CREATION THE WORK OF GOD. EARTH. Ps. cxix, 90. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth, Ps. cxlvii, 15. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Ps. cxlviii, 6. He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. Gen. 1, 1, 2, 11, 12. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth Eccles. iii, 14. I know that whatgrass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yield-soever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor ing fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Num. xiv, 21. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Neh. ix, 6. Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. P3. xxiv, 1. The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. P3. xxxiii, 5, 9. He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Prov. vill, 26. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. any thing taken from it; and God Eccles. vil, 13. Consider the crooked? Isa. vi, 8. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. Isa. xlil, 5. Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. Isa. xliv, 24. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens P3. lxxv, 3. The earth and all alone; that spreadeth abroad the the inhabitants thereof are dis-earth by myself. Solved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. REFLECTIONS. Job V, 9. Which doeth gr things and unsearchable; mar lous things without number. Job ix, 10. Which doeth gr things past finding out; yea, a wonders without number. that thou magnify his w Job xxxvi, 24, 25. Remem which men behold. Every may see it; man may behold afar off. Ps. xxviii, 5. Because they gard not the works of the L nor the operation of his hands shall destroy them, and not b them up. Ps. xl, 5. Many, O LORD God, are thy wonderful *. which thou hast done, and thoughts which are to us they cannot be reckoned t order unto thee: I would de and speak of them, they are a than can be numbered. P8. lxxxix, 12. The north the south thou hast created 1" Tabor and Hermon shall rej in thy name. Ps. cxi, 2, 3. The works of LORD are great, sought out a them that have pleasure the His work is honourable and ous: and his righteousness eth for ever. Isa. xlv, 18. For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; Isa. xl, 28. Hast thou not kn God himself that formed the hast thou not heard, that the earth, and made it; he hath estab-lasting God, the LORD, the C of the ends of the earth, fal not, neither is weary? no searching of his understan Ps. lxxviii, 69. And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established it, he created it not in vain, lished for ever. he formed it to be inhabited; I am the LORD, and there is none else. P3. xc, 2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. cil, 25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. Ps. cxi, 7, 8. The works of his hands are verity and judgment: all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. EARTH ONE OF THE ORBS OF SPACE. Job xxvi, 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, ALSO A STABLE HABI- Job xxxviii, 3, 5, 7, 18. Gird up EARTHQUAKES AN VOLCANIC ERUPTION die the common death of a Num. xvi, 29, 30. If these or if they be visited after the tation of all men, then the i hath not sent me: But if LORD make a new thing, the earth open her mouth, swallow them up, with all appertain unto them, and go down quick into the pit stall understand that these are provoked the LORD. best iv. 11. And ye came near, good under the mountain; Ge mountain burned with to the midst of heaven, darkness, clouds, and thick utv, 23. And it came to 4 when ye heard the voice of the midst of the dark (for the mountain did burn fire) that ye came near me, even all the heads of Tribes, and your elders. v, 5. The mountains from before the LORD, even from before the LORD Misael. ,5,6. Which removeth the as, and they know not; sverturneth them in his Which shaketh the earth her place, and the pillars tremble. r, 18. And surely the Bai falling cometh to and the rock is removed Wis place. 7, 15. The steps of his shall be straitened, and munsel shall cast him shall dwell in his , because it is none of Pine shall be scattered alalabitation. 9. He putteth forth apon the rock; he overthe mountains by the fil, 7. Then the earth d trembled; the foundas of the hills moved and taken, because he was tiri, 2, 3. Therefore will not thongh the earth be reand though the mountains d into the midst of the ugh the waters thereof d be troubled, though the shake with the swell LoL Selah. 2 Thou hast made the tremble; thou hast broken the breaches thereof; for at the presence of the Lord, at the Pз. cxliv, 5. Bow thy heavens, O Isa. xiil, 13. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. Isa. xxxiv, 9, 10. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. Isa. Ixiv, 1, 3. Oh that thou the mountains flowed down at Jer iv, 24. I beheld the moun- Ezek. xxxviii, 20. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. Micah 1, 4. