Hebrews. Given in Egypt, Ex. c. 12 & 13; at Sinai, see SINAI; at Paran, Num. 13.3. Num. 15.1. Deu. 1.1. Deu. 33.2. Hab. 3.3; at Shittim, in the plains of Moab, Num. 25.1. Num. 26. Num. 35; by the hands of angels, Act. 7.53. Gal. 3.19. Heb. 2.2. Deu. 33.2. Psa. 68.17.

Re-issued, with additions, by Moses in the plains of Moab, Deu. c. 1 to 34. Written on tables, see TABLES OF STONE: in a book, and laid up in the side of the ark, Deu. 31.9,26. 2 Kin. 22.8; on stones at Mount Ebal, Deu. 27.2-8. Jos. 8.32.

Read and taught by parents to their children, Deu. 4.10. Deu. 6.7. Deu. 11.19; by priests and Levites publicly, Lev. 10.11. Deu. 33.10. 2 Chr. 35.3; at Ebal and Gerizim, Deu. 27.12-26. Jos. 8.33-35; in the sabbatical year at the feast of tabernacles, Deu. 31.10-13; in the reign of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chr. 17.9; by Ezra, Neh. 8.1-18. Ezr. 7.6,10; in the synagogue, Luk. 4.21. Act. 13.15,27. Act. 15.21. Kings to write out and govern by, Deu. 17.18-20. 2 Kin. 11.12.

See PRIESTS, OFFERINGS, LEVITES, THEFT,

&c.

LAW, MOSAIC, CHARACTER OF. TEMPORARY. RELATION OF THE LAW AND GOSPEL. Deu. 4.8. What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Deu. 33.2. From his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Neh. 9.13. Gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments. Psa. 76.1. In Judah is God known; his name is great in Israel.

Psa. 78.5. He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children. 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. Jer. 3.16. In those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it.

Eze. 20.11. I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. v. 25.

Dan. 9.27. He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. v. 24-27.

Hos. 8.12. I have written to him the great things of my law.

Mat. 5.17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. v. 18.

Mat. 19.8. Moses because of the hardness your hearts suffered you to put away your wives.

of

Luk. 10.24. Many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Luk. 16.16. The law and the prophets were

until John.

Jno. 1.17. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Jno. 4.21. The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

Jno. 8.35. The servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. Act. 3.25. The covenant which God made with our fathers.

Act. 10.28. Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. v. 9-28. Act. 13.39. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Act. 15.10. Why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Act. 24.14. After the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets.

Rom. 3.1. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2. Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Rom. 7.10. The commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 16. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

Rom. 8.3. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.

Rom. 9.4. To whom pertaineth the adoption. 2 Cor. 3.7. If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9. For of the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

2 Cor. 3.12. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13. And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14. But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Gal. 2.14. If thou, being a Jew, livest after Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Gal. 3.19. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 23. Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

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in bondage under the elements of the world: | 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 9. Now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. v. 1-12, 21-31.

Eph. 2.15. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances.

Col. 2.14. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. 16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 20. If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiinents of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21. Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22. Which all are to perish with the using.

Heb. 7.18. There is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19. The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. v. 1-28.

Heb. 8.4. There are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was

about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 6. He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant. 13. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. v. 9-12.

Heb. 9.8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Heb. 10 1. The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3. But in those sacrifices there is a remem

brance again made of sins every year. 4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. v. 1-18.

Heb. 11.40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Heb. 12.18. Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words. 27. This word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

See WORKS, JUSTIFICATION.

LAW, MOSAIC, FROM GOD, Ex. 19.16-24. Ex. 20.1-17. Ex. 24.12-18. Ex. 31.18. Ex. 32.15,16. Ex. 34.1-4,28. Lev. 26.46. Num. 36.13. Deu. 4.10-13,36. Deu. 5.1-22. Deu, 9.10. Deu. 10.1-5. Deu. 33.2-4. 1 Kin. 8.9. Neh. 9.14. Psa. 78.5. Psa. 103.7. Mal. 4.4. Act. 7.53. Gal. 3.19. Heb. 9.18-21.

