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Mark xiv, 54. And Peter followdim afar off, even into the palace the high priest: and he sat with servants, and warmed himself

the fire.

Lake xxl, 56. But a certain eli bebeld him as he sat by the e and earnestly looked upon and said, This man was also

selves about with sparks: walk in, them? God distributeth sorrows
the light of your fire, and in the in his anger.
sparks that ye
This shall ye have of mine hand;
have kindled.
ye shall lie down in sorrow.

Isa. Ixiv, 2. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Jer. i, 13. And the word cf the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

Jarril, 18. And the servants thers stood there, who had de a fire of coals; for it was Ezek. xxiv, 3, 6, 11, 12. And utter and they warmed them-a parable unto the rebellious ver and Peter stood with them, house, and say unto them, Thus Marmed himself. saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, dxxviii, 2. And the barbar-set it on, and also pour water into people shewed us no little it. Wherefore thus saith the tess for they kindled a fire, Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody received us every one, because city, to the pot whose scum is he present rain, and because of therein, and whose scum is not $3.14 gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

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viii, 5. Yea, the light of ked shall be put out, and erk of his fire shall not

xxxix, 3. My heart was hot while I was musing Pre burned: then spake I with

A 14. As the fire burn- Micah 1, 4. And the mountains
Bad, and as the flame set-shall be molten under him, and

the mountains on fire.

3. For my days are con4ke smoke, and my bones urbed as an hearth. 2, 10. Let burning coals them: let them be cast the fire, into deep pits, that e not up again.

the valleys shall be cleft, as wax
before the fire, and as the waters
that are poured down a steep
place.

Micah iii, 3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in ali, 7. Our bones are scat-pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh

the grave's mouth, as Ae entteth and cleaveth *th the earth.

*1, 25. As vinegar to the

das smoke to the eyes, the sluggard to them that

v, 20. Where no wood re the fire goeth out: so there is no talebearer, the

seth.

viil, 6. Set me as a seal The heart, as a seal upon : for love is strong as alousy is cruel as the the coals thereof are coals which hath a most veheJame.

within the caldron.

Zech. iii, 2. And the LORD said
unto Satan, The LORD rebuke

thee, O Satan; even the LORD that
hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: is not this a brand plucked

out of the fire?

make the governors of Judah like
Zech. xii, 6. In that day will I
and like a torch of fire in a sheaf;
an hearth of fire among the wood,
and they shall devour all the peo-
ple round about, on the right
hand and on the left: and Jerusa-
lem shall be inhabited again in
her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Matth. iii, 10. And now also the
ax is laid unto the root of the
trees: therefore every tree which
bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down, and cast into the
fire.

sivil, 14. Behold, they shall abble, the fire shall burn they shall not deliver themfrom the power of the there shall not be a coal to al, nor fire to sit before it. Job,xxi,17. How oft is the candle LIL Behold, all ye that of the wicked put out? and how de a fire, that compass your-oft cometh their destruction upon

CANDLE, LAMP.

Job xxix, 3. When his candle

shined upon my head, and when
darkness.
by his light I walked through

Ps. xviii, 28. For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Ps. cxix, 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp Prov. xiii, 9. The light of the of the wicked shall be put out.

father or his mother, his lamp Prov. xx, 20. Whoso curseth his shall be put out in obscure dark

ness.

Prov. xxiv, 20. For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

that her merchandise is good: her Prov. xxxi, 18. She perceiveth candle goeth not out by night.

Jer. xxv, 10. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

Matth. v, 15. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are ir. the house.

Matth. xxv, 1, 7, 8. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Luke viii, 16. No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

Luke xi, 36. If thy whole body no part dark, the whole shall be therefore be full of light, having full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

having ten pieces of silver, if she Luke xv, 8. Either what woman lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Acts xvi, 29. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas.

Rev. xviii, 23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee....

LEPROSY IN HOUSES. Lev. xiv, 34-41. When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place.

CITIES.

ERECTION.

Gen. x, 11, 12. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Gen. xi, 4, 5. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

1 Chron. vil, 24. (And his daughter was Sheran, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)

1 Chron. viii, 12. The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof.

2 Chron. viii, 5, 6. Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

2 Chron. xxvii, 4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

provided him cities, and posses2 Chron. xxxii, 29. Moreover he sions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

Jonah iii, 3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

UNFINISHED.

