FLAX. Exod. ix, 31. And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. Josh. ii, 6. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. MALLOWS. Job xxx. 4. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. MILLET. Ezek, iv, 9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, accordIsa. xlii, 3. A bruised reed shailing to the number of the days that he not break, and the smoking thou shalt lie upon thy side, three flax shall he not quench: he shall hundred and ninety days shalt bring forth judgment unto truth. Ezek. xi, 3. And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. Hos. ii, 5. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that con thou eat thereof. ceived them hath done shame- shall wither. fully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. Hos. ii, 9. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. GOURDS. 2 Kings iv, 39. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. HEATH. Jer. xvii, 6. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. LENTILES. Gen. xxv, 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. MANDRAKES. Gen. xxx, 14. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. Song of Solomon vii, 13. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. RYE. Ex. ix, 32. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up. the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. Isa. vii, 23-25. And it shall como to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. With arrows and with bows shall men come thither, because all the land shall become briers and thorns. And on all hills that shall be digred with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. Isa. xv, 6, 7. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the faileth, there is no green thing. hay is withered away, the grass Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. Isa. xvii, 10, 11. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy sal vation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange Matt. xiii, 24-31. (See under slips: In the day shalt thou make Reaping and Harvest.) TARES. FAILURE OF CROPS. OF GRASS. 1 Kings xviii, 5. And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. Jer. xiv, 5, 6. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. Joel i, 18. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. OF GRAINS. Deut. xxviii, 33, 34. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. Deut. xxviii, 38. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. Isa. ii, 1. For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Isa. li, 19. These two things are for thee? desolation, and destruccome unto thee; who shall be sorry tion, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Jer. xii, 13. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they shall not profit: and they shall be have put themselves to pain. but ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Ezek. xiv, 13. Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by tresspassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bead thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Ezek. xxvi, 6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. Hosca viii,7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Hosca ix, 2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. Amos v, 16. Therefore the LORD the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; that I should give the inheritance, of my fathers unto thee. 2 Kings vili, 3-6. And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was her's, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now. TRANSFER OF LAND. IN EARLY TIMES. Gen. xxiii, 7-9. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you. tent, at the hand of the children fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. Acts v, 1, 2. But a certain man Josh. xxiv, 32. And the bones of named Ananias, with Sapphira his Joseph, which the children of Is-wife, sold a possession, And kept rael brought up out of Egypt, back part of the price, his wife buried they in Shechem, in a par- also being privy to it, and brought cel of ground which Jacob bought a certain part, and laid it at the of the sons of Hamor the father of apostles' feet. Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. John iv, 5. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ANCIENT CHARTERS. Gen. xxiii, 17, 18. And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. UNDER JEWISH LAW. 2 Sam. xxiv, 21-24. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the Jer. xxxil, 10-15. And I subking come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-scribed the evidence, and sealed floor of thee, to build an altar unto it, and took witnesses, and weighed the LORD, that the plague may be him the money in the balances. Araunah said unto David, Let my chase, both that which was sealed stayed from the people. And So I took the evidence of the purlord the king take and offer up according to the law and custom, what seemeth good unto him: be- and that which was open: And I hold, here be oxen for burnt sacri- gave the evidence of the purchase fice, and threshing instruments unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the and other instruments of the oxen son of Maaseiah, in the sight of for wood. All these things did Hanameel mine uncle's son, and Araunah, as a king, give unto the in the presence of the witnesses king. And Araunah said unto that subscribed the book of the the king, The LORD thy God ac- purchase, before all the Jews that cept thee. And the king said unto sat in the court of the prison. Araunah, Nay; but I will surely And I charged Baruch before buy it of thee at a price: neither them, saying, Thus saith the LORD will I offer burnt offerings unto of hosts, the God of Israel; Take the LORD my God of that which these evidences, this evidence of doth cost me nothing. So David the purchase, both which is sealed, bought the threshing-floor and and this evidence which is open; the oxen for fifty shekels of sil- and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. ver. Jer. xxxii,6-9. And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Ilanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee Gen. xxiii, 13-16. And he spake my field that is in Anathoth: for unto Ephron in the audience of the right of redemption is thine the people of the land, saying, to buy it. So Hanameel mine But if thou wilt give it, I pray uncle's son came to me in the thee, hear me: I will give thee court of the prison according to money for the field; take it of me, the word of the LORD, and said and I will bury my dead there. unto me, Buy my field, I pray And Ephron answered Abraham, thee, that is in Anathoth, which saying unto him, My lord, hear-is in the country of Benjamin: for ken unto me: the land is worth the right of inheritance is thine, four hundred shekels of silver; and the redemption is thine; buy what is that betwixt me and thee? it for thyself. Then I knew that bury therefore thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named four hundred shekels of silver, cur rent money with the merchant. in the audience of the sons of Heth, Gen. xxxiii, 18, 19. And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his this was the word of the LORD. And I bought the field of Hana- silver. Jer. xxxii, 43. And fields shall be bought in this land whereof ye say, it is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Prov. xxxi, 16. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the Jer. xxxii, 44. Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south; for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD. SOIL OF CANAAN. son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Deut. 1, 22-25. And ye came near anto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. Deut. viii, 7-10. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. Deut. xi, 10-12. For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. the ears with thine hand; but thou Deut. xxvii, 17. Cursed be he landmarks; they violently take Prov. xxii, 28. Remove not the Prov. xxiii, 10, 11. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. CULTIVATION. Gen. ii, 15. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Isa. xxv, 10. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. Luke xvii, 7. