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away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Jer. xiii, 24. Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Jer. xxiil, 28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Jer. li, 1, 2. Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Jer. li, 33. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Hosea x, 11. And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride.

Hosea xiii, 3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. Luke xxii, 31. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.

1 Cor. ix, 9. For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

GRASS.

Deut. xi, 15. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Ps. civ, 14. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth.

Ps. cxlvii, 8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Prov. xxvii, 25. The hay appear eth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

Mark vi, 39. And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

John vi, 10. And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number

about five thousand.

Amos 1, 3. Thus saith the LORD; Rev. ix, 4. And it was commandFor three transgressions of Dam-ed them that they should not hurt ascus, and for four, I will not turn the grass of the earth, neither any away the punishment thereof; be- green thing, neither any tree; but cause they have threshed Gilead only those men which have not with threshing instruments of the seal of God in their foreheads.

iron.

Amos ix, 9. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

Micah iv, 12, 13. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth. Hab. ill, 12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

Matt. iii, 12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Luke 1, 17. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge

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.

2 Sam. xxiii, 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

2 Kings xix, 26. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Psalm 1xxii, 6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweta up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Psalm xcii, 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when si the workers of iniquity do flour ish; it is that they shall be de stroyed for ever.

Psalm cili, 15. As for man, h days are as grass: as a flower o the field, so he flourisheth.

Isa. xxxvii, 27. Therefore the inhabitants were of small powe they were dismayed and con founded: they were as the grass the field, and as the green herb.c the grass on the housetops, and a corn blasted before it be grow

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Exod. ii, 3. And when she cot not longer hide him, she took him an ark of bulrushes, a daubed it with slime and w pitch, and put the child there and she laid it in the flags by river's brink.

Isa. Ivill, 5. Is it such a fast t I have chosen? a day for a man afflict his soul? is it to bow de his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes wel him? wilt thou call this a fast, a an acceptable day to the LoBr

Psalm 1xxil, 16. And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the Job vili, 11. Can the rush gre earth. up without mire? can the flag gro Psalm 10, 5, 6. Thou carriest without water?

FLAX.

Exod. ix, 31. And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley toas in the ear, and the flax $15 bolled.

Josh, il, 6. But she had brought then up to the roof of the house, ti hid them with the stalks of fax, which she had laid in order en the roof.

MALLOWS.

Job xxx, 4. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

MILLET.

Ezek. iv, 9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, accordTaq. xlii, 3. A bruised reed shailing to the number of the days that be not break, and the smoking thou shalt lie upon thy side, three Bax shall be not quench: he shall hundred and ninety days shalt bring forth judgment unto truth. Ex3 And he brought me thier, and, behold, there was a

we appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a Nice of fax in his hand, and a Basuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Fv. il, 5. For their mother hath ayed the harlot: she that conwwed them hath done shameally: for she said, I will go after By lovers, that give me my bread my water, my wool and my dax, mine oil and my drink.

thou eat thereof.

REEDS.

Job xl, 21. He lieth under the shady trees in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Isa. xix, 6. And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shan be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

RYE.

Ex. ix, 32. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they

were not grown up.

TARES.
Matt. xill, 24-31.

1, 9. Therefore will I reta, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will re- Reaping and Harvest.) ever my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

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Jer. xvii, 6. For he shall be like beath in the desert, and shall when good cometh; but habit the parched places The wilderness, in a salt land da inhabited.

LENTILES. IV, 34. Then Jacob gare an bread and pottage of lenand he did eat and drink, rome up, and went his way: Esan despised his birthright.

MANDRAKES Ga III, 14. And Reuben went 'he days of wheat harvest, and drakes in the field, and Tght them unto his mother Then Rachel said to Leah, rese I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

Song of Solomon vil, 13. The madrakes give a smell, and at or gates are all manner of pleasA fruits, new and old, which I are laid up for thee, O my be

the stay and the staff, the who'e
stay of bread, and the whole stay
of water.

Isa. vii. 23-25. And it shall come
to pass in that day, that every
place shall be, where there were
a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall even be for
briers and thorns. With arrows
and with bows shall men come
And
thither; because all the land shall
on all hills that shall be digged
become briers and thorns.

come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

with the mattock, there shall not

Isa. xv. 6. 7. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid p, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Isa. xvii, 10, 11. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful

of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange (See under slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

FAILURE OF CROPS.

OF GRASS.

1 Kings xviii, 5. And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

Jer. xiv, 5, 6. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Joel i, 18. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

OF GRAINS.

Deut. xxviii, 33, 34. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Deut. xxviii, 38. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Isa. iii, 1. For, behold, the Lord. the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah

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Isa. li, 19. These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the Sword: by whom shall I comfort

thee?