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. Nahum 1, 5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Zech. xiv, 4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east, and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward Svil, 7, 8. O God, when the north, and half of it toward ventest forth before thy the south. when thou didst march the wilderness; Selah: arth shook, the heavens also l at the presence of God; Saal itself icas moved at the Hace of God, the God of Israel. vil, 5. The hills melted was at the presence of the at the presence of the Lord whole earth. dv, 22. He looketh on the and it trembleth; he touchthe Lills, and they smoke. caiv, 7. Tremble, thou earth, Luke xxi, 11. And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Rev. xi, 13. And the same bour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. EARTHQUAKES MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. AT MOUNT SINAI. Exod. xix, 18. And mount 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. IN THE WILDERNESS. Num. xvi, 31, 32. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. IN STRONGHOLDS OF 1 Sam. xiv, 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. AT MOUNT HOREB, ON ELIJAH'S VISIT TO IT. 1 Kings xix, 11. And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake. IN UZZIAH'S REIGN. Amos i, 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. Heb. xii, 18, 26. For ye are not Zech. xiv, 5. And ye shall flee to come unto the mount that might the valley of the mountains; for be touched, and that burned with the valley of the mountains shall fire, nor unto blackness, and dark-reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, ness, and tempest. Whose voice like as ye fled from before the then shook the earth: but now he earthquake in the days of Uzziah hath promised, saying, Yet once king of Judah; and the LORD my more I shake not the earth only, God shall come, and all the saints with thee. but also heaven. 181 BEFORE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Matth. xxiv, 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. OTHER ALLUSIONS. Isa. xxiv, 19, 20. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. earth, and put his face betwe thy father have prevailed above Deut. xxxiii, 15. And for the Job xxvi, 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. Num. xiv, 44. But they presumIsa. xxix, 6. Thou shalt beed to go up unto the hill-top: visited of the LORD of hosts with nevertheless, the ark of the covethunder, and with earthquake, nant of the LORD, and Moses, deand great noise, with storm and parted not out of the camp. tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. Jer. iv, 24. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Judges ix, 7. And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto 2 Kings 1, 9. Then the king unto him a captain of fifty his fifty. And he went up to hi and, behold, he sat on the top an hill. Isa. xl, 9. O Zion, that bringe good tidings, get thee up into high mountain..... Isa. Ivil, 7. Upon a lofty a bed: even thither wentest thou high mountain hast thou set to offer sacrifice. Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I ha broken thy yoke, and burst bands; and thou saidst, I will » transgress; when upon every ha hill, and under every green tr thou wanderest, playing the lot. Jer. iii, 6. The LORD said als unto me in the days of Josiah 1. king, Hast thou seen that wh backsliding Israel hath done? the gone up upon every high mo tain, and under every green tre and there hath played the harlot Jer. xvil, 2. Whilst their ch dren remember their altars a their groves by the green tre upon the high hills. Ezek. vi, 13. Then shall ye kr that I am the LORD, when the slain men shall be among th idols round about their altas upon every high hill, in all t tops of the mountains, and uns every green tree, and under ever thick oak, the place where th did offer sweet savour to all the idols. Ezek. xvil, 22. Thus saith" Lord GOD, I will also take of highest branch of the high coës and will set it upon an high bid Ezek. xx, 28. For when I ha brought them into the land, the which I lifted up mine hi Haggai ii, 6. For thus saith the me, ye men of Shechem, that God to give it to them, then they si LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. Rev. viii, 5. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. Rev. xvi, 18. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. MOUNTAINS. PECULIAR EPITHETS. Gen. xlix, 26. The blessings of may hearken unto you. 1 Sam. xxvi, 13. Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off, a great space being between them. 2 Sam. 11, 25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill. 1 Kings xiv, 23. For they also built them high places, and high hill, and under every green images, and groves, on every tree. 1 Kings xviii, 42. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink; and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the every high hill, and all the thr trees, and they offered there the sacrifices, and there they pres" ed the provocation of their or ing: there also they made u sweet savour, and poured of there their drink-offerings. Ezek. xl, 2. In the visions of G« brought he me into the land Israel, and set me upon a v high mountain, by which was the frame of a city on the south Amos ix, 3. And though th hide themselves in the top Carmel, I will search and tal them out thence..... Matth. iv, 8. Again, the dey taketh him up into an exceed high mountain, and sheweth hi all the kingdoms of the world, a the glory of them. PECULIAR SACREDNESS 6 Yet have I set my upon my holy hill of Zion. 1,4 I cried unto the LORD my voice, and he heard me of his holy hill. Selah. 