LAWYER. See SCRIBES.

LAZARUS OF BETHANY, brother of Martha and Mary; Christ's love to him; his sickness, death, and resurrection, Jno. 11. At supper with Christ in Bethany; visited by the Jews; his life plotted against, Jno. 12.1,2,9-11,17,18.

parable of, Luk. 16.19-31.

LEAD, Ex. 15.10. Used for inscriptions, Job 19.24. Traffic in, Eze. 27.12. Leadfounder, Jer. 6.29. Eze. 22.18,20.

LEAGUE. See ALLIANCE.

LEAH, daughter of Laban, marries Jacob; her children, Gen. 29.16,17,23-35. Gen. 30. 9-21. Gen. 31.4-16. Gen. 33.2,7. Ruth 4.11. LEARNING. See WISDOM. LEASING (falsehood), Psa. 4.2.

Mat. 3.4. Usually translated skin, Gen. 3.21. LEATHER, used for girdles, 2 Kin. 1.8. Mar. 1.6; or hide, Lev. 8.17.

LEAVEN. For bread, Ex. 12.34,39. Hos. 7.4. Mat. 13.33. 1 Cor. 5.6. Used with the peace-offering of thanksgiving, Lev.7.13. Amos 4.5. With the wave loaves of first-fruits, Lev. 23.15-17. Num. 15.19-21. Forbidden with meat-offerings, Lev. 2.11. Lev. 6.17. Lev. 10.12. Ex. 23.18. Ex. 34.25. And at the passover, see PASSOVER. Illustrative, Mat. 13.33. Luk. 13.21. Mat. 16.6-12. Luk. 12.1. 1 Cor. 5.6-8. Gal. 5.9.

LEBANON, MOUNT, the north boundary of Palestine, Deu. 1.7. Deu. 3.25. Deu. 11.24 Jos. 1.4. Jos. 9.1. Snows of, Jer. 18.14. Streams of, Song 4.15. Cedars of, see CEDAR. Fir and algum trees of, 2 Kin. 19.23. 2 Chr. 2.8. Flowers of, Nah. 1.4. Cattle of, Isa. 40.16. Thunder-storm on, Psa. 29. Inhabited by Hivites, Jud. 3.3. House of the forest of, 1 Kin. 7.2-5. Valley of, Jos. 11.17. Jos. 12.7. Tower of, Song 7.4.

LEBBEUS. See JUDE.

1 Kin. 18.6; herb, Job 8.12; hay, Pro. 27.25. LEEKS, Num. 11.5. Translated grass, LEES, the crust and dregs of wine, Isa. 25.6. Psa. 75.8. Jer. 48.11. Zeph. 1.12.

LEGION (a division of the Roman army, consisting of 6000 men), Mat. 26.53. Mar. 5.9,15.

LEHI. See RAMATI-LEHI.

LEMUEL, an unknown king, Pro. 31.1,4.

LENTILE, a leguminous plant, used for food, Gen. 25.34. 2 Sam. 17.28. 2 Sam. 23.11. Eze. 4.9.

LEOPARD, Song 4.8. Isa. 11.6. Jer. 5.6. Jer. 13.23. Hos. 13.7. Hab. 1.8. Symbolical, Dan. 7.6. LEPROSY, Lev. 13. Inflicted as a punishment on Miriam, Num. 12.10; on Gehazi, 2 Kin. 5.27; on Uzziah, 2 Chr. 26.20,21. Cured miraculously, Num. 12.13,14; by Elijah, 2 Kin. 5.8-14 by Christ and his disciples, Mat. 8.3. Mat. 10.8. Luk. 5.13. Luk. 17.13,14. Hereditary, 2 Sam. 3.29. 2 Kin. 5.27.