Jer. xil, 13. They have sown have put themselves to pain, but wheat, but shall reap thorns: they shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Ezek. xiv, 13. Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by tresspassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: bread thereof, and will send famine

Ezek. xxvi, 6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Hosea viii, 7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: be it yield, the strangers shall the bud shall yield no meal: if so swallow it up.

Hosea ix, 2. The floor and the

the new wine shall fail in her.

winepress shall not feed them, and

Amos v, 16. Therefore the LORD the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets,

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Highly prized, dug by the Patriarchs, and sometimes scenes of strife on account of their value,-occasionally found in the courts of houses,-symbol of spiritual blessings.

WELLS.

The ark of Noah, built of gopher-wood, ships of war from Chittim, ferryboat in Jordan, navy of Solomon and Jehoshaphat, boats often used by Christ at the Lake of Tiberias-voyaging ships with their tackling, masts, sails, Mentioned in Scripture, Beer-lahai-roi,pilot, anchor, helm, rudder-bands, oars, rowers, Beth-lehem,-Beer-sheba,-Elim,-Esek,-in shipmen, mariners, captain, lading and un- Hagar's history,-Haran, Jacob,-Marah,lading, crew, cargo, and passengers ship with Rehoboth,-Sitnah,-Floods often breaking figure head of Castor and Pollox-Shipwreck out suddenly-Symbol of revolution and of the Apostle Paul, storms sent by God, great invasion. wind, rebuked by Christ, shipwreck-of ships of Tarshish, of the navy of Jehoshaphat, of Paul,-Euroclydon.

BROOKS,

Abounding in Canaan-mentioned in Scripture, Arnon, Besor, Cherith, Eshcol, Gaash, Kihon, Kishon, Zered, Of the Willow.

FLOODS.

The flood of Noah, the rain-bow token of the divine covenant,-Swimming,-spreading forth hands.

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THE

CLASSIFIED BIBLE.

DISTRIBUTION OF
LAND.

AGRICULTURE.

their substance. As the LORD | he redeem that which his brother
commanded Moses, so the chil- sold. And if the man have none
dren of Israel did, and they divided to redeem it, and himself be able
the land.
to redeem it; Then let him count
the years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man
to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession. But if
he be not able to restore it to him,
then that which is sold shall re-
main in the hand of him that hath

Joshua xviii, 10. And Joshua
cast lots for them in Shiloh before
the LORD: and there Joshua di-

vided the land unto the children
of Israel according to their divi-

sions.

Nam. xxvi, 52-56. And the Lo spake unto Moses, saying, Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance accordt to the number of names. To any thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall bis inheritance be given Josh. xix. 51. These are the according to those that were inheritances, which Eleazar the numbered of him. Notwithstand-priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, ing the land shall be divided by and the heads of the fathers of lot: according to the names of the the tribes of the children of Israel, tribes of their fathers they shall divided for an inheritance by lot inherit. According to the lot shall in Shiloh before the LORD, at the the pussession thereof be divided door of the tabernacle of the conbetween many and few. gregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

Nam xxxiil, 53, 54. And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to pos

TENURE.

bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his pos

session.

EXAMPLES.

Ruth iv, 3, 4. And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

And ye shall divide the Lev. xxv, 13-17. In the year of and by lot for an inheritance this jubilee ye shall return every mong your families: and to the man unto his possession. And if re ye shall give the more in- thou sell ought unto thy neighrance, and to the fewer ye bour, or buyest ought of thy neighall give the less inheritance: bour's hand, ye shall not oppress Hey man's inheritance shall be one another: According to the the place where his lot falleth; number of years after the jubilee Ruth iv, 6-9,11. And the kinsman dag to the tribes of your thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, said, I cannot redeem it for myfathers ye shall inherit. and according unto the number self, lest I mar mine own inheriJoshua xiv, 1-5. And these are of years of the fruits he shall sell tance: redeem thou my right to the countries which the children unto thee: According to the mul- thyself; for I cannot redeem it. Israel inherited in the land of titude of years thou shalt increase Now this was the manner in Can, which Eleazar the priest, the price thereof, and according former time in Israel concerning Joshua the son of Nun, and the to the fewness of years thou shalt redeeming and concerning changads of the fathers of the tribes diminish the price of it: for ac-ing, for to confirm all things; a the children of Israel, distri-cording to the number of the man plucked off his shoe, and ted for inheritance to them. By years of the fruits doth he sell gave it to his neighbour; and this as their inheritance, as the unto thee. Ye shall not therefore was a testimony in Israel. ThereLa commanded by the hand of oppress one another; but thou fore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Moses, for the nine tribes, and for shalt fear thy God: for I am the Buy it for thee. So he drew off the half tribe. For Moses had LORD your God. his shoe. And Boaz said unto the given the inheritance of two tribes elders, and unto all the people, Ye adan half tribe on the other side are witnesses this day, that I have dan: but unto the Levites he bought all that was Elimelech's, ve none inheritance among and all that was Chilion's and en. For the children of Joseph Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. were two tribes, Manasseh and And all the people that were in Ephraim: therefore they gave no the gate, and the elders, said, Part unto the Levites in the land, We are witnesses. are cities to dwell in, with their Suburbs for their cattle and for

