Presented to the
LIBRARY of the
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
by
Willard G. Oxtoby
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•from our sins in his own
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and dominion forever
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and ever.
A Saviour Given.— LUKE ii., 11 A Saviour Risen.— MATT, xxviii., 6.
&** forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of Christ.— ST. PAUL, GAL. vi.,
sfor all, and all/or ?esus.— Bishop E. S. JAKES.
CURIOSITIES
OF THE
BIBLE
PERTAINING TO SCRIPTURE
PERSONS, PLACES AND THINGS
INCLUDING
PRIZE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, ENIGMAS, ACROSTICS,
FACTS AND STATISTICS, WITH MANY VALUABLE
READY REFERENCE TABLES
Founded upon and Answered in the Bible
DESIGNED TO INCITE IN OLD AND YOUNG A GREATER DESIRE TO
" Search the Scriptures." John r 39
WITH
BLACKBOARD OR SLATE ILLUSTRATIONS, BIBLE
STUDIES, CONCERT EXERCISES AND
PRAYER MEETING OUTLINES
BY A NEW YORK SUNDAY-SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
REV. J. H VINCENT, D.D.
Revived, Enlarged and Illustrated
NEW YORK
E. B. TREAT, 757 BROADWAY
CHICAGO: R. C. TREAT CINCINNATI: FORSHEE & McMAKIH
KANSAS CITY: F. PROTHERO.
1884.
COPYRIGHT,
E. B. TREAT,
1875—1879.
HOTE.— The more difficult and prize questions are indicated by bold-face figures
in numbering.
NOTE.— The blank pages following each section are designed an memoranda pages
for entering additional curiosities and facts as they occur in Bible
reading or study.
Among the attractive features of this enlarged edition are the Illustrations, for
which we are chiefly indebted to S. W. Clark, publisher of the "Blackboard," and in
part to J. Fairbanks & Co., and to them also we tender acknowledgments for
suggestions and outlines from " HAND-BOOK OF BIBLE READINGS."
We are also under obligations to Rev. H. H. BIRKINS for valuable •iervices in
sditorial work.
INTRODUCTION.
THERE is no saving power in the mere letter of
(he word, even though it be the word of God,
It is the Spirit that giveth life.
We should not, however, despise the letter.
It is the body ; and the body is of some worth as
a medium for the soul.
He who knows most of the word of God,
though it be with but an intellectual knowledge,
will be that much richer when the Holy Spirit
of God touches the dry bones and bids them live.
The dry bones in the " Valley of Vision " were
better than so many stones, when the time came
for the miracle of resurrection.
We cannot give to our children too much
Bible knowledge. They cannot know too much
Bible history, nor too much Bible geography, nor
be too well able to explain the obscure passages,
nor too familiar with the true solution of the
common difficulties which all Bible students
sooner or later encounter, and which they should
be able to explain.
CtJBIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
In view of this need, I do most sincerely thank
the industrious and ingenious " New York Sun
day-School Superintendent," who has compiled
the valuable little manual of biblical curiosities
now presented to the public.
Let it be used wisely. Let the circle of friends,
old and young, who may gather about table or
fireside to spend an hour or an evening in the
profitable recreation which it may furnish — let
them all remember that cheerfulness and generous
rivalry are allowable here, but that irreverence
and impatience, out of place always and every
where, are especially inappropriate, while we hold
in our hands the most holy word of God, or
busy ourselves with the truths which are to be
found in it.
May the students of the " Curiosities of the
Bible" become skilled in the interpretation of
that Divine Book, and, enjoying its spiritual
illumination, may they prove its divinity by pure
and unselfish lives.
J. H. VlNCEMT
This collection of treasures, new and old, i§ the outgrowth
of eighteen years experience in devising methods and incen
tives to interest children and those of older growth in bible
study ; and thus aid them in fulfilling the injunction —
" search the scriptures."
It has been a part of every Sunday's programme in our
school, for the past eight years, to propose a bible question
or exercise to be answered the following Sunday upon cards
distributed by the secretary and collected at the call of the
bell ; the correct and incorrect answars being announced
from the desk, with appropriate comments and explana
tions.
By this method, kf an incorrect answer was given, the
unsuccessful seeker after truth was not exposed to ridicule
in consequence of failure, but was ready for the next prop*
•ition with as much zeal as at the outset.
Such questions only were given as were founded upon
the bible and answered in it, and such as would excite in the
mind of bible readers and seekers after truth a curiosity to
know how, when, where, and under what circumstances they
occurred.
To secure these, a vast range of bible literature ha* been
searched. Among the most prominent aids may by men
tioned the very excellent London periodicals, " The Sunday
tt Home,." " The Quiver/' and "Band of Hope Review." My
Msociatea— officers, teachers, and scholars — have jointly
interested themselves with me in solving many of the intri
cate problems herein contained.
A large number of these are prize questions and puzzles,
which have elicited a wide correspondence, and the deep
interest manifested in them gives the assurance that the
benefit derived from these exercises can never be estimated.
In verification of this statement, selections are given
from the tebtimony of a large number who, in their resear
ches, have not only been stimulated by the hope of winning
an earthly reward, but have been led to deeper thought and
richer experience, which of itself ID a matchless prize.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. — " J cannot tell you how
pleasant and happy have been the hours spent in studying
the bible for this purpose. Time and trouble have been
repaid with interest in the enlargement of biblical know
ledge, and the increase of love for the bible."
" I have derived lifelong benefit from the close communion
with the book of books and the author of it, finding new
beauties in the scriptures, and obtaining a priceless treasure
which neither the world nor time can take away."
" I can thankfully say, reading the bible for these ans
wers has shown me the truth in a way I never saw before."
" I read the entire book of psalms through five times for
one answer."
This volume has a two-fold mission : to increase oui
knowledge of all biblical facts, and beget and intensify in all
hearts a greater love for the Book of Life. That the num
ber of those who may be thus benefitted may become legion
is the hope of the compiler.
T. B. E.
Washington Heights, New York City,
CONTENTS.
PAOK
INTRODUCTION 5
PREFACE 7
CONTENTS 9
THE BIBLE LEGACY 13
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE PERTAINING TO—
First Things of the Bible Page 13 Key, Part II., Page 3
Old Testament Persons " 19 " " 9
New Testament Persons u 49 " " 31
Old Testament Places " 61 " 41
New Testament Places " 67 " " 47
Old Testament Things " 71 " " 51
New Testament Things " 85 " 63
Bible Time " 91 " " 69
Bible Pictures " 214 u <l 68
Familiar Bible Quotations "98 " " 68
Scripture Metaphors "95 " 71
Scripture Enigmas " 101 " " 79
Scripture Anagrams " 213 " " 144
Bible Characters " 215 " " 146
BLACKBOARD OR SLATE ILLUSTRATIONS :
The Young Bible Reader 226
Light on our Pathway 228
The Spider's Web 230
The Door open or shut 232
The Vine and its Branches 284
Sin and Salvation 236
The Bow in the Cloud 238
Light from the Bible 240
The Great Ship and the Little Helm 242
Figs or Thistles— Which ? 244
The Uplifted Saviour 246
Signals of Danger 243
Gaining and Losing 250
The Christian's Defence 252
The Two Ladders 254
The Yoke of Christ 256
The Christian's Crown 258
The Full Surrender 260
The Cross of Christ 262
The Two Paths 264
The Family in the Ark 266
Love not the World ; . . 268
Steps in Sin -. 270
The Door of the Heart 273
God's Promise in the Rainbow » 274
The Ascending Lord 276
What Jesus says 277
Triumphs of the Cross 279
Jacob's Ladder 279
The World for Jesus 280
Christians the Light of the World 283
Heaven by the Way of the Cross 283
Christ our Guiding Star 284
Lessons from the Lion 2-86
Searching the Scriptures 287
The Wine Cup 288
CONCERT EXERCISES :
The Lord's Prayer— Bible Proofs 223
The Nine Attributes of God 224
The Life and Times of St. Paul 225
Wanted for the Lord's Service 265
The Blood of Christ 27L
What Christians should be 443
BIBLE STUDIES AND READINGS:
How to Search the Scriptures 227
Why we should take God for our Guide 229
What is Heaven according to the Bible 229
What we are by Nature 231
God's best Gifts 235
What the Bible says of the Fool 337
What Christians have 2319
Come to Jesus for what ? . . . . . 289
FAGI
The Bible Mirror 341
How may we get to Heaven ? 341
Six Commands of Christ 243
Indispensable Things 243
Prayers offered in Danger, and by whom 245
What Christ is to us 247
The Christian's. Dedication 247
The Gospel Railroad 249
God is able 253
The Path to Eternal Life 255
" Comes " of the Old Testament L>57
" Comes " of the New Testament 257
God's Way and our Ways Contrasted 259
Temperance — demijohn and jug 261
Sowing and Reaping 265
The Six one Things 267
What the Christian Soldier must do 267
What it is to be a Christian 269
What we do by Faith 273
New Things of the Bible 273
The Apostles' Creed 275
He leadeth us 281
" Comes " of Christ 285
PRAYER-MEETING OUTLINES :
What a Prayer Meeting should be 1 389
Characteristics of God's People 289
The Two Masters 289
How shall I approach the Mercy-Seat ? 290
What shall I do with Jesus ? 290
How shall I find Jesus ? 290
To whom shall we go for Safety ? 290
Seven Confessions of the Bible 291
God's Providence 291
The Atoning Saviour 291
All Things through Christ 291
Seven Things to Hold Fast 292
The Seven " Musts " 292
Things to winch we should take heed 39*
What Christians should b« 448
Cunous Fact* about the Bible... .. 449
xu
Chronological Index of the Bible 450
Prominent Events in Ecclesiastical History 455
Chronological Table of Patriarchs, from Adam to Moses, 2,500 years. 456
Special Prayers of the Bible 457
Old Testament Miracles 458
Miracles of Christ 459
Miracles of the Apostles 459
Parables of the Old Testament 460
Parables of Jesus 460
Discourses of Jesus 461
Tables of Scripture Measures, Weights, and Money 462
Names and Titles applied to Our Saviour 464
BLACKBOARD ILLUSTRATIONS, Ac. 11
THE BIBLE.*
A nation wonld be truly happy if it were governed by no
other laws than those of this blessed book.
It contains everything needful to be known or done.
It gives instruction to a senate, authority and directions to a
magistrate.
It cautions a witness, requires an impartial verdict of a jury,
and furnishes the judge with his sentence.
It sets the husband as the lord of his household, and wife as
mistress of the table— tells him how to rule, and her how to
manage. [dren.
It entails honor to parents, and enjoins obedience on chil-
It prescribes and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of
the ruler, and the authority of the master ; commands the sub
jects to honor and the servant to obey, and the blessings and
the protection of the Almighty to all that walk by this rule.
It gives directions for weddings and burials.
It promises food and raiment, and limits the use of both.
It points out a faithful and eternal Guardian to the departing
husband and father ; tells him with whom to leave his father
less children, and whom his widow is to trust — and promises a
father to the former, and a husband to the latter.
It teaches a man to set his house in order, and how to make
his will ; it appoints a dowry for his wife, and entails the
rights of the first born, and shows how the young branches shall
be left.
* Thit description of the Bible was found in Weitminrter Abbey, nameless and
iateleas. It is invaluable for its wise and wholesome cou»e«l to the race of Adam.
12 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
It defends the rights of all, and reveals vengeance to every
defaulter, over-reacher, and trespasser.
It is the first book, the best book.
It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instruction, af
fords the greatest degree of pleasure and satisfaction that we
have ever enjoyed.
It contains the best laws and most profound mysteries that
were ever penned ; and it brings the very best comforts to the
inquiring and disconsolate.
It is a brief recital of all that is to come.
It settles all matters in debate, resolves all doubts, and eases
the mind and conscience of all their scruples.
It reveals the only living and true God, and shows the way
to Him, and sets aside all other gods, and describes the vanity
of them and all that trust in such— in short, it is a book of laws
to show right and wrong, of wisdom that condemns a folly and
makes the foolish wise, a book of truth that detects all li< s aiid
confronts all errors, and it is a book of life that shows the way
from everlasting death.
It contains the most ancient antiquities and *trange events
wonderful occurrences, heroic deeds, unparalleled wars.
It describes the celestial, terrestrial, and infernal worlds, and
the origin of the angelic myriads, the human tribes, and the
devilish legions. [critia
[t will instruct the accomplished mechanic and most profound
t teaches the best rhetorician, and exercises every power of
the most skilful arithmetician, puzzles the wisest anatomist
and exercises the wisest critic.
It is the best covenant that ever was agreed on, the best deed
that ever was sealed, the best that ever will be signed.
ViSnif Mnry'i 7^cf— Patrick Henry, a great statesman of
Virginia, before he died made a will bequeathing all his
m nt ^Thrdat-1Ve8; Td at the ^--^wrotegthis tr
nicnt one thing more I wish I could leave
this' thoueh y°u
though
true
BIBLE CURIOSITIES
PERTAINING 10
[Answers page 3.]
t What was the first command of God ?
2. What was the first prophecy?
3. Who built the first city ?
4. Who was the first sacred historian ?
5. Who was the first judge according to the Bil/ie ?
6. Who was the first pilgrim ?
7. Who was the first shopherd mentioned in the Scripum-v
8. Who told the first lie as recorded in the Scriptures r
9. What was the first of the ten plagues of Egypt t
10. What was the first recorded song of the angeh Y
11. Who was the first Jewish high priest ?
12. Who was the first transgressor ?
13. Who was the first gardener ?
14. Who first wore the bridal veil ?
15. Who was the first machinist in brass and iron ?
16. Who was the first exile in Bible times ?
17. Of what did the first wedding present consist ?
18. What was tne first thing engraved ?
19. Who first held the office of scribe ?
20. By whom and for whom was the first burying g> «^
bought ?
21. According to sacred history who was the first hunt,* f
22. Who built the first ship ?
23. Who was the first outcast and vagabond?
U CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
24. Who first suffered martyrdom ?
25. Who is the first person known to have worn a ring OB
his finger and a gold chain on his neck ?
26. Who first used a saddle as recorded in the Bible ?
27. Who was the first man born that was named by th*
Lord before his birth ?
28. Who was the first to weep, according to the Scriptures T
29. Who was the first person that broke all the command
ments?
30. Who was the first person that died after the creation ?
31. Who was the first person that died a natural death ?
32. What was the first Scriptural song ?
33. Who made the first confession to the Lord, as recorded
in the Bible ?
34. Who was first guilty of theft, aside from Eve ?
35. What was the first offering of woman recorded in th*
Bible ?
36. Who was the first shepherdess ?
37. Who was the first recorded person raised from death to
life?
38. Who erected the first monument to the memory of the
dead?
39. Who was the first Jew to marry a Gentile, according tu
the Scriptures?
40. What is the first mountain mentioned in the Bible?
41. What were the first words spoken to man ?
42. Who was the first negro convert to Christianity men
tioned in the Bible ?
43. Who was the first that was called "the Hebrew" ov
Jew?
44. What is the first Bible record of the use of a navy ?
45. Where was the ferry-boat first used, and by whom?
46. When was the Sabbath first instituted, and by whom
observed?
47. Where have we an account of the first missionary
meeting?
48. Where is mention first made of the purchase of land ?
FIRST THINGS. Ifl
48. V\ ii^re is the first mention of printing m the Bible?
50 What is the first recorded use of current money ?
51. What was the text of our Saviour's first sermon?
52 Give the occasion on which man first exercised thr
lower of speech.
53. What was the occasion of the first voluntary fast n
corded in the Bible?
54. How does the first sermon delivered by man (who ?)
resemble the modern style of discourses ?
55. Who was the first president appointed in sacred history,
and by whom appointed ?
56. When was the use of flesh as food first allowed to man ?
57. What is the first recorded account of female govern
ment ?
