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them feed in Bashan and ad, as in the days of old. epå. ii, 9. Therefore as I live, h the LORD of hosts, the God srael, Surely Moab shall be as om, and the children of Am1 as Gomorrah, even the breedof nettles, and saltpits, and a petual desolation: the residue by people shall spoil them, and remnant of my people shall sess them.

Matth. xi, 7. And as they deted, Jesus began to say unto meltirades concerning John, hat went ye out into the wilderss to see A reed shaken with

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and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

NOXIOUS VEGETATION. Psalm Ivili, 9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Prov.xxiv,31. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Eccles. vil, 6. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Isaiah xxix, 17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

Isaiah xxxii, 13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Isaiah xxxiii, 12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

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Isaiah xxxiv, 13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof.

up,

Hosea ix, 6. For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them Memphis shall bury them; the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Hosea x, 8. The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Micah vii, 4. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

Matth. vii, 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Heb. vi, 8. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.

CREATION OF THEM,

BY GOD.

AO.

ANIMALS.

green herb for meat: and it was all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this is whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of at mankind.

Gen. vi, 19, 20. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of after his kind, two of every sort every creeping thing of the earth shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Job xxxvii, 7, 8. He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all Ba may know his work. Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

Gen. 1, 20-25. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, Job xxxviii, 39-41. Wilt th hunt the prey for the lion? or which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and the appetite of the young liet every winged fowl after his kind: Gen. vii, 14-16. They, and every When they couch in their des and God saw that it was good. beast after his kind, and all the and abide in the covert to lie Who provideth for the And God blessed them, saying. cattle after their kind, and every wait? Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill creeping thing that creepeth upon raven his food? when his you the waters in the seas, and let the earth after his kind, and ones cry unto God, they wander fowl multiply in the earth. And every fowl after his kind, every for lack of meat. bird of every sort. the evening and the morning And they were the fifth day. And God went in unto Noah into the ark, said, Let the earth bring forth the two and two of all flesh, wherein is living creature after his kind, the breath of life. And they that cattle, and creeping thing, and went in, went in male and female beast of the earth after his kind: of all flesh, as God had commandand it was so. And God made ed him: and the LORD shut him the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen. II, 19, 20. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living crea ture, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the fleld; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Jer. xxvii, 5. I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

1 Cor. xv,39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

GOD'S PROVIDENCE OVER
THEM, IN THEM, AND BY
THEM.

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brought it to their father, and

Job xxxix, 13. Garest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks! or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Psalm 1, 10. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Psalm xlix, 12. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth no he is like the beasts that perish.

Gen. xxxvii, 31-33. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; And they sent darkness, and it is night: where Psalm civ, 20-22. Thou makest the coat of many colours, and they all the beasts of the forest d said, This have we found: know creep forth. The young one now whether it be thy son's coat their meat from God. The s roar after their prey, and seek It is my son's coat; an evil beast And he knew it, and said, hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

or no.

together, and lay them down ariseth, they gather themselves

their dens.

Psalm cxlvii, 9. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

Lev. xxvi, 21, 22. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon Ps. cxlviii, 7, 10, Praise the you according to your sins. I will LORD from the earth, ye dragons also send wild beasts among you, and all deeps: Beasts, and a which shall rob you of your chil- cattle; creeping things, and flying dren, and destroy your cattle, and fowl. make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Job v, 22, 23. At destruction and
famine thou shalt laugh: neither

shalt thou be afraid of the beasts
of the earth. For thou shalt be
in league with the stones of the
field: and the beasts of the field
shall be at peace with thee.

Job vi, 5. Doth the wild ass bray
when he hath grass? or loweth the
ox over his fodder?

Job xii, 7-10. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; Gen. 1, 30. And to every beast and the fowls of the air, and they of the earth, and to every fowl of shall tell thee: Or speak to the the air, and to every thing that earth, and it shall teach thee: and creepeth upon the earth, wherein the fishes of the sea shall declare there is life, I have given every unto thee. Who knoweth not in

Is. 1, 3. The ox knoweth bis owner, and the ass his masters crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

18. xliii, 20. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragos and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Is. xxxiv, 16. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it had gathered them.

