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the hand of his servants; and, afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. Ezek. xxix, 2. 8-15. Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. Behold, therefore

I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate fory years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them

through the countries. Yet thus saith the Lord GoD, At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land

of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

Ezek. xxx, 4-10, 12-19, 23, 26. And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. Thus saith the LORD, They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon

Gen. xiv, 1. And it came to king of Shinar, Arioch king of pass in the days of Amraphel Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations.

them, as in the day of Egypt: for, | Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and lo, it cometh. Thus saith the Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Lord God, I will also make the the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king multitude of Egypt to cease by of Babylon. And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strang ers: I the LORD have spoken it.

Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of

that had escaped from the sword 2 Chron. Xxxvi, 20. And them carried he away to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the king

dom of Persia.

Noph; and there shall be no more Esther i. 14, 18, 19. And the next a prince of the land of Egypt: and unto him was Carshena, Shetlar, I will put a fear in the land of Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Mar Egypt. And I will make Pathros sena, and Memucan, the seven desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, princes of Persia and Media, which and will execute judgments in No. saw the king's face, and which And I will pour my fury upon Sin, sat the first in the kingdom, Likethe strength of Egypt; and I will wise shall the ladies of Persia and cut off the multitude of No. And Media say this day unto all the I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall king's princes, which have heard have great pain, and No shall be of the deed of the queen. Thus rent asunder, and Noph shall have shall there arise too much condistresses daily. The young men tempt and wrath. If it please the of Aven and of Phibeseth shall king, let there go a royal comfall by the sword: and these cities mandment from him, and let it be shall go into captivity. At Teha-written among the laws of the phnelies also the day shall be Persians and the Medes, that it darkened, when I shall break be not altered, That Vashti come there the yokes of Egypt; and the no more before king Ahasuerus; pomp of her strength shall cease and let the king give her royal in her: as for her, a cloud shall estate unto another that is better cover her, and her daughters shall than she. go into captivity. Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt; and they shall know that I am the LORD. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I

am the LORD.

Ezek. xxxii, 11, 12, 31, 32. For thus saith the Lord GoD, The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them; and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt; and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Zech. x, 11. .

The pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shali depart away.

ELAM,-PERSIA.

Jer xlix, 34, 36, 39. The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of

Elam shall not come. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

Ezek. xxxii. 24. There is Elam,

and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen

by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, with caused their terror in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

Daniel viii, 2. And I saw in a vision; (and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam;) and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

Daniel x, 13. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Daniel xi, 2. And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, Gen. x, 22. The children of there shall stand up yet three

kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.

PROPHECIES ABOUT CYRUS,
ITS KING.

Isa. xli, 25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isa. xlv, 1-4. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect. I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Isa. xlvi, 11. Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far Country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Isa. xlviii, 15. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

ΕΤΙΠΟΡΙΑ.

2 Kings xix, 9. And he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee. . . . . .

Esther i, 1. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.)

Ps. lxviii, 31. Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Ps. lxxxvii, 4. Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;

this man was born there.

Isa. xliii, 3. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

Isa. xlv, 14. Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall

come over unto thee, and they shall be thine. . . . . .

Daniel xi. 43. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

Zeph. ii, 12. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Acts viii, 27. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship.

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GALILEE.

NORTHERN PROVINCE OF PALESTINE. 1 Kings ix, 11. (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees, and firtrees, and with gold, according to all his desire.) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

Isa. ix, 1. Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as ras in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Matth. ii, 22. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside

into the parts of Galilee.

Matth. iv, 15, 25. The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

Matth. xxvi, 32. But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

Matth. xxvii, 55. And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him.

Matth. xxviii, 7. And go quickly. and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

Mark xiv, 70. And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.

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GOG AND MAGOG.

1 Chron. i, 5. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

1 Chron. v. 4. The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his sou, Shimei his son.

Ezek. xxxviii, 2, 3, 16, 18. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against thee. O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a be in the latter days, and I will cloud to cover the land; it shall bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog Shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

deceive the nations which are in Rev. xx. 8. And shall go out to the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle; the number of

whom is as the sand of the sea.

GRECIA

Dan. x, 20. Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return

to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.

Joel iii, 6. The children also of Judah, and the children of Jerusalem, have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

Zech. ix, 13. When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Acts xvi, 1. Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman,

which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek.

Acts xx, 2. And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he

came into Greece.

Rom. i, 14, 16. I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Rom. x. 12. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

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Acts xviii, 5. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testifled to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

Acts xix, 21. After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he Lad passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, Afer I have been there, I must also see Rome.

2 Cor. vii, 5. For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: without were fightiugs, within were tears.

2 Cor. viii, 1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches

of Macedonia.

1 Thess. i, 7, 8. So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

1 Thess. iv, 10. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia; but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more.

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Acts xvili, 8. And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house: and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

Acts xix, 1. And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus; and, finding certain disciples.

2 Cor. i, 1, 23. Panl, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: Moreover, I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

PHILIPPI.

Acts xvi, 12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

Acts xx, 6. And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

1 Thess. ii, 2. But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much conten

tion.

