of your yoke, and made you go upright. Num. xv, 41. I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the LORD your God. Judges vi, 7-9. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites, That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 1 brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land. Ps. cv, 38, 43. Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them fell upon them. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness. Isa. xliii, 4. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Jer. xxiii, 7, 8. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, the Lord liveth, which brought up, and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. Ezek. xx, 9, 10. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. PURSUED BY THE EGYPTIANS. Exod. xiv, 5-7, 10, 22, 23, 26-31. And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the thou trustest in the staff of th broken reed. on Egypt; whereon a man lean, it will go into his han and pierce it: so is Pharaoh ki of Egypt to all that trust in him Jer. ii, 36. Why gaddest th about so much to change way? thou also shalt be asham of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed Assyria. Jer. xlii, 8-11, 13-19. Then call he Johanan the son of Kare and all the captains of the for which were with him, and all t people, from the least even to greatest, And said unto the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen, And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it: and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the Thus saith the LORD, the God sea. And the waters returned, and Israel, unto whom ye sent me covered the chariots, and the present your supplication bef horsemen, and all the host of Pha-him; If ye will still abide in t them: there remained not so much not pull you down; and 1 v raoh that came into the sea after land, then will I build you, a as one of them. But the children plant you, and not pluck you of Israel walked upon dry land in for I repent me of the evil tha the midst of the sea; and the have done unto you. Be not afr of the king of Babylon, of wh their right hand, and on their left. ye are afraid; be not afraid of Thus the LORD saved Israel that saith the LORD: for I am with y day out of the hand of the Egyp from his hand. to save you, and to deliver tians: and Israel saw the Egyp-will not dwell in this land, neid But if ye say, tians dead upon the sea-shore. And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians; and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. waters were a wall unto them on SUBSEQUENT RELATION OF THE JEWS TO EGYPT. Exod. xiv. 11, 12. And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. Num. xiv, 4. And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Deut. xvii, 16. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 2 Kings xxv, 26. And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldees. Isa. xxxvi, 5, 6. I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for war: now, on whom dost thou trust,that thou rebellest against me? Lo, obey the voice of the LORD y God, Saying, No; but we will into the land of Egypt, where Sound of the trumpet, nor b shall see no war, nor hear hunger of bread; and there ! we dwell: And now there! hear the word of the LORD, remnant of Judah; Thus saith LORD of hosts, the God of Ism If ye wholly set your faces enter into Egypt, and go to sejo there; Then it shall come to p that the sword, which ye feat shall overtake you there in land of Egypt; and the fam whereof ye were afraid, shall low close after you there in Eg and there ye shall die. So sha be with all the men that set t faces to go into Egypt, to soje there; they shall die by the sw by the famine, and by the pa ence: and none of them shall main or escape from the evil saith the LORD of hosts, the I will bring upon them. Fort of Israel, As mine anger and fury hath been poured forth u the inhabitants of Jerusalem, shall my fury be poured forth Egypt: and ye shall be an exe on you, when ye shall enter! tion, and an astonishment, ar curse, and a reproach; and ye si see this place no more. The L hath said concerning you, o remnant of Judah, Go ye not Egypt: know certainly that I admonished you this day. Jer. xliii, 5-7. But Johanan son of Kareah, and all the capti of the forces, took all the rema of Judah; that were returned £ all nations whither they had b en, to dwell in the land of ah, Eren men, and women, children and the king's daughand every person that Ner-adan the captain of the d bad left with Gedaliah the f Ahikam, the son of Shapand Jeremiah the prophet, Baruch the son of Neriah. So came into the land of Egypt: hey obeyed not the voice of LORD. Thus came they even ihpanbes. xliv, 11-14. Therefore thus the LORD of hosts, the God rael, Behold, I will set my against you for evil, and to fall Judah. And I will take emnant of Judah, that have eir faces to go into the land ypt to sojourn there, and they all be consumed, and fall in and of Egypt; they shall even sumed by the sword and e famine: they shall die, the least even unto the est, by the sword and by the e, and they shall be an exea, and an astonishment, and e, and a reproach. For I unish them that dwell in the Egypt, as I have punished alem, by the sword, by the e, and by the pestilence: So one of the remnant of Judah, are gone into the land of t to sojourn there, shall esremain, that they should 2 into the land of Judah, to hich they have a desire to to dwell there; for none return but such as shall . xxix, 6. And all the inints of Egypt shall know that the LORD, because they have a staff of reed to the house LeL ea x1, 5, 6. He shall not reinto the land of Egypt, but syrian shall be his king, bethey refused to return. And Ford shall abide on his cities, hall consume his branches, evour them, because of their ounsels. -ISRAEL IN THE WIL- e under Desert, EARTH.) Filderness of the Red sea. til, 8. And when we passed om our brethren the chilof Esau, which dwelt in Seir, gh the way of the plain from and from Ezion-gaber, we d, and passed by the way of through that great and terrible Exod. xiii, 20. And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. Exod. xv, 27. And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the water. Num. x, 11, 13, 28. And it came to pass, on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. And they first took their journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel, according to their armies when they set forward. Num. xi, 85. And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavali unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth. Num. xli, 16. And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. Num. xxi, 