depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver | be thine, and shall be called after from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships: and his border shall be unto Zidon. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches the name of their brethren in their inheritance. Heb. xii, 24. By faith Moses, when be was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. SPIRITUAL ADOPTION-ITS SOURCE THE GRACE OF GOD. Hosea 1, 10. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. John 1, 12, 13. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Eph. 1, 5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Gal. iv, 5-7,19,28. To redeem t that were under the law, that might receive the adoption sons. And because ye are i God hath sent forth the Spid his Son into your hearts, Abba, Father. Wherefore art no more a servant, but a and if a son, then an heir of through Christ. My little chil of whom I travail in birth i until Christ be formed in Now we, brethren, as Isaac are the children of promise. 1 John iii, 2, Beloved, no we the sons of God and not yet appear what we sha but we know that, when he appear, we shall be like bi we shall see him as he is. ITS DUTIES. the children of your Father is in heaven: for he mak good, and sendeth rain on and on the unjust. sun to rise on the evil and Eph. v, 1. Be ye therefore! ers of God, as dear children Phil. ii, 15. That ye 1 John lii, 1. Behold what blameless and harmless, th manner of love the Father hath midst of a crooked and p of God, without rebuke, bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! there-nation, among whom yes Irun over the wall. The archers fore the world knoweth us not. lights in the world. because it knew him not. have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the mor ning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. ADOPTION. Gen. xlviii, 5, 6. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall ITS BLESSINGS. Ps. lxxxix, 26, 27. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth. Jer. iii, 4, 19. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee of the hosts of nations? and I said, a pleasant land, a goodly heritage Thou shalt call me, My father, and shalt not turn away from me. Rom. viii, 14-17. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself bearethi witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 2 Cor. vi, 18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Gal. ill, 26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Heb. xii, 5. And ye have ten the exhortation which eth unto you as unto d My son, despise not th chastening of the Lord, t when thou art rebuked of that hath this hope in hi 1 John iii, 3, 10. And ev eth himself, even as he In this the children of manifest, and the childre devil: whosoever doeth no eousness is not of God, ne that loveth not his brothe IV. FAMILY CIRC Gen. xiv, 16. And he A brought back all the go also brought again his Lot, and his goods, women also, and the peop Gen. xxviii, 5. And le away Jacob: and be Padan-aram unto Laban Bethuel the Syrian, the bi Rebekah, Jacob's and mother. Gen. xxix, 4-6, 12. AD said unto them, My! whence be ye? And the Haran are we. And be them, Know ye Lahan t Nahor? And they said, him. And he said unto he well? And they sa and, behold, Rachel his Ster cometh with the sheep. Jacob told Rachel that he her father's brother, and that 3 Rebekah's son: and she nd told her father. a. XXXVI, 14. And he said to Go, I pray thee, see whether well with thy brethren, and with the flocks, and bring ord again. . . . . . s. xliii, 6. 7. And Israel said, refore dealt ye so ill with me, tell the man whether ye had brother? And they said, man asked us straitly of our and of our kindred, saying, ar father yet alive? have ye her brother? and we told him ding to the tenor of these a. Could we certainly know be would say, Bring your er down? 4. iv, 18. And Moses went returned to Jethro his father, and said unto him, Let me pray thee, and return unto Brethren which are in Egypt, see whether they be yet alive. Jethro said to Moses, Go in viil, 5-8. And Jethro, sther-in-law, came with and his wife unto Moses by wilderness, where he ened at the mount of God. le said unto Moses, I thy -law, Jethro am come thee, and thy wife, and her Buns with her. And Moses Leat to meet his father-in-law, did obeisance, and kissed him; they asked each other of welfare: and they came into lent And Moses told his -in-law all that the LORD done unto Pharaoh, and to Egyptians, for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come them by the way, and how ORD delivered them. parched corn, and these ten loaves, Esther ii, 10, 11. Esther had not Luke 1, 39, 40, 56. And Mary Acts vil, 13, 23. And at the FAMILY CARES AND blessed thee since my coming: and now, when shall I provide for mine own house also? Gen. xxxii, 6-8. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. Gen. xliii, 8. And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. Num. xii, 1. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Num. xxxii, 26. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead. Deut. iii, 19, 20. But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you, Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren; as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. Gen. xix, 12-16. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake untohis sons-in-law,which married his daughters, and said, Up, get ye out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he 1 Kings iii, 1. And Solomon seemed as one that mocked unto made affinity with Pharaoh king his sons-in-law. And when the of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's morning arose, then the angels daughter, and brought her into hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take the city of David, until he had thy wife, and thy two daughters, made an end of building his own 1, 31, 32. And he said, which are here; lest thou be con-house, and the house of the LORD, eus not, I pray thee; foras-sumed in the iniquity of the city. and the wall of Jerusalem round i as thou knowest how we are And, while he lingered, the men about. camp in the wilderness, and laid hold upon his hand, and upon mayest be to us instead of the hand of his wife, and upon the And it shall be, if thou go hand of his two daughters, the na, yea, it shall be, that what LORD being merciful unto him: ness the LORD shall do unto and they brought him forth, and he same will we do unto thee. set him without the city. il, 1, 20. And Naomi had a man of her husband's, a y man of wealth, of the ly of Elimelech; and his name Boaz. And Noami said unto daughter-in-law, Blessed be fthe LORD, who hath not left his kindness to the living to the dead. And Naomi unto her, The man is near of auto us, one of our next kins-ine? Gen. xxvi, 35. Which [Esau's two marriages] were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. Gen. xxvii, 46. And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do Gen. xxx, 30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath 1 Kings ix, 24. But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. Neh. v, 1, 2. And there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives, against their breth ren the Jews. For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. BROTHERLY AFFECTION, ETC. Gen. xxix, 13. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. Gen. xxxiii, 4. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept. Gen. xxxvii, 30. And he [Reuben] returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? Gen. xliii, 29-31. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. Gen. xlv, 1-4, 13-17. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him while Joseph made himself knownunto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them:and after that his brethren talked with him. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan. Gen. 1, 18, 21. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. Exod. iv, 27. And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. 1 Sam. xvii, 22. And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran | Deut. xxxili, 9. Who said unto have not seen him; neither did his father and to his mother, I he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. Judges ix, 21. And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. Prov. xviii, 19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Thon wast Ezek. xvi, 5. loathing of thy person, in the cast out in the open field, to the day that thou wast born. Obad. 10, 12, 13. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. Micah vi, 4, 5. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, Luke xil, 51, 52. Suppose ye I tell you, Nay, but rather d I am come to give peace on E ion: For from henceforth t shall be five in one house divi three against two, and against three. DIMINUTION OF FAMIL A SORE JUDGMENT UP Lev. xxvi, 32. And I will the land into desolation; an enemies which dwell shall be astonished at it. Deut. xxviii, 62, 63. And ye be left few in number, where obey the voiceof the LORD the were as the stars of heaven for titude; because thou would And it shall come to pass, the LORD rejoiced over you you good, and to multiply the LORD will rejoice over nought: and ye shall be p destroy you, and to bring from off the land whither goest to possess it. Judges v, 7. The inhabita the villages ceased, they in Israel, until that I De arose, that I arose a moti Israel. Prov. xiv, 11. The house wicked shall be overthrowi the tabernacle of the shall flourish. Isa. vi, 11, 12. Then Lord, how long? And b without inhabitant and the b swered, Until the cities bew without man, and the las utterly desolate; And the have removed men far awa there be a great forsaking b midst of the land. Isa. xxiv, 1-3. Behold, the maketh the earth empty maketh it waste, and tas upside down, and abroad the inhabitants t And it shall be, as with the ple, so with the priest; as w servant, so with his mas with the maid, so with ber tress; as with the buyer, s the seller, as with the len with the borrower; as wi. taker of usury, so with the of usury to him. The land s be utterly emptied, and o spoiled: for the LORD hath 57. this word. Jer. iv, 25, 26. I bebeld, and and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Ezek. xv, 8. And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the LORD GOD. Ezek. xxxii, 15, 16. When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. Ezek. xxxiii, 28, 29. For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall 221 pass through. Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they have committed. Ezek. xxxv, 9. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Zeph. i, 2, 3. I will ntterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. Zeph. ii, 6. I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I. PATRIARCHAL, FROM ADAM TO NOAH. AS IN GENESIS. Gen. v, 8-32. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos. And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. And Cainan lived, after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared. And Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch. And Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years, GENEALOGY. and begat sons and daughters. | begat Eber. And Eber lived And all the days of Methuselah and thirty years, and begat P were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. And Lamech begat Reu. And Rue lived And Peleg lived thirty years lived an hundred eighty and two and thirty years, and begat S years, and begat a son; And he And Serug lived thirty years. called his name Noah, saying, begat Nahor. And Naber This same shall comfort us con- nine and twenty years, and b cerning our work and toil of our Terah. And Terah lived sv hands, because of the grourd years, and begat Abram, N which the LORD hath cursed. And and Haran. Now these are Lamech lived, after he begat generations of Terah. Terah b Noah, five hundred ninety and Abram, Nahor, and Haran five years, and begat sons and Haran begat Lot. daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. vi, 10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. ix, 28. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. AS IN CHRONICLES. Enosh, Keuan, Mahalaleel, Jered, THE LINE OF SHEM. AS IN GENESIS. And Gen. x, 21-29. Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah. Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, And Obal, and Sheba, And Ophir, and Havilah, Abimael, and and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. And Gen. xi, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah. And Salah lived thirty years, and Gen. xxiv, 24. And she said him, I am the daughter of Bea the son of Milcah, which the unto Nahor. AS IN CHRONICLES. 1 Chron. 1, 17-27. The s Shem; Elam, and Asshur Arphaxad, and Lud, and A and Uz, and Hul, and Get and Meshech. And Arpb begat Shelah, and Shelah b Eber. And unto Eber were two sons: the name of the the earth was divided:) and was Peleg, (because in hds brother's name was Joktan. Joktan begat Almodad, Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth Jerah, Hadoram also, and and Diklah, And Ebal, and i mael, and Sheba, And Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All were the sons of Joktan. Arphazad, Shelah, Eber, P Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terab, Ab the same is Abraham. THE LINE OF HAM. AS IN GENESIS. sons of Ham; Cush, and Mi Gen. x. 6, 7, 13-18, 20. And and Phut, and Canaan. And and Sabtah, and Raama sons of Cush; Seba, and Hay Sabtacha: and the sons of Ram Sheba, and Dedan. And raim begat Ludim, and An And Pathrusim, and Cast and Lehabim, and Naph and Caphtorim. And Ca (out of whom came Ph begat Sidon his first-born Heth, And the Jebusite, and Amorite, and the Girgashite the Hivite, and the Arkite the Sinite, And the Arvadite the Zemarite, and the Hama and afterward were the fa of the Canaanites spread at These are the sons of Ham their families, after their teag |