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pertained unto him; and he hath requited me evil for good. So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertaineth to him, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herBelf to the ground, And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.

1 Kings xvi, 21, 22. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the Bon of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

Neh. iv. 7, 8. 17, 22, 23. But it

Isa. xxx, 7,9. For the Egyptians | God shall give Israel: and there shall help in vain, and to no pur- shall not be an old man in thine pose: therefore have I cried con- house for ever. And I will raise cerning this, Their strength is to me up a faithful priest, that shall sit still. That this is a rebellious do according to that which is in people, lying children, children mine heart and in my mind: and that will not hear the law of the I will build him a sure house; and LORD. he shall walk before mine Anointed for ever.

Jer. xi, 7. I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I havegiventhedearly-belovedofmy soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jer. xxv, 13, 14, 18 20. And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof,to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; (as it is this day:) Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod.

came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobial, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdohites, heard that the walls of Jer. xli, 16-18. Then took JoJerusalem were made up, and hanan the son of Kareah, and all that the breaches began to be the captains of the forces that stopped, then they were very were with him, all the remnant of wrotu. And conspired all of them the people whom he had recovertogether to come and to fighted from Ishmael the son of Neagainst Jerusalem, and to hinder it. They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

Isa. xv, 9. For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the laud.

thaniah, from Mizpah, (after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikain,) eren mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Abikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

1 Sam. il, 31, 32, 35. Behold, the days come, tirat i will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which 760

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P3. lxxvi, 4, 6. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep

eth the city of the mighty, and Prov, xxi, 22. A wise man scalcasteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

wounds of a friend: but the kisses Prov. xxvil, 6. Faithful are the of an enemy are deceitful.

Cant. vi, 12, 13. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Ammi-nadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Isa. xi, 13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Jer. xxix, 7. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, in the peace thereof shall ye have and pray unto the LORD for it: for

peace.

Jer. xxx, 17, 19. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an This is Zion, Outcast, saying, whom no man seeketh after. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

2 Cor. x, 4-6 (For the weapons of our warlare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readi ness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

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THE SEA.

Gen. 1, 9, 10. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to gether of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Neh. ix, 10, 11. And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all

the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: so didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a Btone into the mighty waters.

Job xxvi, 10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. Job xxxviii, 8, 10, 11, 16. Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy prond waves be stayed? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

Ps. xxxiil, 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Ps. civ, 6-9. Thon coveredst it with the deepaswith agarment: the Waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the Voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to Cover the earth.

Isa. v, 30. And in that day they

WATER.

compassed me about: all thy
billows and thy waves passed
over me. The waters compassed
me about, even to the soul: the
depth closed me round about, the
weeds were wrapped about my
head. I went down to the bottoms
of the mountains; the earth with
her bars was about me for ever:
yet hast thou brought up my life
from corruption, O LORD my God.

said, I saw in my vision by night,
Dan. vii, 2. Daniel spake, and
and, behold, the four winds of the
heaven strove upon the great sea.

Job xxvi, 5. Dead things are
formed from under the waters,
and the inhabitants thereof.

Ps. xviii, 16. IIe sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

Ezek. xxvi, 15, 18, 19. For thos saith the Lord GOD, When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover

thee. Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus, Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy sea shall be troubled at thy defall; yea, the isles that are in the parture.

Ezek. xxviii, 8. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

Ezek. xxxi, 15. Thus saith the Lord GOD, in the day when he went down to the grave I caused Ps. lxxxviii, 6, 7. Thou hast laid a mourning: I covered the deep me in the lowest pit, in darkness, for him, and I restrained the floods in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth thereof, and the great waters were hard upon me, and thou hast af-stayed; and I caused Lebanon to flicted me with all thy waves. of the field fainted for him. Selah

Jer. xxxiii, 22. As the host of

heaven cannot be numbered,
nelther the sand of the sea mea-
sured; so will I multiply the seed
of David my servant, and the
vites that minister unto me.

mourn for him, and all the trees

Rev. vill, 8, 9. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the

Le-third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the crea tures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

had overwhelmed us, the stream
Ps. cxxiv, 4, 5. Then the waters
had gone over our soul: Then
the proud waters had gone over

our soul.

Isa li, 14-16, 36. The captive
exile hasteneth that he may be
loosed, and that he should not
die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail. But I am the LORD
thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: The LORD of
hosts is his name. And I have
put my words in thy mouth, and
have covered thee in the shadow
of mine hand, that I may plant
the heavens, and lay the founda-
tions of the earth, and say unto
Zion, Thou art my people.

the LORD, Behold, I will plead thy
Jer. 11, 36, 42. Therefore thus saith

Rev. xvi, 8. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

ALWAYS UNDER DIVINE CONTROL

Job ix, 8. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Job xxvi, 12. He divideth the

sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

shall roar against them like the cause, and take vengeance for art the confidence of all the end

roaring of the sea: and if one look thee, and I will dry up her sea,
unto the land, behold darkness and make her springs dry. The
and sorrow; and the light is dar-sea is come up upon Babylon: she
kened in the heavens thereof.
Is covered with the multitude of
Jonah ii, 3, 5, 6. For thou hadst the waves thereof.
cat me into the deep, in the Lam. iii, 54. Waters flowed over
midst of the seas; and the floods Imine head: then I said, I am cut off,

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P8. lxv, 5, 7. By terrible thingt us, O God of our salvation; whe in righteousness wilt thou answel of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Which still eth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Ps. lxxxix, 9, 24, 25. Thou rules

the raging of the sea: when the

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Ps. xciii, 3, 4. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods! lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

18a. xvii, 12, 13. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall re

buke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isa. xxiv, 14. They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

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Deut. xxxiv, 2. And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea.

