FISHING.

Cant. vil, 4. Thine eyes like the fahpools in Heshbon.

Isa. xix, 8, 10. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make slices and ponds for fish.

Jer. xvi, 16. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after Will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. Exivil, 10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand on it from En-gedi even unto Eeglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exCeeding many.

Amos iv, 2. The Lord God hath worn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with bts, and your posterity with

fishhooks.

Hab114-17. And makest men the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler er them! They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them In their drag: therefore they rekice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and barn incense unto their drag, beuse by them their portion is fat, their meat plenteous. Shall hey therefore empty their net, s not spare continually to slay

Ge nations?

thou to the sea, and cast an hook, I tude of fishes. And the other dis-
and take up the fish that first ciples came in a little ship; (for
cometh up; and when thou hast they were not far from land, but
opened his mouth, thou shalt find as it were two hundred cubits,)
a piece of money: that take, and dragging the net with fishes.
give unto them for me and thee.

USED AS FOOD.

fish which we did eat in Egypt Num. xl, 5. We remember the melons, and the leeks, and the freely; the cucumbers, and the onions, and the garlick.

him a piece of a broiled fish, and Luke xxiv, 42. And they gave of an honeycomb.

ed by the sea of Galilee, he saw
Marki, 16-20. Now as he walk-
Simon and Andrew his brother
were fishers. And Jesus said un-
casting a net into the sea: for they
to them, Come ye after me, and I
will make you to become fishers
of men. And straightway they
forsook their nets, and followed
him. And when he had gone a
little farther thence, he saw James
John xxi, 9, 10, 12, 13. As soon
the son of Zebedee, and John his then as they were come to land,
brother, who also were in the ship they saw a fire of coals there, and
mending their nets. And straight-fish laid thereon, and bread.
way he called them: and they Jesus saith unto them, Bring of
left their father Zebedee in the the fish which ye have now
ship with the hired servants, and caught. Jesus saith unto them,

went after him.

Luke v, 2-11. And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of prayed him that he would thrust the ships, which was Simon's, and out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were

partners with Simón. And Jesus

said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men.
And when they had brought their
ships to land, they forsook all, and
followed him.

Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

Lord.

FISHGATE.

2 Chr. xxxiii, 14. Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Neh. iii, 3. But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

the gate of Ephraim, and above Neh. xii, 39. And from above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

Zeph. i, 10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

REPTILES.

Matth. xill, 47-50. Again, the kgdom of heaven is like unto a that was cast into the sea, and Gen. vii, 8,21. Of clean beasts, and thered of every kind: Which, of beasts that are not clean, and ch it was full, they drew to ore, and sat down, and gathered of fowls, and of every thing that the good into vessels, but cast the saith unto them, I go a fishing. flesh died that moved upon the John xxi, 3, 6, 8. Simon Peter creepeth upon the earth, And all daway. So shall it be at the They say unto him, We also go earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, of the world: the angels shall with thee. They went forth, and and of beasts, and of every creepthe forth, and sever the wicked entered into a ship immediately; ing thing that creepeth upon the fm among the just, And shall and that night they caught noth-earth, and every man: them into the furnace of fire: ing. And he said unto them, ere shall be wailing and gnash- Cast the net on the right side of thee every living thing that is Gen. viii, 17, 19. Bring forth with the ship, and ye shall find. They with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, cast therefore, and now they were and of cattle, and of every creep not able to draw it for the multi-ing thing that creepeth upon the

of teeth.

Math. xv, 27. Notwithstanding, 4 we should offend them, go

ark.

earth; that they may breed abund-jaws, and I will cause the fish of antly in the earth, and be fruitful, thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and multiply upon the earth. and I will bring thee up out of the Every beast, every creeping thing, midst of thy rivers, and all the and every fowl, and whatsoever fish of thy rivers shall stick unto creepeth upon the earth, after thy scales. And I will leave theo their kinds, went forth out of the thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thcu shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. Mal. 1, 3. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Ezek. viii, 10. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon

the wall round about.

DRAGON.

Deut. xxxii, 33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Ps. xliv, 19. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Rev. xii, 3, 4. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to Ps. xcl, 13. Thou shalt tread up-devour her child as soon as it was on the lion and adder: the young born. lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Ps. lxxiv, 13. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Isa. xiii, 22. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isa. xxxv, 7. * In the habitation of dragons, where each lay,

FROGS.

Exod. vili, 2. And if thou refuse to let them go. behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.

Ps. lxxvill, 45. *** And frogs, which destroyed them.

Ps. cv, 30. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

Rev. xvi, 18. And I saw three

Jonah iv, 7. But God prepared a worm when the morning re the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

and no man; a reproach of me Ps. xxii, 6. But I am a wor and despised of the people.

Isa. xli, 14. Fear not, thou wo Jacob, and yemen of Israel; I help thee, saith the LORD, and t redeemer, the Holy One of Israel

forth, and look upon the carcas Isa. Ixvi, 24. And they shall of the men that have transgress against me: for their worm sh

not die, neither shall their fire quenched; and they shall be abhorring unto all flesh.

Micah vil, 17. . . . They shall move out of their holes like Wo of the earth: they shall be afr the LORD our God, and shall b because of thee.