58. Which of the tribes marched first in their journeying*
through the wilderness ?
59. What was the first miracle performed by Christ ?
60. Where are the wicked first spoken of as sinners, in the
Bible?
61. Who first took an oath or affidavit ?
62. Where is mention first made of a library ?
63. Give the first Scripture reference made to God aa a
King.
64. What was the first prayer for a king ?
65. Where is the first mention of beggars ?
66. Where is the first prophecy of the millennium recorded ?
67. Where is recorded the first act of surveying ?
68. Where do we read of the first Christian let!-<»r of reeoin
oiendation ?
69. When and by whom were temperance societies fir«t
formed?
70. WTiere were males first found and by whom V
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PBBTAINIXO TO
[Amwen page 9.]
1. To whom did God promise that his children should U
in numbers as the stars in heaven ?
2. How many examples does the Scripture give of ungodly
men desiring the prayers of the righteous ?
3. What queen was deprived of her throne by her son be
cause of her idolatry ?
4. By whom were the Jews delivered according to pro
phecy?
5. Why were the Levites scattered over the face of the
earth?
6. What king beat down a city and sowed it with salt?
7. Who was the father-in-law of Moses?
8. A man was driving his oxen in the field, and another
man came and threw his mantle over him. Who were thes*
mer^?
9. What prophet was himself the subject of prophecy?
10. In what famine do we read that women ate their ow n
children ?
11. The legal heir to the throne of Judah was hid by h.*
aunt for six years in the House of God to escape a murderoui
hand. Who was the woman and who was the future King?
12. In what cave did David seek refuge when pursued by
13. What did Solomon name the two pillars in the porch
of the temple ?
14. What c»^« was the hiding-place of fire Kings of I»r»el?
10 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
15. Of whom does the Bible speak as plowing with twelru
f oke of oxen ?
16. Which of the Kings of Israel built an ivory house ?
17. Who alone escaped the massacre of the priests of Nob .
18. Of whom does the Bible say, when frightened, his hair
stood on end ?
19. What King of Babylon put out the eyes of a captured
King of Judah?
20. Who was the last King of Judah ?
21. Who was the last King of the ten tribes of Israel V
22. On what mountain was Josiah slain in battle ?
23. What King of Israel commanded eighty-five priestd to
be slain with a sword ?
24. What woman upon the death of her son, king of
Judah, murdered her grandchildren and usurped the kingdom?
25. When was the feast of tabernacles celebrated for the
first time after the death of Joshua?
26. What was the name of the King of Judah that had his
eyes put out and then imprisoned for life?
27. On what mountains was a King commanded to gathei
a whole nation ?
28. What prophetess dwelt under a palm tree?
29. Who was the left-handed judge that delivered Israel?
30. Who slew his seventy brothers and proclaimed himself
King of Israel ?
31. Of whom does the Bible give an account as highway
robbers ?
32. The life of what King was endangered by a stone froic
he hand of a woman ?
33. Whose life was lengthened fifteen years in answer to
prayer?
34. Who wished to " die the death of the righteous? "
35. Who are the only three persons mentioned in the Bible
whose names commence with the letter V?
36 What King in besieging a city set an example to hii
people and said0 " What ye have soen me do, make harte find <Vv
telharedon«?"
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 21
37. Who was made King of Judah at seven years of age
having been hid for six years ?
38. What King shut up the temple of God?
39. Of whom and by whom was it said, they had '* written
bitter things against him? "
40. What High Priest stood between the living and thf
dead and averted a plague that had already slain 14,700?
41. What King of Judah was smitten with leprosy as a
judgment of the Lord for his pride V
42. What Canaanite King cruelly cut off the thumbs and
great toes of seventy conquered Kings and was subsequently
captured and made to suffer the same cruelty?
43. What rebel General gave the blood of a Queen to the
dogs?
44. What King was wounded in battle and to avoid the
reproach of being killed by a wroman ordered his armor-bearer
to slay him ?
45. What book of the Bible was written without mentioning
the name of God?
46. What King of Israel established an itinerant Ministry ?
47. By whom and to whom was it said " Come with us and
we will do thee good?"
48. What King had two sons that were lovely and pleasant
in their lives and in death they were not divided?
49. Who delivered Israel by killing 600 Philistines with an
DX goad?
50. From whom did Moses the leader of Israel receive hi«
oame, and why?
51 Who was King of Sodom at the time of its destruc
tion?
52. Who was King of Gomorrah at the time of its destruc
tion?
53. What was Aaron's conduct when his two sons were de
stroyed by fire from the Lord ?
54. Who attempted to escape from the presence of the Lord
wad paid his fare on a ship to another port ?
55. Wherp wa* Moses buried ?
22 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
56. What was the early Bible name for Prophet V
57. How many were the Songs of Solomon ?
58. What is the shortest song in the Bible?
69. A certain King was smothered by his servant, who was he ?
60. Who had for a possession 23 cities of Gilead?
61. By wnom were the children of Israel carried captive intc
i abyloi.
62. What ancient King employed dromedaries as mail car
riers?
63. Who was the founder of the Hebrew nation?
64. What King of Israel committed suicide, and how?
65. What laboring men were so honest in their dealings that
no accounts were kept?
66. Name two persons that saved their lives by hiding in a
well.
67. Of what defeated King does the Bible say, " How are
the mighty fallen?"
68. What two young men of the Bible were swifter than
eagles and stronger than lions ?
69. What King lost a thousand chariots in battle and who
captured them ?
70. Who was Melchizedek?
71. What Jewish King displayed his zeal for the Lord ic
destroying idolaters?
72. What King and what punishment was inflicted upon him
Cor attempting to lay hold on a prophet of God ?
73. What was the name of Moses' wife?
74. What leader of a rebellion among the children of Israel
was swallowed by an earthquake and all his host?
75. Who prayed " Give me neither poverty nor riches ? K
76. Who said though He slay me yet will I trust Him ?
77 Who is the shortest man mentioned in the Bible?
78. What five instances does the Bible give of caves being
wed as places of refuge ?
79. How were the Israelites commanded to treat strangers ?
80. What tribe was condemned to perpetual bondage, and
by vrhoso order V
OLD TESTAMENT PF.TiGONS. U
81. What employment did Joshua give the Gibeouite bond-
lien?
82. With what people was the first battle fought by toe
Israelites after leaving Egypt?
83. Who hid one hundred prophets in a cave?
84. In whose funeral possession do we find the first mention
of horsemen ?
85. Who prophesied that the Jews should eat their own
children?
86. Who did the Lord make a terror to himseil and hii
friends, and why?
87. Who prophesied that Judah should be carried captive
into Babylon and where is it recorded?
88. Where do we first read of a collection being taken, and
for what purpose?
89. What wrman said " I am weary of my life? "
90. What criminal in his confession said I saw, I coveted, I
took?
91. Of what old man do we read who felt none of the in
firmities of age ?
92. Six women once took a journey which resulted in a
wedding. Who was the bride and groom.
93. Who expressed a desire to be " where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary be at rest? "
94. What two instances do the Scriptures give of deceit
oeing employed by good men for their own preservation ?
95. What woman ridiculed a King for rejoicing, and suffered
hy it?
96. What did Job say at the loss of his children and all hi*
possessions?
97. What was the name of Aaron's wife?
98. What was the language of Eli when sore afflicted ?
99. Which of the prophets was carried captive to Baby-
ion?
IOC Who was the prophet of Israel in the time of Saul ?
101 Which of the prophets was a herdsman ?
108 Who Trn* Maher-shalal-hash-Kaz0
14 CURIOSITIES OF THE DIBLR.
103. What High Priest made and worshipped idols?
104. What victorious army took as trophies of war twc
hundred thousand captives and much spoil?
105. Upon the advice of what prophet was a captire host
returned to their own country by their victors ?
106. What king in his vain glory took a census of hii
pec pie?
107. What four persons does the Bible mention as being
engaged in a legitimate, remarkable, and profitable oil specu
lation?
108. What king traded in apes and peacocks ?
109. Who, when bereft of his best earthly friend, did not
weep in compliance with the command of God ?
110. What two prophets reproved King David?
111. What King of Israel followed heathen practices by
burning his children in the fire?
112. What haughty king, and in what way did God punish
him for his pride and arrogance ?
113. Who is greater than he that taketh a city?
114. Who sang a song of lamentation over the death of Saul
and Jonathan?
115. What is the longest word in the Bible?
116. What prophet was confined in a dungeon?
117. Who in time of trouble preferred to fall into the hands
of G»d than into the hands of men ?
118. Of what prophet is it recorded that he ate a book ?
119. How many prophetesses are there mentioned in 4hf
Bible?
120. In whose time was the great Jewish reformation ?
121. What is the most noted instance of devoted frienJ
drip?
122. Why was Joab promoted to be captain Dver J>avi«!>
army?
123. What pious King of Israel before going into battle
•ought help from God?
124. What three servants of God, during trial, wished U
die?
OLD TESTAMENT Ptitt&VNti. *'-
125. From whence was fire originally obtained which waa
kept perpetually burning on the golden altar?
126. How many instances does the Bible mention of adopto<l
children?
127. Who was the most wicked King of Israel?
128. To which son of Jacob was the birthright gvven when
;aken from Reuben ?
129. To whom did God promise an early death as a special
lavor?
130. What nation was famed for skill in hewing timber?
131. What distinguished female character was buried uudei
an oak?
132. In answer to whose prayer was rain witheld and after
wards granted?
133. Who refused to seek refuge in the temple in a time ol
danger?
134. Who was forbidden to eat anything made from the
vine?
135. What King of Israel was a shepherd in his youth?
136. What was Balaam's wish concerning his death?
137. Who was the last King of Israel ?
138. Prove from the Scriptures, that Moses had a pattern of
the tabernacle shown him ?
139. To what King of Israel did the Lord appear in a dream
by night?
HO. What people was always employed day and night?
141. What tribe was so fond of jewelry as to put gciden
chains on their camel's necks?
142. What three persons where swallowed alive in a pit, ar.i?
fhy?
1 43. Who are now the children of Abraham?
144. By whom was the first temperance society organized ?
145. By whom was a water test once used to prove soldien <
146. Whose army was compared to " grasshoppers formulti
hide," and their camels were without number?
147. What king was smitten with leprosy, and whyv
148. What was the name of Elisha's father?
M CURIOSITIES OF THE BfULK.
149. Wliat leader of Israel demanded of a conquaied trib«
thair golden ear-rings as a trophy of his victory?
150. Who built an altar unto the Lord at Mount Ebal?
151. What king shut up the temple of God?
152. Who did the Lord help in battle with hail-stone, whic*
slew more than the sword?
153. Who did the Lord send as spies by night to the Midinn-
ite's ca^ip and secured to them the victory ?
1C4. What was Joshua's inheritance in Canaan?
155. What prophet speaks of children playing in the street*
when describing Jerusalem in prosperity?
156. Who built the first city, according to the Scriptures V
157. Who was punished with death for touching the Ark of
God?
158. What are the names of the five kings who made war
against Gideon and were hanged?
159. To whose house was the Ark taken when brought to
Jerusalem, and how long did it remain?
160. Whose house was taken by the authorities for a prison,
and what prophet was secured in it ?
161. By whom was the prophet Jeremiah arrested and put
n'n prison ?
162. Who mortgaged their farms in time of drouth to buy
torn?
163. What governor of Judea refused a salary from big
people and treated them with princely hospitality?
164. Who was the first person that died after the creation ?
165. Who was the first person that died a natural death?
166. What was the name and rank of the officer under
Nebuchadnezzar that set fire to the temple at the first destruction
of Jerusalem ?
167. Unto whom was it said " set thine house in order for
thou shalt surely die "?
168. How many were the Proverbs of Solomon ?
169. What prophet wore a veil, and why?
170. What were the names of the twelve men, one front
each tribe of Israel, sent to sonrnh out the land of Canaan ''
OLD TESTAMENT PEliSUX*. X
171. What was the manner of Saul's death, and why V
172. Who was the mighty man of valor afflicted with leprosy \
173. A boy was once sent to carry to his brothers some loave*
wid some parched corn. The army to which his brother!
belonged gained a great victory in consequence of this visit
What was name of the boy? How was the victory won?
174. What distinguished Bible personage was arrayed ir
icarlet and gold with a chain about his neck?
175. What aged prophet's hands where upheld by two per
KIDS and caused the armies of Israel to be victorious?
176. Who entertained an angel unawares by offering a burnt
offering, and the angel ascended in the flames thereof?
177. Who was successor to David, King of Israel?
178. Who was Samson's father?
179. Who wasManoah?
180. Who partook of a meal prepared by an angel, and
was sustained forty days and nights while in the mountain ?
181. The birth of how many distinguished Bible characters
were announced by angels ?
182. Whose life was saved by giving heed to the warnings
oi an angel?
183. Unto whom did an angel appear with a drawn sword?
184. What names were given to angels, and how many?
185. How many Canaanite kings did the children of Israel
destroy on the taking of the promised land?
186. Who slew three hundred Philistines with a spear?
187. Who was chief of the mighty men of David?
188. Who wrested a spear from a giant's hands and ale*
him in self-defence ?
189. Who made the first confession to the Lord as recorded
m the Bible?
190. Who was the first Jew that married a Gentile, according
to the Bible? f
191. Who preferred to " abide in the street all night, lh*o
partake of the hospitatity of a prophet ?
192. Who wrote of being a witness to the swift flight of &c
28 CURIOSITIES OP THE BIBLE.
193. What mighty man had his robe torn in twelve piece*
by a prophet?
104. Of whom was it foretold by an angel that his beard
should never be shaved ?
195. On how many occasions were angels sent to destroy men ?
196. For whom did an angel prepare a dinner?
197. Who was chief among the captains of David ?
198. Of whom does the Bible mention as having met and
killed a lion in a snow storm?
199. What office will the angels perform at the judgment day ?
200. Who entertained angels unawares ?
201. What three persons does the Bible mention as being
mighty in strength and each slew a lion?
202. What two persons were commanded by an angel to take
off their shoes ?
203. What heroic act of one of the captains of David made
him chief among them ?
204. Who was Moses' father-in-law?
205. Who had giant sons, and preserved their land forty
years from a foreign invasion?
206. What was the fate of the ten spies that brought a false
report from Canaan ?
207. What prophet tore the robe of a mighty man in twelve
208. Who was borne away by angels after his death ?
209. Who hid a linen girdle in a rock by the river En •
phrates?
210. Which of the prophets was a gatherer of sycaiucrt
211. Who plundered the temple and took away the shield*
of gold?
212. Who carried a little coat to her son every year?
213. Unto whom did God say, " I am thy shield?"
214. By whom was Solomon's temple first destroyed?
215. Of whom was it said he prayed by an open window ?
216. Who does the Bible say is greater than he that tatetr
\city?
OLD TESTAMKXT
217. Who could say of the Lord from sad experience " thoa«
that walk in pride he is able to abase? "
218. What wicked King was punished by the Lord till his
hairs were grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds
claws.
219. What builders worked with a sword girded at then
side and armed men standing beside them? Who were thes*
and why were they armed?
220. What King showed to the messengers of another King
all his silver and gold and treasures ?
221. Who restored the vessels taken from the first tem
ple?
222. What prophet broke the yoke and bonds off the neck
of another prophet, and what was his name?
223. What general lay in ambush with his army and succeed
ed in capturing it and destroyed its inhabitants and burnt the
city?
224. The King of what city was taken alive in battle and
hung to a tree until dead ?
225. What was Joshua's name up to the time he was chosen
one of the twelve to spy out the land of Canaan?
226. What King was guilty of idolatry in making two
golden calves and commanding the people to worship them ?
227. Who boastfully said, " Is not this the great Babylon
that I have built?"