1. LORD, who shall abide by tabernacle? who shall dwell by holy hill? alili, 3. O send out thy light thy truth; let them lead me, Ben bring me unto thy holy d to thy tabernacles. vill, 1. Great is the LORD, ely to be praised in the eur God, in the mountain beliness, vi, 1. His foundation is by mountains. ix 9. Exalt the LORD our d worship at his holy hill: Load our God is holy. Ari, 2. They shall not hurt y in all my holy mounthe earth shall be full of edge of the LORD, as the ver the sea. 7. Even them will I y holy mountain, and joyful in my house of 13. When thou criest, pantes deliver thee: ind shall carry them all anity shall take them: but patteth his trust in me Possess the land, and shall my holy mountain. 11. But ye are they rake the LORD, that forget ely mountain, that prepare a te that troop, and that furThe drink-offering unto that Irri, 20. And they shall all your brethren for an gato the LORD, out of all , upon horses, and in chaand in litters, and upon and upon swift beasts, to y mountain Jerusalem, the LORD, as the children of bring an offering in a clean Into the house of the LORD. ui, 23. Thus saith the hosts, the God of Israel, they shall use this speech land of Judah, and in the thereof, when I shall bring their captivity, The LORD Lee, O habitation of justice, #mountain of holiness. kxx, 40. For in mine holy in, in the mountain of the of Israel, saith the Lord there shall all the house of ", all of them in the land, Te me there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. Ezek. xxviii, 14. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Dan. ix, 16, 20. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God. Dan. xi, 45. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. Joel il, 1, Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand. Joel ili, 17. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. Zeph. ii, 11. In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride; and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. HILLS AND MOUNTAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ABARIM. Num. xxvii, 12, And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Ábarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. Num. xxxiii, 47, 48. And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho. son of Hillel the Pirathonite d'ed, and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. AMANA. Cant. iv, 8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana. ..... AM MAH. 2 Sam. ii, 24. Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they that lieth before Giah, by the way were come to the hill of Ammah, of the wilderness of Gibeon. ARARAT. Gen. viii, 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. BASHAN. Ps. lxviii, 15. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, as the hill of Bashan. Nah. i, 4..... Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. BETHEL. 1 Sam. xiii, 2. Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el...... BETHER. Cant. ii, 17. . . . Be thou like a roo or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether CARMEL. send, and gather to me all Israel 1 Kings xviii, 19. Now therefore unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. 2 Kings ii, 25. And he went from thence to mount Carmel; and from thence he returned to Samaria. 2 Kings iv, 25. So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gelazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. Cant. vii, 5. Thy head upon thee is like Carinel. EBAL. Deut. xi, 29. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land Judges xii, 15. And Abdon the whither thou goest to possess it, AMALEK. that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Deut. xxvii, 13. And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. Josh. viii, 30, 33. Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal. And all Israel, and their elders, and offlcers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark, and on that side, before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the cove nant of the LORD, as well the stranger as he that was born among them: half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. EPHRAIM. Josh. xx, 7. And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba (which is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah. Judges vil, 24. And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. .... Judges xvii, 1. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Judges xviii, 13. And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. Judges xix, 1. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. 1 Sam. i, 1. Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Élibu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 1 Kings iv, 8. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim. Jer. iv, 15. For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Jer. xxxi, 6. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. Jer. 1, 19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, Ps. xlil, 6. O my God, my cast down within me: t will I remember thee m land of Jordan, and of th monites, from the hill Mizar. |