ease he had. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.JOHN, ch. 5. 207. Forty years. A certain man lame from his mother's womb was..laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms.. For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.-Acrs, chs. 3 and 4. 208. · Repentance in. Pharaoh. [The firstborn were all dead.] 31 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord. .32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.-Ex., ch. 12. 209. Manasseh. "..the king of Assyria..took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.-2 CHRON., ch. 33. 210. Regarded. Israelites 23..sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant.-Ex., ch. 2. 211. Refinement by. Furnace. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.-ISA., ch. 48. 212. Temptations in. Job. 9..Doth Job fear God for naught? 12 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.JOB, ch. 1. 213. Weariness in. Job. 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.-JOB, ch. 7. 214. Useful. Paul. "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.- -2 COR., Ch. 4. Consolation. Now he is dead.. wherefore should I 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 215. AGE, Apostasy in old. Solomon. 4.. When Solomon was old..his wives turned away his heart after other gods.. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.-1 KINGS, ch. 11. 216. brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.-GEN., ch. 47. 217. Beauty of old. Gray Hair. 29 The glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is the gray head.-PROV., ch. 20. 218. Crown of old. Hoary Head. 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.—PROV., ch. 16. 219. Courage in old. Caleb. 12.. Give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day..the Anakim 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. 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak.-Josн., chs. 14 and 15. 220. · Old, and Children. Joseph. 22 Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And..the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.-GEN., ch. 50. 221. Contentment in old. Barzillai. 34 Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 35 I am this day four score years old: 37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother.-2 SAM., ch. 19. 222. Counsels of old. Rehoboam. 8 He forsook the counsel of the old men..and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him.-1 KINGS, ch. 12. 223. Duties of pious old. Paul. '..speak thou..? That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness.-TITUS, ch. 2. 224. Anna. 36 There was one Anna, a prophetess.. She was a widow of about four score and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.-LUKE, ch. 2. David was old; and they covered him with. 225. Enfeebled by old. David. ..King clothes, but he gat no heat. 2..servants said, Let there be sought a young virgin and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.-1 KINGS, ch. 1. 226. Fruitful old. David. ..Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.-1 CHRON., ch. 22. 227. Glory of old. Children's Children. 6 Children's children are the crown of old men ; and the glory of children are their fathers.— PROV., ch. 17. 228. A good old. David. 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years.. 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour.-1 CHRON., ch. 29. 229. · Grief in old. Samuel. 1.. When Samuel was old..he made his sons judges over Blessings of old. Jacob. Joseph | Israel. 3 And his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes and perverted judgment.-1 SAM., ch. 8. 230. Honorable old. Job. [Eliphaz said,] "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. JOB, ch. 5. 231. A happy old. Job. 15..were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his son's sons, even four generations.-Joв, ch. 42. 232. Infirmities of old. Description. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail.-ECCL., ch. 12. 233. Perfection in old. Abram. ..when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.-GEN., ch. 17. 234. Respect for old. Elihu. Elihu.. said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.-JOB, ch. 32. 235. Sorrowful old. Eli. The messenger..said, Israel is fled before the Philistines.. a great slaughter..thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. 18..When he made mention of the ark of God..he fell from off the seat backward..and his neck brake..for he was an old man, and heavy. -1 SAM., ch. 4. 236. Sinning in old. Noah after the Flood. 20 Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. [He was six hundred years old.] -GEN., ch. 6. 237. Senses in old. Barzillai, 34 Barzillai said unto the king.. 35 I am this day fourscore years old and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?-2 SAM., ch. 19. 238. Training for pious old. Solomon. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.-PROV., ch. 22. 239. Testimony of pious old. Joshua. Joshua called for all Israel, their elders. .heads ..judges, and for their officers, and said..I am old.. 14..this day I am going the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you.-JOSH., ch. 23. 240. Walking with God in old. Enoch, 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.— GEN., ch. 5. 241. Unhappy old. Jacob. 38.. My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone; if mischief befall him by the way..then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.-GEN., ch. 42. 242. Vigorous old. Moses. 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.-DEUT., ch. 34. 243. Caleb. 10..I am this day four score and five years old. "..I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me : as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.— JOSH., ch. 14. 244. Responsibility of. Manhood. 20 We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him he shall speak for himself.-JOHN, ch. 9. 245. AGED, Duty of the. Teachers. ? Hear this, ye old men.. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.-JOEL, ch. 1. 246. 8 Respected the. Job. "When I went out to the gate through the city when I prepared my seat in the street! Te young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.-Joв, ch. 29. 247. Righteousness of the. Zacharias and Elisabeth. They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. ..And they both were well stricken in years.-LUKE, ch. 1. 930 years; Seth, 912 years; Enos, 905 years; 248. AGES, Extraordinary. Patriarchs. [Adam, Cainan, 910 years; Mahalaleel, 895 years; Jared, 969 years; Lamech, 777 years; Noah, 950 years; 962 years; Enoch, 365 years; Methuselah, Abraham, 175 years; Isaac, 180 years.] 