Ezra fil, 7. They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

Zech. xiv. 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder

sea: In summer and in wintersnall
it be.

RED SEA.

Eroa. x, 19. And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Redea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Exod. xiii, 18. But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of, Egypt.

Exod. xxiii, 31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them

out before thee.

SALT OR DEAD SEA.

Num. xxxiv, 12. And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof

round about.

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SEA OF GALILEE OR TIBERIAS.

Matth. iv, 18. And Jesus, walk ing by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were

fishers.

that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

Job xxviii, 10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Eccles. 1, 7. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

Isa. xxiii, 10. Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

Ps. xlvi, 4. There is a river, the the city of God, the holy place of streams whereof shall make glad the tabernacles of the Most High.

Ezek. xxxii, 13, 14. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters, neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezek. xlvii, 1-3,5-8, 11, 12. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, be hold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the fore-front of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the of the way of the gate northward, altar. Then brought be me out and led me about the way with way that looketh eastward; and, out unto the outer gate by the behold, there ran out waters on

the right side. And when the John vi, 1. After these things man that had the line in his hand Jesus went over the sea of went forth eastward, he measured Galilee, which is the sea of Ti-a thousand cubits, and he brought berias.

John xxi, 1. After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias: and on this wise showed he himself.

SEA OF JAZER.

me

through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. After ward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. Jer. xlviii, 32. O vine of Sib- And he said unto me, Son of man, mah, I will weep for thee with hast thou seen this? Then be the weeping of Jazer: thy plants brought me, and caused me to are gone over the sea, they reach return to the brink of the river. even to the sea of Jazer: the Now, when I had returned, be spoiler is fallen upon thy summer-hold, at the bank of the river fruits, and upon thy vintage.

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were very many trees on the one side, and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down intothe desert,and go into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they

shall be given to salt. And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this si le and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine

Joel ill, 18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the bills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain

shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

Nahum iii, 8. 9. Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Zech. xiv. 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be

Rev. viii, 10, 11. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, an i upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Rev. xvi, 3, 4. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became

blood.

RIVERS MENTIONED IN
SCRIPTURE.

ABANA AND PHARPAR.

2 Kings V, 12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage.

ARNON.

Deut. il, 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead.

CHEBAR.

Ezek. 1, 1, 3. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

Ezek. ii, 15. Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

2 Kings v, 9, 11, 13. So Naaman came with his horses and with his

chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean.

up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Job xl, 23. Behold, he drinketh

KANAH.

Ezek. x, 15, 20. And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. This is the living creature that I saw under the out from Tappuah westward unto Josh. xvi. 8. The border went God of Israel by the river of Che-the river Kanah; and the goings bar; and I knew that they were out thereof were at the sea. the cherubim.

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Gen. xxxii, 22, 23. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

Deut. 11, 87. Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.

JORDAN.

Josh. iii, 8. And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

KISHON.

Kishon swept them away, that Judges v, 21. The river of ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

PISON.

Gen. ii. 11. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

ULAI.

Daniel vili, 16. And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

OF AHAVA.

Ezra viii, 15. And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

OF BABYLON

Ps. cxxxvii, 1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

OF EDEN.

Gen. II, 10. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads

OF EGYPT.

Gen. xv, 18. In that same day

the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river of Euphrates.

OF ETHIOPIA.

Isa. xviii, 1, 2. Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: That sendet ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

OF JOTBATH.

Deut. x, 7. From thence they Journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbatli,aland of rivers of waters.

OF JUDAH.

Joel iii, 18. All the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come

forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

OF PHILIPPI.

Acts xvi, 13 An on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which reBorted thither.

RIVER OF LIFE.

Rev. xxii, 1, 2. And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

SHIPS AND BOATS, ETC.

the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimel the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan.

1 Kings ix, 26, 27. And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which 18 beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings x, 11, 22. And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and pea

cocks.

2 Chron. vill, 17. Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea-side in the land of Edom.

ships went to Tarshish with the 2 Chron. ix, 21. For the king's

servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2 Chron. XX, 35-37. And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly. And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshishi: and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber. Then Eliezer, the son of Dodavah of Mareshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying. Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

Prov. xxxi, 14. She is like the merchants' ships, she bringeth her food from afar.

Ezek. xxvil, 4-6, 9, 25. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy

Ezek. xxx, 9. In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethioplans afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

Daniel xi, 30, 40. For the ships of Chittim shall cme against him. And at the time

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of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

John vi, 22, 23. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea, saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)

VOYAGING.

Isa. xxxiii, 23. Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they could prey of a great spoil divided; the not spread the sail: then is the lame take the prey.

Ezek. xxvii, 8, 26-29. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men,

Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company, which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. The suburbe shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. And all that handle the our, the mariners, and

Gen vi, 14. 15. Make thee an ark/beauty. They have made all thy all the pilots of the sea, shall come

of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty

cubits.

Num. xxlv, 24. And ships shale come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

2 Sam. xix, 18. And there went Over a ferry-boat to carry over

ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Le the oaks of Bashan have they banon to make masts for thee. Of made thine oars; the company of benches of ivory, brought out of the Ashurites have made thy the isles of Chittim. The ancients

of Gebal,and the wise men thereof, were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariuers were in thee to occupy thy❘ merchandise. The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenish ed, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land."

Jonah i, 3, 13. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the down to Joppa; and he found a presence of the LORD, and went ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

Mark vi, 47, 48 And when even

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