CARMEL. 2 Kings xix, 23. By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. ARABIAN. Isa. xxi, 13. The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. OF THE SOUTH. Ezek. xx, 46, 47. Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt therein. THE KING'S FOREST. Neh. il, 8. And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. 3rd. ORCHARD. Job xv, 32. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his brauch shall not be green. Ps. lxxviii, 47. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. Ps. cv, 33. He smote their vines also and their fig trees, and brake the trees of their coasts. Eccles. 11, 5. I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits. Çant. li, 8. As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Cant. iv, 12, 16. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow Cant. vi, 11. I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Cant. viii, 13. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. Isa. 1, 29, 30. For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. Isa. Ixi, 11. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause right eousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. Hos. ii, 12. And I will destroy her vines and herfig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. Joel 1, 7. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. Matth. vii, 16--20. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast Into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matth. xii, 33. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. Luke til 9. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Luke vi, 43, 44. For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit: for of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble-bush gather they grapes. Mark xi, 14. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. HEBREW LAW. Lev. xix, 23-25. And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall comt the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be smot cumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten of. But in the fourth yar all the fruit thereof shall be bal to praise the LORD withol. And in the fifth year shall ye est of the fruit thereof, that it may yid am the LORD your God. unto you the increase thereof: L Lev. xxv, 14-17. And if the sell ought unto thy neighbour, buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one adx of years after the jubilee th other. According to the rumbet shalt buy of thy neighbour m according unto the number of unto thee. According to the years of the fruits he shall ef titude of years thou shalt incre the price thereof, and accorde to the fewness of years then stal diminish the price of it: for a ing to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto the Ye shall not therefore opprese c another; but thou shalt fear the God: for I am the LORD ya God. Deut. xx, 19, 20. When this shalt besiege a city a long th making war against it to take thou shalt not destroy the tree thereof by forcing an axe agată them: for thou mayest eat of the and thou shalt not cut them deva (for the tree of the field is mark life) to employ them in the siege Only the trees which thou kas est that they be not trees meat, thou shalt destroy and of them down; and thou shalt beli bulwarks against the city t maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. FLOWERS AND AROMATICE Cant. i, 13, 14. A bundie myrrh is my well-beloved me: he shall lie all night_betwe my breasts. My beloved is com me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi. Cant. ii,1,2, 16. I am the nee Sharon, and the lily of the valley As the lily among thorns, song love among the daughters. My beloved is mine, and I am his be feedeth among the lilies. day break, and the shadowS Cant. iv, 6, 11, 13, 14. Ust away, I will get me to the tain of myrrh, and to the frankincense. The of thy garments is like the of Lebanon. Thy planta orchard of pomegranates pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard; Spikenard and sai calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. Cant. v, 13. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers; his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. Oant, vi, 2, 3, 7. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. Cant. viii, 14. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. (Vegetable productions in Orchards and Fields. See under AGRICULTURE. Pages 12, 13.) TREES AND HERBS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE. ALMOND. Gen. xliii, 11. And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be So now, do this; take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds. Eccles. xii, 5. The almond tree shall flourish, because ban goeth to his long home; and the mourners go about the streets. Jer. 1, 11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. ALMUG OR ALGUM. 1 Kings x, 12. And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug-trees,nor were seen unto this day. 20hron. ix, 10, 11. And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algumtrees and precious stones. And the king made of the algum-trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah. APPLE. Cant. il, 3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. . . . Cant. viii, 5. I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth; there she brought thee forth that bare thee. Joel 1, 12. The vine is dried up, I cities, wherein thou trustedst, and the fig tree languisheth; the with the sword. pomegranate tree, the palm tree Jer. viii, 12, 13. Were they also, and the apple tree, even all ashamed when they had comthe trees of the field, are wither-mitted abomination? nay, they ed. .... Аѕн. Isa. xliv, 14. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. BAY. Ps. xxxvii, 35. I have seen the spreading himself like a green wicked in great power, and bay tree. Box. Isa. xli, 19. CEDAR. were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the figtree; and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. Amos iv, 9. I have smitten you The pine with blasting and mildew: when your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees, and your olivetrees, increased, the palmer-worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 1 Kings x, 27. And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be Mark xi, 19-21. And when even as the sycamore trees that are in was come, he went out of the city. the vale, for abundance. And in the morning, as they passPs. 1xxx, 9-11. Thou preparedsted by, they saw the fig-tree dried room before it, and didst cause it up from the roots. And Peter, to take deep root, and it filled the calling to remembrance, saith unto land. The hills were covered with him, Master, behold, the fig-tree the shadow of it, and the boughs which thou cursedst is withered thereof were like the goodly away. cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. Ps. civ, 16. The trees of the CHESNUT And the Ezek. xxxi, 8. bis beauty. CYPRESS. Mark xiii, 28-31. Now, learn a parable of the fig-tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: So ye, in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, That this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. James iii, 12. Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, figs? so can no founcy-tain both yield salt water and fresh Isa. xliv, 14. