let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Zeph. ii, 9. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Amon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. Matth. xi, 7. And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto The multitades concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderDess to see! A reed shaken with the wind? Matth. 17, 33. And his disciples ay unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wildertess, as to fill so great a multi Mark vi, 31, 32. And he said to them, Come ye yourselves part into a desert place, and rest a while for there were many oming and going, and they had leisure so much as to eat. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. Luke 1,80. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. NOXIOUS VEGETATION. Psalm Ivill, 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. 13 Isaiah xxxiv, 13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof. Hosea ix, 6. For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, 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. ANIMALS. CREATION OF THEM, BY GOD. AO. them alive. green herb for meat: and it was all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this 1: Gen. vi, 19, 20. And of every whose hand is the soul of every Gen. 1, 20-25. And God said, living thing of all flesh, two of living thing, and the breath of a Let the waters bring forth abund every sort shalt thou bring into mankind. the ark, to keep them alive with Job xxxvii, 7, 8. He sealeth up the antly the moving creature that thee; they shall be male and fe- hand of every man; that all A hath life, and fowl that may fly male. Of fowls after their kind, may know his work. Then the above the earth in the open fir- and of cattle after their kind, of beasts go into dens, and remain in mament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every after his kind, two of every sort every creeping thing of the earth their places. living creature that moveth, shall come unto thee, to keep hunt the prey for the lion? or f Job xxxviii, 39-41. Wilt the which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and the appetite of the young les 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 le And God blessed them, saying cattle after their kind, and every wait? Who provideth for the Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill creeping thing that creepeth upon raven his food? when his young the waters in the seas, and let the earth after his kind, and ones cry unto God, they wanter fowl multiply in the earth. And every fowl after his kind, every for lack of meat. And they the evening and the morning bird of every sort. 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 in. 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. 11, 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 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. darkness, and it is night: wherem Psalm civ, 20-22. Thou makest 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 the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and all the beasts of the forest de said, This have we found: know creep forth. The young lis or no. And he knew it, and said, now whether it be thy son's coat their meat from God. The st roar after their prey, and seek It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down 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 all 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 his 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 dragons 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 hath gathered them. Jer. viii, 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the Jer. xii, 4. How long shall the d mourn, and the herbs of y field wither, for the wickedof them that dwell therein? beasts are consumed, and the because they said, He shall see our last end. seri, 18. And in that day Imake a covenant for them the beasts of the field, and the bowls of heaven, and with creeping things of the ground: break the bow and the and and the battle out of the and will make them to lie medely. 21. 22. Fear not. O land; lad and rejoice: for the LORD do great things. Be not Mre beasts of the field: for res of the wilderness do the tree beareth her The iz tree and the vine do their strength. fr, 11. And should not Gre Nineveh, that great city, are more than sixscore persons that cannot dis their right hand and hand; and also much tir, 15. And so shall be te of the horse, of the the camel, and of the ass, all the beasts that shall be lants, as this plague. 26. Behold the fowls air, for they sow not, neither teap, nor gather into Fet your heavenly Father them. Are ye not much han they? M1.29. Are not two sparfor a farthing? and one shall not fall on the Without your Father. FJECTION TO MAN. 29. And God blessed God said unto them. Be and multiply, and replenParth, and subdue it: and pinion over the fish of the over the fowl of the air, every living thing that spon the earth. * 2.3. And the fear of you tread of you shall be upon ast of the earth, and upon al of the air, upon all that the earth, and upon --tes of the sea; into your they delivered. Every hing that liveth shall be r you; even as the green Save I given you all things. xiv, 5, 6. Then went down, and his father and her, to Timnath, and came Vineyards of Timnath: and, 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 tair, 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 thereof, and all flesh was fed of the heaven dwelt in the boughs it. from men, and thy dwelling shall That they shall drive thee be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat thee with the dew of heaven, and grass as oxen, and they shall wet seven times shall pass over thee, 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 out of the flock: And I went out a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb 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 servant slew both the lion and the smote him, and slew him. Thy bear: and uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. David said 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 this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee. this 2 Sam. xxiii, 20. And Benafah 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. 