150 834 840 1440 See other illustrations under: Blessed. L. blessed the latter end of Job more Blindness in. Isaac was old..eyes were dim Cruelty to. Chaldeans.. Ahijah..his eyes were set by..age ..no compassion for age Children of Israel loved Joseph more..son of old. 177 Counsels of. I set before you a blessing..curse 1236 Disregarded. They that are younger than I Emotions. Ancient men..shouted, wept Fears. My son shall not go down.. mischief Pleasures of. Wherefore..a burden.. the king Paternity in. Z. and E.. well stricken in years.. son 1153 Abram was 100 years old,. Isaac born 1193 Respected. Elihu waited till Job had spoken Revealed. Sat according to his birthright Reflections. Ancient men had seen the first house 957 146 2626 241 237 4061 5661 249. AGENT, Necessary. Moses. 15 Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of AGENT-AGITATION. Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.-Ex., ch. 14. I 250. A simple. Naaman. 10 Elisha sent, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times.. and thou shalt be clean. 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, 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.--2 KINGS, ch. 5. See other illustrations under: AMBASSADORS. 309 Feeble. Syrians to hear the noise of chariots Gods. Angel said..call for Peter.. he shall tell Insignificant. Sampson..jaw bone of an ass 17 4560 4561 4555 4563 4564 4556 4557 4558 4559 4565 4566 David prevailed over the Philistines 4662 311 312 Dangerous. Hezekiah showed them all..his Disregarded. Forbear..that he destroy thee not Maltreated. Hanun took David's servants and Rejected. Beat one..killed another..and stoned Spiritual. We are ambassadors for C..as though G. 313 251. AGENCY, Boastful. Axe-Saw. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. -ISA., ch. 10. 252. Responsibility for indirect. David. "..said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house. 23 Abide thou with me, fear not..with me thou shalt be in safeguard.-1 SAM., ch. 22. 253. Only a seeming. Waters of Marah. 24 The people murmured. . What shall we drink? 95 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet.-Ex., ch. 15. 254. A strange. Clay. ..He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. -JOHN, ch. 9. 255. AGENCIES, Natural and providential. Moses' Mother. 3..She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river.-Ex., ch. 2. See other illustrations under : 4468 4469 4470 4471 4472 4474 4475 4476 Bequeathed. Elisha took the mantle..waters Deplored. Israelites. 1..ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and..to put a sword in their hand to slay us. 22 And Moses. . said, Lord, wherefore that thou hast sent me ?-Ex., ch. 5. hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it 259. A general. Of Philistines. 14..that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were a half acre of land.. 15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.-1 SAM., ch. 14. 260. 18..Mount A Mountain's. Sinai. Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the .Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.-Ex., ch. 19. 261. Overcome by. Guard. ..the angel ..came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow : + And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.-MAT., ch. 28. by Creation. Made of one blood all nations of 9121 9122 9123 9124 9125 9126 9127 9187 264. AGONY, The Saviour's. Garden. 38..My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. -MAT., ch. 26. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.-LUKE, ch. 22. See SORROW and references. 265. AGRARIANS, Hebrew. God said, 53..the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to number of names. 54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less.-NUм., ch. 26. 266. AGREEMENT, A fraudulent. Gibeonites. They did work wilily, and.. made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks..and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted.. and old garments..and all the bread.. was dry and mouldy. --JOSH., ch. 9. 267. Ignored. Laborers. 10..They likewise received every man a penny. 11 And..they murmured against the good man.. 12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.-MAT., ch. 20. 268. Refused. King of Edom. [Near to Canaan Israel asked,] Let us pass..through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or.. vineyards, neither will we drink of..the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left.. 18 And Edom said..Thou shalt not pass by me, Teetotaller. Neither shall he drink any liquor of Spirit. By one Spirit we are all baptized into one 9130 suffering in. Whether one member suffer, all Falsehood. Ye have agreed together to tempt 9131 2985 1554 269. AGRICULTURE, Employment in. Adam. 15 The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. GEN., ch. 2. 270. Cain. 2..Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.-GEN., ch. 4. 271. Forbidden. Rechabites. Rechab com manded, Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any.—JER., 19 He ch. 35. 272. Independence in. Proverb. that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.-PROV., ch. 28. AGRICULTURE-ALIENATION. GARDEN. Abundant. Joseph gathered corn..without 19 Israelites. 18 All the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smok3046 ing and..they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear but let not God speak with us, lest we die. -Ex., ch. 20. 3047 1379 236 438 3045 3750 4436 3483 5639 6224 282. A sudden, Jailer. 27 The keeper of the prison awaking..and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.-ACTS, ch. 16. 283. Spiritual. Jailer. 29 He called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and 6304 fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought 3272 them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be 642 saved?--ACTS, ch. 16. 18 The 273. ALARM of Conscience. Israelites. Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. 19 And..said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants.. that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. -1 SAM., ch. 12. 274. Death creates. Egyptians. 30..there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent..that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.-Ex., ch. 12. 275. from Failure. Priests. 23 The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors but when we had opened, we found no man within. 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.-ACTS, ch. 5. 285. Unnecessary. Sons of Jacob. 27 As one of them opened his sack.. 28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? -GEN., ch. 42. See FEAR and references. 286. ALIENATION, Family. Betrayment. Jesus said, 12 The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.-MARK, ch. 13. 287. 4 Heedless. Lost Sheep. What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in until he find it?-LUKE, ch. 15. 288. Unconscious. Lost Coin. 8 What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep LUKE, ch. 15. the house, and seek diligently till she find it?— 289. Wilful. Lost Son. 19 The younger goods that falleth to me. of them said.. Father, give me the portion of 13 And not many days after.. gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.-LUKE, ch. 15. See other illustrations under : Jacob...Esau.. |