Jer. viii, 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the

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4. How long shall the mourn, and the herbs of yfield wither, for the wickedof them that dwell therein? beasts are consumed, and the because they said, He shall ree our last end.

18. And in that day make a covenant for them the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and with Creeping things of the ground: break the bow and the and will make them to lie modely.

add the battle out of the

21, 22. Fear not, O land; 12 and rejoice: for the LORD great things. Be not ye beasts of the field: for res of the wilderness do for the tree beareth her the fig tree and the vine do their strength.

1,11. And should not Nineveh, that great city, ia are more than sixscore ad persons that cannot distween their right hand and hand; and also much

15. And so shall be

of the horse, of the the camel, and of the ass, of all the beasts that shall be e tents, as this plague.

26. Behold the fowls ar for they sow not, neither reap, nor gather into et your heavenly Father them. Are ye not much than they?

1.29. Are not two sparld for a farthing? and one shall not fall on the af without your Father. OBJECTION TO MAN.

And God blessed nd God said unto them, Be and multiply, and replenearth, and subdue it: and minion over the fish of the d over the fowl of the air, ver every living thing that spon the earth.

2.3. And the fear of you The dread of you shall be upon heast of the earth, and upon bel of the air, upon all that

young lion roared And the Spirit of the LORD came nightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had

done.

beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Dan. iv, 12, 25. The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet seven times shall pass over thee, thee with the dew of heaven, and till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he

1 Sam. xvii, 34-37. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy uncircumcised servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies David said of the living God. moreover, The LORD that deliver-will." ed me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of And Saul said this Philistine. unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

2 Sam. xxiii, 20. And Benaiah went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

which

Job xxviii, 7, 8. There is a path no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

Job xxxv, 11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Ps. viii, 6-9. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm xxxii, 9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto

thee.

James iii, 7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind.

WILD ANIMALS.

on the earth, and upon bes of the sea; into your me they delivered. Every thing that liveth shall be be you, even as the green have I given you all things. yes xiv, 5, 6. Then went Jer. 1, 39. Therefore the wild on down, and his father and other, to Timnath, and came be vineyards of Timnath: and, I beasts of the desert with the wild

Isa. xxxiv, 14. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow.

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Mark i, 13. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

BEAR.

ITS FIERCENESS.

2 Kings ii, 24. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of LORD. And there came forth two them.

2 Sam. xvii, 8. For, said Hushand they be chafed in their minds, ai, thou knowest thy father and as a bear robbed of her whelps in his men, that they be mighty men, the field; and thy father is a man people. of war, and will not lodge with the

Prov. xvii, 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Lam. iii, 10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Hosea xiii, 8. I will meet them
as a bear that is bereaved of her
whelps, and will rend the caul of
their heart, and there will I de-
vour them like a lion: the wild
beast shall tear them.

BEHEMOTH OR HIPPOPOT-
AMUS.

Job xl, 15-20, 22-24. Behold now he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, behemoth, which I made with thee; his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his

bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his

sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through

anares.

BOAR.

Hab. ill, 19. The LORD God is, my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

DOG.

AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPT FOR ITS FILTHY AND PREDATORY HABITS.

Exod. xi, 7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how wood doth waste it, and the wild that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

P3. lxxx. 13. The boar out of the

beast of the field doth devour it.

CONEY.

ITS ABODE INACCESSIBLE.

Ps. civ, 18. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

Prov. xxx, 26. The conies are

but a feeble folk, yet make they

their houses in the rocks.

DEER.

AGILE AND BEAUTIFUL.

Gen. xlix, 21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

Job xxxix, 1-4. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and

return not unto them.

Ps. xviii, 33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

Ps. xxix, 9. The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

Ps. xlii, 1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Prov. v, 19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Cant. ii, 17. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Cant. vii, 3. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Cant. vill, 14. Make haste, my

Deut. xxiil, 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Judges vii, 5. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

1 Sam. xvii, 43. And the Philistine said untó David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Sam. xxiv, 14. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

2 Sam. ill, 8. Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

2 Sam. ix, 8. And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

2 Sam. xvi, 9. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head."

1 Kin. xiv, 11. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat.

1 Kin. xvl, 4. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air

eat.

beloved, and be thou like to a roe 1 Kin. xxi, 19, 23. And thou or to a young hart upon the shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou

mountains of spices.

