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hear my voice, and open the door, I thresholds: for he shall uncover I will come in to him, and will the cedar work. sup with him, and he with me.

Acts xx, 9. And there sat in a Rev. iv, 1. After this I looked, window a certain young man and, behold, a door was opened in named Eutychus, being fallen inheaven: and the first voice which to a deep sleep: and as Paul was I heard was as it were of a trum-long preaching, he sunk down pet talking with me; which said, with sleep, and fell down from Come up hither, and I will shew the third loft, and was taken up thee things which must be here- dead. after.

WINDOW.

Gen. vi, 16. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt

thou make it.

Gen. xxvi, 8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah

his wife.

Josh. ii, 15, 21. Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon

2 Kin. vii, 2. Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,

but shalt not eat thereof.

Eccles. xii, 3. And those that look out of the windows be darkened.

Cant. ii, 9. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Isa. liv, 12. And I will make the town wall, and she dwelt up- thy windows of agates, and thy on the wall. And she said, Ac-gates of carbuncles, and all thy cording unto your words, so be it. borders of pleasant stones. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

1 Sam. xix, 12. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

1 Kin. vii, 4, 5. And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

2 Kin. i, 2. And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick.

2 Kin. xiii, 17. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphck, till thou have consumed them.

DIAL.

2 Kin. xx, 11. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

Isa. xxxviii, 8. Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

TENURE.

Lev. xxv, 29-31. And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of Joel ii, 9. They shall run to and the country: they may be redeemfro in the city; they shall run up-ed, and they shall go out in the on the wall, they shall climb up jubilee. upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Jer. ix, 21. For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Zeph. ii, 14. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations:

their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the

Lev. xxvii, 14, 15. And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. And if he that sanctified it will redeem

his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

Acts xxviii, 30. And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him.

APARTMENTS.

Gen. xliii, 30. And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Judges iii, 23-25. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

1 Kin. xx, 30. But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

1 Kin. xxii, 25, 39. And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2 Kin. iv, 11. And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.

servants said, None, my lord, O 2 Kin. vi, 12. And one of his king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

2 Kin. ix. 2. And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber.

Esther i, 6. Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Mark xiv, 14, 15. And whereso- Ezek. xxi, 14. Thou therefore, I heart upon your bed, and be still. ever he shall go in, say ye to the son of man, prophesy, and smite Selah. goodman of the house, The Mas- thine hands together, and let the ter saith, Where is the guest-sword be doubled the third time. chamber, where I shall eat the the sword of the slain: it is the passover with my disciples? And sword of the great men that are he will show you a large upper slain, which entereth into their room furnished and prepared: privy chambers. there make ready for us.

Luke 1, 7. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Acts 1, 13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphens, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

Acts ix, 37. And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

Acts xx, 8. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

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Prov. xxi, 9. It is better to dwell In a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Çant. i, 4. Draw me, we will un after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee.

Cant. ii, 4. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Çant. iii, 4. It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Isa. xxvi, 20. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be

overpast.

Jer. xxii, 14. That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

chief upon his bed; he setteth
Ps. xxxvi, 4. He deviseth mis-
himself in a way that is not good;
he abhorreth not evil.
Ps. xli, 3.
The LORD wil
languishing: thou wilt make all his
strengthen him upon the bed of
bed in his sickness.

with carved works, with fino
Prov. vii, 16, 17. I have decked
my bed with coverings of tapestry,
linen of Egypt. I have perfumed
namon.
my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cin-

Haggai i, 4. Is it time for you, ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Matth. xxiii, 6. uppermost rooms at feasts, and And love the the chief seats in the synagogues. they shall say unto you, Behold, Matth. xxiv, 26. Wherefore if he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret cham-ing to pay, why should he take Prov. xxii, 27. If thou hast nothbers: believe it not. away thy bed from under thee?

FURNITURE.
BEDS.

Gen. xlvii, 31. And he said,
Swear unto me. And he sware
unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.

Çant. i, 16. Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our bed is green.

Isa. xxviii, 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Deut. iii, 11. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remIsa. Ivii, 2. He shall enter into nant of giants; behold, his bed-peace: they shall rest in their stead was a bedstead of iron; is it beds, each one walking in his upnot in Rabbath of the children of rightness.

