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bisborder: wherefore Israel turned
away from him.

Num. xxi, 21--23. And Israel
Bent messengers unto Sihon king
of the Amorites, saying, Let me
pass through thy land: we will
not turn into the fields, or into the
vineyards; we will not drink of the
waters of the well: but we will
go along by the king's high-way,
until we be past thy borders.
And Silion would not suffer
Israel to pass through his border;
but Sibon gathered all his people
together, and went out against
Israel into the wilderness: and he

came to Jahaz, and fought against

Israel.

Judges xi, 16-20. But when
Israel came up from Egypt, and
walked through the wilderness
unto the Red sea, and came to
Kadesh; Then Israel sent mes-
sengers' unto the king of Edom,
Baying. Let me, I pray thee, pass
through thy land: but the king of
Edom would not hearken thereto.
And in like manner they sent
unto the king of Moab; but he
would not consent: and Israel
abode in Kadesh. Then they
went along through the wilder-
ness, and compassed the land of
Edom, and the land of Moab; and
Came by the cast side of the land
of Moab, and pitched on the other
side of Arnon, but came not with
in the border of Moab: for Arnon
was the border of Moab. And
Israel sent messengers unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, the
king of Heshbon: and Israel said
unto him, Let us pass, we pray
thee, through thy land unto my
place. But Son trusted not
Israel to pass through his coast:
but Sinon gathered all his people

together, and pitched in Jahaz,
and fought against Israel.

DEVASTATION
PRODUCED BY THE MARCH

OF AN ENEMY.
Num. xxii, 4. And Moab said
unto the elders of Midian, Now
shall this company lick up all that
are round about us, as the ox
licketh up the grass of the field.
And Balak the son of Zippor was
king of the Moabites at that

time.

Deut. xxvill, 51. And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

Judges vi, 8-6. And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; And they encamp

nor ox, nor ass.

od against them, and destroyed
the increase of the earth, till thou
come unto Gaza; and left no sus-
tenance for Israel, neither sheep,
For they came
up with their cattle and their
tents, and they came as grass-
hoppers for multitude; for both
they and their camels were with-
out number: and they entered
into the land to destroy it. And
Israel was greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites, and the
children of Israel cried unto the
LORD.

2 Kings ill, 18, 19, 23. And this
Is but a light thing in the sight of
the LORD: he will deliver the
Moabites also into your hand.
And ye shall smite every fenced
city, and every choice city, and
shall fell every good tree, and
stop all wells of water, and mar
every good piece of land with
stones. And they beat down the
cities, and on every good piece of
land cast every man his stone,
and filled it; and they stopped all
the wells of water, and felled all
the good trees: only in Kir-
haraseth left they the stones
the slingers
thereof; howbelt
went about it, and smote it.

Jer. iv, 20. Destruction upon
des ruction is cried; for the whole
land is spoiled: suddenly are my
tents spoiled, and my curtains in
a moment.

Jer. xxv, 37, 38. And the peaceable habitations are cut down, because of the flerce anger of the LORD. He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate becanse of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce auger.

Jer. 1, 12. Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jer. 11, 43. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby

Micah ii. 4. In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled; he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields."

SUDDEN ATTACK.

Gen. xiv. 15. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

Josh. xi, 7. So' Joshua came, and all the people of war with h m, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.

Judges vill, 11. And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

Judges ix. 31-33, 42-44. And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the Son of Ebed, and his brethren, be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee. Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field; And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went ont into the field; and they told Abimelech. And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.

2 Sam. ii, 29, 32. And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bathron, and they came to Mahanaim. And they took up Asabel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem; and Joab and his inen went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

2 Sam. xvii, 22. Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

2 Kings ili, 22, 23. And they rose up early in the morning, and

the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water or the other side as red as blood: And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now there fore, Moab, to the spoil.

AMBUSHES.