Gen. xi, 8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

1 Kings xv, 21, 22. And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

NAMING.

Gen. iv, 17.... He builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,

Enoch.

1 Kings ix, 17-19. And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horse- Judges xvili, 29. And they callmen, and that which Solomon de-ed the name of the city Dan, after sired to build in Jerusalem, and the name of Dan their father, who in Lebanon, and in all the land of was born unto Israel: howbeit the his dominion. name of the city was Laish at the first.

1 Kings xii, 25. Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

2 Kings xiv, 22. He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his

fathers.

1 Kings xvi, 24. And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF

CITIES. ROYAL.

Num. xxi. 26. For Heshbon A

the city of Sihon the king of the former king of Moab, Amorites, who had fought agai

taken all his land out of his ban even unto Arnon.

Josh.x, 2. greatly, because Gibeon tar That they fears great city, as one of the roy cities, and because it was gr than Ai, and all the men ther were mighty.

against Rabbah of the children 2 Sam. xii, 26. And Joab fen Ammon, and took the royal city

TREASURE.

Exod. 1, 11. Therefore they set over them taskmasters afflict them with their burde And they built for Pharaoh tres sure-cities, Pithom and Ramses

COMMERCIAL.

Isa. xxiil, 11. He stretched his hand over the sea, he shou the kingdoms: the LORD hath give a commandment against the m chant city, to destroy the stron holds thereof.

Ezek. xxvii, 3. And say u Tyrus, O thou that art situate the entry of the sea, which art merchant of the people for man isles, Thus saith the Lord Go Tyrus, thou hast said, I an perfect beauty.

CHARIOT.

2 Chron. 1, 14. And Solon gathered chariots and horse and he had a thousand and f hundred chariots, and tw thousand horsemen, which placed in the chariot cities, a with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chron. ix, 25. And, Solomon had four thousand stalls for horse and chariots, and twelve thousar horsemen; whom he bestowed i the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

STORE.

Tadmor in the wilderness, and 2 Chron. vill, 4. And he bel the store cities, which he built i Hamath.

FENCED AND FORTIFIED

CITIES.

Num. xill, 28. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in th land, and the cities are walle and very great: and moreover saw the children of Anak there.

Num. xxxil, 17. But we our selves will go ready armed bef the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their

lace and our little ones shall I Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, Tafel in the fenced cities because And Adoraim, and Lachish, and if the inhabitants of the land. Azekah, And Zorah, and Aijalon, Deut. 1, 28. Whither shall we and Hebron, which are in Judah ape our brethren have dis- and in Benjamin fenced cities. raged our heart, saying, The And he fortified the strong holds, ople is greater and taller than and put captains in them, and the cities are great and walled store of victual, and of oil and to heaven; and moreover we wine. And in every several city ve seen the sons of the Anakims

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Det. 1. Hear, O Israel: Thou to pass over Jordan this day, 45 to possess nations greater mightier than thyself, cities and fenced up to heaven. x, 19, 20. And stay ye not, pursue after your enemies, ite the hindmost of them; them not to enter into their for the LORD your God hath vered them into your hand. it came to pass, when Joshua the children of Israel had end of slaying them with My great slaughter, till they resumed, that the rest mained of thein entered faced dities. War, 12. Now therefore me this mountain, whereof La spake in that day; for earest in that day how the

were there, and that the Sere great and fenced: if the LORD will be with me, Ishall be able to drive them as the Loan said. Sen. xxiii, 7. And it was told that David was come to And Saul said, God hath vered him into mine hand; for shut in, by entering into a that hath gates and bars.

v, 9. So David dwelt in and called it the city of And David built round om Millo and inward.

xx, 6. And David said to Now shall Sheba the son Bohri do us more harm than Absalom: take thou thy lord's mats, and pursue after him, get him fenced cities, and

ings, 2. Now as soon as letter cometh to you, seeing master's sons are with you, there are with you chariots nes, a fenced city also, and

Caron, xl, 7. And David dwelt castle, therefore they called the city of David.

