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1 Kings ix, 3. And the LORD sald unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 2 Chron. vil, 12, 15, 16. And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Isa. iv, 5. And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isa. Ixil, 8, 9. The LORD hath worn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holl

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Jer. 1, 28. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the Land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. Zech. ix, 8. And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN

HIS HOUSE.

P8. c, 4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Eccles. v, 1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do

evil.

1 Cor. xiv, 40. Let all things be done decently, and in order. Eph. v, 19. Speaking to your

selves in psalms, and hymns, and
spiritual songs, singing and mak-
ing melody in your heart to the
Lord.

Col. ill, 16. Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom; teaching and admonish-
ing one another in psalms, and
hymns, and spiritual songs, sing-
ing with grace in your hearts to
the Lord.

Heb. x, 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

James v, 13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Ps. xxvi, 6, 7. I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD; That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Ps. cxvill, 19, 20. Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go in to them, and I will praise the LORD: This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

Ps. cxxxii, 7. We will go into his tabernacles; we will worship at his footstool.

EXPERIENCE OF THE

WORSHIPPERS.

them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day.

Ps. xliil, 8, 4. O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto the holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

Ps. xlviii, 9. We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

P8. lxiii, 1, 2. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

P3. lxxxiv, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them: They go from strength to strength: every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Ps. xcii, 13. Those that be plantin the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Neh. ix, 3, 4. And they stood up
in their place, and read in the book
of the law of the LORD their Goded
one fourth part of the day; and
another fourth part they con-
fessed, and worshipped the LORD
their God. Then stood up upon
the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua,
and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah,
Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Che-
nani, and cried with a loud voice
unto the LORD their God.

Ps. xxvi, 8. LORD, I have loved
the habitation of thy house, and
the place where thine honour
dwelleth.

Ps. xxvii, 4, 5. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock

Ps. xli, 3, 4. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude; I went with

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Ps. cxxii, 1, 9. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Jer. vii, 2. Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

Zeph. iii, 18. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a

burden.

Luke xxiv, 53. And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

And after the

Acts xiii, 15. 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 xviii, 19. And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the syna

TABERNACLE-TEMPLE.

gogue, and reasoned with the LORD had sent him to prophesy;
Jews.
and he stood in the court of the
LORD's house, and said to all the

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2 Kings xix, 14. And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

people.

the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these Jer. xxvi, 7. So the priests and words in the house of the LORD. 2 Chron. xx, 5. And Jehosha-widow of about fourscore and phat stood in the congregation of four years, which departed not Luke ii, 37. And she was a Judah and Jerusalem, in the from the temple, but served God house of the LORD, before the with fastings and prayers night and day.

new court.

2 Chron. xxix, 20. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

Jer. xix, 14. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the

at the hour of prayer, being the
Acts ill, 1. Now Peter and John
went up together into the temple

ninth hour.

immediately sent away Paul and
Acts xvil, 10. And the brethren

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man of the servants of Sani anas there that day, detained before 1 Sam. xxi, 7. Now a certain herdmen that belonged to Baul, an Edomite, the chiefest of the the LORD; and his name was Deeg,

stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose Neh. vill, 4. And Ezra the scribe iah, on his right hand; and on his and Shema, and Analah, and and beside him stood Mattithiah, Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Masse Meshullam. Hashbadana, left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Zechariah, and

1st. VINEYARD.

VINEYARD.-ORCHARD.

AN EARLY AND COMMON POSSESSION. Gen. ix, 20. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

Num. xvi, 14. Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

1 Kings xxi, 1. And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of

Samaria.

2 Kings v, 26. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his charlot to meet thee? Is tta time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

Cant. vii, 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth; there will I give thee my loves.

Cant. viii, 11, 12. Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers: every one for the fruit thereof

it should bring forth grapes, |
brought it forth wild grapes? And
now go to; I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard: I will
take away the hedge thereof, and
it shall be eaten up; and break
down the wall thereof, and it shall
be trodden down: And I will lay
it waste: it shall not be pruned
nor digged; but there shall come
up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they
For the
rain no rain upon it.
vineyard of the LORD of hosts is
the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and
he looked for judgment, but be-
hold oppression; for righteousness,
but behold a cry. Yea, ten acres
of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of an homer shall
yield an ephah.

Jer. xxxl, 5. Thou shalt yet
plant vines upon the mountains of
Samaria: the planters shall plant,
and shall eat them as common
things.