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2 Kin. viii, 13. And Hazaels But what, is thy servant a de that he should do this great thin And Elisha answered, The L hath shewed me that thou be king over Syria.

Job xxx, 1. But now they are younger than I have me derision, whose fathers I wo have disdained to have set w the dogs of my flock.

Ps. xxii, 16. For dogs have co passed me: the assembly of t wicked have inclosed me: th pierced my hands and my f Deliver my soul from the s my darling from the power of t dog.

Ps. lix, 6. They return at ev ing; they make a noise like a d and go round about the city.

Ps. lxviii, 23. That thy foot be dipped in the blood of th enemies, and the tongue of dogs in the same.

Prov. xxvi, 11, 17. As a dog turneth to his vomit, so a fool turneth to his folly. He passeth by, and meddleth strife belonging not to him, s one that taketh a dog by the e

Prov. xxx, 31. A greyhound he goat also; and a king, agai whom there is no rising up.

Eccles. ix, 4. For to him that joined to all the living there hope: for a living dog is l than a dead lion.

Isa. Ivi, 10, 11. His watchm are blind: they are all ignor they are all dumb dogs, they not bark; sleeping, lying do loving to slumber. Yea, they greedy dogs which can never enough, and they are shephe that cannot understand: they look to their own way, every for his gain, from his quarter.

Isa. lxvi, 3. He that killeth ox is as if he slew a man; he t sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cus a dog's neck. * *

Jer. xv, 3. And I will app over them for kinds, saith LORD: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the fowls of heaven, and the beasts of earth, to devour and destroy.

Matth. vii,6. Give not that whe is holy unto the dogs, neither ye your pearls before swine l they trample them under th feet, and turn again and rend y

Matth. xv, 26, 27. But he answ

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SMALL BUT CUNNING.

NA. iv, 3. Now Tobiah the Ammenite as by him, and he

d. Even that which they build, fa fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

P. ill. 10. They shall fall by sword: they shall be a portion for forea

La 118. Because of the mounof Zn, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

E 4.0 Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the

deserts

4. vill, 20. And Jesus saith to him. The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests: the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke xiii, 32. And he said unto Go ye, and tell that fox, old, I cast out devils, and I cires to day and to morrow, the third day I shall be per

ised.

LEOPARD.

13 ROTTED HIDE, AND SWIFT AND

SUDDEN SPRING.

Cant. iv, 8. Come with me from non, my spouse, with me Lebanon: look from the top Amana, from the top of Shenir Hermon, from the lions' dens, the mountains of the leo

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which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Hosea xiii, 7. Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard by the way will I observe them.

Hab. 1, 8. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

Rev. xiii, 2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

LION.

Judges xiv, 8. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

1 Kings xiii, 24-26. And when he was gone, a lion met him by carcase was cast in the way, and the way, and slew him: and his the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

1 Kings xx, 36. Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not

obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him."

2 Kings xvil, 25, 26. And so it . xl, 6. The wolf also shall was at the beginning of their ell with the lamb, and the leo-dwelling there, that they feared arshall lie down with the kid; not the LORD: therefore the LORD the calf and the young lion sent lions among them, which the failing together, and a slew some of them. Wherefore Ade child shall lead them. they spake to the king of Assyria, hast removed, and placed in the saying, The nations which thou cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

Jer. xili, 23. Can the Ethiopian sare his skin, or the leopard spots then may ye also do d, that are accustomed to do

Dan, vii. 6. After this I beheld, lo another, like a leopard,

ITS BOLDNESS AND POWER.

Gen. xlix, 9. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Num. xxili, 24. Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Num. xxiv, 9. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Deut. xxxiii, 20, 22. And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

2 Sam. xvii, 10. And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

1 Kings vil, 29, 36. And on the borders that were between the bims: and upon the ledges there ledges were lions, oxen, and cheruwas a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

1 Kings x, 19, 20. The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

Job, iv, 10, 11. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are

scattered abroad.

P3. x, 9. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

is greedy of his prey, and as it Ps. xvii, 12. Like as a lion that were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Ps. Ivili, 6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth, break out the great teeth of the young lions, O

LORD.

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