Horeb on Elijah's visit to it,-in Uzziah's pents and scorpions, subject to scorching reign-at our Lord's death,-at Philippi,-be- winds, blasts and whirlwinds. fore the destruction of Jerusalem; images of civil commotions.

MOUNTAINS.

Characterized as being everlasting, perpetual, ancient, as the pillars of heaven, etc.

SUMMITS OF HILLS,

Scenes of retirement for prayer and meditation; instanced in Moses, when Israel fought with Amalek; scenes of observation, and scenes of idolatrous worship as everywhere illustrated.

PECULIAR SACREDNESS ATTACHED TO MOUNT

ZION,

DESERTS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.

Arabian, or great desert, Bethaven, Beer-
sheba, Damascus, Edom, En-gedi, Gibeon,
Judea, Jeruel, Kedemoth, Kadesh, Maon,
Paran, Shur, Sin, Sinai, Ziph, Zin, of the Red
Sea, and that near Gaza.

On account of its being the place of God's those mentioned in Scripture, Chittim, Clauda,
Representing in Hebrew poetry distant places,
presence, hence called God's holy hill.
Cyprus, Elishah, Melita and Patmos.

HILLS AND MOUNTAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIP

TURE,

Are, Abarim, Amalek, Amana, Ammah,
Ararat, Bashan, Beth-el, Bether, Carmel,
Ebal, Ephraim, Esau, Gaash, Gareb, Gerizzim,
Gilboe, Gilead, Hachilah, Hermon, Hor,
Horeb, Lebanon, Mars' hill, Mizar, Moreh,
Moriah, mount of the Amorites, Nebo, Olives,
Paran, Perazim, Pisgah, Samaria, Seir, Shenir,
Sinai, Sion, Sirion, Tabor, Zalmon, Zion,
mount of Beatitudes, mount of Transfigur
ation, Agar, mountain of Myrrh.

VALLEYS,

Achor, Ajalon, Baca, Berachah, Bochim,
Charashim, Elah, Eshcol, Gerar, Gibeon,
Hebron, Hinnom, Jehoshaphat, Jericho,
Jezreel, Jiphtha el. Keziz, Lebanon, Megiddo,
Moab, Rephaim, Salt, Shaveh, Shittim, Sid-
it, Sorek, Succoth, Zared, Zeboim, Zepha
tah, Valley of Vision, Fat Valleys, Valley of
Dry Bones, Valley of Haman-gog.

PLAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,

Preaches, Jericho, Jordan, Mamre, Moab,
Sechem, Shinar, Tabor, Vineyards,' Wilder
Lea, Low Plain.

ROCKS,

EARLY SETTLEMENT OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

Effected by the descendants of Noah, recorded in the tenth chapter of Genesis, and more particularly on the dispersion at Babel.

NATIONS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.

Are Amalek, descended from Eau, Ammon descended from Lot, the Amorites one of the seven nations of Canaan, Arabia noted for its kings and merchandise, Assyria, chief city Nineveh, Asia a small district of Asia Minor, Chaldea sometimes named Sinar, chief city Babylon, Bashan on the east of the Jordan, sometimes named Idumea, Edom, descended from Esau, chief city Bozrah, Egypt named also Sihon, Rahab, the land of Ham, the house of bondage, Elam or Persia, Ethiopia a name given to several nations, Galilee the northern province of Palestine in the time of Christ, Gog and Magog subjects of prophecy, Grecia, chief cities in the days of the Apostles, Athens and Corinth, Macedonia, chief city, Philippi, Italy Rome, Judea the southern province of Palestine in the time of

Christ, Medes and Media in the distant east, Midian, Moab descended from Lot, Ophir famed for its gold, Padan-aram or Mesopotamia;Palestina or Philistia long the nearest and bitterest enemy of Israel, Phenice on the coast of Syria, Phrygia in Asia Minor, Samaria

Used for writing on, as referred to by Job; of the middle province of Palestine in the time shelter and refuge.

