Rev. x1, 2. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. Rev. xxl, 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev. xxil, 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS. Gen. xxviii, 18. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. Gen. xxxi, 45, 46, 51, 52. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. the his house, but it shall not st Job vili, 15. He shall lean up he shall hold it fast, but it st not endure. house as a moth, and as a bo Job xxvii, 18. He buildeth that the keeper maketh. ye shall lodge this night. Then I heard long ago how I have da Joshua called the twelve men, it, and of ancient times that I ha whom he had prepared of the chil- formed it? now have I brought dren of Israel, out of every tribe to pass, that thou shouldest be a man: And Joshua said unto lay waste fenced cities into re them, Pass over before the ark of ous heaps. of Jordan, and take you up every the LORD your God into the midst man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto number of the tribes of the children of Israel: That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there unto this day. And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your Gen. xxxv, 13, 14. And God children shall ask their fathers in went up from him in the place time to come, saying, What mean where he talked with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. Exod. xxiv, 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Deut. xxvii, 4. Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. these stones? Josh. xxiv, 26, 27. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 1 Sam. vil, 12. Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Josh. Iv, 1-9, 20, 21. And it came to pass, when all the people were 2 Sam. xviil, 18. Now Absalom clean passed over Jordan, that in his lifetime had taken and the LORD spake unto Joshua, say-reared up for himself a pillar, ing, Take you twelve men out of which is in the king's dale: for he the people, out of every tribe a said, I have no son to keep my man, And command ye them, say- name in remembrance: and he ing, Take you hence out of the called the pillar after his own midst of Jordan, out of the place name: and it is called unto this where the priests' feet stood firm, day, Absalom's place. twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where CITIES IN RUINS. 2 Kings xix, 25. Hast thou not Isa. v. 9. In mine ears said t LORD of hosts, Of a truth a houses shall be desolate, e great and fair, without inhabita Isa. xiil, 19, 20. And Baby the glory of kingdoms, the text of the Chaldees' excell shall be as when God overt Sodom and Gomorrah. It never be inhabited, neither it be dwelt in from generation generation. O city; thou, whole Palestins Isa. xiv, 31. Howl, O gate; dissolved: for there shall from the north a smoke, and shall be alone in his appost times. Isa. xvii, 1. The burden Damascus, Behold, Damasc taken away from being a city, it shall be a ruinous heap. fusion is broken down: ey Isa. xxiv, 10, 12. The city of house is shut up, that no may come in. In the city is desolation, and the gate is su with destruction. Isa. xxv, 2. For thou hast is of a city an heap; of a defe city a ruin: a palace of strang to be no city; it shall never built. city shall be desolate, en Isa. xxvii, 10. Yet the de habitation forsaken, and left a wilderness. Because Isa. xxxii, 14. palaces shall be forsaken, the titude of the city shall be les Jer. x, 22. Behold, the noise the bruit is come, and ac commotion out of the north try, to make the cities of J desolate. Jer. xlix. 33. And Hazor sh a desolation for ever: th shall no man abide there, nor son of man dwell in it. Lam. ii, 7-9. The LORD hath off his altar, he hath abhorred sanctuary: he hath given up the hand of the enemy the of her palaces; they have noise in the house of the Lo in the day of a solemn feast. LORD hath purposed to desi the wall of the daughter of he hath stretched out a l hath not withdrawn his hand roying: therefore he made the part and the wall to lament; languished together. Her sare sunk into the ground; ath destroyed and broken her her king and her princes are ng the Gentiles: the law is no ; her prophets also find no in from the LORD. W. xiii, 11, 12, 14. Say unto which daub it with untemmorter, that it shall fall: to shall be an overflowing wer, and ye, O great hailstones, and a stormy wind shall Lo, when the wall is shall it not be said unto Where is the daubing whereJe have daubed it? So will reak down the wall that ye danbed with untempered r, and bring it down to the , so that the foundation bor shall be discovered, and all fall, and ye shall be cond in the midst thereof: and ye How that I am the LORD. k xv, 5. And I will make aha stable for camels, and Ammonites a couching-place locks hvi, 11. For, behold, the commandeth, and he will the great house with and the little house with 13, 15. And he will 2 vnt his hand against the und destroy Assyria; and ke Nineveh a desolation, try like a wilderness. This rejoicing city that dwelt sly, that said in her heart, and there is none beside me: Is she become a desolation, te for beasts to lie down in! Gue that passeth by her Liss and wag his hand. RESTORATION. ings xi, 27. And this was the Ezra iv, 2. Then they came to another wall without, and repaired | bars thereof. But the gate of the Neh. lii, 1, 2, 4-32. Then Ellashib And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate. But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner. And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. Neh. iv, 10. And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. Isa. xiv, 13. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will forth of the commandment to re- | princes of Judah upon the raise up the tabernacle of David direct all his ways: he shall build of Israel, and they shall build the Zaccur, the son of Asaph: my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. Isa. Ivill, 12. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa. Ixi, 4. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. Ezek. xxxvi, 35, 36. And they shall say, This land that was desolate, is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. Dan. ix, 25. Know therefore and understand, that from the going his Nethaneel, and Judah, B brethren, Shemaiah, Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, with the musical instrume David the man of God, and DEDICATION OF A REBUILT the fountain gate, which wa the scribe before thein. A CITY. A! against them, they went the stairs of the city of Da Neh. xii, 27-38, 40-42. And at the the going up of the wall, dedication of the wall of Jerusa- the house of David, even un lem they songht the Levites out water gate eastward. of all their places, to bring them other company of them tha to Jerusalem, to keep the dedica- thanks went over against tion with gladness, both with and I after them, and the ! thanksgivings, and with singing, the people upon the wall, with cymbals, psalteries, and with beyond the tower of the fu harps. And the sons of the even unto the broad wall singers gathered themselves to- stood the two companies of gether, both out of the plain that gave thanks in the ho country round about Jerusalem, God, and I, and the half and from the villages of Neto- rulers with me: And the p phathi; Also from the house of Eliakim, Maaseiah, Min Gilgal, and out of the fields of Michaiah, Elioenai, Zech Geba and Azmaveth: for the and Hananiah, with tru singers had builded them villages And Maaseiah, and Sher the priests and the Levites puri-hanan, and Malchijah, and round about Jerusalem. And and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and filed themselves, and purified the and Ezer. And the singers people, and the gates, and the loud, with Jezrahiah their wall. Then I brought up the seer. 58 THE MUSTER. ARMY ARMS. number of them that lapped,, UNDER MOSES. putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all Fxxx, 1-5. And the LORD the rest of the people bowed down to Moses, saying, Avenge upon their knees to drink water. dren of Israel of the Mid-And the LORD said unto Gideon, afterward shalt thou be By the three hundred men that tered unto thy people. And lapped will I save you, and deliver spake unto the people, the Midianites into thine hand: Ar some of yourselves and let all the other people go the war, and let them go every man unto his place. So the the Midianites, and avenge people took victuals in their Lies of Midian. Of every hand, and their trumpets: and he a thousand, throughout all sent all the rest of Israel every es of Israel, shall ye send man unto his tent, and retained war. So there were de- those three hundred men: and the al out of the thousands of host of Midian was beneath him da thousand of every tribe, in the valley. Se thousand armed for war. UNDER EHUD. , 27. And it came to *en he was come, that he trumpet in the mountain of and the children of st down with him from and he before them. UNDER GIDEON. 35. And he sent mesaroughout all Manasseh; was gathered after him: sent messengers unto and unto Zebulun, and unali; and they came up to es vil, 1-4, 6-8. Then al, who is Gideon, and jople that were with him, early, and pitched beside of Harod: so that the host Midianites were on the of them, by the hill of the valley. And the unto Gideon, The peoare with thee are too * me to give the Midiantheir hands, lest Israel themselves against me, Miae own hand hath sayNow therefore go to, in the ears of the people, 3. Whosoever is fearful and et him return and depart tom mount Gilead. And returned of the people y and two thousand; and remained ten thousand. LORD said unto Gideon, jeuple are yet too many; hem down unto the water, I will try them for thee there: shall be, that of whom I say thee, This shall go with the same shall go with thee; f whomsoever I say unto This shall not go with thee, buine shall not gʊ. And the BY COMMAND OF THE STATES' GENERAL. Judges xx, 1, 2, 8-11, 15, 17. Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in MizAnd the chief of all the peh. people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house. But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. Judges xxi, 8-10. And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. For the people were nuinbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there. And the congrega tion sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. UNDER THE KINGS. messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and 1 Sam. xi, 4-8. Then came the told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept. And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh. And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly. And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent Israel by the hands of messengers them throughout all the coasts of forth after Saul and after Samuel, saying, Whosoever cometh not so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on with one consent. And when he the people, and they came out children of Israel were three hunnumbered them in Bezek, the dred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 1 Chron. xii, 23-39. And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war. Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred; And Zadok, a young man, mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains. And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul. And of the children of Ephraim twenty thou sand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers. And Of war. pursued them unto Dan. of the half tribe of Manasseh | Reuben, and the Gadites, and half | Ismaiah the Gibeonite, cighteen thousand, which were the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant man among the thirty expressed by name, to come and men, men able to bear buckler the thirty; and Jere make David king. And of the and sword, and to shoot with bow, Jahaziel, and Johanan, children of Issachar, which were and skilful in war, were four and bad the Gederathite, I men that had understanding of the forty thousand seven hundred and Jerimoth, and Bealiah times, to know what Israel ought threescore, that went out to the mariah, and Shephatial to do; the heads of them were two uphite. Elkanah, and hundred; and all their brethren OTHER INSTANCES. Azareel, and Joezer, a were at their commandment. Zebulun, such as went forth to heard that his brother was taken and Zebadiah, the son Gen. xiv, 14. And when Abram beam, the Korhites, A battle, expert in war, with all in-captive, he armed his trained ham of Gedor. And of struments of war, fifty thousand, servants, born in his own house, ites there separated t which could keep rank: they were three hundred and eighteen, and unto David into the b wilderness men of migh whose faces were like t of war fit for the b could handle shield an lions, and were as sw the first, Obadiah th roes upon the mounta Eliab the third, Mishm fourth, Jeremiah the fi the sixth, Ellel the sev hanan the eighth, El ninth, Jeremiah Machbanal the elevent were of the sons of Ga of the host: one of the over a hundred, and th over a thousand. Thes that went over Jordan i month, when it had all his banks; and the ap-flight all them of the val toward the east, and t west. not of double heart. And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand. And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand. And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. 1 Sam. xv, 4, 5. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 1 Kin. xii, 21. And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 1 Kin. xx, 13-15. And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 1 Chron. v, 18. The sons of dren of Reuben, and the children Judges ix, 4. And they gave Judges xviii, 11. And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men pointed with weapons of war. 1 Sam. xvii, 13, 14. And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 1 Sam. xxii, 2. And every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; aud he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. 2 Sam. xv, 11. And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing. 1 Chron. xii, 1-22. Now these Ziklag, while he yet kept himself are they that came to David to close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war. could use both the right hand and They were armed with bows, and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even The chief was Aliezer, then Joash, of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah. and Jehu the Antothite, And tl children of Benjamin a And there cam David went out to me to the hold unto Day and answered and 6 them, If ye be come unto me to help me, m shall be knit unto you: be come to betray me enemies, seeing there is in mine hands, the Go fathers look thereon, an it. Then the spirit c Amasai, who was chief o tains, and he said, Thin David, and on thy side, of Jesse: peace, peace thee, and peace be to thin for thy God helpeth the David received them, a them captains of the ba there fell some of Mar David, when he came Philistines against Saul but they helped them no lords of the Philistines 1 He will fall to his master visement sent him away the jeopardy of our heads. went to Ziklag, there fell of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and and Jediael, and Miche captains of the thousan were of Manasseh. of the rovers: for they i helped David against th mighty men of valour, an captains in the host. that time day by day came to David to help ht Ar |