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. Jer. 1, 39. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild 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 LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. 2 Sam. xvii, 8. For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 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 bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. a 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 devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. BEHEMOTH OR HIPPOPOTAMUS. Job xl, 15-20, 22-24. Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, 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 snares. BOAR. P3. lxxx. 13. The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild 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. xvill, 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 beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. 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 that the LORD doth put a differor beast: that ye may know how ence between the Egyptians and Israel. Deut. xxiii, 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 Zerulah 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, xvi, 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. 1 Kin. xxi, 19, 23. And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possessio And thou shalt speak unto hi saying, Thus saith the Loan, the place where dogs licked t blood of Naboth shall dogs thy blood, even thine. And Jezebel also spake the LORD, SE ing, The dogs shall eat Jezebe. the wall of Jezreel. 2 Kin. viii, 13. And Hazael sal But what, is thy servant a de that he should do this great the 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 wet 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: D pierced my hands and my f Deliver my soul from the my darling from the power of dog. Ps. lix, 6. They return at en ing; they make a noise like a d and go round about the city. Ps. lxviii, 23. That thy foot n 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 foul turneth to his folly. He t passeth by, and meddleth " strife belonging not to him, is one that taketh a dog by the e Prov. xxx, 31. A greyhoun he goat also; and a king, agai whom there is no rising up. Eccles. ix, 4. For to him tha joined to all the living ther hope: for a living dog is k than a dead lion. Isa. Ivi, 10, 11. His watchm are blind: they are all ignori they are all dumb dogs, they not bark; sleeping, lying do loving to slumber. Yea, they greedy dogs which can never b enough, and they are shephe that cannot understand: they look to their own way, every for his gain, from his quarter. Isa. Ixvi, 3. He that killeth ox is as if he slew a man; he sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut a dog's neck. *** Jer. xv, 3. And I will appe over them for kinds, saith! LORD: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the fowls of t heaven, and the beasts of 1 earth, to devour and destroy. Matth. vii, 6. Give not that wh is holy unto the dogs, neither ye your pearls before swine! feet, and turn again and rend yo they trample them under t Matth. xv, 26, 27. But he answ ed and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord yet the dogs eat of the ambs which fall from their masters' table. Luke xvi. 21. And desiring to with the crumbs which fell the rich man's table: moreer the dogs came and licked 2. Beware of dogs, beate of evil workers, beware of the conesson. Br. 15. For without are gy, and sorcerers, and whoreand murderers, and es, and whosoever loveth aeth a lie. FOXES. SMALL BUT CUNNING. A. iv, 3. Now Tobiah the renite s by him, and he Even that which they build, to go up, he shall even break w their stone wall. 10. They shall fall by So they shall be a portion Because of the mounZg which is desolate, sak upon it. 40 Israel, thy proare like the foxes in the vi, 20. And Jesus saith h. The foxes have holes, e birds of the air have nests: the Son of man hath not ee to lay his head. Iri 32. And he said unto Go ye, and tell that fox, 4. I cast out devils, and I 2 s to day and to morrow, The third day I shall be per LEOPARD. TED HIDE, AND SWIFT AND , & Come with me from my spouse, with me Lebanon: look from the top from the top of Shenir Hen, from the lions' dens, the mountains of the leo 6. The wolf also shall h the lamb, and the leolie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion failing together, and a ald shall lead them. 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 the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and 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 carne 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 xvii, 25, 26. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou Ji, 23. Can the Ethiopian hast removed, and placed in the his skin, or the leopard cities of Samaria, know not the pe then may ye also do manner of the God of the land: , that are accustomed to do therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. v1.6. After this I beheld, 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 Gadhe 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 vali ant men. 1 Kings vii, 29, 36. And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was 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 like made in any kingdom. the six steps: there was not the 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. Ps. 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. Ps. xvii, 12. Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Ps. Iviii, 6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth, break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |