Exod. x, 3-6. And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and

Ps. cix, 23. up and down as the locust. Mark i, 6. eat locusts and wild honey.

And he did

Rev. ix, 3 7-10. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they it had breastplates, as breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

MOTH.

were

SPIDER.

Job viii, 14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

Prov. xxx. 28. The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

ANIMALS FOR LABOUR. ASS.

Gen. xil, 16. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Gen. xxii, 3, 5. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

Gen. xlii, 26. And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

Gen. xlix, 11, 14. 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: Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens.

ITS SILENT DESTRUCTIVENESS.

Job xiii, 28. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is motheaten.

Pз. xxxix, 11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely eyery man is vanity. Selah.

Isa. 1, 9. Behold, the Lord Gop will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

Isa. li, 8. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

Hosea v, 12. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness, Matth. vi, 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

James v, 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

one of them.

Num. xxii, 25-33. And when the

ass saw the angel of the LORD, she

thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the

left. And when the ass saw the

angel of the LORD, she fell down

under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou has smitten me these three times? And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. And the ass said unto Ba laam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword

drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face. And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three

times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me. And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

Judges xv, 16. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of un ass have I slain a thousand men.

Judges xix, 10. But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

1 Sam. ix, 3-5. And the asses of

Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take

now one of the servants with thee, and arise. go seek the asses. And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were hot: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not. And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

1 Sam. x, 2. When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjunin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

2 Sam. xvi, 1, 2. And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled. And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on.

2 Sam. xvii, 23. And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home

Jer. xxil. 19. He shall be buried | pitcher from her shoulder, and with the burial of an ass, drawn said, Drink, and I will give thy and cast forth beyond the gates camels drink also: so I drank, and of Jerusalem. she made the camels drink also.

Gen. xxxi, 34. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Gen. xxxvii, 25. And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and ba'm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Judges vi, 5. . . . For both they and their camels were without number; and they entered into the land to destroy it.

1 Sam xxx, 17. And David smote

them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men which rode upon camels, and fled.

Job xxxix, 5-8. Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath 2 Kings viii, 9. So IIazael went loosed the bands of the wild ass? to meet him, and took a present Whose house I have made the with him, even of every good wilderness, and the barren land thing of Damascus, forty camels' his dwellings. He scorneth the burden, and came and stood bemultitude of the city, neither re-fore him, and said, Thy son Bengardeth he the crying of the hadad king of Syria hath sent me driver. The range of the moun- to thee, saying, Shall I recover of tains is his pasture, and he search- this disease? eth after every green thing.

Isa. xxxii, 14.***The forts and towers shall be for dens for ever. a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks.

Jer. ii, 24. A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Hosea viii, 9. For they are gone to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

CAMEL.

USED ON LONG JOURNEYS.

Gen. xxiv, 11, 19, 20. 31. 46. And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy drinking. And she hasted, and camels also, until they have done emptied her pitcher into the well to draw water, and drew for trough, and ran again unto the all his camels. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. And she made haste, and let down her

1 Chron. v, 21. And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

1 Chron. xxvii, 30. Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite.

Ezra ii, 67. Their camels, four hundred thirty and five.

Neh. vii. 69. Their camels, four hundred thirty and five...

...

Isa. xxx. 6. The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures mon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not prolit them.

Isa. lx, 6. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: and they shall shew forth the they shall bring gold and incense; praises of the LORD.

Ezek. xxv, 5. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Matth. xix, 24. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel

to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

HORSE.

Erod. xv, 21. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath friumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

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 1, 11. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire; and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings xxiii, 11. And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2 Chron. ix. 28. And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

Ezra ii, 66. Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six. . . . Esther vi, 8. 9. Let the royal

apparel be brought which the king

useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before

him. Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

P3. xxxiii, 17. An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Ps. exlvii. 10. He delighteth not

in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of

a man.

Eccles. x. 7. I have seen servants

"pon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Isa. Ixiii, 13, 14. That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

Hosea xiv, 3. Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses..

Zech. xii, 4. ... And I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

Zech. xiv. 20. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.

CHARIOT.

USED BY THE GREAT.

Gen. xlvi, 29. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

2 Kings ix, 16, 21. So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth

the Jezreelite.

Exod. xiv, 6. And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him.

1 Kings vii, 33. And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.

1 Kings xviii, 44. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

1 Kings xx, 25, 33. And number thee an army, like the army that chariot for chariot: and we will thou hast lost, horse for horse, and fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so. Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

1 Kings xxii, 35. And the battle increased that day; and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at

even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

2 Kings v, 9, 21, 26. So Naaman came with his horses and with his the house of Elisha. So Gelazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? And he said unto him Went not mine heart with the, when the man turned again from

chariot, and stood at the door of

Cant. iii, 9. King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

Acts viii, 28-30. Was returning. and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip. Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

2 Kings ii, 12. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

God are twenty thousand, even Ps. lxviii, 17. The chariots of thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

Ps. civ, 3. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

Çant. 1,9. I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

Çant. vi, 12. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots

of Amminadib.

18. xxi, 7, 9. And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: And, be hold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.

Isa. Ixvi, 20. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to

brought back. And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.

2 Kin. iv, 24. Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid

thee.

Esther vill, 10, 14. And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being has tened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.

Prov. xxvi, 3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Zech. xii, 4. In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his

rider with madness.

Matth. xxi, 2, 3, 7, 8. Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. James ii, 3. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

(See under Army, Çavalry.)

SYMBOLS.

Rev. vi, 1-8. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice

Hoscaix, 3. They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assy

ria.

in the midst of the four beasts say, I quested of the prince of the A measure of wheat for a penny, eunuchs that he might not defile and three measures of barley for himself. a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: Death, and Hell followed with and his name that sat on him was him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with the beasts of the earth. hunger, and with death, and with

DISTINCTION OF

ANIMALS.

INTO CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOR SACRIFICE AND FOOD. Gen. viii, 20. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Lev. x, 10. And that yo may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean.

Lev. xi, 46, 47. This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every crea ture that creepeth upon the earth: To make a difference between the

unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

Lev. xx, 25. Ye shall therefore between clean put difference

beasts and unclean, and between shall not make your souls abomunclean fowls and clean: and ye inable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as un

clean.

Deut. xiv, 3. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

EXAMPLES.

children of Israel eat not of the Gen. xxxii, 32. Therefore the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the

sinew that shrank.

drew nigh unto the city, Peter Acts x, 9-16. On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet down to the earth: knit at the four corners, and let Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou and the vessel was received up common. This was done thrice: again into heaven.

ANIMAL FOOD.

THE PERMISSION. Gen. ix, 3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Deut. xii, 20-22. When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy and thou shalt say, I will eat border, as he hath promised thee, flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth thee, and thou shalt eat in thy after. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Deut. xv, 19-23. All the firstGen. xliii, 32. And they set on ling males that come of thy herd for him by himself, and for them and of thy flock thou shalt sanctiby themselves, and for the Egypt-fy unto the LORD thy God: thou fans, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Dan. 1, 8. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he re

shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it