AT OUR LORD'S DEATH. Matth. xxvii, 51. And, behold, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.

AT OUR LORD'S RESUR-
RECTION.

Matth. xxviii, 2. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended

from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

AT PHILIPPI.

Acts xvi, 26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

BEFORE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.

Matth. xxiv, 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

OTHER ALLUSIONS.

Isa. xxiv. 19, 20. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Isa. xxix, 6. Thou shalt be visited of the LOPD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring tire.

Jer. iv, 24. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

SUMMIT OF HILL, THE SCENE OF RETIREMENT, OBSERVATION, AND OFTEN OF IDOLATROUS WORSHIP.

Ecod. xvii, 9. 10. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the hill.

Num. xiv, 44. But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top: nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

Judges ix, 7. And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto

earth, and put his face between his knees.

2 Kings 1, 9. Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him. and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill.

Isa. x1, 9. O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain. ....

Isa. Ivil, 7. Upon a lofty and high mountain last thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high

ill, and under every green tree, thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Jer. iii, 6. The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Jer. xvii, 2. Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Ezek. vi, 13. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

Ezek. xvil, 22. Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it upon an high hill.

Ezek. xx, 28. For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand

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LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Rev. viii, 5. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth; and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Rev. xvi, 18. And there were voices, and thunders, and light nings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

MOUNTAINS.

PECULIAR EPITHETS.

may hearken unto you.

1 Sam. xxvi, 13. Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off, a great space being between

them.

2 Sam. ii, 25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

1 Kings xiv, 23. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green

tree.

every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink-offerings.

Ezek. xl, 2. In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

Amos ix, 3. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence. . . . .

Matth. iv, 8. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.

PECULIAR SACREDNESS ATTACHED TO ONE OF THEM.

Ps. ii, 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.

Ps. iii, 4. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Ps. XV, 1. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

Ps. xliii, 3. O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Ps. xlviii, 1. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain

of his holiness.

P. lxxxvii, 1. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Ps. xcix. 9. Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill: for the LORD our God is holy.

Isa. xi, 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Isa. Ivi, 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer......

Isa. lvii, 13. When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee: but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

Ezek. xxviii, 14. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Dan. ix, 16, 20. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech

thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusa lem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God.

Dan. xi, 45. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Joel ii, 1, Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand.

Joel iii, 17. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy moun

tain: then shall Jerusalein be

holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

number.

Isa. Ixvi, 20. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

Jer. xxxi. 23. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity, The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Ezek. xx, 40. For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept

HILLS AND MOUNTAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ABARIM.

Num. xxvii, 12, And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

Num. xxxiii, 47, 48. And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.

son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

AMANA.

Cant. iv, 8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana......

А М М А Н.

Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they

2 Sam. ii, 24. Joab also and

that lieth before Giah, by the way were come to the hill of Ammah,

of the wilderness of Gibeon.

ARARAT.

Gen. viii, 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

BASHAN.

Ps. Ixviii, 15. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill,

as the hill of Bashan.

Nah. i, 4..... Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

BETHEL.

1 Sam. xiii, 2. Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el......

BETHER.

Çant. 11, 17. . . . Be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether

CARMEL.

send, and gather to me all Israel 1 Kings xviii, 19. Now therefore unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

2 Kings ii, 25. And he went from thence to mount Carmel; and from thence he returned to Samaria.

2 Kings iv, 25. So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gelazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.

Çant. vii, 5. Thy head upon thee is like Carmel.

EBAL.

AMALEK.

MOREH.

Judges vil, 1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

MORIAH.

Gen. xxii, 2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

2 Chron. ii, 1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the thrashing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

MOUNT OF THE AMORITES.

Deut. 1, 20. And I said unto you,

Ye are come unto the mountain

of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

MOUNT IN ZIPH.

1 Sam. xxiii, 14. And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph..

NEBO.

Deut. xxxiv, 1. And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.....

OLIVES.

Matth. xxi, 1. And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples.

Matth. xxvi, 30. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Luke xix, 37, And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had

seen.

Luke xxi, 37. And in the daytime he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.

John viii, 1. Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

Acts i, 12. Then returned they anto Jerusalem from the mount

called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath-day's journey.

PARAN.

Deut. xxxiii, 2. And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them: he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousand of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Hab. iii, 3. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. . . . .

PERAZIM.

Isa. xxviii, 21. For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

PISGAH.

Num. xxi, 20. And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine Deut. iii, 27. Get thee up into eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this

Jordan.

SAMARIA.

1 Kings xvi, 24. And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver.....

SEIR.

Gen. xiv, 6. And the Horites in

their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

Gen. xxxvi, 8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir. Esau is Edom.

Deut. ii, 1, 5. Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days. Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a

foot-breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

2 Chron. xx, 10, 22, 23. And now, behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they them not; And when they began turned from them, and destroyed to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judali; and they were smitten. For the

children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir utterly to slay and

destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

Ezek. xxxv, 2, 3, 7. Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that returneth.

SHENIR.

the top of Amana, from the top of Çant. iv, 8. . . . . . Look from Shenir and Hermon. . . . . .

SINAI.

Exod. xxiv, 16. And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it

six days: and the seventh day he

called unto Moses out of the

midst of the cloud.

Ps. lxviii, 17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

SION.

Deut. iv, 48. From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon.

OR SIRION.

Deut. iii, 9. (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Shenir.)

TABOR.

Sisera that Barak the son of Judges iv, 12. And they shewed Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

Jer. xlvi, 18, As I live, saith the King, whose name is The LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

ZALMON.

Judges ix, 48. And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him.

Ps. lxviii, 14. When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

ZION.

2 Sam. v, 7. Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

Isa. lxvi, 8. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made

to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Jer. iii, 14. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jer. xiv, 19. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thon Smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Jer. 11, 35. The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Hosea ii, 15. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

AJALON.

Josh. x, 12. Then spake Joshua to the LORD, in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon in the valley of Ajalon.

ВАСА.

2 Kings xxiii, 10. And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Moloch.

2 Chron. xxviii, 3. Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out be

fore the children of Israel.

2 Chron. xxxiii, 6. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. . . ..

Jer. vii, 31. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jer. xix, 2. And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the

words that I shall tell thee.

Jer. xxxii, 35. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech.

......

JEHOSHAPHAT.

Joel iii, 2, 12, 14. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about, Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

JERICHO.

Deut. xxxiv, 3. And the south,