tread shall be yours: from the wil-Galilee, which is the sea of derness and Lebanon, from the berias. river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. Deut. xxxiv, 2. And all Naphtall, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea. Ezra iil, 7. They gave money also unto the masons, and to the Carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. 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 that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west. Job xxviii, 10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. Eccles. 1, 7. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. Isa. xxiil, 10. Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. Ps. xlvi, 4. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. Ezek. xxxil, 13, 14. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters, neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Ezek. xlvii, 1-3,5-8, 11, 12. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, be hold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the fore-front of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the bouse, at the south side of the of the way of the gate northward, altar. Then brought he me out and led me about the way with out unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured Ti-a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side, and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down intothe desert,and go into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they John xxi, 1. After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias: and on this wise showed he himself. SEA OF JAZER. Jer. xlviii, 32. O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summerfruits, and upon thy vintage. RIVERS. Judges v, 21. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. 1 Chron. xii, 15. These are they shall be given to salt. And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine Joel iii, 18. And it shall come to shall come forth of the house of Nahum iil, 8, 9. Art thou better Zech. xiv, S. 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 bo Rev. vill, 10, 11. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon' the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Rev. xvi, 3, 4. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. RIVERS MENTIONED IN ABANA AND PHARPAR. 2 Kings v, 12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage. ARNON. Deut. ii, 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead. CHEBAR. pass in the thirtieth year, in the Ezek. 1, 1, 3. Now it came to fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, of the LORD was there upon him. by the river Chebar; and the hand Ezek. iii, 15. Then I came to that dwelt by the river of Chebar, them of the captivity at Tel-abib, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. Ezek. x, 15, 20. And the cheruliving creature that I saw by the bim were lifted up. This is the creature that I saw under the river of Chebar. This is the living God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubim. EUPHRATES AND HIDDEKEL. Gen. ii, 14. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. GIHON. Gen. 11, 13. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. GOZAN 2 Kings v, 9, 11, 13. So Naanian up a river, and hasteth not: he KANAH. out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings Josh. xvi, 8. The border went out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. year of Hoshea the king of Assy- JABBOK. Gen. xxxii, 22, 23. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. Deut. il, 87. Only unto the place of the river Jabbok, nor Ulai, which called, and said, Ga briel, make this man to understand the vision. |