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Ezek. xxiii, 41. And satest upon a stately bed, and a table preparhast set mine incense and mine ed before it, whereupon thou

oil.

Amos vi, 4. That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall.

Mark iv, 21. And he said unto in-them, is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

1 Kin. xxi, 4. And Ahab came
to his house heavy and displeased
because of the worl which Naboth
the Jezreelite had spoken to him:
thee the inheritance of my Tatliers.
for he had said, I will not give
And he laid him down upon his
bed, and turned away his face,
and would eat no bread.

2 Kings i, 4. Now therefore thus
saith the LORD; Thou shalt not
come down from that bed on
which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed.

2 Kings iv, 21. And she went
the man of God, and shut the door
up, and laid him on the bed of
upon him, and went out.

shall comfort me, my couch shall
Job vii, 13. When I say, My bed
ease my complaint.

Job xvii, 13. If I wait, the grave
is mine house: I have made my
bed in the darkness.

Job xxxiii, 15. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

Ps. iv, 4. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own

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brought forth the sick into the Acts v, 15. Insomuch that they streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

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like a bottle in the smoke; yet do Ps. cxix, $3. For I am become I not forget thy statutes.

Jer. xix, 1, 10. Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the

ancients of the people, and of the Then ancients of the priests; shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with

thee.

Mark ii, 22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

Gen. xxiv, 14, 15. And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Judges vii, 16. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Lam. iv, 2. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

TABLE.

Judges 1, 7. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their · great toes cut off, gathered their mcat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

1 Kin. x, 5. And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his

ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers.

Neh. v, 17.

Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from

among the heathen that are about

us.

Ps. xxiii, 5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth

over.

Mark vii, 4. And when they come from the market, except And they wash, they eat not. many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.

Luke xxii, 21. But, behold, the

hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.

John xii, 2. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Rom. xi, 9. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them.

SEAT.

1 Sam. 1, 9. So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

1 Sam. iv, 18. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old And he had man, and heavy. judged Israel fory years.

1 Kings ii, 19. Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right

hand.

2 Chron. ix, 17-19. Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays: And twelve lions stood there on the cne side and on the other upon the six steps.

There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Job xxix, 7. When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

OTHER ARTICLES. Gen. xxxi, 37. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

Exod. xxxviii, 8. And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Judges v, 26. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

2 Kings iv, 2. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the

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house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

Neh. xiii, 8. And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

Luke ix, 17. And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

2 Tim. ii, 20. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of honour and some to dishonour. wood and of earth; and some to

THE HEARTH.

FIRE.

Exod. xxxv, 3. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

1 Kings iv, 40. So they poured And it out for the men to eat. came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said. O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

Isa. xxx, 14. And he shall break

it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Isa. xliv, 16. He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.

Jer. vii, 18. The children gather Wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jer. xxix, 22. And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roast

ed in the fire.

Jer. xxxvi, 22, 23. Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Ezek. xv, 4. Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

Matth. xvii, 15. Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft in

to the water.

Mark xiv, 54. And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

Luke xxii, 56. But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.

John xviii, 18. And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

Acts xxviii, 2. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of

the cold.

Job xviii, 5. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Ps. xxxix, 3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.

P3. lxxxiii, 14. As the fire burn

eth a wood, and as the flame

teth the mountains on fire.

selves about with sparks: walk in
the light of your fire, and in the
sparks that ye
This shall ye have of mine hand;
have kindled.
ye shall lie down in sorrow.

fire burneth, the fire causeth the
Isa. Ixiv, 2. As when the melting
waters to boil, to make thy name
known to thine adversaries, that
presence!
the nations may tremble at thy

LORD came unto me the second
Jer. i, 13. And the word of the
time, saying, What seest thou?
and the face thereof is toward the
And I said, I see a seething pot;
north.

a parable unto the rebellious
Ezek. xxiv, 3, 6, 11, 12. And utter
house, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot,
set it on, and also pour water into
it. Wherefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
city, to the pot whose scum is
therein, and whose scum is not
gone out of it! bring it out piece
by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
thereof, that the brass of it may
Then set it empty upon the coals
be hot, and may burn, and that the
filthiness of it may be molten in
it, that the scum of it may be con-
sumed. She hath wearied herself
with lies, and her great scum
went not forth out of her: her
scum shall be in the fire.

set-shall be molten under him, and
Micah 1, 4. And the mountains
the valleys shall be cleft, as wax
that are poured down a steep
before the fire, and as the waters
place.

