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 threshingfloor, 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. Amos 1, 3. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of 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 lil, 17. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat 1 Cor. ix, 9. For it is written in 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 command- John vi, 10. And Jesus said, about five thousand. Rev. ix, 4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 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 growe up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening is cut down, and withereth. Psalm xcii, 7. When the wicke spring as the grass, and when a the workers of iniquity do for ish; it is that they shall be de stroyed for ever. Psalm ciii, 15. As for man, h days are as grass: as a flower the field, so he flourisheth. inhabitants were of small powe Isa. xxxvii, 27. Therefore the they were dismayed and co founded: they were as the grass the field, and as the green herb the grass on the housetops, and corn blasted before it be grow Isa. lviil, 5. Is it such a fast I have chosen? a day for a ma afflict his soul? is it to bow dy his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes him? wilt thou call this a fast. Psalm 1xxil, 16. And they of the an acceptable day to the Loar city shall flourish like grass of the Job vili, 11. Can the rush g earth. up without mire? can the flagg Psalm 10, 5, 6. Thon carriest without water? pon the roof. Ist. xiii, 3. A bruised reed shail best break, and the smoking x shall be not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. Ext 13 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a we appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a The of flax in his hand, and a asuring reed; and he stood in the gate. B. II, 5. For their mother hath yed the harlot: she that conWyed them hath done shameally: for she said, I will go after By lovers, that give me my bread d my water, my wool and my das, mine oil and my drink. EA 9. Therefore will I re 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, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt 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. the stay and the staff, the whole 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 thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not And 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. 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 Matt. xiil, 24-31. (See under slips: In the day shalt thou make TARES. , i take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will re- Reaping and Harvest.) ever my wood and my flax given to cover her nakedness. IV, 34. Then Jacob gare 4 bread and pottage of lenand he did eat and drink, rome up, and went his way: Esan despised his birthright. MANDRAKES XIX, 14. And Reuben went days of wheat harvest, and drakes in the field, and them unto his mother Then Rachel said to Leah, reme I pray thee, of thy son's Mandrakes ng of Solomon vil, 13. The drakes give a smell, and at r gates are all manner of pleasfruits, new and old, which I re laid up for thee, O my be 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 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. Isa. li, 19. These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruc tion, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Jer. xil, 13. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but 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 bread thereof, and will send famine beast from it: 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 viil, 7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall 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, 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 unlading, crew, cargo, and passengers ship with Rehoboth,-Sitnah,-Floods often breaking Hagar's history,-Haran,-Jacob,-Marah,figure head of Castor and Pollox-Shipwreck out suddenly - Symbol of revolution and of the Apostle Paul, storms sent by God, great 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. invasion. FLOODS. The flood of Noah, the rain-bow token of the divine covenant,-Swimming,-spreading forth hands. DROUGHT. A fearful punishment-water failing, (8 THE CLASSIFIED BIBLE. DISTRIBUTION OF LAND. AGRICULTURE. their substance. As the LORD commanded Moses, so the chilthe land. dren of Israel did, and they divided Joshua xvill, 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 Loto spake unto Moses, saying, Unto these the land shall be diVided for an inheritance accordto the number of names. To any then shalt give the more heritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his 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 pussession thereof be divided door of the tabernacle of the conbetween many and few. gregation. So they made an end of dividing the country. Num. xxxiil, 53, 54. And ye Phail dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to pos TENURE. And ye shall divide the Lev. xxv, 13-17. In the year of ad by lot for an inheritance this jubilee ye shall return every Mong your families: and to the man unto his possession. And if Te ye shall give the more in- thou sell ought unto thy neighrance, and to the fewer ye bour, or buyest ought of thy neighgive the less inheritance: bour's hand, ye shall not oppress ery man's inheritance shall be one another: According to the the place where his lot falleth; number of years after the jubilee ing to the tribes of your thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, fathers ye shall inherit. and according unto the number Juttua xiv, 1-5. And these are of years of the fruits he shall sell entries which the children unto thee: According to the mulIsrael inherited in the land of titude of years thou shalt increase Can, which Eleazar the priest, the price thereof, and according Joshua the son of Nun, and the to the fewness of years thou shalt ads of the fathers of the tribes diminish the price of it: for acthe children of Israel, distri-cording to the number of the tel for inheritance to them. By as their inheritance, as the commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. For Moses had ven the inheritance of two tribes an half tribe on the other side dan: but unto the Levites he ve none inheritance among e. For the children of Joseph Dphraim: therefore they gave no land. ere two tribes, Manasseh and art unto the Levites in the land, are cities to dwell in, with their burbs for their cattle and for years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. 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 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 he redeem that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able 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 remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. 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. Ruth iv, 6-9,11. And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it. Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, 1 Kings xxi, 3. And Naboth said that I should give the inheritance, of my fathers unto thee. 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, Restore 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. TRANSFER OF LAND. IN EARLY TIMES. 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 field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you. Gen. xxiil, 13-16. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hear ken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron tent, at the hand of the children, fruit of her hands she plantet Josh. xxiv, 32. And the bones of John iv, 5. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called UNDER JEWISH LAW. 2 Sam. xxiv, 21-24. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be And stayed from the people. 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. And 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. Jer. xxxii, 6-9. And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Acts v, 1, 2. But a certain ma named Ananias, with Sapphira h wife, sold a possession, And kep back part of the price, his w also being privy to it, and brough a certain part, and laid it at th apostles' feet. ANCIENT CHARTFRS. Gen. xxiii, 17, 18. And the field d Ephron, which was in Machpes which was before Mamre, the fiel 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 Abraham for a possession in th presence of the children of He before all that went in at the gat of his city. Jer. xxxii, 10-15. And I s scribed the evidence, and seale it, and took witnesses, and weigte him the money in the balans So I took the evidence of the pa chase, both that which was seale according to the law and custo and that which was open: And gave the evidence of the purch unto Baruch the son of Neriah, t son of Maaseiah, in the sight Hanameel mine uncle's son, a in the presence of the witness that subscribed the book of t purchase, before all the Jews th sat in the court of the pris And I charged Baruch belo them, saying, Thus saith the Lo of hosts, the God of Israel; Ta 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 sessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii, 44. Men shall M fields for money, and sul evidences, and seal them, and ta witnesses in the land of Benja and in the places about Jerusale and in the cities of Judah, and the cities of the mountains, an the cities of the valley, and int cities of the south: for 1 will ca their captivity to return, saith t LORD. SOIL OF CANAAN. Num. xiv, 6-8. And Joshua t son of Nun, and Caleb the sc the silver, which he had named Anathoth, and weighed him the Jephunneh, which were of th in the audience of the sons of Heth, 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 money, even seventeen shekels of 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 clothes: And they spake unt that searched the land, rent the company of the childrer Israel, saying, The land, which passed through to search it, s exceeding good land. If the L delight in us, then he will bri us into this land, and give it a land which floweth with and honey. |