228. Who, to avoid being captured, was let down from a
house top by a scarlet cord ?
229. What vision did Ezekel see by the river Chebar ?
230. Who dedicated the temple?
231. How was the prophecy fulfilled that the glory of Hit
second temple should be greater than the glory of the first?
232. Who sought retirement in a field for meditation ?
233. Of what King is it said " that he was driven f: om men
and did eat grass as oxen? "
234. Who put out Zedekiah's eyes ?
235. What captive was appointed ruler over aL lhat hit
had?
40 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
236. What prophet put bonds and jokes on his neck, and
why?
237. Who prepared the material for building the temple?
238. By whom was the foundation of the second temple
laid?
239. Who prophesied that the glory of the second templ«
should be greater than the glory of the first ?
240. Who beheld a vision in the valley of dry bones ?
241. In answer to whose prayers was rain sent ; also pre
vented?
242. Who buried Saul's body after he had committed
suicide?
243. Who said "To obey is better than sacrifice, and to
hearken, than the fat of rams? "
244. Who burned incense on an altar before idols of gold ?
245. Who was afflicted with insanity as a punishment fron,
the Lord for his pride and arrogance ?
246. Who built Tadmor (Palmyra) in the desert?
247. Which prophet acted the part of a physician by giving
a medical prescription ?
248. Who proved themselves the servants of God by partak
ing only of vegetables and water ?
249. Why were the Ammonites and the Moabites prohibited
from coming into the congregation of the Lord forever ?
250. Which of the prophets was called from the plow?
251 . Who in deep affliction was forsaken by all his friendi
and afterward in the time of prosperity visited him, each one
bringing a piece of gold and an ear-ring?
252. Who rent his mantle and plucked off his hair?
253. Who were the bride and groom of the first bridal pro
cession that entered the land of Canaan ?
254. Who prophesied the destruction of a city and its dooTt?
was averted by the repentance of its people ?
255. The destruction of Ninevah was the fulfilment oi
whose prophecy ?
256. Who built a monument in the middle of a rivsr?
What river, and why?
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257. By whom and on what occasion wa* a monumeiit used
as a table in eating?
258. What was Belshazzar's last official act before hia de<u h ?
250. Who was Belshazzar's successor as King of the CliaL
deans ?
260. What commander refused to lead uia army to battle
in less a prophetess accompanied him?
261. What prophetess played upon a musical instrument ?
262. What Jewish captives were promoted to positions of
honor in Babylon ?
263. Who was reigning King of Babylon at the time of it?
lapture by the Medes ?
264. Who was the first president mentioned in Sacred His
tory and by whom appointed ?
265. What exile returned and rebuilt the walls of the city oi
nis fathers ?
266. What aged person waited in Jerusalem the coming oi
the Messiah ?
267. Why did God permit the children of Israel to be re
moved from their land?
268. What King was carried captive to Babylon and brought
back to Jerusalem ?
269. What was the height of the giant Goliath ?
270. Who does the Bible say had six fingers and six toes OL
each hand and foot ?
271. What prophet mentions by name three men eminent
for piety and prayer? Who were they ?
272. What was the total number of the children of Israel
that went down to Egypt?
273. How many were there of the children of Israel that
?ame out of Egypt 430 years afterward?
274. Who slew eighty-five priests, and by whose command V
275. Who was very near being ki lied for eating a little honey \
276. What King of Judah had not seen a copy of the La*
till he was twenty-six years old ?
277. \Vhat treasurer built for himself a sepulchre in whicl
be was never laid ?
Jf CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLk
27a. \\ ho built a pillar to make himself remembered
he had no son ?
279. What two false prophets of the same names as a
King of Israel and a King of Judah were burned by Nebu
chadnezzar ?
280. How many instances are recorded in the Old Testament.
jf the dead being raised to life ?
281. Who was in command of the largest army recorded in
iho Bible ?
282. What wicked King delayed the punishment due to hii
eril deeds by humbling himself? [battle?
283. What King of Israel disguised himself before entering
284. Who was the mother of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah?
285. Who was pronounced a ready scribe in the law?
286. What King of Israel sold himself to work wickedness V
287. What prophet shared the fate of a criminal by being
placed in the stocks?
288. Why was the name of Pashur, a governor of Judah,
changed to Magor-missabib ?
289. What King released Jehoiachim, King of Judah, after
he had been in prison thirty-seven years, and nourished and
honored him till the day of his death ?
290. What captive Jew grieved so bitterly over the downfall
of Jerusalem that he was permitted by the King, whom he
served, to return and rebuild the holy city ?
291. How many instances are given of laying hold on the
horns of the altar for refuge ?
292. What prophet called for music before delivering hie
prophecy?
293. Under whose reign was silver as plentiful as stones ID
Jerusalem ?
294. What King of Israel was slain in battle and the dcffe
licked up his blood ?
295. What Scriptural e.ianaples are there of early piety?
296. Who was the brother of Goliath, and who slow him?
297. What dead man was restored to life by touching th«
of another '•>
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS S*
298. What tribe had no inheritance in the land of prou*i>u,
•uid why?
299. What King of Israel was told by a dying prophet U
Lake a bow and arrow and shoot out the window and smite the
ground?
300. Who hid a hundred prophets in a cavo ?
301. By whom and to whom was the question asked. " How
old art thou ? ' ' and what answer was given ?
302. Who employed a wandering Levite as a family priest,
paying him a yearly salary, besides his board and clothes?
303. What ' ' mighty man of valor ' ' was restored to health
by means of a captive servant ?
304. What two remarkable prayers were answered before
the petition was concluded?
305. Who followed a father's advice, " To drink no wine? "
306 Who stole money from his mother, and upon its return
was melted into idols ?
307. What was Samson's riddle, and where ia it recorded?
308. Who prayed all night till break of day?
309. By whose order were seventy brothers slain and their
heads put in a basket?
310. What king had an iron bedstead ?
311. Who filled up the wells that Abraham had dug, and
who dug them out?
312. What woman wandered seven years in a land of
strangers, during a famine in her own country?
313. When was prayer once offered from the depths of the
tea?
314. Who calls the grave "the house appointed for all
living"?
315. What Jewish prince was found suspended in the
branches of an oak ?
316. What young man listened to the couns >1 of his com
panions with disastrous results, rather than heed the advice of
big father?
317. Who was King of Assyria at the time the children
of Israel were ^xrgt carried into captivity?
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34 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
318. What two men were prophesied of by name long before
their birth?
319. Who built Nineveh?
320. Which tribes of Israel were first carried into captivity ?
321. What man wept when those that had injured him uskfii
his forgiveness?
322. Among the men born after the flood, who attained th'
greatest age ?
323. What women are mentioned in the Bible as taking par'.
in the religions services?
324. Mention the name of the only female whose full name
IB given in the Bible.
325. What king visited a dying seer, and fr®m restricted
faith injured his own fortunes ?
326. W hat warrior fought so long and desperately that his
hand clave to the hilt of his sword?
327. Give instances of a single person being called by
different names in the Bible.
328. What prophecy was fulfilled by Sampson becoming »
judge?
329. The tribe of Dan is omitted from one of the lists of
the tribes of Israel and that of Simeon from another, where a-o
these lists found?
330. On what three occasions is the destroying angel men
tioned?
331. How was it that Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoran:
King of Israel, came to the throne upon the death of his father?
332. By what means did Rahab aid the escape of the spies
sent to Jericho?
333. What disciples of our Lord wished to command fire to
come down from heaven upon the Samaritans ?
334. For what purpose did Jeremiah use the type of good
and bad figs?
335. What special law was given to Moses in reference to
cases where property was left to the daughters of a family?
336. For what purpose did Jeremiah hide stones in the cla\
t to the house of Pharaoh. Kiuc: of Egypt, in Tapl ,vili-w -
OLD TESTAMENT PE&SONti. SB
837. What price did Amaziah, King of Judali, pay for th«
hire of one hundred thousand of Israelites V
338. Who was the founder of Samaria?
339. Mention a passage where old clouts are mentioned as
used in helping a prophet out of a dungeon.
340. What King of Judah " did that which was evil in the
tight of the Lord," and reigned but three months and ten days V
341. What man of Israel was stoned for blaspheming God (
342. For what purpose was Aaron's rod, which budded,
kept in the tabernacle? [and by whom?
343. Where were the bones of Saul and Jonathan buried,
344. What two kings disguised themselves before going into
battle, and were both slain by archers?
345. Who is it likens the ungodly to chain
346. What relation was David to Joab ?
347. By what means did Michal, the daughter of Saul
deceive her father as to the absence of David ?
348. What king was on the throne of Judah when he was
only eight years old ?
349. What were the names of the sons of Samuel?
350. Quote the words used by Moses at the commencement
and termination of the journeyings of the Israelites.
351. What king was smitten with leprosy for burning
incense?
352. What women helped to build the walls of Jerusalem?
353. Which of David's relatives acted as a scribe for him?
354. What was the name of the nurse of Rebakah, the wife
ol Isaac?
355. Who was the captain of the guard appointed to look
after Jeremiah and remove him from prison?
356. What miracle did God work to enable a widow to pay
her debts?
357. What was the total number of captives who returned
from the Babylonish captivity with Ezra?
358. When God sent an anoffl in the days of David to destroy
, who was said to have seen the anerel and hid their
.V, CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
359. Who is mentioned as having dwelt in the college of th«
prophets ?
360. Quote the passage in which Elisha calls Ahab a
murderer.
361. What persons are mentioned as being able to use both
the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting
arrows?
362. What judgment fell upon the two eldest sons of Aaron,
&nd why ?
363. Where do we find it recorded of Moses that he was
leprous?
364. What king's body was fastened to the wall of Beth
shan?
365. Of what people is it said that they could " fling a stone
at a hair's breadth?"
366. Of whom is it recorded that he went down and slew a
a lion in a pit ovi a snowy day ?
367. What Jang visited a dying prophet's bed and wept
over him?
368. Which was the learned tribe of Israel?
369. Who was the Ethiopian who trusted in the Lord and
his life was given him for a prey?
370. Who was hypocrite enough to weep with some mourn
ing worshippers, thus decoying them into the city and then
slew them ?
371. Who predicted that an evading king should pitch his
tent over the spot indicated?
372. What other nation besides Israel is to be scattered to
every people?
373. In Ezek. xii. 13, it is said to Zedekiah, I will bring him
V, Babylon, yet he shall not see it, how could that be?
374. Who was the young man that was jealous of his maa-
ter's honor?
375. Which was the honest tribe in Israel?
376. Name the man and his four sons who hid themselvw
from »n angel.
877. What relation was Esther to Mord^cai?
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS 37
378. What prophet waited for a good man to say grace
before they sat down to their feast?
379. What King of Israel loved farming?
380. Who did a brave deed upon a " snowy day? "
381. Whom did the Lord seek to kill in an inn as he was CD
a journey with his wife and child?
382. What woman was won by the bravery of a warrior and
became his wife, after the husband had fled from his country,
she married another man, but when he became great he sent to
the king of the country he had left and demanded his wife, the
king took her from her husband and sent her under a soldier's
escort, her husband followed weeping until sent back by the
captain ?
383. Who was the heathen priest whose grandsons are
frequently mentioned in scripture ?
384. What very old man, the oldest since the flood, was kind
to a boy who afterwards repaid hia kindness by killing his
son?
385. What king's name meant peaceable ?
386. What man, although warned, invited his murderer to
a feast?
387. What tribe furnished the counsellors of Israel ?
388. Where is the destroying angel mentioned three times in
the Old Testament ? [death ? ' '
389. Who said "there is but one step between me and
390. The Lord once asked a man if he sought great things
for himself, and told him not to do so, who was it?
391. How many men were sent to take up Jeremiah from
vhe dungeon?
392 . Where do we read that certain postmen were mocked
and jeered at when they delivered the news?
393. What king did God smite with leprosy?
394. What king offered to covenant with the men of a city,
provided he might thrust out their right eyes?
395. Name the man to whom an angel spake as he stood on
a hill top, at whose foot lay one hundred and two meu,
»eorcl»>d to death.
JH CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
396. Name the seven persons whose names were predicted
before their birth.
397. In the Jewish polity, who might not marry a widow'?
398. What two young men fell victims to a curse which had
been pronounced five centuries previously, a curse which probably
kh^ir fathers, who were the cause of the judgment, never knew
01 had forgotten ?
399. Give instances of possessing the assurance of forgive
ness of sin.
400. Where are tinkering gipsies mentioned in the Bible V
401. Who was David's companion and counsellor at an
eaiiy part of his reign?
40'2. What king had eighty-eight children?
403. Prove from the Old and New Testament that David
wa» inspired.
404. What tribe of Israel was noted for the possession of
praciical wisdom?
405. The Tree of Life mentioned in the revelations is also
gpoken of by which of the prophets ?
406. Quote the passage in which Isaiah expressly foretells
the resurrection of the dead.
407. Who, in Bible times, preached from a pulpit?
408. Name two Hebrew leaders whose strength did not
abate with a^e. [kingly manner?
409. Who, though not a King, was said to have acted in a
410. Name the King that was slain by conspirators and was
brought on hon^es to his grave.
411. Name A King who was an extensive farmer and loved
husbandry.
412. When Kzra the scribe expounded the Book of the Lord,
what posture did the people assume?
413. What King applied the very same words to a prophet
as that prophet had previously applied to another prophet?
414. Who was the youngest son of the Patriarch Jacob?
415. Who was it said " let all thy wants lie on me? "
416. Mention the circumstances under whch a prophet de
clared himself to be no prophet
TESTAMENT /'A'/tottMS. 3?
417. VViial judgment fell on one who wat highly exalted Aud
prosperous in consequence of his arrogating to himself spiritua.
functions?
418. Of whom was it said that baldness was produced arti
ficially, as indicative of mourning?
419. What were the three principal promises that God made
U> Abraham?
420. In what language did Moses foretell the terrible conse
quences of rejecting the Messiah?
421. What reason is assigned for King Solomon passing
sentence of death upon his brother Adonijah?
422. We read in John xix. 17, u And Jesus bearing his cross
went forth," &c. Where do we find its antitype in the Old
Testament?
423. Whatsoever hath a blemish, said Moses, that shall ye
not offer. What exception was there to this rule ?
424. To what three persons was <5he second prophesy of the
Messiah made?
425. By whom and to whom was the -first letter written, ac
cording tc the Scriptures ?
426. Give a complete list from the Old Testament of those
who were raised from the dead.
427. Why did God forbid the Israelites obtaining horses
from Egypt?
428. Who was it caused the destruction of the city of Nob ?
429. From the head of what King did David take a crown,
and it \v as placed on his own head ?
430. Who rebuilt Jericho and what prophecy was then ful
filled''
431. Where is it recorded that Elisha called Ahat a mur
derer ?
432. How many instances of suicide are recorded in the
Bible ? Name the persons and the manner of their death ?
433. How many cities were given to the Levites for their
use?
434. Of whom did Jeremiah prophesy that he should bf
buriod with the " burial of an asa? "
40 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
435. To whom did God promise that he should beget twelve
princes?
436. What were Solomon's other names, and by whom wer«
they given? [adder?"
437. Who are compared in the Scriptures to "a deai
438. Who was the man the prophet Jeremiah said " wou.d
he a terror to himself and to all his friends? "
439. Give the name of a King of Judah to whom it was ro
vt-aled, several hundred years beforehand, that the Redeeme»
should be born of a virgin.
440. What two persons are mentioned in the Old Testament
as fasting 40 days ?
441. Whose seven sons were hanged on account of their
father's perfidy?
442. Why was the brazen serpent " that Moses made " de
stroyed, and by whose order?
443. What two persons lost their lives by using " strange
fire in burnt offering?
444. We read that according to the Mosaic law, a Jew, when
»e came into his neighbor's vineyard, might eat " his fill oi
grapes." What restriction was imposed on one so doing?