ITALY.

Acts xviii, 2. And found a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome,) and came unto them.

Heb. xiii. 24. Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

CHIEF CITIES, ATHENS. Acts xvii, 15, 16. And they that CHIEF CITY, ROME. conducted Paul brought him unto Acts ii, 10. Phrygia, and PamAthens: and, receiving a command-phylia, in Egypt, and in the parts

of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proseLytes.

Acts xix, 21..... Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying. After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

Rom. i. 15. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

2 Tim. i, 17. But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

JUDEA.

SOUTHERN PROVINCE OF PALESTINE.

king, that we went into the proEzra v. 8. Be it known unto the vince of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

Matth. xxiv, 16. Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.

Mark xiii, 14. But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luke xxi, 21. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

John iv, 3. He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John vii, 3. Ilis brethren there

fore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that

thou doest.

John xi, 7. Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.

Acts i, 8. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be

witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts ix, 31. Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied

Acts x, 37. That word, I say, yo know, which was Iublished throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.

Acts xii, 19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found

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Ezra vi, 2. And there was found at Achm tha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written.

Esther x, . And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Isa. xiii, 17. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Jer. xxv, 25. And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.

Dan. vi, 8. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writ ing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Dan. xi, 1. Also I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen

him.

MIDIAN.

Gen. xxxvii, 28. Then there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishineelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Exod. ii, 15. Now, when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

Num. xxxi. 8. 9. And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also, the son of Beor, they slew with the sword. And the children of Israel took all

the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

Judges vi, 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges vii, 23. And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites. Judges vill, 1. And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

MOAB.

ITS CHARACTER AND FATE.

Gen. xix, 37. And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Num. xxi, 28. Eor there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Silon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Num. xxiv, 17. I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. Nam. xxv, 1. And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Judges xi, 15. And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

Ruth 1, 2, 4. And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chil

ion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehemjudah: and they came into the country of Moab, and continued thre. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years.

2 Sam. viii, 2. And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death and with one full line to keep alive: and so the Moabites became David's servants and brought gifts.

2 Kings iii, 7, 18. And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Wilt thou go with me against Moab hath rebelled against me: Moab to battle? And he said, I people as thy people, and my will go up: I am as thou art, my

horses as thy horses. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

1 Chron. iv, 22. And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things.

Ps. Ix, 8. Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

Isa. xvi. 6 11-14. We have

Deut. ii, 9, 18. And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee heard of the pride of Moab, (he is of their land for a possession; very prond,) eren of his haughtibecause I have given Ar unto the but his lies shall not be so. Whereness, and his pride, and his wrath: children of Lot for a possession.fore my bowels shall sound like an Thou art to pass over through Ar, harp for Moab, and mine inward the coast of Moab, this day,

Deut. xxiii, 3. An Ammonite or

Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever.

Judges iii, 28-30. And he said unto them, Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. and took the fords of Jordan toAnd they went down after him, ward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

parts for Kir-haresh. And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. This is the word that the Loun hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab great multitude; and the remnant shall be contemned, with all that shall be very small and feeble.

and the children of Ammon. Jer. xxv, 21. Edom, and Moab,

Jer. xlviii, 1, 2. Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken; Misgab is

confounded and dismayed. There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Ileshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation: also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

Jer. xlviii. 9, 20, 33, 39. Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities there

of shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled. And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the wine-presses: none shall tread with shouting, their shouting shall be no shouting. They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab . turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a

dismaying to all them about him. Ezek. xxv, 8. 9, 11. Thus saith the Lord GOD, Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim. And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Zeph. ii, 9. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as

Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the reinaut of my people shall possess them.

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Job xxviii, 16. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Ps. xlv, 9. Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir, Isa. xiii, 12. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

PADAN-ARAM OR MESO

POTAMIA.

Gen. xxv, 20. And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Gen. xxviii, 6, 7. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that, as he blessed him, he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan: And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram.

Gen. xxxi, 18. And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Gen. xxxv, 9, 26. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.

And the sons of

Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

PALESTINA-
PIIILISTIA.

Gen. xxi, 34. And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

Exod. xiii, 17. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that near, for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

was

Exod. xv, 14. The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of

Palestina.

Josh. xiii, 2. This is the land that yet remaineth; all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri.

Judges iii, 31. And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goud: and he also delivered Israel.

1 Sam. vi, 1, 2, 21. And the ark of the LORD was in the country of

the Philistines seven months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying. What shall we do to the ark of

the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place. And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

2 Sam. xxi, 17. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying. Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

P3. lx, 8. ... Philistia triumph thou because of me.

Ps. lxxxvii. 4. . . . . Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

Isa. ii, 6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replen ished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Phil stines, and they please themselves in the

children of strangers.

Isa. xiv, 29. Rejoice not, thon, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Amos i. 8. And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

Amos ix, 7. Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Obad. 19.

And they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

Zeph. ii, 4, 5. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon-day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Zech. ix, 5, 6. Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. And a bastard shall

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