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a wailing like the dragons, and up all that day, and all that night, mourning as the owls.

Isa. xxxiv, 11. The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon

it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

PARTRIDGE.

Jer. xvii, 11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; 80 he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

PEACOCK.

1 Kin. x, 22. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Iiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

PELICAN.

Ps. cil, 6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness.

POULTRY.

Matth. xxiii, 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Matth. xxvi, 34, 74, 75. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

QUAILS.

Exod. xvi, 12, 13. I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying. At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

Num. xi, 31, 32. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood

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and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

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Isa. xxxviii, 14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter.

Matth. x, 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke xii, 6. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

VULTURE.

in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Lam. iii, 52. Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Hos. vii, 12. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Hos. ix, 8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Amos iii, 5. Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

FISHES.

Exod. vii, 18. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.

Num. xi, 22. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice then? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suilice them?

Nel. xiii, 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of

ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Ps. civ, 25. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Isa. 1, 2. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that Isa. xxxiv, 15. ・・・ There it cannot redeem? or have I no shall the vultures also be gather-power to deliver? behold, at my ed every one with her mate.

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Prov. vii, 23. Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Eccles. ix, 12. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught

rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Ezek. xlvii, 9. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these

waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river

cometh.

Jonah i, 17. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Matth. xiv, 17. And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

FISHING.

Cant. vii, 4. Thine eyes like the fishpools 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 sluices 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.

Ezek. xlvii, 10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-cglaim: 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 sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Hab. i, 14-17. And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay

thou to the sea, and cast an hook. Į 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.

Marki, 16-20. Now as he walk

USED AS FOOD.

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

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

ed by the sea of Galilee, he saw
Simon and Andrew his brother
casting a net into the sea: for they
were fishers. And Jesus said un-
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

out a little from the land. And

And

nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he Simon. Launch out into the deep, had left speaking, he said unto 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. 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 Matth. iv, 18-20. And Jesus. sink. When Simon Peter saw it, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw he fell down at Jesus' knees, say two brethren, Simon called Peter. ing, Depart from me; for I am a and Andrew his brother, casting sinful man, O Lord. For he was a net into the sea: for they were astonished, and all that were with fishers. And he saith unto them, him, at the draught of the fishes Follow me, and I will make you which they had taken: And so fishers of men. And they straight-as also James, and John, the way left their nets and followed him.

the nations?

Matth. xiii, 47-50. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matth. xvii, 27. Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go

sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. 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 thou? knowing that it was the disciples durst ask him, Who art

Lord.

Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

FISHGATE.

he built a wall without the city of 2 Chr. xxxiii, 14. Now after this 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 Hanancel, the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

and the tower of Meah, even unto

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.

Gen. vii, 8,21. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that John xxi, 3, 6, 8. Simon Peter creepeth upon the earth, And all saith unto them I go a fishing. flesh died that moved up on the They say unto him, We also go earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, with thee. They went forth, and and of beasts, and of every creepentered into a ship immediately; ing thing that creepeth upon the and that night they caught noth-earth, and every man: ing. And he said unto them, Gen. viii, 17. 19. Bring forth with Cast the net on the right side of thee every living thing that is 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 creepnot able to draw it for the multi-ing thing that creepeth upon the

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 thee their kinds, went forth out of the

ark.

Ezek. vili, 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.

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

P3. xci, 13. Thou shalt tread up on the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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, shall be grass with reeds and

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.

thronen into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: the 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. i, 3. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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 devour her child as soon as it was

born.

FROGS.

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

Ps. lxxviii, 45. *** And frogs, which destroyed them. Ps. cv, 30. Their land brought

forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

Rev. xvi, 13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

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.

Jer. x, 22. Behold, the noise of Exod. xvi, 20, 24. Notwithstandthe bruit is come, and a greating they hearkened not unto commotion out of the north coun

try, 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.

Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank; and Moses was

Wroth with them. And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

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

Ps. xxii. 6. But I am a worm,

and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Isa. xli, 14. Fear not, thou worm

Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

forth, and look upon the carcases Isa. Ixvi, 24. And they shall go of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall

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

Micah vii, 17.. They shall move out of their holes like worms the LORD our God, and shall fear of the earth: they shall be afraid of because of thee.

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

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Num. xxi, 6-9. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

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

some.

Job xvii. 14. I have said to corruption, Thon 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 lieth 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; an 1 wickedness self. But I will put hooks in thy shall be broken as a tree.

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

Job xxvi, 13. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked

serpent.

Eccles. x, 8. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Gen. xlix, 17. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Isa. xi, 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

Amos v, 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Amos ix. 3. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

Micah vii, 17. They shall lick

the dust like a serpent.

Mark xvi, 18. They shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Luke x, 19. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

THEIR POISON.

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Deut. xxxii, 24, 30. will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

Job xx, 16. He shall suck the polson of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Ps. lviii, 4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth

her ear.

Ps. cxl, 3. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips.

Selah.

Prov. xxiii, 31, 32. Look not thou upon the wine.

At

CHARMING OF THEM.

Ps. Ivili, 4, 5. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Eccles. x, 11. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Jer. viii, 17. For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

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Deut. 1, 44. And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

Ps. cxviii, 12. They compassed me about like bees; they are in the name of the LORD I will quenched as the fire of thorns: for destroy them.

Isa. vii, 18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

HONEY VERY ABUNDANT. Gen. xliii, 11. And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little

honey.

Exod. iii. 8. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to

the last it biteth like a serpent, bring them up out of that land unto and stingeth like an adder. a good land and a large, unto a Isa. lix, 5. They hatch cocka-land flowing with milk and honey; trice' eggs, and weave the spider's unto the place of the Canaanites, web: he that eateth of their eggs and the Hittites, and the Amorites, dieth, and that which is crushed and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, breaketh out into a viper. and the Jebusites.

Lev. xx, 24. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the have LORD your God, which separated you from other people.

Num. xvi, 12-14. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We

will not come up: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? 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.

Deut. xxxii, 13. . And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.

1 Sam. xiv, 25, 26. And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

2 Sam. xvii, 29. And honey, and butter for David.

1 Kin. xiv, 3. And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

2 Chron. xxxi, 5. And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first firuits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey.

Job xx, 17. He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

Ps. lxxxi, 16.

And with

honey out of the rock should I

have satisfied thee.

found among them that said unto Jer. xli, 8. But ten men were Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

Ezek. xxvii, 17. Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy mer chants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

USED AS FOOD.

Exod. xvi, 31. And the taste of

it was like wafers made with honey.

Jud. xiv, 9. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them

that he had taken the honey out strange woman drop as an honey-
of the carcase of the lion.
comb, and her mouth is smoother
than oil.

1 Sam. xiv, 27, 29, 43. But Jonathan 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. xxvii, 7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is

sweet.

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.

Ezek. ii, 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, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

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

Isa. xxxiii, 4. And your spoil
shall be gathered like the gather-
ing of the catterpiller: as the run-
ning to and fro of locusts shall he

Cant. v, 1. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my 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. iii, 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.

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

Prov. v, 3. For the lips of a

hath sworn by himself, saying,
Jer. li, 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 i, 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 iii, 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 cankerworm, make thyself many as

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Exod. vill, 21, 22. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, thy people, and into thy houses: and upon thy servants, and upon and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon And I will sever in they are. that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

Ps. lxxviii, 45. He sent divers

sorts of flies among, which de

voured them.

came divers sorts of flies, and lice Ps. cv, 31. He spake, and there in all their coasts.

ointment of the apothecary to Eccles. x, 1. Dead flies cause the send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

Isa. vii, 18, 19. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, .And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valley, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

GNAT.

Matth. xxiii, 24. Fe blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

GRASSHOPPER.

Amos vii, 1. Thus hath the Lord GoD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

NUMBER.

Jud. vi, 5. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude.

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