Mark ix, 44. Where their wo dieth not, and the fire is quenched.

Exod. iv, 3. And he said, Cast on the ground, and it became a fore it.

shall be grass with reeds and unclean spirits like frogs come out serpent; and Moses filed from b

rushes.

Isa. li, 9. Awake, awake, put on

thy strength, O arm of the LORD;

awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Jer. ix, 11. And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jer. x, 22. Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jer. xlix, 33. And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jer. li, 37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

of the mouth of the dragon, and
out of the mouth of the beast, and

Num. xxi, 6-9. And the Lo out of the mouth of the false pro-ple, and they bit the people and sent fiery serpents among the p

phet.

HORSE LEECH.

Prov. xxx, 15. The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough.

WORMS.

much people of Israel died. Moses, and said, We have sine, Therefore the people came to for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray te the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make the Exod. xvi, 20, 24. Notwithstand-a fiery serpent, and set it upon a ing they hearkened not unto pole: and it shall come to pas Moses; but some of them left of it that every one that is bitten, whe until the morning, and it bred he looketh upon it, shall live. And worms, and stank; and Moses was Moses made a serpent of brass, wroth with them. And they laid and put it upon a pole, and it up till the morning, as Moses came to pass, that if a serpent had bade: and it did not stink, neither bitten any man, when he beheld was there any worm therein. the serpent of brass, he lived.

Job vii, 5. My flesh is clothed Deut. viii, 15. Who led the with worms and clods of dust; my through that great and terrilda skin is broken, and become loath-wilderness, wherein were fe serpents, and scorpions, and drought. *

some.

Job xvii. 14. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Ezek. xxix, 3-5. Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that Job xxiv, 20. The womb shall Heth in the midst of his rivers, forget him; the worm shall feed which hath said, My river is mine sweetly on him; he shall be no own, and I have made it for my-more remembered; and wickedness self. But I will put hooks in thy shall be broken as a tree.

2 Kings xviii, 4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the bras serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to It: and

he called it Nehushtan.

that he had taken the honey out | strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother

of the carcase of the lion.

Prov. xvi, 24. Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Cant. iv, 11. Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

1 Sam. xiv, 27, 29, 43. But Jonathan oil. than heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and lo, I must die.

Prov. xxiv, 13, 14. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Prov. xxv, 16, 27. Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory

is not glory.

Prov. xxvil, 7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is

sweet.

Ezek. lil, 3. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Rev. x,9, 10. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said and it shall make thy belly bitter, unto me, Take it, and eat it up; but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, mouth sweet' as honey: and as and ate it up; and it was in my soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

CATERPILLAR AND LOCUST.

their increase unto the cater-
Ps. lxxviii, 46. He gave also
piller, and their labour unto the

locust.

locusts came, and caterpillers, and
Ps. Cv, 34. He spake, and the
that without number.

Isa. xxxiii, 4. And your spoil Cant. v, 1. I am come into my shall be gathered like the gathergarden, my sister, my spouse: I ing of the catterpiller: as the runhave gathered my myrrh with my ning to and fro of locusts shall he spice; I have eaten my honey-run upon them. comb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Isa. vii, 15, 22. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give that he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

Matth. ii, 4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Luke xxiv, 42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honey-comb.

ALLUSIONS TO ITS SWEETNESS.

Ps. xix, 10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

hath sworn by himself, saying,
Jer. 11, 14, 27. The LORD of hosts
Surely I will fill thee with men,
as with caterpillers; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.

Cause the horses to come
up as the rough caterpillers.

CANKER-WORM, AND
PALMER-WORM.

THEIR VORACITY.

Joel 1, 4. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joel ii, 25. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Nahum ill, 15, 16. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the canProv. v, 3. For the lips of akerworm, make thyself many as

Ps. cxix, 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.

came divers sorts of flies, and Ps. cv, 31. He spake, and

in all their coasts.

ointment of the apothecary Eccles. x, 1. Dead flies cause send forth a stinking savou doth a little folly him that t reputation for wisdom and our.

Isa. vii, 18, 19. And # come to pass in that day, LORD shall hiss for the fly th in the uttermost part of rivers of Egypt, .And shall come, and shall rest a them in the desolate valley in the holes of the rocks, and t all thorns, and upon all bushe

GNAT. Matth. xxiii, 24. Ye blind gu which strain at a gnat, and low a camel.

GRASSHOPPER. Amos vii, 1. Thus hath Lord GOD shewed unto me behold, he formed grassho in the beginning of the sho up of the latter growth; and, was the latter growth after king's mowings.

NUMBER.

Jud. vi, 5. For they cam with their cattle and their and they came as grasshop for multitude.

shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which Jer. xivi, 23. They shall cut neither thy fathers, nor thy wn her forest, saith the LORD, fathers' fathers have seen, since ugh it cannot be searched; the day that they were upon the ecause they are more than the earth unto this day. And he shoppers, and are innumer-turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

Num. xvi, 15. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass Job iv, 19. ... Which are crush- from them, neither have I hurt ed before the moth? one of them.

A thy sword, nor with thy rebukes dost correct man for ini- wall: and he smote her again.