Lepers were examined by the priest, Lev. 13. Deu. 24.8. Mat. 8.4. Luk. 17.14. Were excluded from the priesthood, Lev. 22.2-4; and from public worship, 2 Chr. 26.21. Dwelt alone, Lev. 13.46. Num. 5.2. Num. 12.14. Were commanded to rend their clothes, and cry 'unclean,' Lev. 13.45. Luk. 17.12.

2 Kin. 15.5.

Purification of, when pronounced by the priest to be cured; sacrifices; a living bird let loose; the leper washed, shaved all his hair, was sprinkled and anointed with blood and oil, Lev. 14. Houses and garments affected with; laws regarding, Lev. 13.49-59. 14.35-53.

Lev.

Act. 15.23-29. Sealed, 1 Kin.

LEVI THE PUBLICAN. See MATTHEW. LEVIATHAN, Job 3.8 (marg.); supposed to be a crocodile, Job 41; a serpent, Isa. 27.1. Psa. 104.26. Illustrative, Psa. 74.14.

LEVITES. The descendants of Levi; chosen by God, Num. 3.6-13. Num. 16.9. Deu. 10.8. 1 Chr. 15.2; as a reward for their zeal, Ex. 32.26-28. Deu. 33.9,10. Mal. 2.4,5. Taken instead of the first-born of Israel, Num. 3.12,41-45. Num. 8.14,16-18. Num. 18.6. Cattle of, taken instead of the firstlings of Israel, Num. 3.41,45.

Consecration of, by purification, Num. 8. 6,7,21. By sacrifices, Num. 8.8,12. By imposition of the elders' hands, and being presented to God as an offering by the high-priest for the people, Num. 8.9-20. Punishment of, for encroaching on the priestly office, Num. 4.19,20. Num. 16.1-35,40. Num. 18.3.

Governed by chiefs, 2 Chr. 35.9. Ezr. 8.29. Neh. 11.22. Entered upon their service at 25 years of age, Num. 8.24; at 20 years, after David's time, 1 Chr. 23.24,27. Ezr. 3.8; upon full service at 30 years, Num. 4.3,30,47. '1 Chr. 23.3. Superannuated at 50 years, Num. 4.47. Num. 8.25,26.

Marched in the centre of Israel, Num. 2.17. Encamped rourd the tabernacle, Num. 1.50-53. Num. 3.23,35. Lodged round the temple while in attendance, I Chr. 9.27,33. At liberty to reside and minister at the temple instead of in their cities; provision for, Deu. 18.6-8.

Name Levite used for a particular class, Ezr. 10.23,24. Neh. 7.1,73. Illustrative, Isa. 66.21. Prophecies of, Jer. 33.18. Eze. 44.10-14. Mal. 3.3.

LEVITES, DUTIES OF. Ministered to the priests, and assisted them in the service of the tabernacle, Num. 3.6-9. 18.2-6,23.

Num. 8.19. Num. Deu. 10.8. 1 Chr. 6.48. 1 Chr. 23.4,28,31. Killed the sacrifices on extraordinary occasions, 2 Chr. 29.34. 2 Chr. 35.11. Ezr. 6.20,21.

Carried and pitched the tabernacle, Num. 1.50,51. Carried the ark, 1 Chr. 15.2. Kept the charge of the tabernacle and its vessels, Num. c. 3 & 4. Num. 8.22-26. Num. 1.50. Num. 18.3. 1 Chr. 9.28, 29. 1 Chr. 23.32. Ezr. 8.24-34. Kept the sacred oil, flour, wine, and spices, 1 Chr. 9.29. Kept the tithes and dedicated things, 1 Chr. 9.26.