Ps. cii, 3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

P3. cxl, 10. Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Micah iii, 3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are scat-pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh tered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Prov. x, 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

Prov. xxvi, 20. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; so where there is no talebearer, the

strife ceaseth.

Cant. viii, 6. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

within the caldron.

Zech. iii, 2. And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

make the governors of Judah like Zech. xii, 6. In that day will I an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; ple round about, on the right and they shall devour all the peohand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Matth. iii, 10. And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the bringeth not forth good fruit is trees: therefore every tree which hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Isa. xlvil, 14. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Job, xxi, 17. How oft is the candle Isa. 1, 11. Behold, all ye that of the wicked put out? and how kindle a fire, that compass your-oft cometh their destruction upon

CANDLE, LAMP.

them?

in his anger.
God distributeth sorrows

shined upon my head, and when
Job xxix, 3. When his candle
darkness.
by his light I walked through

my candle: the LORD my God will
P3. xviii, 23. For thou wilt light
enlighten my darkness.

unto my path.
lamp unto my feet, and a light
P3. cxix, 105. Thy word is a

of the wicked shall be put out.
righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp
Prov. xiii, 9. The light of the

father or his mother, his lamp Prov. xx, 20. Whoso curseth his shall be put out in obscure dark

ness.

be no reward to the evil man; the Prov. xxiv, 20. For there shall candle of the wicked shall be put out.

that her merchandise is good: her Prov. xxxi, 18. She perceiveth candle goeth not out by night.

take from them the voice of mirth, Jer. xxv, 10. Moreover I will and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bride, the sound of voice of the bridegroom, and the the millstones, and the light of the candle.

Matth. v, 15. Neither do men bushel, but on a candlestick; and light a candle, and put it under a it giveth light unto all that are in

the house.

Matth. xxv, 1, 7, 8. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Luke viii, 16. No man, when he with a vessel, or putteth it under hath lighted a candle, covereth it a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be Luke xi, 36. If thy whole body shining of a candle doth give thee full of light, as when the bright light.

having ten pieces of silver, if she Luke xv, 8. Either what woman lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Acts xvi, 29. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas.

candle shall shine no more at all Rev. xviii, 23. And the light of a in thee. . . . .

1 Chron. vii, 24. (And his daughter was Sheran, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)

2 Chron. viii, 5, 6. Also he built Betli-horon the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

LEPROSY IN HOUSES. Lev. xiv, 34-41. When ye be come Into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a 1 Chron. viii, 12. The sons of house of the land of your posses-Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and sion; And he that owneth the Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, house shall come and tell the with the towns thereof. priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house: Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place.

CITIES.

ERECTION.

Gen. x. 11, 12. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

2 Chron. xxvii. 4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

2 Chron. xxxii. 29. Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abund ance: for God had given him substance very much.

Jonah iii, 3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to Now the word of the LORD. Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

UNFINISHED.

Gen. xi, 8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

1 Kings xv. 21, 22. And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

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Amorites, who had fought against

the city of Sihon the king of the the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

Josh. x, 2. That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

2 Sam. xii, 26. And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

TREASURE.

Exod. i, 11. Therefore they did afflict them with their burdens. set over them taskmasters to And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

COMMERCIAL.

Isa. xxiii, 11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Ezek. xxvii, 3. And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

CHARIOT.

2 Chron. i, 14. And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve

Gen. xi, 4, 5. And they said, Go Then king Asa made a proclama-thousand Lorsemen, which he

to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad

upon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

tion throughout all Judah; none
was exempted: and they took away
the stones of Ramah, and the tim-
ber thereof, wherewith Baasha
had builded; and king Asa built
with them Geba of Benjamin, and

Mizpah.

NAMING.

Gen. iv, 17. . . . He builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,

Enoch.

1 Kings ix, 17-19. And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his Judges xviii, 29. And they callchariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon de-ed the name of the city Dan, after sired to build in Jerusalem, and the name of Dan their father, who in Lebanon, and in all the land of was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the his dominion. first.

1 Kings xii, 25. Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

2 Kings xiv, 22. He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

1 Kings xvi, 24. And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

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Num. xiii. 28. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Num. xxxii, 17. But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their

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