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the press and the oak..... FIG. Deut. viii, 8. A land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey. Isa. xxxvi, 16, 17. Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agree ment with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Jer. v, 17. And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy danghters 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 FIR. Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, 1 Kings v, 10. So Hiram gave according to all his desire. Isa. xiv, 8. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. O Lebanon, that the fire may deZech. xi, 1. 2. Open thy doors, your thy cedars. Howl, fir-tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. JUNIPER. 1 Kings xix, 4. But he [Elijah] himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die. . . . . . Num. xxiv, 6. 7. As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign-aloes, which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar-trees beside the waters. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. and olive-trees, which thou plant- | phet's son; but I was an berdman, shall be left in it, as the shaking PALM. Elin, where were twelve wells of Ps. xcii, 12. The righteous shall Jer. x, 5. They are upright as must needs be borne, because the palm-tree, but speak not; they they cannot go. Be not afraid of neither also is it in them to do them; for they cannot do evil, good. PINE. desert the ..... POMEGRANATE. Deut. viil, 8. of granates. A land fig trees, and pome in the uppermost part of Gibeah, The pome granate tree, the palm tree also.. SHITTAH OR SHITTIM. wilderness the cedar, the shittah SYCAMORE. 1 Kings x, 27. And the king Ps. 1xxviii, 47. He destroyed Amos vil, 14. Then answered tree to see him: for he was to pass Luke xix, 4. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore that way. WILLOW. Job xl, 22. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. by the water courses. Ezek. xvii, 5. He took also f MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE SAFFRON, SPIKENARD. Cant. iii, 6. Who is this that pillars of smoke, perfumed with cometh out of the wilderness like myrrh and frankincense, with ali powders of the merchant? Cant. iv, 14. . . . aloes, with all the chief spices. Myrrh and my bed with myrrh, aloes, and Prov. vii, 17. I have pertamed cinnamon. also Nicodemus, which at the first John xix, 39. And there came brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound came to Jesus by night, and weight. ANISE, CUMMIN, AND MINT. Matth. xxiii, 23. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, bypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anis the weightier matters of the law. and cummin, and have omitted CUCUMBER, GARLICK, LEEKS, MELON, ONIONS. Num. x1, 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egyp freely; the cucumbers, and the onions, and the garlick. melons, and the leeks, and the CASSIA. Ps. xlv, 8 e not threshed with a threshing | basin; and none of you shall go had commanded the clouds from strument, neither is a cart wheel out at the door of his house until above, and opened the doors of rned about upon the cummin; the morning. the fitches are beaten out with staff, and the cummin with a d. GOURDS. Jonah iv, 6, 10. And the LORD d prepared a gourd, and made to come up over Jonah, that it ight be a shadow over his head, deliver him from his grief. So Bah was exceeding glad of the urd. Then said the LORD, Thou st had pity on the gourd, for e which thou hast not laboured, ither madest it grow; which me up in a night, and perished a night. HYSSOP. Exod. xii, 22. And ye shall take bunch of hyssop, and dip it in e blood that is in the basin, and rike the lintel and the two side sts with the blood that is in the REEDS AND FLAGS. Job viii, 11, 12. Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb Isa. xix, 7. The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. Luke vii, 24. And when the messengers ofJohn were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John. What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? MIRACULOUS PRODUCTS AND SPIRITUAL SYMBOLS.. Ps. lxxviii, 23-25. Though he 719 heaven, And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. Mark xiv, 25. Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Luke xiv, 15. And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Rev. ii, 17. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. VISIONS AND DREAMS. Jer. xiv, 14. Then the LORD sald unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. Jer. xxiii, 16. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. Dan. i, 17. As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. Hosea xii, 10. I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. Hab. ii, 2. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run readeth it. that Deut. xxxiv, 10-12. And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face; In all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel. SAMUEL. 1 Sam. iii, 1, 4, 7, 15. And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Elf. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision. The LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. NATHAN. 2 Sam. vii, 4, 17. And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying, According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David." ELIPHAZ. secretly brought to me, and mine Job lv, 12-16. Now a thing was ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of iny flesh stood up: It stood still, Gen. xv, 1. After these things but I could not discern the form VISIONS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.. TO ABRAHAM. thereof: an Image was before mine eyes; there was silence, I heard a voice. ISAIAH. Isa. vi, 1. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lan sitting upon a throne, high sul lifted up, and his train filled the temple. EZEKIEL behold, a whirlwind came out of Ezek. 1, 4. And I looked, and the north, a great cloud, ness was about it, and out of the fire infolding itself, and a brigh midst thereof as the colo amber, out of the midst of the fire. Ezek. viii, 4. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel ra there, according to the vision th I saw in the plain. Ezek. x, 1. Then I looked, an behold, in the firmament that above the head of the cherc there appeared over them us were a sapphire stone, as 14 appearance of the likeness of throne. Ezek. xi, 24, 25. Afterwards spirit took me up, and brought in a vision by the Spirit of d into Chaldea, to them of the tivity: so the vision that I seen went up from me. The 1 spake unto them of the captivi all the things that the Los showed me. (See under IDOLATRY AND SPIRITS.) NEBUCHADNEZZAR Dan. il, 28. But there is a God! heaven that revealeth secrets, and Nebuchadnezzar what shall be maketh known to the the latter days. Thy dream, the visions of thy head upon taf bed, are these. Dan. iv, 5. I saw a dres which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed, and 10 visions of my head, troubled as DANTEL Dan. ii, 19. Then was the sec revealed unto Daniel in a n vision. Then Daniel blasand un God of heaven. Dan. vil, 1. In the first year i Belshazzar king of Bab Daniel had a dream, and v of his head upon his best, the |