445. Who was the Apollo of the Greeks and inventor of
string and wind instruments?
446. Who was guilty of worldly cunning in the hope of a
reward ?
447. What King mentioned in the Old Testament and an
other in the New who made the same offer?
448. Quote the instance in which a man was slain in a 3itj
of refuge. Who was he?
449. What King and prophet both refer to slavery of th<>
Israelites in Egypt in the very same terms ?
450. What three Kings were denounced in exactly the same
451. What judgment befell the two sons of Aaron, and why?
452. Of whom did God say " I will make him a mightj
uHtion?"
453 What is the most ancient war on r««ord ?
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 4*.
454. In what manner, and by whom, was Benhadad put t<;
death?
455. For what reason were the Israelites forbidden by God
to procure horses in Egypt?
456. With what two fearful commissions from God woi^
entrusted to Jehu, the son of Ilanani the seer?
457. The names of but two of the seventy elders elected t»3
M jses are mentioned in the Bible ; who were they?
458. What two ungodly persons recorded in Genesis weie
gainers by having god-fearing servants?
459. What King of Moab fought against two of the grand
sons of Omri, King of Israel? [Israel?
460. What prophet foretold the result of the ten tribes of
461. By the deceit and falsehood of a woman the lives of
what two men were saved?
462. How many times is it recorded that God appeared to
Solomon ?
463 Give two reasons recorded in Deuteronomy why God
delivered the Jews from Egyptian bondage.
464. Show that Job attributed his troubles to the Almighty
465. What prophet was told by God not to mourn when his
wife died ?
466. What two wicked persons, one in the Old and one in
tho New Testament were once possessed of the prophetic spirit?
467. By whose advice were the women of Moab and of
Midian instigated to turn the Israelites tc idolatry?
468. On what occasion did Solomon petition God to be
favorable to his people in case they were ever carried captive by
I heir enemy?
4.69. Which of the tribes quarrelled with Gideon because
they were not summoned to join him in the fighting agains't the
Midianites?
470. The names of only three women besides Eve who lived
before the flood are recorded in the Bible ; give them and stat>3
who they were.
471. Where do we read of a colored woman aiding ami
lb«'Uin<r thp escape ot two
\'£ CURIOSITIES OF T11L
172. Mention the names of a few individuals \\liusr vi
deaths may be regarded as a consequence of their covetcusness.
473. In what part of the Old Testament do we read of the
interment of a Jewish King in his own garden ?
474. Prove from Scripture, 1. That the Bible must be re
ferred to ; 2. That it should be searched ; 3. That it must be
Dbeyed on all points.
475. In what reign and for what reasons was the brazen
aerpent " that Moses had made " destroyed?
476. Where were the children of Israel encamped when th<j
spies were despatched to " search the land of Canaan? "
477. Who was allowed the choice of three punishments in
consequence of his vain glory ? [salem V
478. What man was forbidden by the king to leave Jeru-
479. What queen sent a message under a false signature ?
480. What prophet was suspended between earth and
heaven by a lock of his hair ?
481. What king feigned insanity in an enemy's country?
482. Who told his life's secret to a woman with disastrous
results ?
483. Three men, in different periods, stood almost alone in
their godliness, among a crooked and perverse generation — name
them.
484. What words of Shechaniah may be used by every
sinner this side the grave ?
485. The Almighty condescended so far as to take a name
f om certain men by which He might be known among their
\ )sterity ; give their names and Christ's comment upon it.
486. From the language used by the daughters of Zelophe-
had, show that they understood how death entered the
world.
487. What mother looked out of a window and cried for tb«
return of her son from battle ?
488. What blind prophet received a disguised queen ?
490. What prophet was sent as a missionary to the Gentilt* 1
491. To which of the prophets does Christ relate the eircum
•t&nces of his martyrdom ?
OLD TESTAMENT PKRSONb. 4,}
492. What exiled mother, in distress for want of water,
threw her child under a bush to die ; the cry of the boy brought
relief from God ?
493. To whom did an angel announce the birth of a deliv
erer of Israel ?
494. What king was declared by his people to be worth ten
thousand of them ?
495. What captured King had his thumbs and great toua
cutoff?
496. To whom was applied the military title of general ?
497. What king, during a sleepless night, recalled an un
remembered act of faithful service ?
498. What prophet was the recipient of an open letter, and
by whom sent ?
499. Who in the midst of starvation prophesied plenty on
the morrow ?
500. What king was slain by a prophet ?
501. The mourning of a king was employed as a designation
pf the deepest grief by a prophet ; name the king and pro
phet.
502. Give in one verse from the book of Job, a most signifi
cant description of the weakness and vanity of man.
503. When was it plainly shown to the heathen, that the
faith of one man is stronger than the united might of many
ungodly nations ?
504. Name a king who specified the God he served by aii
appellation which is nowhere to be found except in his history.
505. Which of the prophets attests the statement of Moses
as to the duration of the march of the Israelites through tlu
wilderness ?
506. When was a great reformer disregarded by those lie
wished to help, and obliged to wander, fearing punishment a*
» murderer?
507. One and the same way was a way of life and a way oi
death ; prove thia by a fact described in the Old Testament.
508. Name a child whom God heard and answered wheu
trying
44 CURIOSITIES Of THE BIBLE
509. Whose confession of sin was followed by forgiveness,
and attested through a heavenly sacrament, and conveyed
through the medium of seraphic absolution?
510. Which of the prophets is it asserts that thirsty cattle
call to God ?
511. To whom was applied the epithet " mad fellow," ai J
by whom ?
512. What accident was the occasion of King Ahaziah't
death ?
513. What nation threw off the yoke of Israel upon the sue
cession to the throne of an idolatrous king ?
514. What prophecy was fulfilled in the death of Ahab ?
515. What were the names and fate of two servants that
attempted to lay violent hands on a King of Judah ?
516. How many and what are the names of the queens tha
reigned over Judah ?
517. What king was sick two years of an incurable disease
and died according to prophecy ?
518. What king on the eve of a battle was encouraged by
the words of a prophet : — " Be not afraid, for the battle is not
your's, but God's ? "
519. What prophet was slain in the house of the Lord ?
How ? Why ? And by the order of what king ?
520. But one of the Kings of Israel was annointed, who was
he, and by whom annointed ?
521 Dark days were at hand for the ten tribes of Israel.
They had forsaken God, and He had given them over to their
own ways. A succession of idolatrous kings led them faithei
and farther from God. And now their enemies are permitted
to ravage their country. What tribes suffered first ? And \v hat
geographical reason can be assigned for this ?
522. What queen of Bible times is described by the epithet
<k that wicked woman ? "
523. What wicked King of Israel died an ignomiaious death,
and was not permitted a burial in the sepulchre of the kings ?
524. What distinguished titles were given to the duaccndanta
nf Esau and to no other Bible characters V
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS 45
525. What servant of a prophet was smitten with leprogj
for having obtained money and goods under false pretense* V
526. What were the names of the three handsomest women in
%11 the laud?
527. What prophet refused to obey the command of the
Lord ; concerning whom a miracle was wrought, and he after
wards repented and went?
528. What king forced into his service every strong and
tali ant man he saw?
529. What prophet declared himself to be " old and gray-
headed?"
630. What king, by the advice of his wife, appropriated the
fruits of a poor man's vineyard?
531. What king disguised himself in battle and was slain ?
532. What king was cursed and grossly insulted, and by
whom?
533. Who in his prayer said " I am but dust? "
534. Who are the only two women whose ages are recorded
in the Bible? [judge'/
535. Of whom does the Bible speak as being a circuit
536. What two persons witnessed the death of Aaron and
performed the burial service ?
537. On what occasion did the prophet Samuel express a
fear that Saul would kill him ?
538. What peculiar ceremony was performed by Moses in
the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the office of priest
hood?
539. Why was Joab made the captain of David's army?
540. Why did not Ezra have a band of soldiers to prot*^ (
him and the Jews on their journey from Babylon to Jeru
salem?
541. What prophet gave a prescription to a king that healed
R painful disease ?
542. What king, in sickness, trusted in physicians rather
than in the Lord for recovery ?
543. What King of Judah was overtaken by an inradinf
army and had his eyes put out ?
46 CUKJOS1T1ES OF THE BlliLh.
544. To whom did Aaron transfer his robes of office at
death ?
545. What people suffered torture, equaLed only by the
inquisition of the dark ages?
546. Who said u This is none other but the house of God.
and this is the gate of heaven V "
547. What are the names of Job's three friends that camp
to mourn with him V
548. What prophet erected a monument commemorative oJ
a great victory ? What did he name the monument ?
549. The appeal of five orphan girls to a judge caused anew
law to be made in favor of woman's rights. Name the parties,
and what was the law ?
550. What two kings were driven from their domimorn Irv
hornats?
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PBKTAJNINQ TO
Persons.
[Answers page 31.]
1. Wiioare the only three persons mentioned in the Bible.,
vrhose names commence with the letter F ?
2. Who was the first Christian convert in Europe ?
3. Who carried the Epistle of St. Paul from Corinth to
Rome?
4. What unrighteous judge trembled before a prisoner in
chains ?
5. For whom did a band of men lie in wait, bound by 2111
oath that they would neither eat nor drink till they had kill«-<l
him?
6. What New Testament orator preferred charges against
St. Paul?
7. Who accused St. Paul as being a ringleader?
8. What prisoner in chains addressed a multitude from the
stairs of a castle ?
9. Where may we find in St. Paul's own words an account oi
his o&nversion ?
10. What is the name of the only person mentioned in ti.i
Bible whose name commences with the letter Q ?
11 To whom is promised the hidden manna?
12. Who in preaching prolonged his sermon till midnight V
13. Which Apostle told Christ he had left all to follow him '>
14. Which of the Apostles first suffered martyrdom <;
15. Where in the Bible is St. Paul first mentioned ?
4
$0 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
15. Which of the Apostles cut off the right ear of a ina..
with a sword, and what was his name? [Philip.
17. What are the only two recorded acts of the Apostle
18 What city claims the birth-place of St. Paul ?
19. To what religious sect did St. Paul belong?
20. Of whom and by whom wv t said they were neithei
»)ld 01 hot spiritually?
21. In what one point did Christ as man differ from MKU.
kind in general?
22. What was our Saviour's last command to his disciples ?
23. Of whom was it said he was mighty in the Scriptures ?
24. Who said if all the things which Jesus did were recorded
the world itself could not contain the books that would be writ-
ien?
25. What test of discipleship did Jesus give ?
26 What words of Moses are quoted in the New Testament
which are not found in the Old ?
27. On what two occasions was the displeasure of Jesus
excited. [death ?
28. What intimation was given to Peter of the manner of his
29. What was the parting promise of our Saviour to his dis
pi pies ?
30. Who being overcome with sleep during a sermon, and feli
out of a third story window, was taken up for dead ?
31. Who was called a ringleader ?
32. Who read the writings of a prophet while riding in a
chariot ?
33. What prophet bound his feet and Hands with a, girdle ?
34. What woman continued in prayer day and night in the
'emple?
35 Who is called the light of the world ?
30. What was Saul's errand to Damascus when arrested and
converted ?
37. What was the Apostle Paul's first prayer ?
38. Who did the Lord send to restore sight to Paul ?
39. To what converts docs St. Paul refer as the " s^al of ni§
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. 51
4O Of whom was said their zeal was without knowledge?
41. What scripture examples have we of Christian zeal being
iltributed to madness ?
42. Who was St. Paul's teacher?
43. How many years subsequent to the event did Christ say
" Remember Lots wif e " ?
44. What great honor was conferred upon Mary Magdaleut
by our Saviour after his resurrection ?
45. To whom did our Saviour appear the second time aftei
his resurrection ?
46. To whom did our Saviour appear the third time after
his resurrection ?
47. When and where, by whom and to whom was the com
mand given, " Go to all the world and preach the gospel? "
48. Who was the only person, according to the sacred record,
that raised a voice against the mock trial and crucifixion of our
Saviour ?
49. Who is mentioned as coming to Jesus by night?
50. Who was compelled to bear the cross of Christ to the
piace of crucifixion ?
51. How many and what are the recorded expressions of our
Saviour on the cross ?
52. At the trial of our Saviour upon the charge of treasop
and sedition, what was the first question asked him ?
53. What three Apostles were regarded by St. Paul as pillar*
iii the church ?
54. By whom are we told to search the Scriptures ?
55 Who wrote the last book in the Bible ?
56 With whom did our Saviour spend his last Sabbath V
57. Whose sermon was adorned with poetical quotations ?
58. Who was commanded by an angel to bind on hu
aandal ?
59 . On what occasion and where were St. Paul and Barnabaa
taken for gods ?
60. The name of what heathen god was applied to St. Paul,
by whom, and why ?
^1 . The nnme of wliat h^then eod was applied to Baniaba* ?
52 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
62. What Athenian judge was converted under Paul's
preaching ?
63. What New Testament character forsook Chi 1st for the
Jove of the world ?
64. Who said "At the name of Jesus every knee should bow ? "
65. What Christian was commended by the Apostles for hos
pitality ?
66. Who will be the guests at the marriage supper of the
lamb ?
67 Who was Diotrephes, and what was his character ?
6S. Who predicted the famine in the days of Claudius Caesar ?
69. Whom did a high priest command to be smitten on the
mouth ?
70. Who had a coat woven without seam ?
71. On the foundation of the walls of what city are the names
of the twelve Apostles written ?
72. Who escaped arrest by being let down from the walls
of a city in a basket ?
73. What was St. Paul's occupation ?
74. What Athenian woman is mentioned as being converted
under Paul's preaching?
75. Who on one occasion kept back part of what they had de
voted to the cause of God ?
76. Sick persons were once placed where the shadow of a
good man might pass over them. Why was this done ? Who
was the man ?
77. Who had power divine to handle serpents unharmed ?
78. Whose face in preaching shone like an angel ?
79. How many instances have we of Christ raising the dea«)
to life ?
80. How many instances have we of the Apostles raising the
dead to life ?
81. What instance is recorded of the dead being raised to
life without the interposition of the Prophets, Christ or the
Apostles ?
82. How loot? did St. Paul live in h:s own hired house at
Rome?
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. 52
83. Whose life was endangered by a conspiracy of 40 men Y
84. Who took Judas' place amoHg the twelve ?
85. The Apostle James suffered martyrdom. How ? By
whom?
86. Who came to prove Solomon with hard questions ?
87. What member of the primitive church tried the patieu oe
jt even the loving disciple ?
88. Who, when cruelly put to death, prayed lite his Lord for
his murderers?
89. On what two occasions did the Lord Jesus receive the
assistance of angels ?
90. In which of the Gospels is the mission of tho seventy
alone recorded ?
91. Who charged the Gentiles as being a " foolish nation ? "
92. To what country did Trophimus (one of St. Paul's mis
sionary companions) belong ?
93. By whose order was the Apostle James martyred ?
94. What three portions of the Holy Scriptures did the%
Saviour say contained predictions concerning himself ?
95. On what three occasions is mention made of Nicode-
muf?
96. What Levite sold his land and laid its price at the Apos
tle's feet?
97. How many times did the Lord Jesus cleanse the Temple ?
98. In which of our Lord's miracle/ is reference made to the
custom of employing professional mourners?
99. Prove St. James' assertion (James ii. 9) " The devilf
also believe " in the Saviour's divinity.
100. Before how many tribunals was the Saviour brought
ifter his apprehension ?
101. Who was called Mercurius, by whom, and why?
.02. Who called Jesus " the shepherd and bishop of our
•ouls?"
103. To whom did St. Paul write * * prepare me also a lodg
ing?'*
104. What was the cause of the quarrel between Paul and
)4 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
105. How many times is it recorded, and by whom used,
the words * ' Be not weary in well doing ? "
106. The words ' ' Jesus Christ " are placed together one*
only in the Gospels. Where ?
