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2 Chr. xvi, 11. And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chr. xxiv, 27. Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chr. xxv, 26. Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2 Chr. xxvii, 7. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chr. xxviii, 26. Now the rest of his acts, and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of

Judah and Israel.

2 Chr. xxxv, 26, 27. Now the

rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD, And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah

QUOTATIONS FROM PRO

FANE AUTHORS. Esth. x, 2. And all the acts of the declaration of the greatness of bis power, and of his might, and Mordecal, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not writ ten in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Acts xvii, 28. Fer in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Tit. i, 12. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil

beasts, slow bellies.

4th.

THE BIBLE A PERFECT
REVELATION.

Deut. iv, 2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deut. xii. 32. What thlug soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Prov. xxx, 6. Add thon not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Rev. xxii, 18, 19. For I testify into every man that heareth the

words of the prophecy of this
book, If any man shall add unto
these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written
take away from the words of the
in this book: And if any man shall
book of this prophecy, God shall
of life, and out of the holy city,
take away his part out of the book
and from the things which are
written in this book.

TO BE READ IN PUBLIC.
Deut. xxxi, 10-12. And Moses
commanded them, saying, At the
end of every seven years, in the
solemnity of the year of release,
in the feast of tabernacles, When
all Israel is come to appear before
the LORD thy God, in the place
which he shall choose, thou shalt
read this law before all Israel in
their hearing. Gather the people
together, men, and women, and
children, and thy stranger that
18 within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may
learn, and fear the LORD your
God, and observe to do all the

words of this law.

Jer. v, 20. Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying.

Jer. xi, 6. Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Jer. xxxvi, 6, 8. Therefore go
thou hast written from my mouth,
thou, and read in the roll, which
the words of the LORD in the ears
of the people in the LORD's house
upon the fasting-day: and also
thou shalt read them in the ears
their cities. And Baruch the son
of all Judah that come out of
of Neriah did according to all that
Jeremiah the prophet commanded
him, reading in the book the
words of the LORD in the LORD'S
house.

Col. iv, 16.
And when this
epistle is read among you, cause
that it be read also in the church
of the Laodiceans; and that ye
likewise read the epistle from

Laodicea.

1 Thess. v, 27. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

Exod. xix, 7. And Moses came, and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

Exod. xxiv, 7. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. Deut. xxxi, 30. And Moses spake

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Josh. viil, 34, 35. And after he read all the words of the w blessings and cursings, accer, the law. There was not & to all that is written in the bo of all that Moses const which Joshua read not befor the congregation of Israel the women, and the little and the strangers that were versant among them.

2 Kings xxiii, 2. And the went up into the house of LORD, and all the men of t and all the inhabitants of Je! lem with him, and the pries the prophets, and all the pa both small and great: and be

in their ears all the word the book of the covenant was found in the house of

LORD.

2 Chron. xxxiv, 18, 30. Then phan the scribe told the king ing, Hilkiah the priest bath g me a book. And Shaphan ra before the king. And the went up into the house of

LORD, and all the men of di and all the people, great and the inhabitants of Jerus and the priests, and the Le small; and he read in their all the words of the book Covenant that was found a house of the LORD.

therein before the street th Neh. viii, 3, 18. And be before the water-gate free morning until mid-day, be men and the women, and that could understand: ears of all the people w tentive unto the book of the Also day by day, from the day unto the last day, be rew the book of the law of God.

Jer. xxxvi, 10, 14, 15, 217 read Baruch in the book words of Jeremiah in the of the LORD, in the cham Gemariah the son of Shaphs: scribe, in the higher court, a entry of the new gate LORD's house, in the ears of a people. Therefore all the sent Jehudi the son of Net the son of Shelemiah, the Cushi, unto Baruch, sayt in thine hand the roll thou hast read in the ears people, and come. So Ber son of Nerish took the r hand, and came unto them. A

they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. So the king sett Jehudi to fetch the roll: and be took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and In the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

Acts xii, 15. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people. say on. Acts xv, 21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

OBLIGATION TO HEAR IT. Josh, lii, 9. And Joshua said into the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

1 Sam. ix, 27. And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the Word of God.

1 Kings xx, 16. And Isalah said uto Hezekiah, Hear the word of

the LORD.

