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many of the cities enumerated above, and threatened against other cities by Amos.

MILITARY TACTICS,

RESOLUTION TO GO TO WAR. Israel's valour and resolve based on divine promise-vain-glory, sometimes manifested, and caution and cowardice both exhibited-for divisions of Reuben there were great searching of heart.

RESULTS OF BATTLE.

The march-Hebrew soldiers during it to be pure-the route of Sennacherib's land drawn by Isaiah-attempt of Israel to march through Edom and the land of the Amorites, and its consequences the march of an army God the giver of victory-acknowledged by productive of great devastation, licking up all Joshua and David-the promiser of it also round about-stopping wells, felling trees, pil--defeat from him, and on account of sin, laging harvests. and that defeat threatened by him.

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THE SEA,

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WATER.

SEAS,

Gathered together on the third day-the scene Mentioned in Scripture, Adria-Mediterof great wonders-Jordan and the Red Sea--ranean variously named-Red sea-Salt or symbols of affliction-always under the com- Dead sea-Sea of Galilee or Tiberia-Sea of mand of God, the Lord sits king on the floods. Jazer.

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Highly prized, dug by the Patriarchs, and sometimes scenes of strife on account of their value,-occasionally found in the courts of houses,-symbol of spiritual blessings.

WELLS.

Mentioned in Scripture, Beer-lahai-roi,
Beth-lehem,-Beer-sheba, Elim,-Esek,—in

The ark of Noah, built of gopher-wood, ships of war from Chittim, ferryboat in Jordan, navy of Solomon and Jehoshaphat, boats often used by Christ at the Lake of Tiberias-voyaging ships with their tackling, masts, sails, pilot anchor, helm, rudder-bands,oars, rowers, shipmen, mariners, captain, lading and un- Hagar's history,-Haran,-Jacob,-Marah,lading, crew, cargo, and passengers-ship with Rehoboth,-Sitnah,-Floods often breaking figure head of Castor and Pollox-Shipwreck out suddenly - Symbol of revolution and of the Apostle Paul, storms sent by God, great wind, rebuked by Christ, shipwreck-of ships of Tarshish, of the navy of Jehoshaphat, of Paul,-Euroclydon.

BROOKS,

Abounding in Canaan-mentioned in Scripture, Arnon, Besor, Cherith, Eshcol, Gaash, Kihon, Kishon, Zered, Of the Willow.

invasion.

FLOODS.

The flood of Noah, the rain-bow token of the divine covenant,-Swimming,-spreading forth hands.

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ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE

TO THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES.

DISTRIBUTION OF

LAND.

AGRICULTURE.

their substance. As the LORD
commanded Moses, so the chil-
dren of Israel did, and they divided
the land.

Joshua xviii, 10. And Joshua

the LORD: and there Joshua di-
vided the land unto the children

sions.

Josh. xix. 51.

Num. xxvi, 52-56. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance accord-cast lots for them in Shiloh before ing to the number of names. To many thon shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt of Israel according to their divigive the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were inheritances, which Eleazar the These are the numbered of him. Notwithstand-priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, ing the land shall be divided by and the heads of the fathers of lot: according to the names of the the tribes of the children of Israel, tribes of their fathers they shall divided for an inheritance by lot inherit. According to the lot shall in Shiloh before the LORD, at the the possession thereof be divided door of the tabernacle of the conbetween many and few. gregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

Num. xxxiii, 53, 54. And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inberitance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

TENURE.

Lev. XXV, 13-17. In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for ac

years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Joshua xiv, 1-5. And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the beads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distri-cording to the number of the bated for inheritance to them. By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for

Lev. xxv, 23-28. The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall

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he redeem that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath and in the jubilee it shall go out, bought it until the year of jubilee. and he shall return unto his pos

session.

EXAMPLES.

the kinsman, Naomi, that is come Ruth iv, 3, 4. And he said unto again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

said, I cannot redeem it for myRuth iv, 6-9, 11. And the kinsman self, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it. Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses.

to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, 1 Kings xxi,3. And Naboth said

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that I should give the inheritance, tent, at the hand of the children, fruit of her hands she planteth of my fathers unto thee.

2 Kings viii, 3-6. And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he

of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

a vineyard.

Acts v, 1, 2. But a certain man Josh. xxiv, 32. And the bones of named Ananias, with Sapphira his Joseph, which the children of Is-wife, sold a possession, And kept rael brought up out of Egypt, back part of the price, his wifo buried they in Shechem, in a par- also being privy to it, and brought cel of ground which Jacob bought a certain part, and laid it at the of the sons of Hamor the father of apostles' feet. Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

John iv, 5. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

ANCIENT CHARTERS.

