dwelt there. And they said, Go, to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 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. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 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. For the Wars of all these nations with Israel, see under WAR. AMALEK. HIS DESCENT AND EXTIRPATION. Gen. xxxvi, 12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. Num. xiv, 45. Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them. even unto Hormah. Num. xxiv, 20. And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be, that he perish for ever. Deut. xxv, 17, 19. Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt. Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the re membrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. AMMON. CHIEF CITY, RABBAH. Gen. xix, 38. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but David tarried still at Jerusalem. 1 Chron. xx, 1. And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah; (but David tarried at Jerusalem:) and Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. 2 Chron. xxvi, 8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. Jer. xlix, 2, 6. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD. Ezek. xxv, 5, 10. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. Amos i, 14. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. AMORITES. ONE OF THE SEVEN NATIONS OF CANAAN. Deut. xx, 17. But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Josh. iii, 10. And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and Judges x, 11. And the LORD said the Perizzites, and the Girgashunto the children of Israel, Didites, and the Amorites, and the not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? 2 Sam. xi, 1. And it came to pass after the year was expired, Jebusites. Judges xi, 23. So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? 2 Kings xxi, 11. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols. Ezek. xvi, 3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. the Amorite before them, whose Amos il, 9. Yet destroyed I the height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. ARABIA. NOTED FOR ITS KINGS AND ITS MERCHANDISE. 1 Kings x, 15. Besides that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice-merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. 2 Chron. ix, 14. Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia, and governors of the country, brought gold and silver to Solomon. 2 Chron. xvii, 11. . . . . And the Arabians brought him [Jehosha phat] flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats. Isa. xxi, 13, 16, 17. The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail; And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. Jer. xxv, 24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert. Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. 2 Kings xv, 29. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tig1th-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee. all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. Isa. xix, 23-25. In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyp tian into Assyria; and the Egyp tians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, eren a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Jer. ii, 18, 36. And now what rast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Micah v, 6. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our bor lers. Zech. x, 10, 11. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. ITS CHIEF CITY, NINEVER. Gen. x, 11... Asshur went forth and builded Nineveh. 2 Kings xix, 36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Jona' iii. 2. Arise, go to Nineveh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Nah. i. 1. The burden of Nine Nah, ii. 8. But Nineveh is of old Nah. ill, 7. And it shall come to comforters for thee? out his hand against the north. Matth. xil, 41. The men of ASIA. CHALDEA, ITS VARIOUS NAMES. Isa. xlvil, 5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. | Jer. 1, 1. 25. The word that the LORD spake against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the wea pons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord Gop of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Ezek. xit. 13. My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. Dan. i. 2. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his Acts vi. 9. Then there arose cerhand, with part of the vessels of tain of the synagogue, which is into the land of Shinar, to the the house of God, which he carried called the synagogue of the Liber-house of his god; and he brought tines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. Acts xvi, 6. Now, when they tinued by the space of two years; Acts xx, 16. For Paul had de- the vessels into the treasure house of his god. Zech. v. 11. And he said unto me,To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. VARIOUS STATEMENTS AND PROPHECIES ABOUT IT. him, I am the LORD that brought Gen. xv, 7. And he said unto thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. fathers had provoked the God of Ezra v, 12. But after that our heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. Job i, 17. While he was yet Acts xxvii, 2. And, entering into speaking, there came also another, a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the three bands, and fell upon the and said, The Chaldeans made out coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a camels, and have carried them Macedonian of Thessalonica, be-away, yea, and slain the servants Isa. xxxvii, 37. So Sennacheribing with us. king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Jonah 1, 2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. brethren, have you ignorant of with the edge of the sword; and I Isa. xxiii, 13. Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. Isa. xlviii, 14. All ye assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? | The LORD hath loved him; he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. Jer. xxi, 4. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. Jer. xxxii, 5. 24. And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. nezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. Ezra v, 14. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. Isa. xiii, 1. The burden of Baby- | lon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. Isa. xiv, 22. For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. Jer. 1, 23, 34. How is the haminer of the whole earth cut asun der and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the Golau in Bashan, of the Manassites. Josh. ix, 10. And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, to Sihor king of Heshibon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. 2 Kings x, 33. From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, (which is by the river Arnon) even Gilead and Bashan. EDOM. DESCENT AND DESTINY. Gen. xxxvi, 1, 9. Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in mount Seir. Num. xx, 14, 21. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh saith thy brother Israel, Thou unto the king of Edom, Thus knowest all the travel that hath nations! Their Redeemer is befallen us. Thus Edom refused strong; The LORD of hosts is his to give Israel passage through name: he shall thoroughly plead his border: wherefore Israel turntheir cause, that he may give rest ed away from him. to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. Jer. xxxvii, 9, 10. Thus saith the LORD, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely Dan. iv, 30. The king spake, depart from us: for they shall not and said, Is not this great Babydepart. For though ye had smit-lon, that I have built for the house ten the whole army of the Chal- of the kingdom by the might of deans that fight against you, and my power, and for the honour of there remained but wounded men my majesty? among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. Jer. 1, 10, 45. And Chalden shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans, Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habita tion desolate with them. genera Matth. i, 17. So all the tions, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations; and from David, until the carrying away into Babylon, are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ, are fourteen generations. BASHAN. Deut. 1, 4. After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og Num. xxiv, 18. And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. Deut. xxiii, 7. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. 1 Sam. xiv, 47. So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them. Markill,8. And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from be yond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, Jer. li, 24. And I will render the king of Bashan, which dwelt when they had heard what great unto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. Dan. ix, 1. In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans. Hab. i, 6. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. at Astaroth in Edrei. Deut. ii, 1, 3, 4. Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him, until none was left to him recities at that time; there was not a maining. And we took all his city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ITS CHIEF CITY, BABYLON. things he did, came unto him. Ps. lx, 9. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? Ps. cviii, 9, 10. Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. Who will bring me into into Edom? the strong city? who will lead me mah. Isa. xxi, 11. The burden of DuHe calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 1sa. xxxiv, 5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, I cometh from Edom, with dyed | Korah, duke Gatam, and duke to judgment. Lam. ii, 22. Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. Ezek. xxv, 12-14. Thus saith the Lord GOD, Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenge hims If upon them; Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger, and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God. Ezek. xxxv, 15. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD. Dan. xi, 41. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Am mon. Amos ix, 12. That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Obad. 1, 8. The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom, We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen. Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? Mal. i, 4. Whereas Edom saith. We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them; The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. ITS CHIEF CITY, BOZRAH. Gen. xxxvi, 33. And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. Isa. Ixiii, 1. Who is this that garments from Bozrah? this that is Jer. xlviii, 24. And upon Keri- Jer. xlix, 13. For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. Amos i, 12. But I will send a fire pon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. Amalek. These are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom: these were the sons of Adah. And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shamimah, duke Mizzah. These are the dukes that came of Renel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath, Esau's wife. And these are the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke the dukes that came of AhollJaalam, duke Korah: these were bamah, the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. These are the sons of Esau, (who is Edom.) and these are their dukes. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inbabited the land; Lotan, and THE PEOPLING OF EDOM, Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. AND ITS ARISTOCRACY. These are the dukes of the Hor43. Now these are the generations land of Edom. And the children Gen. xxxvi, 1-8, 10-23, 25-32, 34-ites, the children of Seir in the of Esau, who is Edom. took his wives of the daughters and Lotan's sister was Timna. Esau of Lotan were Hori, and Heman: Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah these; Alvan, and Manahath, and of Canaan; Adah the daughter of And the children of Shobal were the daughter of Anah, the daugh- Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. And ter of Zibeon the Hivite; Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, Dishon, and And the children of Anah were these; sister of Nebajoth. Abolibamah the bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashe- are the children of Dishon; HemAnd Adah daughter of Anah. And these math bare Reuel; And Aholi- dan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and bamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, Cheran. The children of Ezer and Korah. These are the sons are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, of Esau, which were born unto and Akan. The children of Dishim in the land of Canaan. And han are these; Uz. and Aran. Esau took his wives, and his sons, These are the dukes that came of and his daughters, and all the the Horites; duke Lotan, duke persons of his house, and his Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, cattle, and all his beasts, and all Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke his substance, which he had got in Dishan. These are the dukes the land of Canaan, and went into that came of Hori, among their the country from the face of his dukes in the land of Seir. And brother Jacob. For their riches these are the kings that reigned were more than that they might in the land of Edom, before there dwell together; and the land reigned any king over the chilwherein they were strangers dren of Israel. And Bela the son could not bear them because of of Beor reigned in Edom: and the their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau name of his city was Dinhabah. in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. And Jobab died; and Husham of These are the names of Esau's the land of Temani reigned in his sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the stead. And Husham died; and wife of Esau; Reuel the son of Hadad the son of Bedad, (who Bashemath the wife of Esau. And smote Midian in the field of Moab.) the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, reigned in his stead: and the Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and name of his city was Avith. And Kenaz. And Timna was concu- Hadad died; and Samlah of Masbine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and rekah reigned in his stead. And she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these Samlah died; and Saul of Reliowere the sons of Adah, Esau's both by the river reigned in his wife. And these are the sons of stead. And Saul died; and BaalReuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Sham- hanan the son of Achbor reigned mah, and Mizzah: these were the in his stead. And Baal-hanan the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. son of Achbor died; and Hadar And these were the sons of Aholi- reigned in his stead: and the bamah, the daughter of Anah, the name of his city was Pau; and his daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife; wife's name was Mehetabel, the and she bare to Esau Jeush, and daughter of Matred, the daughter dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons Jaalam, and Korah. These were of Mezahab. And these are the of Eliphaz the first-born son of Esau, according to their families, names of the dukes that came of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, after their places, by their names; duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, Duke duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke КАН АВ. Exod. iii, 7. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. Num. xiv, 3, 19. And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. Deut. vi, 22. And the LORD Ps. lxxxvii, 4. I will make shewed signs and wonders, great mention of Rahab and Babylon to and sore, upon Egypt, upon Phathem that know me: behold Phil-raoh, and upon all his household, istia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; before our eyes. this man was born there. P3. lxxxix, 10. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. HOUSE OF BONDAGE. Exod. xiii, 3, 14. And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deut. vii, 8. But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. GENERAL STATEMENTS Gen. xli, 19, 57. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-favoured, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for B. And all countries came Josh. xxiv, 5. I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them; and afterward I brought you out. 1 Kings iv, 30. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. did he in the sight of their fathers, Ps. lxxviii, 12. Marvellous things in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. P3. lxxxi, 5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt; where I heard a language that I understood not. Isa. xix, 2, 18. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts: one shall be called, The city of destruction. Isa. xxxi, 1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong. Hosea xii, 13. And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. Matth. ii, 13, 19. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. Acts vii. 9. And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him. Heb. xi, 26, 27. Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. By faith he [Moses] forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. PROPHECIES CONCERN ING IT. Isa. xix. 1, 3, 4. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt upon a swift cloud, and shall come shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. Jer. xliii, 10, 11. And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will send and take Nebuchad rezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have bid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death, to death; and such as are for captivity, to captivity; and such as are for the sword, to the sword. Jer. xlvi, 13, 14, 26. The word. that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchedrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph, and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into |