4, 10-13, 18,19. And they Journeyed from mount Hor, by the the land of Edom: and the soul of way of the Red sea, to compass the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the childrenof Israel set forward,and pitched in Oboth. And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is From thence they removed and before Moab,toward the sun-rising. pitched in the valley of Zared, From thence they removed, and which is in the wilderness that pitched on the other side of Arnon, cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to to Mattanah; And from Mattanah Bamoth. Deut. 1, 6, 7, 8. The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take of the Amorites, and unto all the your journey, and go to the mount places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in ilderness of Moab. the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and viii, 15. Who led thee unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them, and to their seed after them. Deut. ii, 2-4, 13. And the LORD spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. And Ye are to pass through the coast command thou the people, saying, Esau, which dwell in Seir; and of your brethren the children of they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore. Now rise up, said 1, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. Deut. iii, 29. So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. Deut. x, 7. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. rose early in the morning, and Joshua lii, 1, 2. And Joshua they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the there before they passed over. children of Israel, and lodged And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host. Joshua iv, 19. And the people day of the first month, and encame up out of Jordan on the tenth camped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. THE DIFFERENT STAGES. Num. xxxiii, 1-3, 5-15, 30-37, 4146, 49. These are the journeys of forth out of the land of Egypt the children of Israel, which went with their armies, under the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses to their journeys by the commandwrote their goings out according ment of the LORD: and these are their journeysaccording to their goings out. And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of dren of Israel removed from all the Egyptians. And the chilRameses, and pitched in Succoth. And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham, and which is before Baal-zephon; and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, they pitched before Migdol. And they departed from before Plhahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea,into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in turn you, and get you into the Num. xxxii, 13, 15. And the the wilderness of Etham, and ORDER AND POSITION OF THE SINS OF ISRAEL IN THE Num. xiv, 23-25, 31, 32. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereihto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow But Deut. 11, 14, 15. And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD Sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. REFERENCES. Josh. v, 6. For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. Ps. cvi, 24-27. Yea, they despis ed the pleasant land; they believed not his word; But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. There fore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. Ezek. xx. 13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man da he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wildernes to consume them. 1 Cor. x, 5. But with many them God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in th wilderness. Heb. iii, 16. For some, whe they had heard, did provoke: how beit not all that came out of Eg by Moses. Jer. xxxi, 2. Thus saith LORD, The people which were la of the sword found grace in wilderness; even Israel, when went to cause him to rest. Ezek. xx, 23, 34-36. I lifted mine hand unto them also in wilderness, that I would scatie them among the heathen, disperse them through the co tries. And I will bring you from the people, and will gath you out of the countries where ye are scattered, with a mig hand, and with a stretchedarm, and with fury poured o And I will bring you into wilderness of the people, and the will I plead with you face to fa Like as I pl aded with you fathers in the wilderness of th land of Egypt, so will I plead wil you, saith the Lord GOD. Hosea 11, 14-16. Therefor behold, I will allure her, bring her into the wilderness, speak comfortably unto her. An I will give her her vineyar from thence, and the valley Achor for a door of hope: and shall sing there, as in the days her youth, and as in the da when she came up ont of the lan of Egypt. And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou, Fait cali me Isbt. Amos li, 10. Also I brought you p from the land of Egypt, and ed you forty years through the ferness, to possess the land of De Amorite. Acts xiil, 19. And about the The of forty years suffered he air manners in the wilderness. Heb. til 17. But with whom was 1 grieved forty years? was it not wh them that had sinned, whose reases fell in the wilderness? Jude 5. I will therefore put you remembrance, though ye once new this, how that the Lord, aving saved the people out of dead of Egypt, afterward deyed them that believed not. V-ISRAEL IN CANAAN. FOR ACCOUNT OF LIST OF KINGS DESTROYED BY THE INVADERS. J. xil, 1-3, 9-24. Now these are Engs of the land, which the ren of Israel smote, and pos*** their land on the other Jordan toward the rising of -, from the river Arnon unto at Hermon, and all the plain 3 the east: Silion king of the Irites, who dwelt in Heshbon, ruled from Aroer, which is the bank of the river Arnon, from the middle of the river, from half Gilead, even unto river Jabbok, which is the *der of the children of Ammon: A from the plain to the sea of seroth on the east, and unto desea of the plain, even the salt won the east, the way to Bethmoth; and from the south, er Ashdoth-pisgah: The king Jericho, one; the king of Ai, ich is beside Beth-el, one; The g of Jerusalem, one; the king lebron, one, The king of Jarah, one, the king of Lachish, The king of Eglon, one; the of Gezer, one; The king of air, one; the king of Geder, one; two king of Hormab, one; the king Arad, one; The king of LibBone; the king of Adullam, The king of Makkedah, one; king of Beth-el, one; The king Tappah, one, the king of He, one The king of Aphek, e the king of Lasharon, one; The king of Madon, one; the king Hazor, one, The king of Shim3-meron, one; the king of Achph, one; The king of Taanach, the king of Megiddo, one; Te king of Kedesh, one; the king Jokneam of Carmel, one; The g of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one. RELATION OF THE JEWS TO THE HEATHEN. Exod. xxiii. 33. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. Exod. xxxiii, 16. For wherein shall it be known here that I and ithy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Exod. xxxiv, 12. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. Num. xv, 14-16, 29. And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. One law, and one manner, shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Num. xxiii, 9. For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. Ezek. xlvii, 22, 23. And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall they shall be unto you as born in beget children among you: and the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance Israel. And it shall come to pass, with you among the tribes of that in what tribe the stranger Sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD. them out of the place whither ye Joel iii, 7. Behold, I will raise have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head. heathen, thou hast destroyed the Ps. ix, 5. Thou hast rebuked the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. Ps. xxxiii, 10. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. Ps. cvi, 47. Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Isa. Ixiii, 19. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. Ezek. xx, 14. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Ezek. xxx. 3. For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. Joshua xxiii, 7. That ye come that remain among you; neither not among these nations, these Ezek. xxxvi, 7, 20. Therefore make mention of the name of their thus saith the Lord GOD, I have gods, nor cause to swear by them, lifted up mine hand, Surely the neither serve them, nor bow your-heathen that are about you, they selves unto them. 1 Kings viii, 53. For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. Neh. xiii, 1-3. On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired shall bear their shame. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them. These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land." Ezek. xxxvii, 28. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. Hab. iii, 13, 14. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. THE SAMARITANS. it for thy righteousness; for thou the work of their hands, salth the 2 Kings xvii, 13, 14, 19, 21. Yet Ezek. v, 6-8. And she hath the LORD testified against Israel, changed my Judgments into and against Judah, by all the wickedness more than the asprophets, and by all the seers, tions, and my statutes more than saying, Turn ye from your evil, the countries that are round about ways, and keep my command- her; for they have refused my ments and my statutes, according judgments and my statutes, they 2 Kings xvii, 24, 33, 34. And the to all the law which I commanded have not walked in them. There king of Assyria brought men your fathers, and which I sent to fore thus saith the Lord God, Be from Babylon, and from Cuthah, you by my servants the prophets. cause ye multiplied more than and from Ava, and from Hamath, Notwithstanding they would not the nations that are round about and from Sepharvaim, and placed hear, but hardened their necks, you, and have not walked in my them in the cities of Samaria in-like to the neck of their fathers, statutes, neither have kept my stead of the children of Israel; that did not believe in the LORD judgments, neither have dout Also Judah kept not according to the judgments # and they possessed Samaria, and their God. dwelt in the cities thereof. They the commandments of the LORD the nations that are round abor feared the LORD, and served their their God, but walked in the you; Therefore thus saith the Lott own gods, after the manner of the statutes of Israel which they GoD, Behold, I, even I, am agains nations whom they carried away made. For he rent Israel from thee, and will execute judgmentfrom thence. Unto this day they the house of David; and they in the midst of thee in the sigh do after the former manners: they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat of the nations. fear not the LORD, neither do they king: and Jeroboam drave Israel after their statutes, or after their from following the LORD, and ordinances, or after the law and made them sin a great sin. commandment, which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. Luke xvii, 15-18. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answer ing, said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. John iv, 9, 20-22,27. For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? VI.-WICKEDNESS OF THE MENT. Deut. ix, 6. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess 2 Kings xxili, 26. Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. 2 Chron. xxxvi, 14. Moreover, after all the abominations of the Ps. lxxviii, 59, 60. When God among men. Isa, iii, 8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory." Jer. ii, 7. And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof, and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. Jer. v, 11. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. Jer. xxxii, 23, 30. And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law: they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do; therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them. For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with Ezek. xi, 12. And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye hay not walked in my statutes neithe executed my judgments, but hav done after the manners of t heathen that are round abor you. them among the heathen, Ezek. xxxvi, 19. And I scattere they were dispersed through countries: according to their wa and according to their doings, judged them. Amos ii, 4. Thus saith the La and for four, I will not turn aw For three transgressions of Juda the punishment thereof, becam they have despised the law of LORD, and have not kept his co mandments, and their lies caus them to err, after the which the fathers have walked. Micah 1, 5, 6. For the transgre sion of Jacob is all this, and the sins of the house of Isra What is the transgression Jacob? is it not Samaria? what are the high places of Judal are they not Jerusalem? Ther fore I will make Samaria as Judges lil, 12-14. And the chil dren of Israel did evil again à the sight of the LORD: and th LORD strengthened Egion th king of Moab against Israel, cause they had done evil în (29 sight of the LORD. And he gua Judges vi, 1. And the chests, of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD; and the Load delivermi |