thousand, and took Selah by war, SHAVEH. Gen. xiv, 17. And the king of his return from the slaughter of SHITTIM. Joel iii, 18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. SIDDIM. 2 Sam. v, 20. And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD Gen. xiv, 3, 8. All these were hath broken forth upon mine enejoined together in the vale of Sid-mies before me, as the breach of dim, which is the salt sea. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim. SOREK. Judges xvi, 4. And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. SUCCOTH. Ps. Ix, 6. God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice: I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. ZARED. Num. xxi, 12. From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. ZEBOIM. Deut. xxxiv, 6. And he buried him in a valley in the land of 1 Sam, xiii, 18. And another Moab, over against Beth-peor: but company turned the way to Bethno man knoweth of his sepulchreturned to the way of the border horon: and another company unto this day. REPHAIM. 2 Sam. v, 18. The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. SALT. 2 Sam. viii, 13. And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of Salt, being eighteen thousand men. 2 Kings xiv, 7. He slew of Edom in the valley of Salt ten that looketh to the valley of Ze- ZEPHATHAH. 2 Chron. xiv, 10. Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. VALLEY OF VISION. Isa. xxii, 1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? waters. Therefore be called the name of that place Baal-perazim. JERICHO. 2 Kings xxv, 5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army were scattered from him. JORDAN. his eyes, and beheld all the plain Gen. xiii, 10. And Lot lifted up of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD. destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 1 Kings vii, 46. In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zarthan. MAMRE. Gen. xviii, 1. And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre. . . . . MOAB. Num. xxii, 1. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab, on this side Jordan by Jericho. Num. xxvi, 63. These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho. Num. xxxvi, 13. These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded, by the hand of Moses, unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho. OFTEN REFERRED TO IN VARIOUS CONNECTIONS. Exod. xxxiii, 22. And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. 1 Sam. xiv, 4. And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side. ... Job xix, 24. That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Job xxviii, 10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. Isa. xxxiii, 16. He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Jer. v, 3. O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Jer. xxiii, 29. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Ezek. xxvi, 4, 14. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. Luke viii, 6. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. IMPORTANT USES. said, Behold, there is a place by Exod. xxxiii, 21. And the LORD me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock. Num. xxiii, 9. For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him..... Job xxiv, 8. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Job xxx, 6. To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Isa. xxxii, 2. And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. ROCKS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ADULLAM. 1 Chron. xi, 15. Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. BOZEZ AND SENEH. 1 Sam. xiv, 4. . . . . and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. Judges vii, 25. And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb: and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the wine press of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan. 1sa. x, 26. And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for Midian at the rock of Oreb: and him, according to the slaughter of as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. RIMMON. Judges xx, 45. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon. SELA-HAMMAH-LEKOTH. 1 Sam. xxii. 28. Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David,and went against the Philis tines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammah-lekoth. ZIZ. 2 Chron. xx, 16. To-morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz... FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, THE FREQUENT NAME OF GOD AND CHRIST. Deut. xxxil, 15, 18. . . . . Then he forsook God chich made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. P8. xvili, 1, 2. I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer..... Ps. xxxi, 2, 3. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore, for thy name's sake, lead me and guide me. P3. lxii, 7. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Ps. lxxxix, 26. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. Ps. xciv, 22. But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. Ps. xcv, 1. O come, let us sing unto the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Isa. viii, 14. And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel; for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Isa. xliii, 19, 20. Behold, I will Jer. ii, 2, 6. Go and cry in the Ezek. vi, 14. So will I stretch out come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. often, in perils of waters, in perils DESERTS MENTIONED IN ARABIAN OR GREAT DESERT. Jer. ii, 6. Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness. . . . . BETHAVEN. goings out thereof were at the BEER-SHEBA. [Elijah] saw that, he arose, and 1 Kings xix, 3, 4. And when went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's jour Isa. xvii, 10. Because thou hast OFTEN SCENES OF DANGER. ney into the wilderness. forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Isa. xxxii, 2. And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Rom. ix. 33. As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 1 Cor. x, 4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Christ.) 1 Peter il, 6, 8. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed. DESERT S. THEIR GENERAL CHARACTER. Deut. 1, 19. And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. Exod. xiv, 3 For Pharaoh will Deut. vill, 15. Who led thee was no Deut. xxviii, 24. The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed." Deut. xxxii, 10. He found him in desert of the sea. Jer. iii, 2. Lift up thine eyes Jer. iv, 11, 12. At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, Even a full wind from those places shall 189 DAMASCUS. 1 Kings xix, 15. And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy cus: and when thou comest, anway to the wilderness of Damasoint Hazael to be king over Syria. EDOM. Which way shall we go up? And 2 Kings iii, 8. And he said, he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom. EN-GEDI. 1 Sam. xxiv, 1. And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying. Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi. GIBEON. 2 Sam. ii, 24. The hill of Moriah, by way of the wilderness of Gibeon. JUDEA. Matth. iii, 1. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. JERUEL. 2 Chron. xx, 16. . And yo shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. KEDEMOTH. sengers out of the wilderness of Deut. ii, 26. And I sent mesKedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying. KADESH. Ps. xxix. 8. The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. MAON. 1 Sam. xxiii, 24. And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. PARAN. ZIN. Num. xx, 1. Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin, in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. Num. xxvil, 14. For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is, the water of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin. OF THE RED SEA. Gen. xxi, 21 And he dwelt in Exod. xiii, 18. But God led the the wilderness of Paran: and his people about, through the way of mother took him a wife out of the the wilderness of the Red sea. land of Egypt. Num. x, 12. And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. SHUR. Gen. xvi, 7. And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. Exod. xv, 22. So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. SIN. And the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. NEAR GAZA. Acts vili, 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. ROADS. Num. xx, 19. And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high-way; and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet. Deut. ii, 27. Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. Exod. xvi, 1. And they took their journey from Elim; and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the Deut. xix, 2, 3. Thou shall separsecond month after their depart- ate three cities for thee in the ing out of the land of Egypt. midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. SINAI. Thou shalt prepare thee a way, Exod. xix, 1, 2. In the third and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth month, when the children of Isthee to inherit, into three parts, rael were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came that every slayer may flee thither they into the wilderness of Sinai. Judges v, 6. In the days of For they were departed from Re-Shamgar the son of Anath, in the phidim, and were come to the days of Jael, the highways were desert of Sinai, and had pitched in unoccupied, and the travellers the wilderness; and there Israel walked through by-ways. camped before the mount. Num. xxxiii, 16. And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah. ZIPH. 1 Sam xxiii, 14, 15. And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph: and Saul sought him every day; but God delivered him not into his hand. And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood. Judges xx, 32. And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. 1 Sam. vi, 12. And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh. when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. Mark x, 46. And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples, and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway-side begging. Luke x, 30-33. And Jesus answering, said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, ani fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leav ing him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him and passed by on the other side But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him. Isa. xi, 16. And there shall be people, which shall be left, from an highway for the remnant of his Assyria, like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Isa. xxxv, 8. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. Isa. xl, 3. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isa. xliii, 19. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. through the gates; prepare ye the Isa. Ixii, 10. Go through, go way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. hath forgotten me, they have Jer. xviii, 15. Because my people burnt incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up. Jer. xxxi, 21. Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, Ŏ virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. Matt. vii, 14. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt. xx, 30. And, behold, two John xiv. 6. Jesus saith unto blind men sitting by the way-side, I him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto | ISLANDS STAND IN HEBREW the Father, but by me. ISLANDS MENTIONED IN CHITTIM. Jer. ii, 10. For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. CLAUDA. Acts xxvii, 16. And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat. CYPRUS. Acts iv, 36. And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation.) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus. Acts xiii, 4-6. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had als John to their minister. And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus. Acts xv, 39. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other; and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus. Acts xxi, 3. Now, when We had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre for there the ship was to unlade her burden. Acts xxvii, 4. And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. ELISIIAH. Ezek. xxvii. 7. Fine linen, with broidered work from Egypt, was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. MELITA. Acts xxviii. 1. And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. PATMOS. Rev. 1, 9. I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. POETRY FOR DISTANT PLACES. P3. lxxii, 10. The kings of Tar shish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Ps. xcvii, 1. The LORD reigneth; Isa. xi, 11. And it shall come to the isle. and from the raim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, Isa. xx, 6. And the inhabitant the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and Behold, such is our expectation, and the Sinite, And the Arvadite, of this isle shall say in that day, And the Hivite, and the Arkite, whither we flee for help to be and the Zemarite and the Hamadelivered from the Assyria; and how shall we escape? families of the Canaanites spread king of thite: and afterward were the Isa. xxiii, 6. Pass ye over to abroad. And the border of the Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; Isa. xli, 1,5. Keep silence before as thou goest unto Sodom, and me, O islands; and let the people Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zerenew their strength: let them boim, even unto Lasha. These come near, then let them speak: are the sons of Ham, after their let us come near together to judg-families, after their tongues, in ment. The isles saw it, and feared; their countries, and in their na drew near, and came. the ends of the earth were afraid, tions. Unto Shein also, the father of all the children of Eber, the even to him were children born. brother of Japheth the elder, The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, Salah; and Salah and Mash. And Arphaxad begat begat Eber. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one ras Peleg for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name Almodad, was Joktan. And Joktan begat and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerih, And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the Isa. xlii, 12. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. Isa. xlix, 1. Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from from the womb; from the bowels far; The LORD hath called me of my mother hath he made mention of my name. Isa. lix, 18. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. EARLY SETTLEMENT Gen. x, 1-8, 10 32. Now these are sons of Joktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and |