Cron, 11, 5-12, 23. And Rehodwelt in Jerusalem, and tefties for defence in Judah built even Beth-lehem, and and Tekoa, And Beth-zur, Sboco, and Adullam, And

he put shields and spears, and

made them exceeding strong, havside. And he dealt wisely, and ing Judah and Benjamin on his dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. desired many wives. And he

2 Chron. xii, 4. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

2 Chron. xiv, 6, 7. And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, the land is yet before us; because and towers, gates, and bars, while we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

2 Chron. xvii, 2, 12. And he placed forces in all the fenced in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Judah, and set garrisons cities of Ephraim, which Asa his

father had taken.

phat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

Isa. xxxvi, 1. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

heard long ago, how I have done brought it to pass, that thou it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isa. xxxvii, 26. Hast thou not

Jer. iv, 5. Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

Jer. v, 17. And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced with the sword. cities, wherein

thou trustedst,

Jer. viii, 14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall against the LORD. to drink, because we have sinned

Jer. xxxiv, 7. When the king of Jerusalem, and against all the And Jehosha-Babylon's army fought against cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against 2 Chron. xix, 5. And he set Azekah: for these defenced cities Judges in the land throughout all remained of the cities of Judah. the fenced cities of Judah, city by city.

2 Chron. xxi, 3. And their father
gave them great gifts of silver,
and of gold, and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Ju-
dah: but the kingdom gave he to
Jehoram; because he was the
firstborn.

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem
2 Chron. xxvi, 9. Moreover
at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning of
the wall, and fortified them.

covered the covering of Judah,
Isa. xxii, 8-11. And he dis-
and thou didst look in that day to
the armour of the house of the
forest. Ye have seen also the
breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and ye gathered
together the waters of the lower
pool. And ye have numbered
the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses have ye broken down to
fortify the wall. Ye made also
ditch between the two walls for
the water of the old pool: but ye
have not looked unto the maker

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Dan. xi, 15. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Hosea viii, 14. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth plied fenced cities: but I will send temples; and Judah hath multia fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

(See under War.)

Zion, and go round about her: tell
Ps. xlviii, 12, 13. Walk about
the towers thereof. Mark ye well
her
palaces; that ye may tell it to the
bulwarks, consider her
generation following.

Ps. cxxv, 2. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the from henceforth even for ever." LORD is round about his people

Isa. xxvi, 1. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of

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some of my servants set I at the Ezek. xiii, 10. Because, even gates, that there should no burden because they have seduced my be brought in on the sabbath day people, saying, Peace; and there And I commanded the Levite was no peace; and one built up a that they should cleanse then wall, and, lo, others daubed it selves, and that they should come with untempered morter. and keep the gates, to sanctify Acts ix, 25. Then the disciples my God, concerning this al the sabbath day. Remember me took him by night, and let him and spare me according to t down by the wall in a basket. greatness of thy mercy.

GATES.

Gen. xxiii, 10. And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered children of Heth, even of all that Abraham in the audience of the went in at the gate of his city,

saying.

Josh. vi, 5. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout Gen. xxxiv, 20, 24. And Hamor with a great shout; and the wall and Shechem his son came unto of the city shall fall down flat, and the gate of their city, and comthe people shall ascend up everymuned with the men of their city, man straight before him. saying. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

2 Sam. xxil, 30. For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

2 Kin. vi, 26. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king!

2 Kin. xvlil, 26. Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on

the wall.

high gate of the house of the 2 Chron. xxvli, 3. He built the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Josh. ii, 5. And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whether the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

Judges xvi, 3. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his the top of an hill that is before shoulders, and carried them up to

Hebron.

2 Kin. vil, 1, 18. Then Elisha Neh. ii, 15, 17. Then went I up said, Hear ye the word of the in the night by the brook, and LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To viewed the wall, and turned back, morrow about this time shall a and entered by the gate of the measure of fine flour be sold for a valley, and so returned. Then shekel, and two measures of barsaid I unto them, Ye see the disley for a shekel, in the gate of tress that we are in, how Jerusa- Samaria. And it came to pass as lem lieth waste, and the gates the man of God had spoken to the thereof are burned with fire: king, saying, Two measures of come, and let us build up the barley for a shekel, and a measure wall of Jerusalem, that we be no of fine flour for a shekel, shall be more a reproach. to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.

Neh. iv, 6. So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. Neh. vii, 1. Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed.