1 Chr. 26.20-28. 2 Chr. 31.11-19. Neh, 12.44. Chr. 29.8. Neh. 13.12,13. Prepared the shewbread, unleavened bread, and things baked in pans,

1 Chr. 23.29.

Taught the people, Deu. 33.10. 2 Chr.17.8,9. 2 Chr. 30.22. 2 Chr. 35.3. Neh. 8.7-13. Mal. 2.6,7. Acted as scribes, see SCRIBES. Collected 2 Chr. money for the temple, 2 Chr. 24.5,11. 34.9. Ezr. 8.29,30,33. Superintended repairs of temple, 2 Chr. 34.12,13. Ezr. 3.8,9. Servants of, see NETHINIMS.

Divided by David into 4 classes-overseers of the temple, officers or judges, porters, and singers, 1 Chr. 23.4-6; by divine command, 1 Chr. 28.12,13,21. 2 Chr. 8.14. Chiefs of the 4 classes dwelt at Jerusalem after captivity, 1 Chr. 9.26,34. Subdivided into 24 courses, being sons of Laadan, 3; of Shimei, 7; of Gershom, 1; of Eliezer, 1; of Izhar, 1; of Hebron, 4; of Uzziel, 2; of Malhi, 24.20-31. 2; of Mushi, 3, 1 Chr. 23.7-23, see 1 Chr.

Overseers, 24,000, 1 Chr. 23.4. 2 Chr. 34.12.

Officers and judges, 6000, 1 Chr. 23.4. 1 Chr. 26.29-32. 2 Chr.19.8-11. 2 Chr. 34.13. Neh. 11.16. Deu. 16.18. Regulated weights and measures, 1 Chr. 23.29 with Ex. 30.13.

Porters or warders, 1 Chr. 9.17-32. 2 Chr. 23.4. 2 Chr. 34.13. 2 Chr. 35.15. Neh. 12.25. 4000 of, 1 Chr. 23.5.

Porters, 24 courses: sons of Shelemiah, 7; of Obed-edom (omitting Shemaiah), 7; of Shemaiah, 6; of Hosah, 4; 1 Chr. 26.1-12. 24 each day at the gates of the temple, 1 Chr. 26.13-19. Cast lots for their different stations, 1 Chr. 24.31. 1 Chr. 25.8-31. 1 Chr. 26.13-18. Neh. 10.34.

Singers conducted the temple music, see MUSIC, SACRED. 4000 of, 1 Chr. 23.5. Provision for, Neh. 12.47. Neh. 13.5; by Artaxerxes, Neh. 11.23. Chambers of, Eze. 40.44. Villages of, near Jerusalem, Neh. 12.29. Return from captivity, Ezr. 2.41,65. Ezr. 7.7. Neh. 7.1,67. Neh. 11.22. Their covenant,

Neh. 10.28.

See MUSIC, SACRED, Officers and judges ofTreasurers

Overseers

Aided in purifying the temple

20.19.

1 Chr. 26.6-9,29-32.

1 Chr. 26.23-26,

2 Chr. 34.12,

2 Chr. 29.12-19.

Soldiers under David-1 Chr. 12.6.

Chiefs of

Governed by

15.17.

High-priest's son, Num. 1 Chr. 9.20.

3.32.

son, Num. 4.33.

son, Num. 4.28.

8600, Num. 3.28.

6200, Num. 3.34.

7500, Num. 3.22,

LEVITES, EMOLUMENTS OF. Levites had no inheritance; to be maintained by the nation, Num. 18.20,24. Num. 26.62. Deu. 10.9. Deu. 12.12,18,19. Deu. 14.27-29. Deu. 16.11-14. Deu. 26.11-13. Jos. 13.33. Jos. 14.3. Jos. 18.7. Neh. 12.44,47; from a month old, 2 Chr. 31.16-18.

Forty-eight cities, with suburbs, given to, 6 of which were cities of refuge, and 13 belonged to the priests, Num. 35.2-8. Jos. 14.4. Jos. 21. 1 Chr. 6.54-81. 1 Chr. 13.2. 2 Chr. 23.2. Their cities redeemable at any time; fields of, not to be sold, Lev. 25.32-34.