Lev. XXV, 23-28. The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall

1 Kings xxi, 3. And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me,

that I should give the inheritance, of my fathers unto thee.

tent, at the hand of the children, fruit of her hands she planteth
of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a vineyard.
an hundred pieces of money.

Josh. xxiv, 32. And the bones of
Joseph, which the children of Is-
rael brought up out of Egypt,
buried they in Shechem, in a par-
cel of ground which Jacob bought
of the sons of Hamor the father of
Shechem for an hundred pieces
of silver: and it became the in-
heritance of the children of Jo-
seph.

Acts v, 1, 2. But a certain maa named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept also being privy to it, and brought back part of the price, his wis

a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

2 Kings viii, 3-6. And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Re-David said, To buy the threshing-scribed the evidence, and seale

store all that was her's, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even

until now.

Lam. v, 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to

aliens.

you.

TRANSFER OF LAND.

IN EARLY TIMES.

John iv, 5. Then cometh he to a
city of Samaria, which is called
to the parcel of
Sychar, near
ground that Jacob gave to his son
Joseph.

UNDER JEWISH LAW.

2 Sam. xxiv, 21-24. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And

floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here oe oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. Ánd Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Gen. xxiii, 7-9. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his Jer. xxxii, 6-9. And Jeremiah said, field; for as much money as it is The word of the LORD came unto worth he shall give it me for a pos-me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the session of a burying-place amongst son of Shallum thine uncle shall Gen. xxiil, 13-16. And he spake come unto thee, saying, Buy thee unto Ephron in the audience of my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine the people of the land, saying, to buy it. So Hanameel mine But if thou wilt give it, I pray uncle's son came to me in the thee, hear me: I will give thee court of the prison according to money for the field; take it of me, the word of the LORD, and said and I will bury my dead there. unto me, Buy my field, I pray And Ephron answered Abraham, thee, that is in Anathoth, which saying unto him, My lord, hear is in the country of Benjamin: for ken unto me: the land is worth the right of inheritance is thine, four hundred shekels of silver; and the redemption is thine; buy what is that betwixt me and thee? it for thyself. Then I knew that bury therefore thy dead. And this was the word of the LORD. Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; And I bought the field of Hanaand Abraham weighed to Ephron meel my uncle's son, that was in the silver, which he had named Anathoth, and weighed him the in the audience of the sons of Heth, money, even seventeen shekels of four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Gen. xxxiii, 18, 19. And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his

silver.

Jer. xxxii, 43. And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Prov. xxxi, 16. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the

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ANCIENT CHARTERS. Gen. xxiii, 17, 18. And the fielde Ephron, which was in Machpelth which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was there and all the trees that were in th field, that were in all the border round about, were made sure unt Abraham for a possession in th presence of the children of Hett before all that went in at the gat of his city.

Jer. xxxii, 10-15. And I sat

it, and took witnesses, and weigher
him the money in the balance
So I took the evidence of the p
chase, both that which was seale
according to the law and custo
and that which was open: And
gave the evidence of the purcha
unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
son of Maaseiah, in the sight
Hanameel mine uncle's son,
in the presence of the witness
that subscribed the book of
purchase, before all the Jews th
sat in the court of the pris
And I charged Baruch be
them, saying, Thus saith the Lo
of hosts, the God of Israel; Tal
these evidences, this evidence
the purchase, both which is seale
and this evidence which is ope
and put them in an earthen vess
that they may continue many day
For thus saith the LORD of hos
the God of Israel; Houses
fields and vineyards shall be p
sessed again in this land.

Jer. xxxii, 44. Men shall b fields for money, and subs evidences, and seal them, and witnesses in the land of Benjam and in the places about Jerusale and in the cities of Judah, and the cities of the mountains, and the cities of the valley, and int cities of the south: for 1 will their captivity to return, saith LORD.

SOIL OF CANAAN. Num. xiv, 6-8. And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb the sa that searched the land, rent Jephunneh, which were of th clothes: And they spake unto the company of the children Israel, saying, The land, which passed through to search it, sa exceeding good land. If the LG delight in us, then he will br us into this land, and give it! a land which floweth with and honey.

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