Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the honses upon whose roots they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. Isa. xv, 3. In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. Jer. xlviii, 38. There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD. Matth. x, 27. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. Matth. xxiv, 17. Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house. Mark ii, 4. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. Luke xil, 3. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. Luke xvii, 31. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Job ix, 6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Job xxvi, 11. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. Ps. lxxv, 3. The earth and all the Inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah, Gal. ii, 9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 1 Tim. iii, 15. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. Rev. iii, 12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. DOOR, PORCH, GATE. his servant that ministered unto 1 Kin. vii. 6-8. And he made a 2 Kin. iv, 4, 5. And when thou of the guard took Seraiah the Esther i, 21. In those days, Esther v, 1. Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house: and the king sat up king's house, over against the house, over against the gate of the on his royal throne in the royal house. Jer. xxxv, 4. And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door. Matth. xxv, 10. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went I in with him to the marriage: and shall answer and say, Trouble me certain beggar named Lazarus sores. John xx, 19. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Feace be unto you. Acts xii, 13, 14. And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. Ps. xxiv, 7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye glory shall come in. everlasting doors; and the King of the gates of Zion more than all Ps. lxxxvii, 2. The LORD loveth the dwellings of Jacob. Prov. xvii, 19. He loveth transression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. turneth upon his hinges, so doth Prov. xxvi, 14. As the door the slothful upon his bed. Cant. v. 4, 5. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrhi, upon the handles of the lock. Çant. viii, 9. If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. that the righteous nation which Isa. xxvi, 2. Open ye the gates, keepeth the truth may enter in. 1 Cor. xvi, 9. For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. hear my voice, and open the door, I thresholds: for he shall uncover 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 Acts xx, 9. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. Eccles. xii, 3. And those that look out of the windows be darkened. Cant. ii, 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 the town wall, and she dwelt up- thy windows of agates, and thy on the wall. And she said, Ac-gates of carbuncles and all thy cording unto your words, so be it. borders of pleasant stones. 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. i, 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. of 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 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. APARTMENTS. Gen. xliii, 30. And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. Judges iii, 23-25. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. 1 Kin. xx, 30. But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. 1 Kin. xxii, 25, 39. And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into Isa. xxxviii, 8. Behold, I will an inner chamber to hide thyself. bring again the shadow of the Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, degrees, which is gone down in the and all that he did, and the ivory sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees back-house which he made, and all ward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. TENURE. Lev. xxv. 29-31. And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. Lev. xxvii, 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 sanctified it will redeem 48 the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2 Kin. iv, 11. And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there. 2 Kin. vi, 12. And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. 2 Kin. ix, 2. And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber. Esther i, 6. Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble. Mark xiv, 14, 15. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Masfer saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: | there make ready for us. Luke ii, 7. And she brought and son, forth her firstborn wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; becausé there was no room for them in the inn. Acts i, 13. And when they were come in, they went up into an apper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. Acts ix, 37. And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. Acts xx, 8. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. Ps. xxxvi. 4. He deviseth mis Ezek. xxi, 14. Thou therefore, I heart upon your bed, and be still. son of man, prophesy, and smite Selah. thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. Haygai i, 4. Is it time for you, ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? chief upon his bed; he setteth himself 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 be in his sickness. Prov. vii, 16, 17. I have decked Matth. xxiii, 6. And love the my bed with coverings of tapestry, uppermost rooms at feasts, and with carved works, with fine the chief seats in the synagogues.linen of Egypt. I have perfumed Matth. xxiv, 26. Wherefore if my bed with inyrrh, aloes, and cinthey shall say unto you, Behold, namon. he is in the desert; go not forth: Prov. xxii, 27. If thou hast nothbehold, he is in the secret cham-ing to pay, why should he take bers: believe it not. FURNITURE. Gen. xlvii, 31. And, he said. Swear unto me. And he sware And Israel bowed unto him. himself upon the bed's head. away thy bed from under thee? Çant. 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. Deut. iii, 11. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remIsa. Ivii, 2. He shall enter into nant of giants; behold, his bed-peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his upstead was a bedstead of iron; is it rightness. not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? 1 Sam. xix, 13, 15. And Michal Ps. xix, 5. Which is as a bride-took an image, and laid it in the groom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. Ps. xxxi, S. And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room. Prov. xxi, 9. It is better to dwell In a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Çant. 1, 4. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee. Cant. ii, 4. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Cant. iii, 4. It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. Isa. xxvi, 20. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. Jer. xxii, 14. That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. bed, and put a pillow of goats 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 im. 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: fr 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. shall comfort me, my couch shall Job vii, 13. When I say, My bed ease my complaint. Job xvii, 13. If I wait, the grave 18 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 a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou 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. ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee. 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 John xii, 2. There they made Rom. xi, 9. 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 shoulder. 1 Sam. i. 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. Judges vii, 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! 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 gate through the city, when I OTHER ARTICLES. hast searched all my stuff, what Exod. xxxviii, 8. And he made 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 handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Neh. xiii, 8. And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. Luke ix, 17. And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets. 2 Tim. il, 20. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour and some to dishonour. THE HEARTH. FIRE. Exod. xxxv, 3. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. 1 Kings iv, 40. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. Isa. xxx, 14. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. Isa. xliv, 16. He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof be eateth flesh; he roasteth warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, roast, and is satisfied: yea, he I am warm, I have seen the fire. Jer. vii, 18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the drink offerings unto other gods, queen of heaven, and to pour out that they may provoke me to sat in the winter-house in the Jer. xxxvi, 22, 23. Now the king ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. Ezek. xv, 4. Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? selves about with sparks: walk in, them? God distributeth sorrows 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 of 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. John xviii, 18. And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed them-a selves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself. Acts xxviii, 2. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. Job xviii, 5. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Ps. xxxix, 3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue. Ps. lxxxiii, 14. As the fire burn Ezek. xxiv, 3, 6, 11. 12. And utter parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Gop; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it. Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not 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. Micah i, 4. And the mountains eth a wood, and as the flame set-shall be molten under him, and teth the mountains on fire. Ps. cii, 3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. Ps. cxl, 10. Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. the valleys shall be cleft, as wax Micah iii, 3. Who also eat the Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are tered at tho grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Prov. x, 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, 80 is the sluggard to them that send him. Prov. xxvi, 20. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Çant. viii, 6. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. make the governors of Judah like ax is laid unto the root of the Isa. xlvii, 14. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Job, xxi, 17. How oft is the candle Isa. 1, 11. Behold, all ye that of the wicked put out? and how kindle a fire, that compass your-oft cometh their destruction upon CANDLE, LAMP. shined upon my head, and when 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. Prov. xx, 20. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp 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 in 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 getteth 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 candle, and sweep the house, and lose one piece, doth not light a 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. . . . . |