ROCKS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,

Adallam, Bozez, and Seneh, En-gedi, Etam, Horeb, in Kadesh, Oreb, Rimmon, Sela-hamma-lekoth, Ziz; for obvious reasons Rock is a frequent name of God and Christ.

DESERT,

Characterized as arid, desolate, barren, solitary, as scenes of danger, pathless, infested by ser

of our Saviour, Syria, chief city Damascus, -Tarshish noted for its shipping,-Tyre famed as the mart of nations and Sidon on the north west border of Canaan.

Recorded in Genesis and Chronicles-and In Genesis and Chronicles-his children in

JACOB'S FAMILY,

CENSUS OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL,

At his first settlement in Egypt, named in First taken at the commencement of their Genesis, comprising threescore and six persons.

GENEALOGIES OF THE TRIBES,

The posterity of Jacob by Leah, Reuben,Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,-by Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali,-by Zilpah, Gad and Asher, by Rachel, Joseph, (Manasseh and Ephraim) and Benjamin.

SPECIAL GENEALOGIES,

journeying in the wilderness, secondly on their entrance into Canaan, and thirdly by David, having reference to military objects forbidden by God, Satan tempting the king.

CATALOGUES,

Of the spies, in Numbers,-of David's heroes, in Chronicles, of Solomon's officers, in Kings, of Jews married to Gentiles, in Ezra, -of Ezra's fellow-travellers from Babylon, in Ezra, of the Jews who returned from BabyLevi and the line of the priesthood-Judah lon with Zerubbabel, in Ezra and Nehemiah, and the line of the kings-King Saul-various of priests who returned from Babylon, in families in Chronicles the sacred orchestra, Nehemiah,-of those who dwelt in the rebuilt and of Ezra. Jerusalem, in Nehemiah.

HIS EXISTENCE,

GOD.

Proved by the beauty, harmony, and wisdom of the works of creation, denied only by fools! characterized by majesty, immortality, felicity, unity, incomparability, and glory.

HIS NATURAL ATTRIBUTES,

Spirituality, God is a Spirit, invisibility, forbidding all image worship, eternity, infinitude, and incomprehensibility, omnipresence, power, omniscience, possessing a perfect knowledge of everything present and future,-instanced in the revelations He has made-human thoughts, characters, actions, and circumstances, immutability, I change not.

HIS MORAL ATTRIBUTES,

Holiness, holiness predicated, 1. of persons, His Spirit, Son, angels, priests, prophets, people-2, of places, His throne, heaven, dwelling-place, hill, mountain;-3, things, His oracle, promise, covenant, law, Scriptures, calling, Sabbath, name,-justice, truth, goodness, and mercy according to which He deals with sinful creatures, manifested in the form of pity, compassion, kindness, and longsufferingoften the theme of divine promise, the ground of His people's confidence, and the frequent subject of their prayer and praise.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM,

Ascription to God in figure of what properly

belongs to man-of human organs, as the face, hand, arm, back, eyes, nostrils, mouth, and feet. 2. Human feelings, as repentance, sorrow, etc. 3. Human appearance and motion, instanced in the lives of Abraham, Moses, Solomon. 4. Human voice instanced in the communications made to Elijah and the prophets. Tokens of divine appearance-Fire, light, and sometimes by darkness conjoined, as when Jehovah appeared to Israel on Mount Sinai.

WORKS OF GOD,

1. Creation-the heavens and the earth with
its furniture, population, and man.
2. Pro.
vidence based on proprietorship, preservation,
and protection. And, 3. Redemption.

(See under REDEMPTION.)

THE TRINITY.

The divine Being existing in perfect unity of essence, yet subsisting in three persons, having the same natural and moral perfections and the same majesty and glory-instanced in the apostolical benediction, in the formula of baptism, etc.

(For Divinity of Christ see under JESUS CHRIST.)