Amos v, 11..
Ye have
planted pleasant vineyards, but
ye shall not drink wine of them.

Matth. xxi, 33, 35-41. Hear an-
other parable: There was a cer-
tain householder, which planted
a vineyard, and hedged it round
about, and digged a wine-press in
it, and built a tower, and let it out

vant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.

THE VINE.

Gen. xl, 9, 10. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes.

Num. xiii, 23, 24. And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

1 Kings iv, 25. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Çant. vi, 11. I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Ezek. xv, 2, 6. Son of man

was to bring a thousand pieces of stoned another. Again, he sent What is the vine tree more than

silver. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof

two hundred.

Eccles, il, 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses: I planted me vineyards.

Isa. v, 1--7, 10. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine,and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that

to husbandmen, and went into a
far country. And the husband-
men took his servants, and beat
one, and killed another, aud
other servants more than the first:
and they did unto them likewise.
But last of all he sent unto them
his son, saying, They will rever-
ence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they
said among themselves, This is
the heir: come, let us kill him,
and let us seize on his inheritance.
And they caught him, and cast
him out of the vineyard, and slew
him. When the lord therefore of
the vineyard cometh, what will
he do unto those husbandmen?
They say unto him, He will
miserably destroy those wicked
men, and will let out his vineyard
unto other husbandmen, which
shall render him the fruits in
their seasons.

any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Therefore thus saith the Lord

GOD, As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Hosea xiv, 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Gen. xlix, 11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.

Deut. xxxii, 82. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

Luke xx, 10-12. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat Job xv, 33. He shall shake off him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another ser-his unripe grape as the vine, and

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shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Ps. Ixxx, 8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted

it.

Isa. xxviii, 4. And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

Isa. lxv, 8. Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

Jer. ii, 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Jer. xlix, 9. If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Ezek. xvii, 6, 7. And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a

vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Ezek. xix, 10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Hosea x, 1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto

himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased

the altars.

Obad. 5. If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? Matth. xxl, 34. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he

sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

THE LAW OF PLANTING. Deut. xx, 6. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Deut. xxii, 9. Thou shalt not seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed Sow thy vineyard with divers which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

VINE DRESSERS.

tain of the guard left of the poor 2 Kings xxv, 12. But the capof the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

towers in the desert, and digged 2 Chron. xxvi, 10. Also he built cattle, both in the low country, many wells: for he had much and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry

Isa. Ixi. 5. And strangers shall the sons of the alien shall be your stand and feed your flocks, and plowmen and your vine-dressers.

husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-
Joel 1, 11. Be ye ashamed, O ye
the barley; because the harvest
dressers, for the wheat, and for
of the field is perished.

PROTECTION OF VINE

YARDS.

then broken down her hedges, so
Ps. lxxx, 12. Why hast thou
that all they which pass by the
way do pluck her

because i am black, because the
Cant. i, 6. Look not upon me,
mother's children were
sun hath looked upon me: my
with me; they made me the keeper
of the vineyards; but mine own
vineyard have I not kept.

angry

Isa. xvi, 8. For the fields of
Heshbon languish, and the vine
then have broken down the prin-
of Sibmah: the lords of the hea-
cipal plants thereof, they are come
even unto Jazer, they wandered
through the wilderness:
are gone over the sea.
branches are stretched out, they

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harvest, when the bud is perfect, Isa. xviii, 5, 6. For afore the and the sour grape is ripening in the sprigs with pruning-hooks, the flower, he shall both cut off and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left tomountains, and to the beasts of gether unto the fowls of the the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter

upon them.

Isaiah xxiv, 7. The new wine mourneth, the vine eth, all the merry-hearted do languishsigh.

turned away the excellency of Nah. ii, 2. For the LORD hath Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vinebranches.