107. Show both from the Old and New Testaments that the
eustom cf celebrating birthdays is a very ancient one.
108. Quote the precise words of the Saviour when for the
ftrst time he was smitten in the face.
109. By whom is Noah mentioned as a preacher of right
eousness ?
110. Who was the wife of Felix, the Governor of Caesarea?
111. Why was Zacharias, the father of St. John the baptist,
struck dumb ?
112. What prophet, in the New Testament, foretells a
famine which afterwards occurred in the days of Claudius
Csesar ?
l!3. What does St. Paul say was a stumbling block to the
Jews ?
i!4. To what king did our Lord refer when he said " Go ye
and tell that fox?"
115. Where does St. Paul tell us how to know his epistles ?
116. Quote a passage in which St. Paul says he was hindered
in his work by Satan.
117. On what occasion did St. Paul conform to the Jewish
ceremonial law in order to conciliate the Jewish converts V
118. Which of St. Paul's fellow workers does he say "was
sick unto death?"
119. What apostle is it speaks of journeying into Spain?
120. What lawyer is mentioned as being one of St. Paul's
workers?
121. Who was the chief man in the island of Melita, where
St. Paul was shipwrecked ?
122. Upon what occasion did our Lord check the undue
curiosity of one of his disciples ?
123. What epistle does St. Paul state he wrote Wi on his own
hand?
J£i- Who are mentioned by St. Paul as his kinsmen?
JEW TESTAMENT PERSONS 55
115. Which was the last appearance of the Virgin Mary ?
126. Why did Christ so forcibly press his personal identity
jn his disciples after his resurrection?
127. What two distinct promises did our Saviour make hu
disciples when about to leave them?
128. How often does St. Paul quote h. ^then writers, and who
ire they ?
129. Where is our Lord's first recorded act of interceask n 5
130. What three persons (not including our Saviour) art?
called Jesus ?
131. Give an instance from the Bible of each of the follow
ing characters : —
(1) Those who believe in eternity and live for it.
(2) Those who believe in the world and live for it.
(3) Those who believe in eternity but live for the world.
132. Who were certain men who perceived the power ol
God, and attained to exercise it independent of his grace, and
suffered for their presumption ?
133. What prophet used the girdle of Another when foretell
ing his death ?
134. What king's son was lamed by falling from his nurse's
arms?
135. An Ephesian Christian who accompanied St. Paul to
Jerusalem.
136. Quote the first and last words of our Saviour while on
earth.
137. Of whom did our Saviour say " I will make you fisher?
of men?"
138. Who is it called Jesus " the shepherd and bishop oi
jouls?"
139. To whom does St. Paul write " Prepare me also a
lodging?"
140. Where do we find our Lord's answer to a question by
asking another ?
141. What man, in the days of the Apostles, tried to usurn
such pre-eminence in the church as to cast out those with whon:
he disagreed ?
56 CURIOSITIES OF THL BIBLE.
142. Who was reigning in Judah when Joseph returned
from Egypt with the infant Jesus V
143. Give an instance, in the New Testament, where a man
was dependent for his recovery upon human help and sympathy.
144. Define the individual creeds of the Pharisees and Sad-
ducees, as they are in the words of Scripture.
145. What text proves that our Lord on earth had body,
14 soul and spirit? "
146. How many times is it recorded of our Saviour as
standing on the right hand of God, and how many times =18
seated ?
147. Give instances to prove that our Lord's body, after his
resurrection, though material, was endowed with other powers
than it exercised before.
148. Give in one phrase Peter's description of the world
since sin came into it.
149. In seven words give a very beautiful speech made by a
* oman to servants respecting Christ.
150. What does "the divine " Apostle style those who
would not let themselves be illuminated ?
151. In one verse Christ is spoken of as a successor and de
clared to be a predecessor.
152. Which of the sacred writers debars a heretic from the
house and home of a believer ?
153. Name the person introduced by our Lord to three
Apostles.
154. Describe in four words a journey every Christian hw
irrompHahed.
155. The inhabitants of heaven and the heavens, are called
upon to rejoice ; on what occasion?
156. What true and distinguished preacher lost himself en
tirely in the substance of his message ?
157. Name one who saw a sight, whereof he was to testify
on earth for one short moment and then enter upon its full and
eternal contemplation.
158. Quote a verse in which the name cf Jehovah ia para
phrased.
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. ftf
159. (Jive a solemn declaration made by our Saviour to out
who lod a wicked life under a false reputation of piety.
160. We have in Scripture a very short history of two men.
which shows the great difference between dying in sin, and
dying because of sin ; both died because of tk$ir sins, but only
one in his sins ; — who were the men ?
161. What emperor banished all Jews from Rome?
102. Who went up to Rome to carry contributions to Paul
A hile he was a prisoner there, and carried back with him the
epistle to the Philippians ?
163. Who was captain of the guard while Paul was taken
prisoner to Rome ?
164. Who shook his raiment, and to whom did he say " your
blood be on your own heads " ?
165. What test does the Apostle John give by which we
may know the children of God ?
166. On what three occasions are we expressly told that Jesus
wept?
167. Prove from the Bible that devils have faith.
168. What converts did St. Paul baptize at Corinth ?
169. By what expression did the Virgin Mary acknowledge
herself a sinner ?
170. Who requested that her two sons might sit one on the
right and one on the left of our Saviour i?x the kingdom of
Heaven ?
171. What young preacher on the occasion of his first sermon
vritnessed the largest number of conversions on record ?
172. Our Saviour in four words, and in three words, gives »
diost awful description of what city ?
173. When did two hundred and seventy-six distressed
persons, before day-break, partake of a joyful meal?
174. What singular expression does the Apostle Paul on
tne occasion employ when speaking of food ?
175. On what occasion did our Lord command those who
loved him to mourn ?
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
TO
Places cmb Cacalittes.
[Aniwers page 41.]
1. What is the name of the city to which Lot escaped at thi
leatruction of Sodom ?
2. Where was the voice of God first heard by human ear ?
3. In what city was a forty-day fast proclaimed ?
4. What is illustrated by a dish wiped and turned up side
down ?
5. What Bible city was known as the city of palm trees ?
6 . Where was Rachel buried ?
7. What city was destroyed and never again inhabited, ac
cording to prophecy ?
8. Where, in Scripture language, is the land of Canaan lo
cated?
9. Where is it recorded that the Jews were to be God'i
chosen people forever?
10. Where in the Bible is the only reference to ferry-boat
mentioned ?
11. At what seaport town were assembled the largest navy
of Bible times ?
12. What city was saved from massacre by the strategy of its
people ?
13. In what city, and when does the Bible say that gold and
silver were as plentiful as stones ?
14. What city, for its beauty, was once k&own as u the
£ lory of kingdoms '• '
fig CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
15. At what place did King David eat the shew-brea<l ''
16. Upon what mountain was Israel cursed for disobedi
once?
17. What is the oldest city in the world ?
18. On what mountain was King Josiah slain in battle ?
19. On what mountain did a king command a whole
£o be gathered ?
20. What cave was the hiding-place of five kings V
21. What battle was fought on Mount Tabor?
22. Where can the prophetical account be found of
ID which Babylon was taken by the Medes and Persians ?
23. What reward does the Bible promise a man diligent it
business ?
24. What wild beast was employed by God to punish a dis
obedient servant ?
25. What birds were used in sacrifice ?
26. Prove from the Scriptures that confession of sin to God
is a duty.
27. Prove from Scriptures that afflictions sent to the people
of God are a mark of their heavenly Father's love.
28. How many instances can be found in the Bible when a
blessing was granted to a number of individuals on account of
the presence among them of one man of God ?
29. What birds are referred to in Scripture as birds of pas
sage ?
30. What is a nation's glory ?
31. What bird was employed to convey a token of peace to
ft servant of God ?
32. Where is the promise recorded that the children of Israel
(Jews) should possess the land of Canaan ?
33. The inhabitants of what four cities were reduced to per
petial bondage by the order of a victorious General ?
34. What city was taken by strategem and burned, wit?
12,000 women and children V
35. On what mountain was Solomon's temple built V
36. Who built Nineveh ?
37 What is the origin and meaning of the
PL A CES AND LOCAL! TIES. 63
38. On what condition could Sodom have been saved from
Instruction ?
39. How many, and what were the cities known as the citie*
ot refuge V
40. At what age were the Levites no longer allowed to work
in the Tabernacle ?
41. What stone, according to the Scriptures, heard ali tit
77ords of the Lord which he spoke unto the people* V
42. At the destruction of what city were " all her great mou
bound in chains? "
43 At what place was the last revelation of God to Abra-
ham V
44. What celebrated edifice was erected on the spot which
was the scene of the greatest instance of human obedience ?
45. Where were 10,000 people cast down from a precipice
and killed ?
46. What inheritance had the children of Caleb ?
47. What conquered city became a field of salt ?
48. Where, at the touch of a staff, fire rose out of a rock and
consumed a feast ?
49. What thirty neighboring cities were ruled over by thirty
brothers ?
50. The Mount of Olives, now so blessedly associated with so
many epochs in the life of our Lord, had once a very evil name
— what was it V
51. What two prophecies refer to the taking of Jerusalem
by the Romans V
52. How many cities were given to the Levites for their use '.
53. By whom was Jericho rebuilt, and what prophecy wa
then fulfilled ?
54. Why was Zion (Jerusalem) called the City of David ?
55. What mountain waspurcnased by a King oi Israel, upon
which he built a city ?
56. On what mountain was a blessing for obedience prom
ised upon the children of Israel ?
57. On what mountain was curses pronounced upon the
children of Israel V
64 CURIOSITIES OF THE B1BLL.
58. On what mountain did a King of Israel commit suiciue i
59. How many cities, with their kings and inhabitants, were
destroyed by au invading army ot Israel?
60. TV nat Bible city suffered the horrors of ? f. amine by a
besieging army ?
61. Why was the ancient city of Luz changed to uethel,
und subsequently to Bethaven ?
62. On what occasion was a firmly fortified plane taken oy a
mere ceremony ?
63. What place of eminent sacredness in Jewish history,
and what prophet, in five words, sadly and solemnly pralicted
its rain?
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
TO
acea anfr Comlities.
[Aiuwera page 47.]
1. What remarkable event took place at Atad ?
2. What was the first name given to the country of the
3. What place is said to have been a Sabbath day's jouxne)
from Jerusalem?
4. Where did the Apostle dwell of whom our Lord stated
that he was an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile?
5. Our Saviour bade his disciples shake the dust off their
feet against those cities who refused to receive them. Where
did they do this?
6. In what town did our Lord spend his last Sabbath ?
7. What mountain was Christ's abode by night?
8. On what island was a ship ran aground for safety V
9. Where did tho Apostles hold their first missionary meet
ing?
10. At what place was St. Paul stoned?
11. At what place was Elymas struck blind?
12. What was the prophet Jonah's native town?
13. What city was exalted to heaven yet brought to de
struction ?
14. Where was it said and of whom, " they have turned
the world upside down ? "
68 CifklOSlTlES OF Tffti
15. What was the ruling nation of the world in the time of
Christ?
16. What city was popularly supposed to produce nothing
good?
17. Where was an altar erected " to the unknown God ? "
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PERTAINING TO
[Answers page 51.]
1. With what was the Garden of Eden guarded to prevent
the return of our first parents ?
2. Upon what did God pronounce the first curse?
3. Of what wood was Noah's Ark made?
4. What news did the first carrier pigeon bring?
5. What presents did Jacob send into Egypt?
6. Of what wood was the Ark of the Covenant?
7. What is the whole duty of man, according to the Scrip
tures?
8. What is harder to be won than a strong city?
9. What is good news from a far country like ?
10. With what was the sin of Judah written ?
11. Upon what were epistles and documents written in
Bible times?
12. What is the meaning of the word Ichabod. By whoir
and to whom was it applied?
13. In what book of the Bible does the name of God nowhere
occur?
1.4. On what four occasions were savage beasts employed aa
instruments of God's anger?
15. What price was paid for horses by the King of Israel ?
16. How long was the temple building, and in what yaar
was it commenced?
17 What was Elijah's dying gilt to ElishaV
72 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
18. How did God manifest his presence at the dedication ol
the temple ?
19. How many instances are there on Bible record of rain
bfting sent in answer to prayer?
20. Where is it recorded that rain was prevented in answer
to prayer?
21. How were the children of Israel guided in their fortj
years' wanderings in the wilderness ?
22. Of what did the first wedding present consist?
23. What miracle led to the dispersion of mankind over all
ihe world ?
24. What men refused to give bread to fainting soldiers ?
25. What army fled in confusion when none pursued?
26. What is the Bible list of a lady's wardrobe ?
27. What article of clothing was the token of a father's
partiality ?
28. What garment was hid in a rock on the bank of a river ?
29. What departing nation borrowed garments of their
enemies ?
30. What kind of trees were the Israelites forbidden to cut
down for use in a siege, and why ?
31. What was the last of the ten plagues of Egypt ?
32. What warnings do the Scriptures give to avoid bad com-
pany?
33. How many camels had Job ?
34. What is the Bible inventory of the Christian's treasure?
35. How many instances are recorded in the Bible of em-
oalming the dead ?
36. What does the Old Testament mention as being sanc
tified?
37. For what three things was Bash an renowned ?
38. The temple tax, according to Exodus xxx. 13, was hall
a shekel, what was the amount after the captivity ?
39. What was the origin of the fire with which the Jews
offered their burnt offerings ?
40. What Old Testament example have we of miraculous
darkness V
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 78
41. Where, in Scripture language, do we find a beautiful
description of spring time ?
42. Prove from Scripture the sin and folly of leaning on
human help in time of trouble.
43. How many instances are recorded that sailors called
upoc God to avert a storrn ?
44. Where in the Bible do we find (rod's promises to supply
the temporal wants of his people ?
45. On what occasion were messengers despatched in vessel*
made of bulrushes ?
46. How were the vast number of presents conveyed to King
Solomon ?
47. What was the value of gold presented to Solomon in one
year?
48. What was the special avocation of the Gibeonites V
49. How was a miracle once wrought to recover a borrowed
axe?
50. What words were once spoken to man by a beast of
burden ?
51. What King was killed by his own sons?
52. By whom were two sticks miraculously united and be
came one ?
53. What is the year of Jubilee mentioned in the Bible ?
54. What was the punishment threatened the man who
should rebuild Jericho ?
55. Prove from the Bible that God alone (and not priests)
can forgive sin.
56. When did curiosity of the eye, through the mercy of
God, lead to the belief of the heart ?
57. How was the timber used in building Solomon's Temp ]•?
conveyed to Jerusalem ?
58. Where in the Scripture do we find the grandeur of a
thunder storm depicted ?
59. What two miracles were wrought upon the sun ?
60. What instances have we in the New Testament of afflic
tion being the cause of joy to the believer in Christ?
61 . What Scripture examples can you give of choooins by lot 7
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62. How many examples does the Old Testament give ol
weak tr- ings being employed to confound the mighty ?
63. What does the Bible declare to be the whole duty of man?
64. What is called in the Bible the " royal law* "
65. In what instance did God send rain as a sign of his dis
pleasure against Israel ?
66. What does the Bible say is better than precious oint
ment 7
67. What is it which makes its possessor truly rich ?
68 What is a greater conquest than taking of a city ?
69. What was found in the Ark of the Covenant when first
brought into the temple ?
70. How many times has it been noticed that the Sabbath
has been impressed on the observance of man?
71. What was the divinely appointed punishment for bias,
phemy ?
72. Can there be found in God's Word a promise to the
wicked?
73. How many witnesses were required among the Jews to
establish a charge ?
74. How many Old Testament prophesies are there of the
time when Christ should appear ?
