Ps. cxxvii, 1. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it.....

Prov. ix, 1. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.

dom is an house builded; and by Prov. xxiv, 3, 27. Through wisunderstanding it is established. Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field and afterwards build thine house.

Luke xiv, 28-30. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Luke xvii, 28. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded.

Heb. iii, 3, 4. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

A PSALM OF DEDICATION. Ps. xxx, 1-12. I will extol thee O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall

1 Sam. xx, 25. And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

2 Kings iv, 10. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

2 Kings xx, 2. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,.

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Esth. i, 5. And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

Esth. vi, 5. And the king's serHaman standeth in the court. And vants said unto him, Behold, the king said, Let him come in.

Luke v, 19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

were laid down, she came up un them upon the roof.

Judges xvi, 25-27. And it can to pass, when their hearts we Samson, that he may make merry, that they said, Call he made them sport: and they sport. And they called for San son out of the prison house; a Samson said unto the lad that he him between the pillars. A him by the hand, Suffer me b I may feel the pillars whereg the house standeth, that I lean upon them. Now the hot was full of men and women, u all the lords of the Philistines there; and there were upon i roof about three thousand m and women, that beheld w Samson made sport.

1 Sam. ix, 25, 26. And when were come down from the h place into the city, Samuel muned with Saul upon the fo the house. And they arose and it came to pass about spring of the day, that Sam called Saul to the top of the last saying, Up, that I may send away. And Saul arose, and went out both of them, he Samuel, abroad.

2 Sam. xi, 2. And it came to in an eveningtide, that D upon the roof of the king's hot arose from off his bed, and wal and from the roof he saw a wo washing herself; and the wot was very beautiful to look up

2 Sam. xvi, 22. So they spr Absalom a tent upon the to the house; and Absalom wed unto his father's concubines the sight of all Israel.

2 Sam. xviii, 24. And Davi! between the two gates: at watchman went up to the f over the gate unto the wal • lifted up his eyes, and looked, behold a man running alone.

1 Kings vii, 2, 3. He built also house of the forest of Lebu the length thereof was an ! thereof thirty cubits, upon t thereof fifty cubits, and the bet dred cubits, and the bras rows of cedar pillars, with t beams upon the pillars. Ar was covered with cedar ab upon the beams, that lay on t five pillars, fifteen in a row.

2 Kings xi, 14. And when looked, behold, the king stool a pillar..

I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Gen. xxvi, 8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

Josh. ii, 15, 21. Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

1 Sam. xix, 12. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

1 Kin. vii, 4, 5. And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three

ranks.

2 Kin. 1, 2. And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick.

2 Kin. xiii, 17. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek,

till thou have consumed them.

Eccles. xii, 3. And those that look out of the windows be darkened.

Cant. il, 9. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Isa. liv, 12. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

DIAL.

2 Kin. xx, 11. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the

shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

fifth part of the money o estimation unto it, and it sha his.

Acts xxviil, 30. And Paul two whole years in his own house, and received all that in unto him.

APARTMENTS.

Gen. xliii, 30. And Joseph haste; for his bowels did yes on his brother: and he s where to weep; and he enter to his chamber, and wept th

went forth through the porc Judges lil, 23-25. Then shut the doors of the parlour him, and locked them. Wh was gone out, his servants and when they saw that, b the doors of the parlour locked, they said, Surely covereth his feet in his su chamber. And they tarri they were ashamed: and, b he opened not the doors parlour; therefore they took and opened them: and, b their lord was fallen down on the earth.

1 Kin. xx, 30. But the res to Aphek, into the city, and a wall fell upon twenty and thousand of the men that left. And Ben-hadad filed came into the city, into an chamber.

1 Kin. xxii, 25, 39. And M said, Behold, thou shalt s Isa. xxxviii, 8. Behold, I will an inner chamber to hide t that day, when thou shalt g bring again the shadow of the Now the rest of the acts of degrees, which is gone down in the and all that he did, and the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees back-house which he made, at ward. So the sun returned ten the cities that he built, a degrees, by which degrees it was not written in the book gone down. chronicles of the kings of Is 2 Kin. iv, 11. And it fell o that he came thither, an there. turned into the chamber, an

TENURE.

Jer. ix, 21. For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Joel ii, 9. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Zeph. ii, 14. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations:

their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the

Lev. xxvil, 14, 15. And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. And if he that sanctifled it will redeem

And one

servants said, None, my le 2 Kin. vi, 12. king: but Elisha, the prophe is in Israel, telleth the Israel the words that thou est in thy bedchamber.

2 Kin. ix, 2. And when comest thither, look out Jehu the son of Jehoshaph son of Nimshi, and go in make him arise up from a his brethren, and carry him inner chamber.

Esther 1, 6. Where were green, and blue, hangings, ed with cords of fine linen purple to silver rings and of marble: the beds were of and silver, upon a pavem red, and blue, and white, black, marble.