(For Divinity and Personality of the Holy Ghost,
see under REDEMPTION.)
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THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, From divine agency-the former said to be the utterance of God's voice, and the latter to be the fire of God, described as shot, cast forth, sent out, etc.; the twenty-ninth psalm.

DAY AND NIGHT,

Divided, the former into twelve divisions, setting of the sun, emblem of human life; called hours, counting from the rising to the latter divided into four watches, named, the evening, midnight, cock crowing, and morning, emblem of death, and life's labour finished.

NAMES OF SOME OF THE MONTHS,

Nisan or Abib, Zif, Sivan, Thammuz, Elul,
Tizri, Ethanim, Bul, Chisleu, Thebet, Sebat,
Adar.

III-THE THIRD HEAVENS,

Called the heaven of heavens, paradise, etc.. the scene of God's glory, and the abode of Christ, angels and saints; Paul caught up to it.

Taken by Jeroboam from the lowest of the ple in Israel, imitating the true priesthood, Wearing ephod, robes, and broidered garments.

RELIGIOUS WORSHIP PAID TO IDOLS,

Praying, burning incense, presenting sacrifice, wearing by them, etc.; indulgence in intoxi. cation, lewdness, pretended inspiration, cut themselves with lancets-Baal's priests.

OFFERINGS PRESENTED TO IDOLS.

Sacrifices of slain beasts; also human sacrifices
ons and daughters made to pass through
fire to Molech, drink-offerings and meat-
derings, flour, oil, honey, corn, wine, etc.

CONSULTATION OF IDOLS,
With a view to ascertain the result of wars,
Durneys, and undertakings-a variety of

s of witchcraft, divination, necromancy, magic, sorcery, etc., placed on the same und as idolatry by Moses, and pronounced to be vanity and delusion.

Anammelech, Nibhaz, Tartak, Ashima, Nergal, Succoth-benoth, Ashtaroth, Baal, Baalberith, Baalim, Baal-peor, Baalzebub, Bel, Berith, Chemosh, Chiun, Dagon, Diana, God of forces, Jupiter, Mercurius, Milcom, Molech, Merodach, Nebo, Nisroch, Queen of Heaven, Remphan, Rimmon, Tammuz, and the Unknown God.

IV.-SIN AND GUILT OF IDOLATRY.

The law prohibited the making of any image, required groves to be cut down, altars to be broken and overthrown, forbade the worship of images on any pretext.

PENALTY OF IDOLATRY.

Death by stoning-spiritual judgments, as God's curse, the hiding of his face, the destruction of the temple, with the discontinuance of its services, etc., and national punishments, as, war, famine, captivity, civil discord.

HUMAN PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY,

Inflicted by pious kings and others, with a view to extirpate it, instanced in Jacob, Gideon, David, Jehu, Asa, Hezekiah, Manas seh, Josiah, etc.

V-INCONSISTENCY OF IDOLATRY,

The idols made by ordinary craftsmen, out of ordinary materials, being without consciousness or sense, or power of motion; early prevalence of idolatry, instanced in the family of Abraham- the obstinate attachment to idolatry, instanced in Israel worshipping the golden calf within sight of the glory of Sinai.

REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF OPPOSITION TO

IDOLATRY,

Recorded of Naaman the Syrian, after he was cured by the prophet of his leprosy, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and of others, of whom it is predicted that they will cast their Mentioned in Scripture are-Adrammelech, idols to the moles and to the bats.

IIL-NAMES OF IDOLS,

L-HIS DIVINITY.

JESUS CHRIST.

1-NAMES OF GOD GIVEN TO HIM.

The incommunicable name, Jehovah, the Lord Jehovah) of hosts, the Lord (Jehovah) our righteousness, the mighty God, the true God, God blessed for ever, God our Saviour, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, etc.

II. HIS RELATION TO THE FATHER. Described as God's Son, His only begotten Son, His beloved Son, His image, His equal, His Shepherd, His fellow; one with the Father, so that he who hath seen Him hath seen the Father, while on the other hand what belonged to the Father belonged to Him.