Tithes, see TITHES. Gave a tenth of the tithes to the high-priest as a heave-offering, Num. 18.26-28. Neh. 10.38,39. Portions of the offerings and sacrifices, Deu. 18.1-8. Jos. 13.14. Offered a heave-offering out of every gift made to them, the remainder their own, Num. 18.29-32. Neh. 12.47. A hun

LEVITES, HISTORICAL NOTICES OF. Numbered separately from a month old, Num. Num. 2.33. Num. 3.14-39. Num. 26.57-62; and from 30 years old, Num. 4.2,3. 1 Chr. 23.3-5. Not numbered by Joab, 1 Chr. 21.6.

Zeal against worshippers of golden calf, Ex. 32.26-29. Mal. 2.4,5. Pronounce the blessings on Mount Ebal, Deu. 27.12, Jos. 8.33. Meet David to make him king; number of, 1 Chr. 12.26-28. Bring the ark to Jerusalem, 1 Chr. 15.26,27; and into the temple, 2 Chr. 5.4,5. Their offerings, 1 Chr. 15.26. 2 Chr. 5.4,5.

Cast out by Jeroboam; come to Judah and Jerusalem, 2 Chr. 11.13-17. 2 Chr. 13.9,10. Guard king Joash, 2 Kin. 11.7-11. 2 Chr. 23.7. Delay in joining Ezra, Ezr. 8.15. Return with him, Ezr. 2.40-70. Ezr. 7.7. Ezr. 8.16-19,29,30,

Their offerings for the second temple, Ezr. 1.5,6.

Families and number returned from captivity, that dwelt in Jerusalem, 1 Chr. 9.14-34. Neh. 11.18. Artaxerxes frees from tribute, Ezr. 7.24. Reproved for having idolatrous wives, Ezr. 9.1,2. Covenant to put them away, Ezr. 10.5,23.

Aid in building wall of Jerusalem, Neh. 3.17. Return with Zerubbabel; number of, Neh. 7.43,73. Neh. 12. Put their names and seals to covenant of Israel with God, Neh. 9.38. Neh. 10.9,28. Defrauded of their tithes; desert their duty; brought back by Nehemiah, Neh. 13.10-13,30,31. Sent to John from Jerusalem, Jno. 1.19.

LIARS. See FALSEHOOD.

LIBERALITY AND ZEAL. Ex. 22.29. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 30. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep. Ex. 32.19.

Ex. 23.15. None shall appear before me empty. Ex. 34.20.

Ex. 25.2. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. 8. And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. Ex. 35.10. Every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded. v. 5.

Lev. 19.5. If ye offer a sacrifice of peaceofferings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will. Lev. 22.29. Num. 35.8.

Deu. 16.10. Keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. 17. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given

thee.

1 Chr. 22.19. Arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God.

1 Chr. 28.10. The Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. 20. He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. v. 18.

1 Chr. 29.5. Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?

2 Chr. 15.7. Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

Ezr. 1.2. He hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem. 3. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up. 4. Let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill-offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

Pro. 3.9. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with

new wine.

Pro. 11.24. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth. 25. The liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself,

Pro. 13.7. There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Pro. 14.22. Mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Pro. 21.26. The righteous giveth and spareth not.

Pro. 22.9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed.

Ecc. 11.1. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2. Give a portion to seven and also to eight.

Isa. 32.8. The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. Isa. 60.7. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. 9. Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God. 17. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and

for wood brass, and for stones iron.

Hag. 1.8. Go up to the mountain, and take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, bring wood, and build the house; and I will

saith the Lord.

Hag. 2.18. Even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it. 19. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Mal. 3.10. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11. And I will rebuke the devourer

for your sakes. 12. And all nations shall call land, saith the Lord of hosts. you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome

Luk. 6.38. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Mat. 5.42.

Luk. 16.9. Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Act. 20.35. Remember the words of the

Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Rom. 12.8. He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity.

1 Cor. 16.1.

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