75. What are angels, and how are they employed?
76. What one verse refers to the source, flow, and return of
rivers ?
77. Where is it recorded that a whole army was smitten
with blindness ?
78. During what famine did women eat their own chil
dren?
79. How many Israelites were slain in the battle of Ebene-
zcr, when the Ark of the Lord was won by the Philistines ?
80. How many Sirian horsemen fell in battle with David ?
81. How many Ephraimites were slain in battle with the
Gileadites ?
82. How many children of Israel fell victims to a plague
In consequence of having joined themselves in idolatry to Baal"
peor V
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. If)
83. David in vain glory numbered the people, and for a
punishment what did h« choose, and what was the oo;\sequence ?
84. How many idolatrous worshippers of the golden call
were slain by order of Moses ?
85. How many men and women were killed in the faD oi
the building that was pulled down by Samson ?
86. How many lords of the land were entertained at the
feast of Belshazzar?
57. How many Philistines did Samson slay with a jaw bone?
88. How many out of each tribe did Moses send to war
against the Midianites ?
89. During the siege and famine of Samaria what price was
paid for the head of an ass ?
90. When and where was meal used as an antidote for
poison ?
91. To what does the Bible liken the laughter of a fool ?
92. Of what was the tabernacle made ?
93. How many and what were the coverings of the taber
nacle ?
94. On what occasion did God employ birds as messengers
of mercy ?
95. What did the " Holy of holies " in the Temple contain?
96. For what purpose was a great collection taken up in
Judah and Jerusalem by order of the king ?
97. How was the Ark of the Lord brought from the Philis
tines when it was returned to Israel ?
98. How many comprised the total number of the great
draught of fishes ?
99. What was the weight of Absalom's annual growth 3f
hair ?
100. What was the length of Noah's Ark ?
101. How many chariots were kept by Jabin, King of
Canaan?
102. How many singers were in the grand jubilee of tlw
Temple?
103. How many stalls were required for the accommodation
of Solomon'8 horses ?
76 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
104. How many horsemen did Solomon have ?
105. How many Egyptian chariots of war in their pursuit oi
the Israelites were lost in the Red Sea ?
106. Quote a passage from which it would appear that in
olden time beacons were used on the tops of bills as signals or
land marks.
107. Where is an unfaithful friend said to be like l« n
broken tooth and a foot out of joint ? "
108. What funeral was suddenly interrupted by an armed
band, and with what result ?
109. Upon what did the manna fall ?
110. It may truly be said that during the forty years jour
neying through the wilderness the children of Israel were each
one a perpetual miracle — how so V
111. Give Bible proof that God observes the acts of chil
dren.
112. In what passage of Scripture do we read of wise ladies?
113. Where in prophetic Scripture do we read of parlors ?
114. What is the recorded occasion upon which the terror of
God was exercised on behalf of his chosen people ?
115. Where in the Old Testament is mention made of an
iron bedstead being used, and by whom ?
116. What two cities are mentioned as having been de
stroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah ?
117. Where has mention been made of land producing a
hundred-fold in one year ?
118. What was the law among the Jews as to the pledging
of raiment ?
119. After what great battle was it that the men of Judah
were three days in carrying the spoil of their enemies ?
120. What was the name given by King Hezekiah to the
brazen serpent which Moses had made for the children :»f Israe!
in the wilderness ?
121. What happened to the Syrians whom the king sent to
occupy Samaria ?
122. Where in the Bible is the constellation Orion mentioned
besides the book of Job ?
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 77
123. How were the Ephraimites on one occasion known from
the people of the other tribes ?
124. What was the present sent to Saul, King of Israel, by
Jesse the Bethlemite ?
125. What was the sum paid yearly to the King of Israel bj
Mosta, King of Moab?
126. VVhat prophecy was fulfilled the day after it was ul
tered ?
127 The Jordan was miraculously crossed on three occasions
- -name them ?
128. Mention a tree that was named from the circumstances
connected with it ?
129. Where is the promise that human life shall be prolonged
at the millennium as before the flood ?
130. Where is the only instance recorded in Scripture of the
marriage of a foreign slave to his master's daughter? Men
tion it.
131. What two things are said to have happened by chance,
one an act of destruction and the other resulting in neglect ?
132. The water trickles into the pool of Siloam so softly
that it cannot be heard, travellers have remarked. What
Scripture does this confirm ?
133. What command was given by God to the children of
Israel to the make of their garments , and why ?
134. Where is the passage found in which the Angels are
said to be fellow-servants with mankind ?
135. Where is the growth of nettles mentioned as a mai k of
desolation ?
136. What biscuit of modern use is mentioned in the Bible ?
137. Give an instance of the avowed foreknowledge of God
of events which would come to pass under certain cif cumstances,
but which never did come to pass because these circumstances
did not come to pass.
138 Quote a passage from which it appears that the propheta
did no* always understand the meanings of the visions they
saw.
139. Mention a quotation in the New Testament where tb?
78 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIftLE
exact place in the Old Testament from which it is taken ia
given?
140. What sin does the prophet Isaiah say was the cause ol
the destruction of Moab ?
141. What battle lasted seven days, and with what result?
142. What was the origin of the two days of Purim, kept
as days of feasting and joy by the Jews ?
143. What was to have been the sum of money paid bj
Haman for the destruction of the Jews.
144. What people are stated to have been most clevei in
ancient times in cutting down timber ?
145. What sin is mentioned as having caused the destruc
tion of Tyre ? [Syrian ?
146. What present was given to Gehazi by Naaman the
147. How many lepers are mentioned as being outside the gate
of Samaria, and who gave warning of the flight of the Syrians V
148. From what two hills were the blessings and cursings
pronounced upon the children of Israel ; and what tribes took
part in each ?
149. What two diseases did God especially threaten to
bring upon his people for their neglect of his commandments ?
150. What was the punishment inflicted by God's command
upon a man who had broken the Sabbath ?
151. What other inhabitants of Canaan were giants besides
the Anakims?
152. What two animals may be eaten for the Passover ?
153. What miracle did God work to enable a widow to pay
her debts V
154. What country was that in which the king bought all
the laud from his people and then sent them about as slaves T
Quote passage.
155. By what name is the Mount of Olives called in th«
Book of Kings ?
156. Where do we find an account of an army being sent tr
take one man ?
157. Why were not the Jews permitted to sell their land for
wsore than a certain number of years ?
OLD TESTAMENT THING&. 79
158. What was the only condition upon which Nahash , the
Ammonite, would make peace with the people of Jobest-Gilead V
159. What great work was undertaken by King Hezekiali ui
order to provide a more abundant supply of water for the city
of Jerusalem V
160. Where, in the Bible, is it stated that the ostrich lay*
l»ei eggs in the sand to be hatched by the heat thereof?
161. How many of the strangers in the land of Israel were
sent to assist the servants of the King of Tyre in cutting down
the cedar wood of Lebanon ? [power of speech.
162. Give the occasion on which man first exercised the
163. Upon what day in the week were the two greatest acts
of divine power that affected man accomplished ?
164. What sacred relic divinely appointed, and by which
miracles were worked, was destroyed by a good king years sub
sequently ?
165. Moses is made en two occasions an offer which would
raise him to honors and destroy the Israelites — name them ?
166. God when sending Moses to Pharaoh gave him power
to perform miracles — mention them in order ?
167. What verse in the Bible gives us David's age ?
168. Mention a dinner in which the shoulder was given as a
mark of highest respect — why and to whom ?
169. What three privileges were attached to the first-born
of the family ?
170. What is the meaning of Jehovah Shammah ?
171. At what part of the dedication service was it that thf
cloud filled the temple ?
172 How did it come to pass that there was the sound o(
no hammer or tool of iron heard in the building of Solomon's
Temple ?
173. Give a text from the Old Testament which contains a
reason why " we should fear those who kill the body."
174. What does the Scripture say surpasses in greatness the
hero who conquers his enemies?
175. Of what are the looking-glasses made that are mpti-
tioued in the Scriptures r"
SO CURIOSITIES OF THE B1BLL.
176. Where, in the Old Testament, are we told that God
gave instruction for the concealment of certain things?
177. Where are we told in one verse not to do a thing nud
La the next to do it ?
178. What was created and destroyed in one night ?
179. How was the cedar used in the building of Solomon 's
temple conveyed from Lebanon to Jerusalem V
180. Where is the only mention made of churning butter in
the Scriptures ?
181. Where are we told, in the Bible, that there was joy in
heaven at the creation of the world ?
182. Show that to die childless was regarded by the Jews as
a very bitter calamity.
183. What was the origin of the fire with which the Jew s
offered their burnt offerings V Name two individuals who lost
heir lives for using " strange " fire?
184. Where in the Bible is it recorded that fever and ague
were inflicted as punishments ?
185. What is the Bible remedy for boils, and what king
made use of it ?
186. Where in the Bible is death by sunstroke recorded?
187. Where is the prophecy recorded that the Jews will one
day repent the death of the Messiah?
188. Where do we find the rending of a garment was the
prophecy of the downfall of a king?
189. What three remarkable predictions are recorded in the
ast chapter of the Old Testament?
190. What chapter of the Bible is remarkable for its beauti
ful description of natural history?
191. What instrument of healing became an occasion of sin?
192. What petition occurs seven times in one of the Psalm?
193. From the book of Ezekiel give a promise clearly show
ing that that which is a misfortune to individuals is a benefit to
the church.
194. What sentence composed of three words appears no loss
than 25 times in one book of the Bible, and forms the chiei
'iiought in it?
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. &
195. Where is it distinctly predicted that no one shall obtain
itrength by or in sin ?
196. On what occasion did God forbid all funeral pomps and
expression ?
197. What was the most ancient art of sinful mankind?
198. Where do we read of gods who are less than the mar
who fashions them ?
199. Where do we read that fifty men set out in all direc
tions to seek a corpse?
200. Describe in three words the power of love.
201. Where is the fact recorded of a ransom being paid for
373 persons ?
202. Where is it foretold that tne Lord would take away aa
plunder the whole toilet of the women of Jerusalem ?
203. Where is sin personified as a wild beast lurking at the
door of the human heart?
204. Quote two verses that give the Bible description of the
philosopher.
205. Give the words in which the removal of unclean clothes ia
poken of as a sign of the forgiveness of sin.
206. Quote the exact words of the oldest letter recorded in
.he Scriptures.
207. Prove from the Scriptures that it was contrary to the
Mosaic Law for a Levite to possess land.
208. Upon what people was consumption threatened as a
punishment for sin ?
209. When was the rending of a new garment typical of
the division of a kingdom?
210. From whom were the Jews forbidden to take garment,
in pawn?
211. When did a weapon of destruction become a fountain
of refreshment?
212 What three mournful events took place in a gar-
den?
213. What prophecy was uttered more than 3000 years ago,
vnd is now being fulfilled?
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82 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
214. Where can be found copies of two letters written to
kings? Who wrote them ?
215. What is the most appropriate Psalm to be read during
a thunder shower?
216. The first nine words of what Psalm did our Saviour
'•epeat when on the cross ?
217. How did God signify his displeasure when the Jew 9
tsked for a king?
218. Prove that marking the boundaries of land by stones or
monuments is a very ancient custom.
219. When did God prove himself God of the plain as well
as God of the mountain ?
220. What fruit is recorded in *he Bible as growing on a
krw without root or branch I
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PKBTA1NTNO TO
[Answers page 63.]
1. How can the Bible be called the word of God when it ww
irritten by men?
2. Which of the early Christian churches set the brightest
example of liberality ?
3. What was the text of our Saviour's first sermon ?
4. Prove from the Bible the authorship of the Acts of the
Apostles.
5. Prove from the Old Testament that Jesus shares his peo
ple's sorrows.
6. What does the Bible tell us to contend earnestly for ?
7. What are we told in the Scriptures to covet ?
8. In what way does Christ say we may know the truth of
his doctrine ?
9. What is the unpardonable sin ?
10. Where were the first disciples of Christ first called
Christians ?
11. Prove from the Scripture that God cares for and pro
vides for His children.
12. Prove from Scripture that God protects His children .
13. Prove from Scripture that God hears the cry of Hi*
children.
14. Prove from Scripture that God corrects hia children is
love.
16. For wh.it were the Bereans commended?
86 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
16. Where is the Word of God called a sword, and why ?
17. Where is the Word of God called a mirror, and why ?
18. Where is the Word of God called a well of water, and
why?
19 Where is the Word of God called milk, and why ?
20 Where will the great feast of the marriage supper of the
Lamb be spread?
21. Which of our Lord's miracles were miracles of creation?
22. What New Testament instances have we of miraculous
light?
23. Prove from the Bible the necessity of the new birth.
24. How many Old Testament examples have we of God
•ending sleep on individuals or people ?
25. What remarkable event was announced by shepherds ?
26. What five things are we commanded in the Bible to hold
fast?
27. What was the contents of the Ark of the Covenant ?
28. What is the Bible ornament of a Christian woman?
29. What one word in Scripture is said to contain the whole
law?
30. Prove from Scripture that it is the duty of a Church to
support its ministers.
31. Where is the Word of God compared to a looking-glass?
32. Give a Scripture example of religious convictions being
stifled.
33. What governor of Damascus endeavored to take St.
Paul and make him a prisoner ? [rain ?
34. What is mentioned in the Gospel as signs of the coming
35. By whom were the Pharisees and Sadducees called a
generation of vipers?
36. What was the value of the books burned at Ephesui
by those who dwelt in familiar spirits and used ' ' curious arts ? "
37. Where is it mentioned that the earth is God's foot
stool?
38. Which of Christ's miracles were miracles of creation?
39. Mention a passage in the New Testament where it states
tji^t every kind of beast and serpent is capable of being tarnecf.
NEW TESTAMENT THINGS. 87
40. Where in the New Testament is it stated that a thous
and years in God's sight is as one day?
41. Which one of our Lord's miracles was worked by the
utterance of one word?
42. Give the text in which our Lord himself distinguishei
between His divine and human sonship.
43. An unexampled sorrow betokened by a word used only
.->nce in the New Testament, name the passage.
44. Prove that even in the presence of the Lord Jesus, sal
vation was voluntary?
45. Quote a chapter from Isaiah in which division of the
tourfold office of Christ is enumerated.
46. How is it proved that there were more than one hundred
and twenty believers at the time of our Lord's ascension ?
47. On what occasion were messages brought to this world
by the Archangel Gabriel?
48. What three things did the Lord cite as requisite for the
bringing forth of good fruit?
49. By what act does a man lose his personal freedom?
50. What is the only revenge permitted by the Christian
faith?
51. State three things Scripture says God cannot do
52. In what one verse, do the words of Jesus Christ give a
complete plan and draught of the New Testament Ministry?
53 Which of the prophets represents the deliverance bj
Messiah, and the final victory of God's people over the worli
as a repetition of Israel's passage through the Red Sea?
54. Where in the New Testament is found a passage ia
which Divine mercy is called the highest power in the affairs of
men?
55. In one word name a precious pearl, with which no posses
sion on earth can bear a comparison.
56. Where do we find a glorious representation of a truly
divine ordination to the Christian ministry?
57. In three words give the character of Christian hope.
58. In what respect does the Lord's prayer differ asgivon bj
S£. Matthew and St. Luke?
88 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
59. Among those who sold their land and laid its prince at
the Apostles' feet was a Levite ; give his name and show that
it was contrary to the Mosaic law for a Levite to possess land.
60. What one word was employed by Christ to designate
that separation from God which sin involves V
61. Give one word used by the Apostle Paul to designate
those who are living by faith.
62. Quote three words which denote the whole of the doc
trine of Christ, as a commandment to be believed and
preached.
63. Prove that the Church of Corinth had not adopted the
practice of the Church at Jerusalem with regard to a commu
nity of goods and one common purse.
