1 Kings ix, 3. And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. And 2 Chron. vii, 12, 15, 16. the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. Isa. iv, 5. And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. Isa. Ixil, 8, 9. The LORD hath worn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holl Dess. Jer. xvil, 12. A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. selves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Col. ii, 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Heb. x, 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. James v, 13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Ps. xxvi, 6, 7. I will wash mine hauds in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD; That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. cxviil, 19, 20. Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go in to them, and I will praise the LORD: This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. Ps. cxxxii, 7. We will go into his tabernacles; we will worship at his footstool. EXPERIENCE OF THE WORSHIPPERS. them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day. Ps. xliii, 3, 4. O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto the holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. Ps. xlviii, 9. We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. P8. Ixiii, 1, 2. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. P3. lxxxiv, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them: They go from strength to strength: every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. flourish in the courts of our God. Neh. ix, 3, 4. And they stood up in their place, and read in the booked in the house of the LORD shall P8. xcii, 13. Those that be plantof the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmlel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Che Ps. cxxii, 1, 9. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. Jer. 1, 28. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the Land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. about mine house because of the nani, and cried with a loud voice the LORD's house, and proclaim Zech. ix, 8. And I will encamp army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. unto the LORD their God. Ps. xxvi, 8. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. Ps. xxvii, 4, 5. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock Ps. xlii, 3, 4. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude; I went with Jer. vii, 2. Stand in the gate of there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. Zeph. iii, 18. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Luke xxiv, 53. And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. Acts xiii, 15. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Acts xviii, 19. And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the syna gogue, and reasoned with the LORD had sent him to prophesy; | Silas by night anto Berea: who, Jews. and he stood in the court of the coming thither, went into the LORD's house, and said to all the synagogue of the Jews. 2 Kings xix, 14. And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. people. the prophets and all the people 2 Chron. xx, 5. And Jehosha-widow of about fourscore and phat stood in the congregation of four years, which departed not Luke ii, 37. And she was a Judah and Jerusalem, in the from the temple, but served God house of the LORD, before the with fastings and prayers night and day. new court. 2 Chron. xxix, 20. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. Jer. xix, 14. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the went up together into the temple ninth hour. man of the servants of Sani was there that day, detained before 1 Sam. xxi, 7. Now a certain herdmen that belonged to Saul, the LORD; and his name toas Deeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose Neh. viil, 4. And Ezra the scribe Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Masseand Shema, and Anaiah, and and beside him stood Mattithiah, lah, on his right hand; and on his Meshullam. Hashbadana, left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Zechariah, 1st. VINEYARD. VINEYARD.-ORCHARD. AN EARLY AND COMMON POSSESSION. Gen. ix, 20. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. Num. xvi, 14. Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. 1 Kings xxi, 1. And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Kings v, 26. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is tta time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants? Cant. vii, 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth; there will I give thee my loves. Cant. viii, 11, 12. Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let ont the vineyard unto keepers: every one for the fruit thereof it should bring forth grapes, | plant vines upon the mountains of Amos v, 11... Matth. xxi, 33, 35-41. Hear an- vant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. THE VINE. Gen. xl, 9, 10. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes. Num. xili, 23, 24. And they and cut down from thence a came unto the brook of Eshcol, branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two the pomegranates, and of the figs. upon a staff; and they brought of The place was called the brook Eshicol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 1 Kings iv, 25. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. Çant. vi, 11. I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Ezek. xv, 2, 6. Son of man was to bring a thousand pieces of stoned another. Again, he sent What is the vine tree more than silver. My vineyard, which is other servants more than the first: any tree, or than a branch which mine, is before me: thou, O Solo- and they did unto them likewise. is among the trees of the forest? mon, must have a thousand, and But last of all he sent unto them Therefore thus saith the Lord those that keep the fruit thereof his son, saying, They will rever- GOD, As the vine-tree among the two hundred. Eccles, il, 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses: I planted me vineyards. Isa. v, 1--7, 10. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine,and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it wherefore, when I looked that ence my son. But when the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jeru salem. Hosea xiv, 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Gen. xlix, 11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. Deut. xxxii, 32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Luke xx, 10-12. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another ser-his unripe grape as the vine, and Job xv, 33. He shall shake off up. Isa. lxv, 8. Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. Jer. ii, 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? Jer. xlix, 9. If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. Ezek. xvii, 6, 7. And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. Ezek. xix, 10. Thy mother 18 like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. Hosea x, 1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars. · Obad. 5. If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape- gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? Matth. xxl, 34. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. THE LAW OF PLANTING. Deut. xx, 6. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. Deut. xxii, 9. Thou shalt not Sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. VINE DRESSERS. 2 Kings xxv, 12. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen. 2 Chron. xxvi, 10. Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry Isa. Ixi. 5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers. Joel 1, 11. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat, and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. PROTECTION OF VINE YARDS. Ps. lxxx, 12. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck hen Cant. 1, 6. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Isa. xvi, 8. For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. her Isa. xviii, 5, 6. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. Isaiah xxiv, 7. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. Nah. ii, 2. For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vinebranches. Mark xil, 1. And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. THE VINTAGE. Job xxiv, 10, 11. They cau98 him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. Isa. xvi, 9, 10. Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Hestibon, and Elealeh; for the shouting for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, is fallen. And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vite yards there shall be no singing. neither shall there be shouting the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. Isa. Ixlii, 2-5. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat? I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me for I will tread them in mine fury; and their blood shall be anger, and trample them in my sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mits heart, and the year of my re deemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury, it upheld me. Isa. xvii, 6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmes fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. Jer. vi, 9. Thus saith the Less of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel ** vine: turn back thine hand grape-gatherer into the baskets Sibmah, I will weep for thee with Jer. xlvill, 82, SS. O vine of the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they read even to the sea of Jazer: the spher is fallen upon thy summer trus and upon thy vintage. And and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the of Moab, and I have caused wize to fail from the wine presses shall tread with shouting th shouting shall be no shouing. Micah vil, 1. Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is o cluster to eat; my soul desired the first ripe fruit. Amos ix, 13. Behold, the days ome, saith the LORD, that the doughman shall overtake the eaper, and the treader of grapes im that soweth seed; and the nountains shall drop sweet wine, nd all the hills shall melt Rev. xiv, 17-19. And another ngel came out of the temple hich is in heaven, he also having sharp sickle. And another angel ame out from the altar, which ad power over fire; and cried ith a lond cry to him that had e sharp sickle, saying, Thrust thy sharp sickle, and gather le clusters of the vine of the arth; for her grapes are fully pe. And the angel thrust in his ckle into the earth, and gathered e vine of the earth, and cast it to the great wine-press of the rath of God. WINE, See under DIET AND DRESS.) 2nd. Job vill, 16, 17. He is green bere the sun, and his branch booteth forth in his garden. His ots are wrapt about the heap, nd seeth the place of stones. Job xiv, 7, 9. For there is hope f a tree, if it be cut down, that it ll sprout again, and that the nder branch thereof will not base. Yet through the scent of ater it will bud, and bring forth oughs like a plant. Job xviii, 16. His roots shall be ried up beneath, and above shall is branch be cut off. Job xix, 10. He hath destroyed le on every side, and I am gone; nd mine hope hath he removed ke a tree. Ps. xcii, 14. They shall still ring forth fruit in old age; they hall be fat and flourishing. Isa. x, 19. And the rest of the rees of his forest shall be few, hat a child may write them. Isa, xl, 24. Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. Ezek. xv, 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Ezek. xxxi, 14. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. Luke xxiii, 31. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? ORNAMENTAL TREES. little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? Isa. xxxill, 9. The earth mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down; Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashau and Carmel shake off their fruits. FELLING. ward the south, or toward the Eccles. xi, 3. If the tree fall tonorth, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. Isa. x, 33, 34. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bongh with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. Matth. iii, 10. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which Isa. xli, 19, 20. I will plant in bringeth not forth good fruit is the wilderness the cedar, the shit-hewn down, and cast into the fire. tab-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath cre ated it. Isa. lv, 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Isa. lx, 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box to gether, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. FORESTS. 2 Sam. xviii, 9. And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken np between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. Isa. x, 33, 34. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror, and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. Isa, xxix, 17. Is it not yet a very FORESTS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. BASHAN. Isa. ii, 13. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan. Zech. xi, 2. Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. HARETH. 1 Sam. xxii, 5. And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. EPHRAIM. 2 Sam. xviii, 6. So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim LEBANON. 1 Kings vii, 2. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof cas an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 1 Kings x, 17. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. |