Josh.viii 9-17,19-22. Joshua thereJosh. x, 9. Joshua therefore fore sent them forth; and they went

to lle in ambush,andabodebetween | trumpets, and brake the pitchers, Bethel and Ai, on the west side and held the lamps in their left of Ai: but Joshua lodged that hands, and the trumpets in their night among the people. And right hands to blow withal: and Joshua rose up early in the morn- they cried, The sword of the LORD, ing, and numbered the people, and of Gideon. And they stood and went up, he and the elders of every man in his place round Israel, before the people to Ai. about the camp: and all the host And all the people, even the people ran, and cried, and fled. And the of war that were with him, went three hundred blew the trumpets, up, and drew nigh, and came be- and the LORD set every man's fore the city, and pitched on the sword against his fellow, even north side of Ai: now there was a throughout all the host: and the valley between them and Ai. And host fled to Beth-shittah in Zerehe took about five thousand men, rath, and to the border of Abeland set them to lie in ambush meholah, unto Tabbath. between Beth-el and Ai, on the West side of the city. And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that he hasted and rose up early; and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, be and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. that were in Al were called to And all the people gether to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the City on fire. And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this sile, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Judges vil, 19--22. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the

Judges xx, 29--43.
set liers in wait round about
And Israel
Gibeah. And the children of Is-
rael went up against the children
of Benjamin on the third day, and
put themselves in array against
Gibeah, as at other times. And
the children of Benjamin went out
against the people, and were
drawn away from the city; and
they began to smite of the people,
and kill, as at other times, in the
highways, of which one goeth up
to the house of God, and the other
to Gibeah in the field, about thirty
men of Israel. And the children
of Benjamin said, They are smit-
ten down before us, as at the first.
But the children of Israel said,
the city unto the highways. And
Let us flee, and draw them from
all the men of Israel 10se up out
of their place, and put themselves
in array at Baal-tamar: and the
liers in wait of Israel came forth
out of their places, even out of the
meadows of Gibeah. And there
came against Gibeah ten thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and
the battle was sore: but they
knew not that evil was near them.
And the LORD smote Benjamin
before Israel: and the children of
Israel destroyed of the Benjamites
that day twenty and five thousand
and an hundred men: all these
drew the sword. So the children
of Benjamin saw that they were
smitten: for the men of Israel
gave place to the Benjamites, be-
cause they trusted unto the llers
in wait which they had set beside
Gibeah. And the liers in wait
hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah;
and the liers in wait drew them-
selves along, and smote all the city
with the edge of the sword. Now
there was an appointed sign be-
tween the men of Israel and the
liers in wait, that they should
make a great flame with smoke
to rise up out of the city. And
when the men of Israel retired in
the battle, Benjamin began to
smite and kill of the men of Israel
about thirty persons; for they
said, Surely they are smitten
down before ns, as in the first
battle. But when the flame began
to arise up out of the city with a
pillar of smoke, the Benjamites
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looked behind them, and, beheld, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

their backs before the men of IsTherefore they turned rael unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them: and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. closed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them Thus they indown with ease Gibeah toward the sun-rising. over against

caused an ambushment to come 2 Chron. xiii, 13. But Jeroboam about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

SIGNALS OF VARIOUS KINDS According unto your words, so be Joshua ii, 21. And she said, it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

Then said

1 Sam. xiv, 8-10. Jonathan, Behold, we will pass discover ourselves unto them. If over unto these men, and we will stand still in our place, and will they say thus unto us, Tarry until not go up unto them. But if they we come to you; then we will say thus, Come up unto us; then delivered them into our hand; and this shall be a sign unto us. we will go up: for the LORD hath

when thou hast stayed three days, 1 Sam. xx, 19-22, 85--39. And then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark. And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt, as the LORD liveth. But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away. And it came to pass in the moruing, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him. And he said unto his lad, Run, flud out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

come to the place of the arrow And when the lad was which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, And Jonathan cried after the lad Is not the arrow beyond thee?

Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

Job xxi, 28. 29. For ye say. Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling-places of the wicked? Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens.

Ezek. xxiv, 24. Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do; and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

INTELLIGENCE.

FROM A DIVINE SOURCE.

remain, which are left in the city,
(behold, they are as all the multi-
tude of Israel that are left in it;
behold, I say, they are even as all
the multitude of the Israelites
that are consumed.) and let us
send and see. They took there-
fore two chariot horses; and the
king sent after the host of the
Syrians, saying, Go and see. And
they went after them unto Jordan;
and, lo, all the way was full of
garments and vessels, which the
Syrians had cast away in their
haste: and the messengers return-
ed, and told the king.

FROM PRISONERS, FUGITIVES, ETC.