64. On what occasion did God speak in a still small voice?
65. By what four names are Christians called in the Bible?
66. What does the Bible compare to a spider's web?
67. Prove from the Bible that God promises to supply the
temporal wants of his people.
68. On what occasion was there such spiritual happiness
among the people, that wicked men mocked and said they were
fall of new wine?
69. Why do you (or Christian^ Relieve the Bible to be the
word of God ?
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE,
INVOLVING ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS IN THEIR SOLUTION.
[Key, Part II., page 67.]
1. A TEACHER being asked how many scholars were in his Sun
day-school, replied : "If you multiply the number of Jacob's
sons by the number of times which the Israelites compassed
Jericho, and add to the product the number of measures of
barley which Boaz gave Ruth ; divide this by the number of
Raman's sons ; subtract the number of each kind of clean
beasts that went into the ark ; multiply by the number of men
that went to seek Elijah after he was taken to heaven ; sub
tract from this Joseph's age at the time he stood before Pha
raoh ; divide by the number of stones David selected to kill
Goliath ; subtract the number of furlongs that Bethany was
distant from Jerusalem ; multiply by the number of anchors
cast out at the time of Paul's shipwreck ; subtract the number
of people saved in the ark, and the remainder will be the num
ber of scholars in the school." How many were there ? 188.
2. A shepherd being asked the number of sheep in his flock,
replied : " If you divide the number of camels which Job had
before their capture by the Chaldeans, by the number of men
sent to take Jeremiah from the dungeon ; add to the quotient
the number of lords entertained at the feast of Belshazzar :
from this amount subtract the number of righteous persons
who could have saved Sodom ; multiply by the age when David
began to reign ; divide by the number in Gideon's band ; add
the number of Philistines whom Samson slew with a jaw
bone ; subtract the number of Solomon's songs ; multiply by
the number of days Job's friends tarried without saying a
word ; subtract the number of fish caught in the draft of the
miracle of fishes, and the remainder will be the number of sheep
in my flock." How many had he ? 575.
90 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
3. A clergyman being asked the <jost of his church and the
height of its spire, replied : " If you divide the talents of gold
presented to Solomon in one year, by the temple tax (shekels)
after the captivity ; multiply this by the pieces of silver with
which our Lord was betrayed ; subtract from this the number
of singers in the grand jubilee of the temple ; add to the re
mainder the number of prophets hid in the cave ; multiply
this by the years the children of Israel were in captivity, and
the product will be the cost of the church. Divide the
cost of the church by the length in cubits of Noah's ark ;
from the quotient subtract the number of Ilehoboam's
children ; to the remainder add the number of persons
who suffered shipwreck with St. Paul ; from this number sub
tract one fourth of the number of fingers and toes which the
man of Gath had ; divide the remainder by the number of
years it took Solomon to build the temple ; add to this the
height of Solomon's temple, and the sum total will be the
height of the spire." What was the cost? And what the
height? $193.200— 148 feet,
NOTE.— The third line should read nine times the temple tax
BIBLE CURIOSITIES
[Answers page 69.]
1. How long was the infant Moses hid by his mother to e»-
cape the death edict of Pharaoh ?
2. How many years were the children of Israel oppressed by
the Midianites ?
3. How long did the Ark of the Lord remain with the Phil
istines after its capture from Israel ?
4. How long did Job live after his great troubles?
5. How many years warning did God give the people of the
old world before sending the flood ?
6. What was the longest drouth recorded in the Bible ?
7. How long was King Herod building his temple ?
8. In how many days were the walls of Jerusalem rebuilt ?
9. How long was Israel oppressed by the Moabites ?
10. How long did the flood cover the earth?
11. Why did the children of Israel wander 40 years in the
wilderness ?
12. How many Canaanite kings did the children of Israel
destroy on taking possession of the promised land ?
13. How many days were the spies in searching the promised
land?
14. How long did the children of Israel journey in the wil
derness before they found water ?
15. How long was Solomon building his house ?
16. How long was Israel oppressed by the Ammonites?
92 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
17. How long was the Ark of the Lord hid, and \vhore ?
18. How old was Moses when he demanded of Pharaoh that
tho children of Israel should go Y
19. How old was Eli when he fell from his seat and died ?
20. How long were the children of Israel in Egypt ?
21. What date in the life of Moses is given in the New Fe»
Uunent but not in the Old Y
22. How long was Noah in the Ark.
23. How long did the first plague sent by God upon the
Egyptians last Y
24. How long did St. Paul live in his own hired house at
Rome?
25. How long did David reign over Judah alone in Hebron Y
26. How many years did God provide manna for the chil
dren of Israel in the wilderness Y
27. On what day was the Passover appointed to be kept Y
28. How long were the children of Israel in captivity Y
29 . How long was Saul of Tarsus blind when converted Y
30. How many years was Israel governed by judges Y
31. How many years did the children of Israel sojourn in
Egypt Y
32. How old was Joseph when his brethren sold him into
ilavery Y
33. How long was Noah building the Ark Y
34. How long time was required to elapse according to th«
law of Moses, before the Israelites might gather the fruit of a
. young tree Y
35. How long did the Disciples tarry at Jerusalem for tha
baptism of the Holy Ghost Y
36. How long did Job's friend tarry without saying a woH
when they came to mourn with him Y
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
OF THK
Bible.
[Key page 67.]
The common use of many passages of Scripture make it de-
•irable that all should know from whence they came, and under
what circumstances they were originally written or uttered
A few of the more familiar quotations are annexed as an exer
cise in " Searching the Scriptures."
1. Where will you find the common phrase— To "make a
man an offender for a word ?"
2. Where the wise reminder— •• The fear of man bringeth a
•nare ? "
3. Where the familiar metaphor — " An arm of flesh ?"
4. Where the solemn warning — " Be sure your sin will find
you out ? "
5. Where the humane injunction—" A righteous man re-
gardeth the life of his beast ? "
6. Where is Jehovah described as, " Glorious in holiness,
fearful in praise, doing wonders ?"
7. Where is it said — "Them that honor Me I will honor ;
widthey that despise me shall be lightly esteemed ? "
8. Where is there first found the command to "love and
•erre the Lord with all the heart and with all the soul? "
9. Where the command to " love the stranger ? "
10. Where to " love thy neighbor as thyself ? "
11. Showing the debasing effects of an atheistic spirit,
*« Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we shall die ? "
12. Showing the hardening tendency of a long course of sin,
*« Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spot* ? '
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13. Showing the danger of trifling with conviction and
warning, " He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.''
14. " Nor by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith
the Lord," showing use of means but dependence only on God ?
15. " Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil,'* a mosi
necessary warning, for, alas! how many do "custom and ex
ample " lead "to swerve from the truth."
16. " Every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart is
only evil continually." A strong statement ; but showing the
need of Divine grace and discipline (Jer. xvii. 9, 10).
17. " Seekest thou great things for thyself, seek them not."
18. ' ' He that ruleth nis spirit is greater than he that taketh
a city."
19. " ShaU not the Judge of all the earth do right ? "
20. " Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall
we not receive evil ? "
21. " Their strength is to sit still. In quietness and in con
fidence shall be your strength."
22. "How can man be just before God? (since) he cannot
answer Him one of a thousand. "
23. ** And thine ears shall hear a voice behind thee saying,
This is the way, walk ye in it."
24. " We are but of yesterday, and know nothing,"
25. « ' The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath
clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."
26. Where is a king spoken of as " The breath of our nos
trils, " applied sometimes since in flattery to modern monarchs ?
27. Who first employed that powerful simile, now become
proverbial, " Like a wild bull in a net?"
28. Christ on two occasions quoted the words, " I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice." Where are they to be found in the
Old Testament?
29. Who said, " No doubt but ye are the people, and wis
dom shall die with you ? "
30. Where is to be found the declaration, " Man looketh at
the outward appearance, but God looketh at the heart ? "
SCRIPTURE METAPHORS
The following questions are to be answered by the mention
of wcrds, all of which commence with the letter at the head of
Bach section:— [See Key page 71.]
A.
1. What creature maybe regarded as metaphorical of sin
in four particulars ?
2. What professional office does an apostle make metaphor
ical of the work of Christ ?
8. What instrument is made emblematic vl of a moral affec
tion ? And why ?
4. What is made metaphorical of industry, forethought, and
individual responsibility ?
6. Name something which is made emblematical of frailty,
humiliation, and sin. Why?
6. What metaphor is used alike for repentence and resurrec
tion?
B.
7. To whom are young believers metaphorically compared :
Give three illustrations, with references.
8. Name a disease which is used metaphorically for sin.
9. What five creatures are tyrants and wicked men com
pared to ?
10. What is treated as metaphorical of great faults in con
trast with smaller faults ?
11. Name three words which are used as metaphorical of
Christ in relation to His churo^
IPO
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12. What is made metaphorical of wisdom, prosperity, and
consolation ?
18. What is used metaphorically in connection with Divin«
judgment?
C.
14 Fhid a word which is i sed metaphorically of iinmorta)
life, eternal glory, and heavenly purity.
15. One word represents man's soul, God's favor, and spirit
ual life. Name it.
16. What word is used metaphorically of protecting, and
forgiving ?
17. Name a word which is used metaphorically to express
death, ruin, strength, enlargement, love, affliction, and
sin.
18. What word is used metaphorically for a king, an empire,
and the faithful people of God ?
19. What word is there that equally represents in metaphor
false doctrine and the destruction of the \ricked?
D.
20. Name a species of animals to which wicked men are com
pared. Justify the metaphor in five -particulars from
Scripture.
21. Name nine words taken from water, which are all used
metaphorically.
22. Name a word which is used metaphorically in connection
with sorrow, death, secresy, sin, and hell.
28. Name three , ,iys in which the word door is used meta
phorically, and justify them.
24. What word is applied metaphorically to Jerusalem and
its temple.
E.
26. Give two texts where a word is used metaphorically for
reward.
26. What external application is used to indicate spiritual
enlightenment V
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F.
27. What words are used metaphorically of Christ ?
28. What is put metaphorically for the life of man ?
29. What occupation is that of Satan compared to*
30. Name a metaphor for dispersing and scattering.
31. Name a word used metaphorically of false prophets and
a wicked ruler.
G.
32. Name some things metaphorical of national decay.
33. ,How are multitudes expressed metaphorically?
34. Name two things which the wicked are compared to
35. What is metaphorical of truth ? And why ?
H.
36. What is used metaphorically for the grave, the body, th«
church, and heaven?
37. Name two things with which God's Word is compared.
38. Name something used metaphorically illustrative of the
love of Christ.
I, J, K.
39. What word is used metaphorically to express tu«
Gentiles ?
40. What word expresses prayer and the merits of Christ?
41 . What is metaphorical of glorified saints ?
42. What is thus used for love, reverence, submission, and
deceit?
43. What are the saints now compared to, which will be a
truer comparison hereafter ?
L.
44. What word is used metaphorically in connection with
prosperity, eternal life, mortality, and timidity?
45. Name two tilings to which both Christ and believers are
compared.
46. Name something to which Christ, believers, Satau, aod
wicked men, are all compared.
CUROISITIES OF THE BIBLE.
47. .Name a word used metaphorically both of sin and oi
grace.
48. What is made metaphorical of the word of God, happi
ness, a good king, true believers, Jesus Cnrist, and
God?
49. Name some ways in which leprosy is metaphorical of sin.
50. Name a word used for temporal calamity and spiritual
weakness.
M.
51. Name four things metaphorical of spiritual blessings.
52. What is put for swiftness, Divine truth, and the resur
rection ?
53. What words are used metaphorically to describe tb-
saints of God ?
54. Name something us°d to express <nu inu contempt.
N.
55. What is put for death, a time o^ ^.Tance, and afi^«
tion.
56. What is put for a time of prosperity?
57. What is made metaphorical of safety and security ?
58. What word expresses metaphorically the duty of Chri*
tian kings and ministers ? *
O.
59. What is metaphorical of Christ's name, and of brotherly
unity ?
6C Who are put metaphorically for the church without a
comforter ?
61 . Name something which is made a symbol of vitality.
P.
02. Name something metaphorical of great teachers in the
church.
63. What is made metaphorical both of the temple of Jeru
salem and the church of God ?
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64. Name a word which equally describes sin and the grave.
65. What word is used to express the royal dignity of Christ?
66. What is put for a snare, sorrow and the grave ?
dr. What is the conversation of the wicked compared to ?
68 Name a word which is used metaphorically in connection
with love, life, temptation, the Holy Spirit, and Divine
wrath.
69. What is put metaphorically for deceitful speech, and for
desolating judgment ?
70. Name a word used metaphorically for instability, despond
ency, and disappointing hope.
71. What work is applied metaphorically to ministers and
angels ?
72. What metaphor denotes the Christian life ?
S.
73. Name several metaphorical titles of the Lord's people.
74. Name a metaphor used to describe death.
T, V.
75. (Jfive several metaphorical expressions for wicked men.
76. Name a word used metaphorically of God.
77. What are made metaphorical both of the heavens and of
the church ?
78. What two words are used metaphorically of the church.
including both formalists and true believers V
79 What are wicked men compared to?
8$ What is put for human life?
W, Y.
81. What two things is trie Holy Ghost compared to?
82. Name two words to denote false teachers in religion.
83. What word metaphorically describes the service of Chrigt,
cruel oppression, and spiritual bondage':
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
ANAGRAMS, ACROSTICS AND
[Key Page 79.]
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 1.
Five hundred begins it; five hundred ends it;
And five in the middle is seen;
The first of all letters, the first of all numbers
Have taken their stations between ;
And if you correctly this medley can spell,
The name of an ancien-t king then it will tell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 2.
I end as I began,
The weal and woe of man;
Yet do not harshly blame,
I bear my mother's name.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 3.
My centre is nothing;
My first is my last;
And when the long ages
Are over and past,
Then vengeance divine
Shall devour me and mine.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 4.
Four heads have I, but body none,
And without any legs I run.
'Midst bliss supreme my lot was cast
And joys that could not be surpassed
Yet these delights did I forsake,
And far away my course I take;
Yet, while I wander far or nigh,
Still ever in my bed I lie.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 5.
Of nature hard, and yet of purpose soft,
The livelong night it bore its lord aloft;
More vast by far than common mortals kno*
And fitted well to lay the oppressor low.
Now lowlier still the lord lies in the grave,
While for a trophy conquerors kept the slave.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 6.
By changing seasons gently nursed,
From out of a tender bud it burst,
And in a wood it nourished first.
Alas! not long; the forest glade,
Resigns its trust; behind it fade
Its sylvan home and woodland shade.
Death came; but though men called it dead,
A second diverse life it led —
A thing of wonder and of dread.
Then the old life resumed its power,
And, in a dark and anxious hour,
Sweet blooms arose, and fruit and flower,
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 7.
In the water, in the air, and in the busy brain,
Busy once, but nevermore to hate or love again ;
One of five, all like itself, in deadly deed united,
And yet delivering those in whom the Lord of Ho«ts delighted.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 8.
Take from my whole my first away,
Behold it then our direst day,
Since Time his course began.
Restoi 3 again my several part,
My whole brings peace to careworn heart*.
And rest to weary man.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 9.
1. A man who made a wretched choice.
2. A man raised up as a deliverer.
3. A woman beautiful and well-favored.
4. A woman called " a mother In Israel."
5. A king of Egypt who besieged Jerusalem.
6. A king of Israel rebuked by a prophet.
7. A queen who made a great feast.
8. A queen who saved her nation.
9. A city famous in the early history of the world.
10. A city in Asia mentioned in the New Testament.
11. A letter which commences no name in the Bible.
12 A letter of the earliest-named place in the Bible.
13. A nation often at war with the Jews.
14. A nation that had wars with Assyria.
15 A place mentioned in Paul's last voyage.
16. A place visited by Paul and Barnabas.
17 . A mountain possessed by the Edomites.