Isa. ii, 15. And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall.

Jer. xlix, 27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,

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Isa. xlv, 1, 2. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus whose right hand I have holden to subdue nations before him; at I will loose the loins of kings, t gates; and the gates shall not b open before him the two leave shut; I will go before thee, a make the crooked places straigh I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.

Jer. xxxix, 3. And all the prin of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate, res Nergal - sharezer, Samgar-net Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nerg sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

Nah. 11, 6. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Acts ix, 24. But their laying await was known of Saul. An they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Acts xii, 10. When they were past the first and the second war they came unto the iron ga that leadeth unto the city, which through one street; and forthwith opened to them of his own accor and they went out, and passed on

the angel departed from him.

Acts xiv, 13. Then the priest c Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Ps. cvil, 16. For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Prov. 1, 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in t openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

Prov. viii, 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the pests of my doors.

known in the gates, when he Prov. xxxi, 23. Her husband 19 sitteth among the elders of the land.

Isa. Ixil, 10. Go through, g through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones lift up a standard for the people.

bad. 11. In the day that thou, odest on the other side, in the y that the strangers carried ay captive his forces, and reigners entered into his gates, cast lots upon Jerusalem, en thou cast as one of them. Matth. vii, 13. Enter ye in at stralt gate: for wide is the e and broad is the way, that th to destruction, and many e be which go in thereat. Math, xvi, 18. And I say also to thee. That thou art Peter, do this rock I will build my and the gates of hell not prevail against it.

STREET S.

ix, 2. And he said, Benow, my lords, turn in, I by you, into your servant's se, and tarry all night, and your feet, and ye shall rise early, and go on your ways. they said, Nay; but we will Me in the street all night.

, 19. And it shall be, that soever shall go out of the

thy house into the street,

Woodhall be upon his head, ver be guiltless: and who ver be with thee in the

many as touched him were made, strange wives in our cities come whole. at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter

Luke x, 10. But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say.

Luke xiv, 21. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the

house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

CITIES GUARDED.

Ps. cvii, 36. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation.

Ps. cxxvii, 1. . . . . Except the LORD keep the city, the watch man waketh but in vain.

Cant. v, 7. The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Isa. xxi, 11. The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

se blood shall be on our best any hand be upon him. Isa. xxxii, 18, 19. And my peoJix, 15. And they turn-ple shall dwell in a peaceable Made thither, to go in and to Gibeah: and when he went best him down in a street of

man

y: for there was no tock them into his house to

961, 20. Tell it not in Gath, Wish it not in the streets of bie; lest the daughters of Philistines rejoice, lest the ers of the uncircumcised

habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

GOVERNED BY ELDERS.

Deut. xix, 12. Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

1. xx, 34. And Ben-hadad Deut. xxi, 6. And all the elders to him, The cities, which of that city, that are next unto her took from thy father, the slain man, shall wash their restore; and thou shalt hands over the heifer that is bePe streets for thee in Damas-headed in the valley: my father made in Then said Ahab, I send thee away with this Pant. So he made a covenant him, and sent him away.

A

, 2. I will rise now, and the city in the streets, the broad ways I will seek whom my soul loveth: I him, but I found him

vill. 5. And the streets of they shall be full of boys and playing in the streets there

Mark vi, 56. And whithersoever Se estered, into villages, or cities, country, they laid the sick in streets, and besought him that y might touch if it were but the border of his garment; and as

Josh. xx, 4. And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare

his cause in the ears of the elders

of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Judges viii, 16. And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Ruth iv, 2. And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and sald, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

Ezra x, 14. Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken

be turned from us.

CITY OF GOD.

Ps. xlvi, 4. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high.

and greatly to be praised in the

Ps. xlviii, 1, 8. Great is the LORD,

city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

are spoken of thee, O city of God. Ps. lxxxvii, 3. Glorious things Selab.

Heb. xii, 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.....

Rev. iii, 12. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem.

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THE HOLY CITY. Neh. xi, 1. And the rulers of the

people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.

Neh. xi, 18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred

fourscore and four.

Isa. xlviii, 2. For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.

Isa. lii, 1. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Dan. ix, 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end

of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Matth. iv, 5. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple.

Matth. xxvii, 53. And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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