Mark xiv. 14, 15. And wheresoEr be shall go in, say ye to the adman of the house, The Massaith, Where is the guestaber, where I shall eat the ver with my disciples? And Well shew you a large upper farnished and prepared: e make ready for us. azil, 7. And she brought her firstborn son, and ged him in swaddling clothes, him in a manger, because was no room for them in

Ats 1,13 And when they were they went up into an room where abode both d James, and John, and thes, Philip, and Thomas, bhaonew and Matthew, the son of Alphæus, and Zelotes, and Judas the er of James.

ix, 37. And it came to pass se days, that she was sick, ded: whom when they had the, they laid her in an upper

8. And there were ha in the upper chamthey were gathered

Haggai i, 4. Is it time for you, ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Matth. xxiii, 6. And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues.

chief upon his bed; he setteth Ps. xxxvi, 4. He deviseth mishimself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Ps. xli, 3. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Prov. vii, 16, 17. I have decked with carved works, with fine my bed with coverings of tapestry, linen of Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

FURNITURE.
BEDS.

Gen. xlvii, 31. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed

himself upon the bed's head.

Cant. i, 16. Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our bed is green.

Isa. xxviii, 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

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1 Sam. xix, 18, 15. And Michal Which is as a bride-took an image, and laid it in the ing out of his chamber, bed, and put a pillow of goats eth as a strong man to hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

8. And hast not shut to the hand of the enemy:

set my foot in a large

2. It is better to dwell mer of the housetop, than babaing woman in a wide

14 Draw me, we will thee: the king hath The into his chambers: be glad and rejoice in

4. He brought me to eting house, and his over me cas love. *** ii, 4. It was but a little passed from them, but I an whom my soul loveth:

** him and would not let til I had brought him mother's house, and into

ber of her that conceived

20. Come, my people, en into thy chambers, and by doors about thee: hide is it were for a little moil the indignation be

, 14. That saith, I will Te a wide house and large , and cutteth him out and it is cieled with , and painted with vermil

1 Kin. xxi, 4. And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

2 Kings i, 4. Now therefore thus saith the LORD; Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

2 Kings iv, 21. And she went

up, and laid him on the bed of

the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

Job vil, 13. When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint.

Job xvii, 13. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my

bed in the darkness.

Job xxxiii, 15. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

Ps. iv, 4. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own

Ezek. xxiii, 41. And satest upon ed before it, whereupon thou a stately bed, and a table prepar

hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Amos vi, 4. That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall.

Mark iv, 21. And he said unto them, is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

Acts v, 15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

BOTTLE, PITCHER.

rose up early in the morning, and

Gen. xxi, 14. And Abraham

took bread, and a bottle of water,

and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Ps. Ivi, 8. Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy

book?

Ps. cxix, 83. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Jer. xix, 1, 10. Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the

Mark ii, 22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the

bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.

John xii, 2. There they made him a supper, and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Rom. xi, 9. Let their table be made a snare, And David saith, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them.

SEAT.

Gen. xxiv, 14, 15. And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Mil-judged Israel fory years. cah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her

1 Sam. 1, 9. So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

shoulder.

Judges vil, 16. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Lam. iv, 2. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

TABLE.

Judges 1, 7. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and teu kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

1 Kin. x, 5. And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his

ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers...

Neh. v, 17. Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about

us.

Ps. xxiii, 5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth

over.

Mark vil, 4. And when they come from the market, except And they wash, they eat not. many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.

Lake xxii, 21. But, behold, the

1 Sam. iv, 18. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had

1 Kings ii, 19. Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right

hand.

2 Chron. ix, 17-19. Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays: And twelve lions stood there on the cne side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Job xxix, 7. When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

OTHER ARTICLES. Gen. xxxi, 37. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

Exod. xxxviii, 8. And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Judges v, 26. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer, and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

2 Kings iv, 2. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the

house? And she said, Thine maid hath not any thing house, save a pot of oil.

Neh. xiii, 8. And it griev sore: therefore I cast forth household stuff of Tobiah

the chamber.

Luke ix, 17. And they d and were all filled: and the taken up of fragments t mained to them twelve bas

2 Tim. ii, 20. But in a house there are not only of gold and of silver, but wood and of earth; and s honour and some to disho

THE HEARTI
FIRE.

Exod. xxxv, 3. Ye shall no fire throughout your tions upon the sabbath day

1 Kings iv, 40. So they out for the men to eat. came to pass, as they were of the pottage, that the out, and said, O thou man there is death in the pot they could not eat thereof.

Isa. xxx, 14. And he shall it as the breaking of the 1 vessel that is broken in pie shall not spare: so that the

not be found in the burstin a sherd to take fire fro hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

Isa. xliv, 16. He burnet thereof in the fire; with par of he eateth flesh; her roast, and is satisfied: warmeth himself, and salt I am warm, I have seen th

Jer. vii, 18. The children wood, and the fathers ki fire, and the women knea queen of heaven, and to p dough, to make cakes 1 drink offerings unto othe that they may provoke anger.

Jer. xxix, 22. And of the be taken up a curse by captivity of Judah which Babylon, saying, The Low thee like Zedekiah and lik whom the king of Babylor

ed in the fire.

Jer. xxxvi, 22, 23. Now il sat in the winter-house ninth month: and there too on the hearth burning him. And it came to pa when Jehudi had read th four leaves, he cut it with knife, and cast it into the f was on the hearth, until roll was consumed in the f was on the hearth.

Ezek. xv, 4. Behold, It into the fire for fuel; the f voureth both the ends of the midst of it is burned. meet for any work?