Gen. xiv, 13. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorpro-ite, brother of Eshicol, and brother of Aner: and these were coutederate with Abram

1 Kings xx, 22. And the phet caine to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thon doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

2 Kings vi. 7--13. Therefore, said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it. Then the king of Syria warred against Israel. and took counsel with his servants, saying. In such an such a place shall be my camp. And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him, and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called bis servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is

in Dothan.

FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATION. 2 Kings vii, 12-15. And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that

people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan h ́s sou are dead also. And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Sanl le ned upr his spear, and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.

2 Sam. xi, 6, 7, 18-24. And
David sent to Joab saying. Send
me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab
sent Uriah to David And when
Usiah was come unto him, David
demanded of him how Juab did,
and how the people did and how
the war prospered. Then Joab
sent and told David all the things
concerning the war, And charged
the messenger, saying, When thou
hast made an end of telling the
Judges 1, 24-26. And the sples matters of the war unto the king,
saw a man come forth out of the And if so be that the king's wrath
city, and they said unto him, Show arise, and he say unto thee, Where
us, we pray thee, the entrance fore approached ye so nigh unto
into the city, and we will shew the city when ye dil fight? know
thee mercy. And when he shew-ye not that they would shoot from
ed them the entrance into the the wall? Who smote Abimelech
city, they smote the city with the son of Jerubbesheth? did not
the edge of the sword; but they a woman cast a piece of a mill-
let go the man and all his family, stone upon him from the wall,
And the man went into the land that he died in Thebez? why went
of the Hittites, and built a city, ye nigh the wall? then say thou,
and called the name thereof Luz: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is
which is the name thereof unto dead also. So the messenger
this day.
went, and came and shewed David
all that Joab had sent him for.
And the messengers said unto
David, Surely the men prevailed
against us, and came out unto us
into the field, and we were upɔn
them even unto the entering of the
gate. And the shooters shot from

Judges viil, 13, 14. And Gideon
the son of Joash returned from
battle before the sun was up, And
caught a young man of the men
of Succoth, and enquired of him:
and he described unto him the
princes of Succoth, and the elders
thereof even threescore and seven-off
teen men.

1 Sam. xix, 18. So David fled,
and escaped, and came to Samuel
to Ramah, and told him all that
Saul had done to him. And he
and Samuel went and dwelt in
Naioth.

2 Sam. 1, 1-7. Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziglag; It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. And David said unto him; How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the

the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

2 Sam xvill, 19, 20, 21, 28 -32. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run and bear the king tidings; how that the LORD hath avenged him of Lis enemies. And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this

day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead. Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself to Joab, and ran. An Ahimaaz called, and said unto th king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his tace before the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king. And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab

sent the king's servant, and meeth himself, and come ye again to
thy servant, I saw a great tumult, me with the certainty, and I will
but I knew not what it was. And go with you: and it shall come to
the king said unto him, Turn pass, it he be in the land, that I
aside, and stand here. And he will search him out throughout all
turned aside, and stood still. And, the thousands of Judah.
behold, Cushi came; and Cushi there came a messenger unto Saul,
said, Tidings, my lord the king: saying, Haste thee, and come; for
But
for the LORD hath avenged thee the Philistines have invaded the
this day of all them that rose up land.
against thee. And the king said
unto Cushi, Is the young man
Absalom safe? And Cushi an-
swered, The enemies of my lord
the king, and all that rise against
thee to do thee hurt, be as that
young man is.

Jer. xxv, 31. A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with

the nations.

Jer. xlvii!, 19, 20. O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled.

Jer. 11, 31, 32. One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end; And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

FROM THE INHABITANTS OF THE
COUNTRY.

Judges iv, 12. And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount

Tabor

Judges ix, 47. And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

1 Sam xix, 19. And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.

1 Sam. xxiii, 1, 19--23, 27. Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors. Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? Now therefore, Oking, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me. Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilely. See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hid

1 Sam. xxlv, 1. And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it David is in the wilderness of Entold him, saying, Behold, gedi.

was

said one to another, We do not
2 Kings vil, 9-11. Then they
well: this day is a day of good
tidings, and we hold our peace; if
we tarry till the morning-light
some mischief will come upon us:
So they came and called unto the
now therefore come, that we may
porter of the city; and they told
go and tell the king's household.
them, saying, We came to the
camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
voice of man, but horses tied, and
there was no man there, neither
were. And he called the porters;
asses tied, and the tents as they
and they told it to the king's
house within.

2 Chron. xx, 2.
came some that told Jehoshaphat,
Then there
saying, There cometh a great
multitude against thee from be-
yond the sea on this side Syria;
and, behold, they be in Hazazon-
tamar, which is En-gedi.

versaries said, They shall not
Nehem, iv, 11, 12. And our ad-
the midst among them, and slay
know, neither see, till we come in
them, and cause the work to cease.
And it came to pass, that when
came, they said unto us ten times,
the Jews which dwelt by them
From all places whence ye shall
return unto us they will be upon
yout.

FROM SECRET EMISSARIES.

into the city, and Absalom came Into Jerusalem.

FROM SPIES.

the land of Canaan, which I give Num. xiii, 2, 3, 17-22, 25-27. Send unto the children of Israel; of thou men, that they may search every tribe of their fathers shall among them. And Moses, by the ye send a man, every one a ruler commandment of the LORD, sent them from of the children of Israel. Paran: all those men were heads the wilderness of Moses sent them to spy out the And ward, and go up into the mounthem, Get you up this way southland of Canaan, and said unto tain; And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; And what the they land is that they dwell in, whether whether in tents, or in strong it be good or bad; and what cities holds; And what the land is, be that they dwell in, whether it be fat or lean, whether be ye of good courag, and bring there be wood therein, or not; and time was the time of the first ripe of the fruit of the land. (Now the grapes.) So they went up and searched the land, from the men come to Hamath. And they wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as ascended by the south, and came unto

Sheshai, and Talmai, the children
Hebron; where Ahiman,
of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was
days. And they went and came
built seven years before Zoan in
searching of the land after forty
Egypt.) And they returned from
the congregation of the children
of Israel, unto the wilderness of
to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought
all the congregation, and shewed
back word unto them, and unto
them the fruit of the land.
they told him, and said, We came
And
unto the land whither thou sent-
est us, and surely it floweth with
milk and honey; and this is the
fruit of it.

the villages thereof, and drove out
Num. xxi, 32. And Moses sent
the Amorites that were there.
to spy out Jaazer, and they took

king said also unto Zadok the 2 Sam. xv, 27, 28, 35-37. The priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. See, I will tarry in the the son of Nun sent out of Shittim plain of the wilderness, until Josh. ii, 1-4. 22, 23. And Joshua there come word from you to Go view the land, even Jericho. certity me... two men to spy secretly, saying, harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. And it was told the Therefore it And they went, and came into an king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the country. And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come 3 A

shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Alimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear. so Hushai David's friend, came

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to search out all the country. And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist hot whence they were. And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them.

Josh. vi, 17, 23, 25. And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And the young men that were spies went in and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the And Joshua camp of Israel. saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Josh. vii, 2. And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Al.

Josh. xiv, 7, 8. Forty years old was I when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

Judges 1, 23. And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el: (now the name of the city before was Luz.)

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Judges xvill, 1, 2, 7. In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. And the children of Dan sent of their family

and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

1 Sam. xxvi, 4. David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very

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2 Sam. xvii, 17-19. Now Jonathan and Abimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David. Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon: and the thing was not known.

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Gen. xlil, 9-14, 30. 81. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye And they said unto him, Nay, my lord; but to buy We food are thy servants come. are all one man's sons: we are true men, thy servants are no spies. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies. The man, who is the lord of the laud, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies.

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1 Chron. xix, 3. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

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five men from their coasts, men VARIOUS EFFECTS OF WARof valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said un'o them, Go, search the land: who, when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. Then the five men departed, and came to Laish

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1 Sam. xiii, 3, 4. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Phill stines that was in Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews bear. And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel the Philistines. And the people also was had in abomination with were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

1 Sam. xxvii, 4. And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

1 Chr. xix, 8. And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

Neh. iv, 15. And it came to pass, was known unto us, and God had when our enemies heard that it brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

Isa. xxxvii, 7-9. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopla, He is come forth to make war with thee: and when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying.

Jer. xxxvii, 5. Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

Dan. xi, 44. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

Josh. x, 1, 2. Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

Isa. xxiii, 5. As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

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