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Mark xiv. 14, 15. And wheresoever be shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And be will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: 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 i, 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 Alphæus, 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.

run a race.

Ezek. xxi, 14. Thou therefore, I heart upon your bed, and be stil. son of man, prophesy, and smite Selah. thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

Haggai i, 4. Is it time for you, ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Matth. xxiii, 6. And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues. Matth. xxiv, 26. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

FURNITURE.
BEDS.

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

chief upon his bed; he setteth Ps. xxxvi, 4. He deviseth mishimself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Ps. xli, 3. The LORD strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Prov. vii, 16, 17. I have decked with carved works, with fino my bed with coverings of tapestry, linen of Egypt. I have perfuined my bed with myrrh, aioes, and cinnamon.

ing to pay, why should he take Prov. xxii, 27. If thou hast nothaway thy bed from under thee?

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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Ammon?
Ezek. xxiii, 41. And satest upon
1 Sam. xix, 13, 15. And Michaled before it, whereupon thou
a stately bed, and a table prepar-
hast set mine incense and mine
oil.

P. xix, 5, Which is as a bride-took an image, and laid it in the groom coming out of his chamber, bed, and put a pillow of goats' and rejoiceth as a strong man to hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

Ps. xxxi, 8. And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large

room.

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

Cant. 1, 4. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in

thee.

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1 Kin. xxi, 4. And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth

the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. 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 "P, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

shall comfort me, my couch shall Job vil, 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

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 them, is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a

bed? and not to be set on a candle

stick?

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

BOTTLE, PITCHER.

Gen. xxi, 14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she dewilderness of Beer-sheba. parted, and wandered in the

Ps. Ivi, 8. Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Ps. cxix, 83. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

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

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Mark ii, 22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: elso 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.

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

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

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

SEAT.

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 Mil-judged Israel fory years. cah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

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 scat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

Judges vil, 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 meat 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.

Moreover there Neh. v, 17. 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.

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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 man, and heavy. And he had

fore went unto king Solomon, to
1 Kings ii, 19. Bath-sheba there-
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
standing by the stays: And twelve
the sitting place, and two lions
lions stood there on the cne side
and on the other upon the six
made in any kingdom.
steps. There was not the like

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

OTHER ARTICLES.
Gen. xxxi, 37. Whereas thou

hast searched all my stuff, what
hold stuff? set it here before my
hast thou found of all thy house-
brethren and thy brethren, that
they may judge betwixt us both.

the laver of brass, and the foot of
Exod. xxxviii, 8. And he made
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

house? And she said, Thine hand. maid 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.

and were all filled: and there was Luke ix, 17. And they did eat, 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 wood and of earth; and some to honour and some to dishonour.

THE HEARTH.

FIRE.

no fire throughout your habitaExod. xxxv, 3. Ye shall kindle tions upon the sabbath day.

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

it as the breaking of the potters' Isa. xxx, 14. And he shall break 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 tako water withal out of the pit.

thereof in the fire; with part thereIsa. xliv, 16. He burneth part of he eateth flesh; he roasteth

I am warm, I have seen the fire. roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha,

Jer. vii, 18. The children gather Wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their

drink offerings unto other gods, dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out that they may provoke me to anger.

Jer. xxix, 22. And of them shall

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

ed in the fire.

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

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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,

the cold.

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

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

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

Ezek. xxiv, 3, 6, 11, 12. And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus

it.

and warmed himself. saith the Lord GoD; Set on a pot, Acts xxviii, 2. And the barbar-set it on, and also pour water into ous people shewed us no little Wherefore thus saith the kindness; for they kindled a fire, Lord GoD; Woe to the bloody and received us every one, because city, to the pot whose scum is of the present rain, and because of therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

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

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

Ps. lxxxiii, 14. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame set

teth the mountains on fire.

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

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

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 scat-pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh

Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are 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

thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke 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; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand 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 trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Isa. xlvii, 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? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness."

Job xxix, 3. When his candle

Ps. xviii, 28. For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

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

Prov, xiii, 9. The light of the

righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

father or his mother, his lamp Prov. xx, 20. Whoso curseth his

shall be put out in obscure dark

ness.

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

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

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

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

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 hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

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

Luke xv, 8. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she 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.

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

LEPROSY IN HOUSES.

1 Chron. viii, 12. The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof.

1 Chron. vii, 24. (And his daughLev. xiv, 34-41. When ye be cometer was Sheran, who built Bethinto the land of Canaan, which I horon the nether, and the upper, give to you for a possession, and and Uzzen-sherah.) I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the 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.

Gen. xi, 4, 5. And they said, Go 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.

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 chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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.

2 Chron. viii, 5, 6. Also he built Beth-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.

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 abundstance very much. ance: for God had given him sub

Jonah iii, 3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now 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, Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

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DIFFERENT KINDS OF

CITIES.

ROYAL.

Num. xxi, 26. For Heshbon aras

the city of Sihon the king of the the former king of Moab, and Amorites, who had fought against

taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

Josh. x, 2. That they feared greatly, because Gibeon acas 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. 1, 11. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. 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. 1, 14. And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he

placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chron. ix, 25. And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

STORE.

2 Chron. viii, 4. And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

FENCED AND FORTIFIED

CITIES.

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

place: and our little ones shall | Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
dwell in the fenced cities because
of the inhabitants of the land.

Deut. i, 28. Whither shall we to up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims

there.

Deut. iii, 5. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and

And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities. And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine. And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, hayside. And he dealt wisely, and ing Judah and Benjamin on his dispersed of all his children

thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

Isa. xxxvi, 1. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

Isa. xxxvii, 26. Hast thou not

heard long ago, how I have done brought it to pass, that thou have formed it? now have I it; and of ancient times, that I

bars; beside unwalled towns a throughout all the countries of Shouldest be to lay waste defenced

great many.

Deut. ix, 1. Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven. Josh. x, 19, 20. And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand. And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they

were consumed, that the rest chich remained of thein entered into fenced cities.

Josh. xiv, 12. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

1 Sam. xxiii, 7. And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

2 Sam. v, 9. So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round

about from Millo and inward.

2 Sam. xx, 6. And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than

did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get lum fenced cities, and

escape 18.

2 Kings x, 2. Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and

armour.

1 Chron. xi, 7. And David dwelt In the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

2 Chron. xi, 5-12, 23. And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam, And

Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

2 Chron. xii, 4. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

2 Chron. xiv, 6, 7. And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

2 Chron. xvii, 2, 12. And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. phat waxed great exceedingly; And Jehoshaand he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

2 Chron. xix, 5. And he set Judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city.

2 Chron. xxi, 3. And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

2 Chron. xxvi, 9.

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem Moreover valley gate, and at the turning of at the corner gate, and at the

the wall, and fortifled them.

covered the covering of Judah, Isa. xxii, 8-11. And he disand thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the

forest. Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker

cities into ruinous heaps.

Jer. iv, 5. Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

Jer. v, 17. And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Jer. viii, 14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Jer. xxxiv, 7. When the king of Jerusalem, and against all the Babylon's army fought against cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

Dan. xi, 15. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Hosea viii, 14. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth plied fenced cities: but I will send temples; and Judah hath multidevour the palaces thereof. a fire upon his cities, and it shall

(See under War.)

Ps. xlviii, 12, 13. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Ps. cxxv, 2. As the mountains LORD is round about his people are round about Jerusalem, so the

from henceforth even for ever.

Isa. xxvi, 1. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of

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