Ps. 1, 7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will festify against thee: I am God, ecen thy God.

P8. lxxviii, 1. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Isa. xxviii, 23. Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Isa. xxxiii, 13. Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my tight.

18. xxxiv, 1. Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. Isa. xxxix, 5. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts.

Isa, li, 4. Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

Jer. 11, 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and All the families of the house of Israel.

Jer. v, 21. Hear now this, O foulish people, and without understanding, which have eyes, and ee not: which have ears, and hear not.

Jer. vi, 18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

Jer. x, 1. Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel.

Jer. xvii, 19, 20. Thus said the LORD unto me, Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.

Jer. xxix, 20. Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jer. xliv, 24. Moreover, Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt.

Ezek. xvi, 35. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

Ezek. xxxiv, 7. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

Amos iii, 1. Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying.

Amos v, 1. Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Matth. xi, 15. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matth. xiii, 9. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark iv, 23. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark vii, 16. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke vili, 8. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundred-fold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear,

let him hear.

Rev. ii, 29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Rev. iii, 6, 13, 22. He that hath
an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the
churches. He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the churches.

Rev. xiii, 9. If any man have an
let him hear.

ear,

Prov. xxvlil, 9. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the 657

law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

Jer. xiii, 17. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride.

Mark iv, 24. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you; and unto you that hear shall more be given.

Luke vill, 18. Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

AND IN HEARING TO OBEY
IT.

unto

the

Deut. iv, 1, 5, 14. Now therefore hearken, O Israel, statutes, and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. have taught you Behold, I statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Deut. v, 1,81. And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, judgments which I speak in your Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the the judgments, statutes, and which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

Deut. vi, 1, 3. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to pos

sess it: Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that flowet with milk and honey.

Leut. xil, 1, 28. These are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is 2 T

good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

Deut. xxx, 14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou,mayest do it.

P8. cv, 45. That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Ps. cxix, 17, 101, 102, 129. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

Prov. v, 7. Hear me now there fore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. James i, 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Rev. 1, 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written

therein: for the time is at hand.

NEGLECT OF THIS DUTY,

AND ITS DANGER.

Ps. cxix, 150. They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Jer. viii, 8, 9. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what

wisdom is in them?

Jer. xx, 8. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Jer. xxiii, 33, 34, 38-40. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?

thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD, Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; Therefore, behold, I, even 1, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: And I will bring an everlasting'

reproach upon you, and a per-
petual shame, which shall not be
forgotten.

tude away, and went into the house: and his disciples can unto him, saying, Declare unto me the parable of the tares of the

fleld.

Matth. xv, 10. And be called t multitude, and said unto th Hear, and understand.

Mark iv, 13. And he said them, Know ye not this par and how then will ye know parables?

called all the people Mark vil, 14. And when he he said unto them, Hearkent me every one of you, and

stand.

Luke vill, 11. Now the paral is this: The seed is the word

God.

Luke xxiv, 27. And begin at Moses and all the prophes expounded unto them in all scriptures the things concer himself.

Jer. xxxvi, 11-13, 16, 20, 23, 25, 29. When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid, both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. And they went in to the king into the court, but Acts vili, 28, 30, 31. [The em they laid up the roll in the cham- Was returning, and sitting ber of Elishama the scribe, and chariot, read Esaias the pry told all the words in the ears of And Philip ran thither to the king. And it came to pass, and heard him read the p that when Jehudi had read three Esaias, and said, Understan or four leaves, he cut it with the thou what thou readest? penknife, and cast it into the fire said, How can I, except that was on the hearth, until all man should guide me? And the roll was consumed in the fire desired Philip that he would that was on the hearth. Never-up and sit with him. theless Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah, had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them. And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Hosea viii, 12. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE.

pared his heart to seek the law
Ezra vil, 10. For Ezra had pre-
of the LORD, and to do it, and to
teach in Israel statutes and judg-

ments.