Gen. xxiii, 17, 18. And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,

and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Re-David said, To buy the threshing-scribed the evidence, and sealed

store all that was her's, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

Lam. v, 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to

aliens.

TRANSFER OF LAND.

UNDER JEWISH LAW. 2 Sam. xxiv, 21-24. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And

floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be And stayed from the people. Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

IN EARLY TIMES. Gen. xxiii, 7-9. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his Jer. xxxii, 6-9. And Jeremiah said, field; for as much money as it is The word of the LORD came unto worth he shall give it me for a pos-me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the session of a burying-place amongst son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for to buy it. the right of redemption is thine So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that

you.

Gen. xxiii, 13-16. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hear ken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

And

Gen. xxxiii, 18, 19. And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a feld, where he had spread his

this was the word of the LORD. And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Jer. xxxii, 43. And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say. It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Prov. xxxi, 16. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the

Jer. xxxii, 10-15.

And I sub

it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances, So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. And I charged Baruch before them, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is oper and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be pos sessed again in this land.

Jer. xxxii, 44. Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and taka witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem. and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

SOIL OF CANAAN.

Num. xiv, 6-8. And Joshua the Jephunneh, which were of them son of Nun, and Caleb the son of

that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us a land which floweth with milk ❘ and honey.

Deuf. i, 22-25. And ye came near Ento me every one of you, and Kaid. We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto ts, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

Deut. viii, 7-10. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

Deut. xi, 10-12. For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye Roto possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God ere always upon it, from the bezinning of the year even unto the end of the year.

AGRARIAN ENACTMENTS

Exod. xxii, 5, 6. If a man shall ense a field or vineyard to be

the ears with thine hand; but thou
shalt not move a sickle unto thy
neighbour's standing corn.
that removeth
Deut. xxvii, 17. Cursed be he
landmark.
his neighbour's
shall say, Amen.
And all the people

landmarks; they violently take
Job xxiv, 2. Some remove the
away flocks, and feed thereof.
Prov. xxii, 28. Remove not the
ancient landmark, which thy fa-
thers have set.

Prov. xxiii, 10, 11. Remove not
the old landmark; and enter not
into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer is mighty; he
shall plead their cause with thee.

CULTIVATION.

Gen. ii, 15. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Isa. xxv, 10. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

Luke xvii, 7. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

2 Tim. ii, 6. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

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1 Sam. xiii, 19-21. Now there all the land of Israel: for the Philwas no smith found throughout make them swords or spears: But istines said, Lest the Hebrews all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

1 Sam. xiv, 14. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

Gen. iii, 17-19, 23. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Therefore the LORD God 1 Kings, xix, 19-21. So he desent him forth from the gar-parted thence, and found Elisha den of Eden, to till the ground the son of Shaphat, who was plowfrom whence he was taken. ing with twelve yoke of oxen became an old man from his work and Elijah passed by him, and Jud. xix, 16. And, behold, therefore him, and he with the twelfth: out of the field at even, which was cast his mantle upon him. And also of mount Ephraim; and he he left the oxen, and ran after sojourned in Gibeah: but the men Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray of the place were Benjamnites. thee, kiss my father and my mo again: for what have I done to And he said unto him, Go back ther, and then I will follow thee.

that did the work of the field for
1 Chr. xxvii, 26. And over them

Esten, and shall put in his beast, tillage of the ground was Ezri the thee? And he returned back from

atel shall feed in another man's feld of the best of his own field, ad of the best of his own vineFard, shall he make restitution. If fire break out, and catch in Thorns, so that the stacks of corn, the standing corn, or the field, consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make

titution.

Dent. xix, 14. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set

thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Load thy God giveth thee to pos

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Deut. xxiii, 25. When thou comest unto the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck

son of Chelub.

2 Chron. xxvi, 10. Also he built
towers in the desert, and digged
many wells: for he had much
cattle, both in the low country,
and in the plains: husbandmen
also, and vine dressers in the
mountains, and in Carmel: for he
loved husbandry.

of the earth is for all: the king
Eccles. v, 9. Moreover the profit
himself is served by the field.

Eccles. vi, 7. All the labour of
man is for his mouth, and yet the
appetite is not filled."

Psalm civ, 23. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

Psalm cxxviii, 2. For thou shalt

him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

Job I, 14, 15. And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The Sabeans fell upon them, and took feeding beside them: And the oxen were plowing, and the asses the servants with the edge of the them away; yea, they have slain sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

the unicorn with his band in the Job xxxix, 10. Canst thou bind furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

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