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certain man planted a vineyard, speak unto them by parables. A Mark xil, 1. And he began to and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefs, and built a tower, and let it out to country. husbandmen, and went into a far

THE VINTAGE.

ing, and they take away the sheaf
him to go naked without cloth
Job xxiv, 10, 11. They cauSS
within their walls, and tread their
from the hungry; Which make oil
wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

bewail with the weeping of Jazer
Isa. xvi, 9, 10. Therefore I will

thee with my tears, O Hestbon,
the vine of Sibmah; I will water
thy summer fruits, and for thy
and Elealeh; for the shouting for
harvest, is fallen. And gladness
plentiful field; and in the vine
is taken away, and joy out of the
neither shall there be shouting
yards there shall be no singing.
their vintage shouting to cease.
the treaders shall tread out bo
wine in their presses; I have made

thou red in thine apparel, and thy
Isa. lxiii, 2-5. Wherefore art
in the wine-fat? I have trodden
garments like him that treadeth
for I will tread them in mine
the wine-press alone; and of the
people there was none with me
anger, and trample them in my
sprinkled upon my garments, al
fury; and their blood shall be
I will stain all my ratment. For
the day of vengeance is in mite
deemed is come. And I looked,
and there was none to help, and i
heart, and the year of my re
uphold: therefore mine own arm
wondered that there was none to
brought salvation unto me, and
my fury, it upheld me.

Isa. xvil, 6. Yet gleaning grapes
ries in the top of the uppermost
shall be left in it, as the shaking
of an olive tree, two or three be-
bough, four or five in the outmost
LORD God of Israel.
fruitful branches thereof, saith the

of hosts, They shall thoroughly Jer. vi, 9. Thus saith the Loom vine: turn back thine hand as a glean the remnant of Israel as a grape-gatherer into the baskets

Sibmah, I will weep for thee with Jer. xlvill, 82, SS. O vine of the weeping of Jazer: thy plants is fallen upon thy summer traits are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the speiber plentiful field, and from the lac and gladness is taken from th of Moab, and I have caused wine and upon thy vintage. And joy to fail from the wine presses nece shall tread with shouting Her shouting shall be no shouting

Micah vil, 1. Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first ripe fruit.

Amos ix, 13. Behold, the days some, saith the LORD, that the doughman shall overtake the eaper, and the treader of grapes im that soweth seed; and the noantalus shall drop sweet wine, nd all the hills shall melt

Rev. xiv, 17-19. And another ngel came out of the temple hich is in heaven, he also having sharp sickle. And another angel ame out from the altar, which al power over fire; and cried ith a lond cry to him that had e sharp sickle, saying, Thrust thy sharp sickle, and gather le clusters of the vine of the arth; for her grapes are fully pe. And the angel thrust in his ckle into the earth, and gathered ie vine of the earth, and cast it to the great wine-press of the rath of God.

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Job viil, 16, 17. He is green bere the sun, and his branch Jooteth forth in his garden. His ots are wrapt about the heap, ad seeth the place of stones.

Job xiv, 7, 9. For there is hope f a tree, if it be cut down, that it all sprout again, and that the nder branch thereof will not gase. Yet through the scent of ater it will bud, and bring forth oughs like a plant.

Job xviii, 16. His roots shall be ried up beneath, and above shall is branch be cut off.

Job xix, 10. He hath destroyed e on every side, and I am gone; nd mine hope hath he removed ke a tree.

Ps. xcii, 14. They shall still ring forth fruit in old age; they hall be fat and flourishing.

Isa. x, 19. And the rest of the ees of his forest shall be few, hat a child may write them.

Iea. xl. 24. Yea, they shall not = planted; yea, they shall not be

sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Ezek. xv, 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezek. xxxi, 14. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, the thick boughs, neither their neither shoot up their top among trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them

that go down to the pit.

Luke xxiii, 31. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

Isa. xxxii, 9. The earth mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down; Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashau and Carmel shake off their fruits.

FELLING.

ward the south, or toward the Eccles. xi, 3. If the tree fall tonorth, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Isa. x, 33, 34. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down

the thickets of the forest with

iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Matth. iii, 10. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the ORNAMENTAL TREES. trees: therefore every tree which Isa. xli, 19, 20. I will plant in bringeth not forth good fruit is the wilderness the cedar, the shit-hewn down, and cast into the fire. tah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath cre

ated it.

Isa. lv, 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isa. lx, 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

FORESTS.

2 Sam. xviil, 9. And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

Isa. x, 33, 34. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror, and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

FORESTS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.

BASHAN.

Isa. i, 13. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the

oaks of Bashan.

Zech. xi, 2. Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

HARETH.

1 Sam. xxii, 5. And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

EPHRAIM.

2 Sam. xviii, 6. So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim

LEBANON.

1 Kings vii, 2. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

1 Kings x, 17. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of

Isa, xxix, 17. Is it not yet a very Lebanon.

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