Neh. vill, 7, 8. Also Jeshua, and Bani,and Sherebiah,Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethal, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Acts xviii, 26. And he beaut speak boldly in the synag whom when Aquila and Pr had heard, they took him them, and expounded unte the way of God more perfec

Acts xxviii, 23. And when had appointed him a day. came many to him into hi iug, to whom he expounded testified the kingdom of persuading them Conc Jesus, both out of the Moses, and out of the prog from morning till evening.

DESIRE AND BENEFIT SEARCHING AND UND

STANDING IT. Deut. vi, 7. And thou teach them diligently unt children.....

Neh. vill, 13. And on the sea day were gathered together chief of the fathers of all people, the priests, and Levites, unto Ezra the even to understand the of the law.

Ps. cxix, 12, 13, 46, 172. art thou, O Loan, teach statutes. With my tips bo declared all the judgments f Matth. xiii, 18, 36. Hear ye mouth. I will speak of th therefore the parable of the sow-monies also before kings, er. Then Jesus sent the multi- not be ashamed. My g

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atth. xiii, 51, 52. Jesus saith them, Have ye understood these things? They say unto Yea, Lord. Then said he i them. Therefore every se, which is instructed unto kingdom of heaven, is like a man that is an householder, hbringeth forth out of his sure things new and old. atth. xv, 15. 16. Then answerPeter, and said unto him, Deunto us this parable. And said, Are ye also yet withunderstanding.

rk iv, 10-12. And when he alone, they that were about with the twelve asked of him parable. And he said unto a, Unto you it is given to the mystery of the kingof God: but unto them that without, all these things are in parables: That seeing may see, and not perceive; hearing they may hear, and understand; lest at any time should be converted, and sins should be forgiven

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ark vii, 17. And when he was red into the house from the le, his disciples asked him rning the parable.

ark xii, 24. And Jesus answersaid unto them, Do ye not refore err, because ye know the scriptures, neither the Ter of God?

ohn v. 39. Search the scripfor in them ye think ye e eternal life: and they are y which testify of me.

lets xvii, 11. These were more de than those in Thessalonica, that they received the word h all readiness of mind, and rched the scriptures daily, ether those things were so. icts xvili, 24. And a certain w, named Apollos, born at sxandria, an eloquent man, and ghty in the scriptures, came to

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night, and have kept thy law. This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

Mal. iv, 4. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Heb. ii, 1. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou

comfort me? The wicked have

waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy command2 Peter ill, 1. This second ments. Mine eyes prevent the epistle, beloved, I now write unto night-watches, that I might mediyou; in both which I stir up your tate in thy word. My soul hath kept pure minds by way of remem- thy testimonies, and I love them brance. exceedingly.

Jude 17. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

MEDITATION UPON IT. Deut. vi, 6. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.

Deut. xi, 18. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, tween your eyes. that they may be as froutlets be

Deut. xxxii, 46. And he sald unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

Josh. 1, 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein

day and night, that thou mayest

observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Job xxiii, 12. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Ps. 1, 2, 3. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Ps. cxix, 11, 15, 47, 48, 82, 95, 97, 127, 131, 148, 167. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. My

1 John ii, 13, 14. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Jer. xv, 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them. . . . .

Ezek. il, 8, 9. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein.

Ezek. iii, 1-3. Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he

And

caused me to eat that roll. he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Rev. x, 8-10. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon

angel, and said unto him, Give

the earth. And I went unto the

me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

1st.

PRIMEVAL LANGUAGE. Gen. ii, 19, 20. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought

them unto Adam to see what he
would call them: and whatsoever
Adam called every living crea-
ture, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all
cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field:
but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him.