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feedirg cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 2 Tim. ii, 6. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. PLOUGHING. Deut. xxii, 10. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 1 Sam. xiii, 19-21. Now thero was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philmake them swords or spears: But istines said, Lest the Hebrews all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the conlters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to Gen. iii, 17-19, 23. And untó Adam Jud. xix, 16. And, behold, there that did the work of the field for son of Chelub. 2 Chron. xxvi, 10. Also he built of the earth is for all: the king Eccles. vi, 7. All the labour of Psalm civ, 23. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. Psalm cxxviii, 2. For thou shalt 1 Sam. xiv, 14. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. 1 Kings, xix, 19-21. So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. again: for what have I done to And he said unto him, Go back thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. Job i, 14, 15. And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The Sabeans fell upon them, and took feeding beside them: And the oxen were plowing, and the asses them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Job xxxix, 10. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Isa. xxviii, 23, 24. Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Isa. Ixi. 5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vindressers. Amos vi, 12. Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? Judges xiv, 18. And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. Job iv, 8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. Job xxxi, 38-40. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. P3. cxxix, 3. The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. Prov. xx, 4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Prov. xxi, 4. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. Isa. ii. 4. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and theirspears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Jer iv, 3. For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Jer. xiv, 4. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Jer. xxvi, 18. Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. . Hos. x, 11-13. * Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Ye have plowed vickedness, ye have reap ed iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. Micah iii, 12. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. Joel iii, 10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Luke ix, 62. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. 1 Cor.lii, 9. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry. Ps. xevil, 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Ps. evil, 37. And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. Jer. xxxi, 27, 28. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. Ezek. xxxvi, 9-11. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be filled and sown: And I will multiply men 1 Cor. ix, 10. Or saith he it alto- upon you, all the house of Israel, For our even all of it: and the cities shall gether for our sakes? sakes, no doubt, this is written: be inhabited, and the wastes shall that he that ploweth should plow be builded: And I will multiply in hope, and that he that thresh-upon you man and beast; and eth in hope should be partaker they shall increase and bring of his hope. SOWING. Gen. xlvii, 23. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. Lev. xix, 19. Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a gar ment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 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. Ps. cxxvi, 5, 6. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Eccles. xi, 4, 6. He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. Isa. xxviii, 25, 26. When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. Isa. xxxii, 20. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Hosea ii, 23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people Thou artiny people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. Hosea x, 12. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. Ze.x,9.And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. Matt. xiii, 1-8. The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, But other fell and choked them: into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Matt. xiii, 18-23. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower Deut. 1, 22-25. And ye came near anto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: And they turned and went ap into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. Dent. viii, 7-10. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. the ears with thine hand; but thou Deut. xxvii, 17. Cursed be he landmarks; they violently take Prov. xxii, 28. Remove not the Prov. xxiii, 10, 11. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. CULTIVATION. Gen. ii, 15. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. tain shall the hand of the LORD Isa. xxv, 10. For in this mounrest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. Luke xvii, 7. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feedirg cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 2 Tim. ii, 6. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. PLOUGHING. Deut. xxii, 10. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 1 Sam. xiii, 19-21. Now there all the land of Israel: for the Philwas no smith found throughout make them swords or spears: But istines said, Lest the Hebrews all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 1 Sam. xiv, 14. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. Gen. iii, 17-19, 23. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast caten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thisDeut. xi, 10-12. For the land, tles shall it bring forth to thee; whither thou goest in to pos- and thou shalt eat the herb of the ess it, is not as the land of Egypt, field; In the sweat of thy face from whence ye came out, where shalt thou eat bread, till thou rethou sowedst thy seed, and water-turn unto the ground; for out of edst it with thy foot, as a garden it wast thou taken: for dust thou of herbs: But the land, whither ye art, and unto dust shalt thou rego to possess it, is a land of hills turn. Therefore the LORD God 1 Kings, xix, 19-21. So he deand valleys, and drinketh water sent him forth from the gar- parted thence, and found Elisha of the rain of heaven: A land den of Eden, to till the ground the son of Shaphat, who was plowwhich the LORD thy God careth from whence he was taken. ing with twelve yoke of oxen befor: the eyes of the LORD thy God Jud. xix, 16. And, behold, therefore him, and he with the twelfth: are always upon it, from the be- came an old man from his work and Elijah passed by him, and ginning of the year even unto the out of the field at even, which was cast his mantle upon him. And end of the year. also of mount Ephraim; and he he left the oxen, and ran after sojourned in Gibeah: but the men Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my moof the place were Benjamites. ther, and then I will follow thee. AGRARIAN ENACTMENTS Exod. xxii, 5, 6. If a man shall canse a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vine yard, shall he make restitution. If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. that did the work of the field for son of Chelub. 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. Eccles. v, 9. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. Eccles. vi, 7. All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled." Psalm civ, 23. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. again: for what have I done to And he said unto him, Go back thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, aud slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. Job I, 14, 15. And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The feeding beside them: And the oxen were plowing, and the asses Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Job xxxix, 10. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the Psalm cxxviii, 2. For thou shalt valleys after thee? |