ORIGIN OF DIFFERENT
LANGUAGES.

Gen. xi, 1, 6, 7, 9. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD Scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Deut. xxvill, 49. The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not un

derstand.

P8. cxiv, 1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language.

18a. xxviii, 11. For with stammering lips, and another tongue, will he speak to this people.

SPEECH.

speech, and of an hard language, | but to the house of Israel: Not to many people of a strange speech, words thou canst not understand: and of an hard language, whose surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto

thee.

it may be, so many kinds of
1 Cor. xiv, 10, 11, 21. There are,
voices in the world, and none of
them is without signification.
Therefore if I know not the
meaning of the voice, I shall be
unto him that speaketh a barbar-
ian, and he that speaketh shall be
a barbarian unto me.
it is written, With men of other
In the law
speak unto this people; and yet
tongues and other lips will I
for all that will they not hear me,
saith the Lord.

VARIOUS LANGUAGES MENTIONED
IN SCRIPTURE.

Gen. xlii, 23. And they knew
for, he spake unto them by an in-
not that Joseph understood them;
terpreter.

Gileadites took the passages of
Judges xil, 5, 6. And the
Jordan before the Ephraimites:
and it was so, that when those
Ephraimites which were escaped
said, Let me go over, that the
men of Gilead said unto him, Art
thou an Ephraimite? If he said,
Say now Shibboleth; and he said
Nay; Then said they unto him,
Sibboleth: for he could not frame
to pronounce it right. Then they
took him, and slew him at the
passages of Jordan: and there fell
forty and two thousand.
at that time of the Ephraimites

2 Kings xvill, 26. Then said
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and
shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy
Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-
servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it; and talk not
the ears of the people that are on
with us in the Jews' language in
the wall.

Isa. xxxiii, 19. Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. Esther iii, 12. Then were the Jer. v, 15. Lo, I will bring a teenth day of the first month, and king's scribes called on the thirnation upon you from far, O house there was written (according to of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a all that Haman had commanded) mighty nation, it is an ancient unto the king's lieutenants, and nation, a nation whose language to the governors that were over thou knowest not, neither under-every province, and to the rulers standest what they say. according to the writing thereof, of every people of every province, and to every people after their

Ezek. ill, 5, 6. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange

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language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

five cities in the land of E speak the language of Car Isa. xix, 18. In that day shall and swear to the LORD of hosts destruction. one shall be called, The city f

kim, and Shebna, and Joah, s Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray the Isa. xxxvi, 11. Then sald E unto thy servants in the Syr language; for we understand and speak not to us in the Jes language, in the ears of the pe ple that are on the wall.

and the tongue of the Chaldess Dan. 1, 4. Children....g they might teach the leaning

and this writing was wri Dan. v, 24-28. Then was the part of the hand sent from h And this is the writing that was UPHARSIN. written, MENE, MENĚ, TEKEL God hath numbered tay kin pretation of the thing. MENE This is the int and art found wanting. PERS dom, and finished it. TESEL Thon art weighed in the balcon Thy kingdom is divided, a given to the Medes and Fslans.

wrote unto all people, nati Dan. vi, 25. Then King Dari and languages, that dwell in unto you. the earth; Peace be multipl

every man in our own to Acts ii, 8-11. And how bear wo

thians, and Medes, and Elames, wherein we were born? Pa and the dwellers in Mesopota Pontus, and Asia. Phrygis and and in Judea, and Cappadocia, Pamphylia in Egypt, and in the strangers of Rome, Jews a parts of Libya about Cyrene, and Proselytes. Cretes, and Ar ians, we do hear them speak i of God. our tongues the wonderful works

to be led into the castle, be sa Acts xxi, 37. And as Paul w speak unto thee? Who said, Cast unto the chief captain, May! thou speak Greek?

SIGNIFICANCY OF ANCIENT

NAMES OF PERSONS. his wife's name Eve; because she Gen. ill, 20. And Adam calli was the mother of all living.

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