18. A mountain where the Lord spake to Israel.
The initials give words spoken in a time of great peril.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 10.
1. The father of Dathan and Abiram.
2. The beloved physician.
3. The surname of a traitor.
4. The name of a miraculous spring.
5. The mount of cursing.
6. Where a herd of swine perished.
7. A valley where a famous event took plaee.
8. A city of Phrygia, to which Paul addressed an epistle
9. The place where a Syrian captain was defeated.
The initials of the answers will give the name of a sojcurnef
in the land of Moab, and the finals that of his native town.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 11.
1. An Israelitish leader who conquered the host of Midian
2. A cunning hunter.
3. A prophet, a native of Elkosh.
4. One whom the Lord refused for his anointed.
5. The wife of Zebedee.
6. The second son of Kohath.
7. The chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth.
The initials and finals of the answers will give the names of
fcwo books of the Bible.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 12.
1 This sacrifice was offered at His birth.
Who lived, despised and poor, upon the earth.
2. Calling the wise men (for he greatly feared),
He asked of them what time the star appeared.
3. Warned by an angel, thither Joseph went,
Ere the dark hours of night were fully spent.
4. He slept, and God, in pity and in love,
Gave him, in this, a glimpse of heaven above.
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6. The tribe of one who served God night and day,
And in the temple lived to watch and pray.
6. Take it upon you, in your Saviour's might;
In youth 'tis easy, and 'tis rest at night.
7 Men saw its light, at heaven's eastern gate;
It passed before them, and their joy was great.
8. In haste 'twas eaten, with the staff in hand;
For Israel's children sought a better land.
9. Her little ones as Christian martyrs slept,
She knows not, and refusing comfort wept.
10. The prophecy, a virgin shall conceive,
Will tell the name which she her Son should give.
11. 'Twas here in wisdom and in stature too,
And grace with God and man, our Savioui grew.
12. The place where Christ bade his disciples stay,
Whilst he should leave them for a time to pray.
The initials give the whole.
Through God's great mercy, in sin's blackest night.
It came from heaven, to give his people light;
To bid our fears in death's dark shadows cease,
Guiding our feet into the way of peace.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 13.
1 A son of Saul, by murderous hands who died
2. A race, Lot's children, thorns in Gilead's side.
3. The father of the ninth apostle named.
4. One as great Moses' father only famed.
5. To Jesus, as the Christ, who Peter brought ?
6. Who, Zimri punishing, the kingdom sought?
7. A place where Christ in breaking bread was seen.
8. A sage in Jewish law, Paul had his pupil been
5*
106 CURWSLTLES OF THE BLBL&.
Of 2, 6, 8, initials two you use;
Of third name, four; of fifth name, three; then choose
One of ine rest : a title there will be,
Or claim, which in Isaiah we may see
Unto Jehovah thrice, in substance, given :
A.nd twice by Christ assumed, speaking from heaven.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 14.
J . Whom did his servants treacherously slay
As sleeping on his couch at noon he lay ?
2. A prince who, with a missionary band,
Went forth to preach throughout the Holy Land.
3. A town where mighty miracles were wrought,
Which for its sin was to destruction brought ?
4 Before what idol did a Syrian bend
Lest he his heathen master should offend ?
5. Who to withstand the Apostle's preaching sought.
And on himself a fearful judgment brought ?
6. What did once save from death the human race,
And for a year was their sole dwelling-place ?
7. A prophet who was called in early youth,
And till old age he served the God of truth.
8. A mother who did early teach her boy
The way that leads to everlasting joy.
9. What king against the tribes of Israel fought
Because a passage through his land they sought r
10. A word inscribed in Babel's regal hall,
Her impious king to penitence to call.
11. What king would not take counsel of the wise,
But did his father's counsellors despise ?
12. What makes the gold with purest lustre shine.
And is an emblem of God's Word Divine ?
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13. What beauteous creatures dwell in heaven above v
And visit earth on messages of love ?
14. Who did, when Judah's tribe was borne away,
The ruler of the remnant basely slay ?
15. Who brought good news, the apostle's heart to cheer,
When he was sore oppressed with grief and fear ?
16. A blessed emblem of our Savrour dear,
For those that trust in Him need never fear.
In the initials of these words we read
A prayer for that which above all we need.
Without this gift the world would be most drear :
The next be viewed with overwhelming fear.
It casts its beams on every scene of woe,
And throws a radiance on our path below
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 15.
1. The man whose name is first mentioned in conneciiot
irith a victory over the Amalekites.
2. A prince of Midian slain by the Ephraimites.
8. The father of Jehu.
4. The captain of Absalom's host.
5 The only weapon used at the siege of Jericho.
6. A prophetess who foretold the evil that should come ipoi;
hhe kingdom of Judah.
7. The country to which the murderers of Sennacherib fled
8. A king who was deprived of his dominion until he would
acknowledge that all earthly power was the work of God.
The initials and finals of the foregoing names (or words)
form the names of a father and son : the initials give us the son,
who was sent to warn David of Absalom's intentions. The
finnh, the father, one of the priests in the reign of David.
108 CURIOSITIES OF THE BLbLE.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 16.
1. A servant of God, who followed Him fully.
2 Another servant of God, who feared the Lord greatly.
3. The woman to whom Jesus first appeared after his resur
rection.
4. A woman who is said to have been righteous before (JtxJ
5. The birth place of the father of the faithful
6. A city where Jesus raised one from the dead.
7. A city in the wilderness, built by King Solomon
8. A place from which gold was brought to King Solomon
9. A prophet who lived in the reign of King Ahaz.
10. A prophet who lived in the reign of King Ahab.
The initials form a gracious invitation of the Lord Jesus.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 17.
1. One who had better ne'er been born — his second name.
2. He who to David showed his double sin and shame.
3. She who once only good, but evil soon too, knew.
4. Respectful title, given to each more honored Jew.
5. '• God's promises in Christ, all, all, are this," 'tis writ.
6. To dwell in Philippi this town did Lydia quit.
7. New name ("a prince of God " it means) by patriarch
gained.
8. City of priests, with blood of all its dwellers stained.
9. 'Gainst David's third great sin, God's judgments who
declared.
10. A city which, by cunning cheated, Joshua spared
11. Tn alphabetic Psalm, six Hebrew letter's name.
12. The first of four wise men, whom Solomon passed .u
fame.
13. A man, who sent his son the asses strayed to find.
14. A lowly son, by God for regal rule designed.
Of names 3, 12, no letter you refuse;
'>f 6 and 10, th<? first two onlv use;
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Of others, one. A duty which doth rest,
For faithful Christians, on a promise bleat.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 18.
1. What office did our Lord fulfil in oliering Himself a sac
rifice for sin ?
2. What expression is used concerning Christ as of the
house of David?
3. In what term does St. Paul, in his epistle to the Cor
inthians, speak of the relation of Christ to the Father.
4. What title of Christ, though given him in contempt by
nis enemies, was the fulfilment of a prophecy?
5. A name of our Saviour that indicates his wisdom ?
6. In what prophetic language is the essential attribute of
Bod ascribed to Christ.
7 . A title by which our Lord's human descent is described ?
8. Under what designation does prophecy indicate Christ as
cleansing from all iniquity?
9 . Name the grand office of Christ as our Divine Teacher.
10. What prophetic title of our Saviour shows Him to be
both God and Man ?
11. One of our Saviour's names taken from the Greek
alphabet?
12. How does our Lord show Himself to be the support of
that temple built up of his elect?
13. What is it that Christ's people find in Him ?
From these initials you will find
The love of God to human kind.
He sent his Son from heaven on high,
For us to suffer, bleed, and die.
Oh, happy time, when He shall come
To bring us to our heavenly home —
The war, and strife, and sin shall cease.
And Jesus come to reign in peace.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 19.
1. One whom Paul called his own son in the faith.
2. A king who helped Solomon to build the temple.
3 A prophet who was seen hundreds of years after H-e
4. The eldest sister of Rachel.
5. The grandfather of King David.
6. The eldest son of Jacob.
7. The youngest son of Jesse.
8. A distinguished teacher at Antioch.
9. A Roman officer who saved Paul's life.
10. A warrior who killed Goliath's brother.
11. A scribe who carried a message to Isaiah.
12. A king's son who killed his father.
13. One of the judges of Israel.
14. One of the best of the kings of Judah.
15. One of the ancestors of our Lord.
16. One of Job's comforters.
17. A great man among the Anakims.
18. A prophet who rebuked King David.
19. A prophetess who judged Israel.
20. The father of the first King of Israel.
22, The steward of Abraham's house.
22. The mother of Timothy.
23. The third Apostle called by Jesus.
24. An orator who accused Paul.
25. A king reproved by John the Baptist
26. A false prophet who withstood Paul.
27. A true prophet in the land of Chaldea
The initials express an affectionate wish and devout
tion.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 20.
1. " These have the world turned upside down." Where
was this said V
2. Paul here, now nearly worshipped, now cast forth as dead
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. Ill
3. i'be man whose purchased floor became the Temple's site.
4t. In art and learning's seat, who hailed the gospel's light?
5. Hie people to chastise with scorpions, who had wil] V
6. Who David, weak through age, in battle hoped to kill V
7. Twelve stones were here set up, which they from Jordan
irew.
8. The mount where died the chief whose grave ne'er morta.'
knew.
9. The father of a queen who God's own prophet slew.
Of 1 and 9, initials three retain ;
Of 3, 5, two; and one of what remain :
A text in Psalms appears, which well may cheer
The heart in every doubt, distress or fear.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 21.
1. A servant who gained part of his master's property br
slander and deceit.
2. A high priest who tried to hinder a great work of thf
Lord.
3. A title of honor which our Lord told his disciples to
refuse when called by it.
4. One of those classes of people who shall be cast into th«
lake of tire, which is the second death.
5. The division of Palestine of which, at the beginning of
John the Baptist's ministry, Philip, the husband of Herodias
was Tetrarch.
6 The soldier who, when with David, took away Saul'i
spear and cruse of water, while his guards were asleep.
7. The cousin of a prophet who bought a field from him, as
a token that the children of Israel should return from their
captivity in Babylon.
The initials andyfnaZs give the names of two women, sisters
of a famous king of Israel. The first the mother of bravo mon,
in connection with whom her name is often
112 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 22.
1. A man whose end exemplifies that "the love of money
is the root of all evil."
2. A man who " prepared his heart to seek the law of tkr
fA>rd."
3. The town to which Elkanah belonged.
4. The country which bounded the dominions of Ahasuerus
3n the east.
5. The king of Elam who took Lot prisoner.
6. One of the prophets who incited the Jews to the building
of the second temple.
7 The name which Joshua originally bore.
Tne initials of the above names form the name of a city
tak*!n by the Israelites where only one family was spared ; the
/?» •'<, of a city built by Omri, which was also his burial-place.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 23.
1. A tree with which a famous temple was built.
2. A tree under which idols were buried.
8. A prophet whom a king of Judah slew with the sword.
4. A city in Egypt, prophesied against by three prophets.
5. A tree into which one climbed to see Christ.
6. The place where the spies obtained the bunch of grapea
7. One called "the beloved physician."
8. One whose heart the Lord opened.
9 . One from whom our Lord was a descendant.
10. One who caused her son to deceive.
The above initials form a name by which our Lord was called
in the Old Testament.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 24.
1. What prophet did the Saviour's birth-place tell
When He came down as man with men to dwell?
SCRIPTURE EtilGMAS.
2. A term employed in God's most holy Word
Which doth His truth and faithfulness record V
3 A striking monument of heavenly grace
Who saw his blessed Saviour face to face*
4 The village where our risen Lord appeared,
- And thus two sorrowing disciples cheered?
5. A holy seer who lived in David's days,
And sang to God in sweetest songs of praise V
6. To whom did God an holy angel send,
That He to Peter's message might attend?
7. What bird does on its wings its offspring bear,
An emblem of our Heavenly Father's care ?
8. Who on King David's fortunes did attend,
And in his trials proved a constant friend ?
9. The land from whence arose the world's true light,
When all around were sunk in deepest night?
10. What prophet's lips were touched with holy fire,
And spoke great words that still our hope inspire V
11. What beuteous plant did shadow forth our Lord,
And of His much-loved Church a type afford?
12 A stone the prophet Samuel did raise,
His God for a deliverance great to praise?
18. Whence did he come who, at his God's command,
Left home to sojourn in a foreign land V
14. Who in much trouble Zion's walls did raise ;
Then to his God did render songs of praisa ?
15. The ancestor of one renowned for grace,
From whom descended the whole Jewish race V
16. A seer who led his people once to show
Pity and mercy to a fallen foe?
4I4 CURIOSITIES OF THE BlBLL
17. What glorious time did shadow forth that da}'
When from this earth the curse shall pass away V
18. A prince, who by a pious king was sent,
That he might lead his people to repent ?
19. What mystic word, inscribed on palace wall
By unknown hand, foretold great Babel's fall?
The initials take in order due their place,
And then are read calm words of heavenly grace :
The last best gift that our Redeemer gave
To those loved friends He came from heaven to save :
Oh Lord, give ear unto our earnest prayer,
And grant that we this blessed gift may share.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 25.
1. The cousin and wife of one of the patriarchs
2. A king of Bashan who fought against Israel
3. A disobedient wife.
4. A beautiful girl who was the adopted child of her cousin
5. A burden which we are to carry which is light and easy
6. One who is mentioned by St. Paul as a faithful and be
loved brother.
7. Paul's helper in Christ.
8. A faithful daughter-in-law.
9. A high priest who helped to rebuild Jerusalem.
10. A captain of the Syrian army in the reign of Benhadad
11. The eldest brother of a great king of Israel.
12. The heathen god for whom Paul was mistaken.
13 An archer who was the ancestor of a great nation.
14 One who became greater than his elder brother.
15. One who, with his daughters, built the wall of a ruiue<i
city.
The initial letters of the answers give one of our Lord'*
commands to those who follow Him.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 2b.
1. The fiftn son of a patriarch's earliest wife.
2. A prophet hither sailing risk" 1 his life.
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3. " An Israelite indeed," as Christ declared.
4. Who, next to Korah named, his ruin shared,
5. Seditious boaster, whom Gamaliel mentions.
6. Here blindness foiled Elisha's foes' intentions.
7 A widow who her home would not resign,
And say, " Thy God and people shall be mine.
8. The priest, before whom first our Lord they took
9 Loving this present world, who Paul forsook?
10. A word ; but disintangle first the rest,
And memory, then, this last link will suggest.
Of 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, initials two combine
With three or 4 and 5, and one of 3 and 9 .
Gracious appeal ! thy highest weal at stake.
Bethink thee well what answer thou wilt make.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 27.
1. The only queen that over Judah reigned,
And her brief reign with cruel murder stained Y
2. Who for herself did carve a tomb on high,
Then died an exile 'neatli a foreign sky?
3. A city where who once its portals gained
Protection from pursuing foes obtained ?
4. Who nobly braved a wicked monarch's ire
And walked unhurt amid the blazing fire ?
5. A symbol, first of God's forgiving grace,
That afterward showed the folly of our race ?
6. A shapeless stone which did from heaven fall
On which for aid the heathen world did call ?
7. An emblem of our Saviour's gentle sway,
Easy to those who do their God obey ?
8. Who did the brother of Goliath slay,
And valiantly upheld king David's sway ?
9 A beauteous type of Christ's life-giving power,
Who doth on earth the richest blessings shower '•
10. Who, when a ruler was oppressed with care,
Assisted him to persevere in prayer Y
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11. Whose son taught men to strike the tuneful lyre,
And did their minds with harmony inspire ?
12. Where did the patriarch a pillar raise
For visions sweet and bright his God to praise ?
13. Who made a feast, that former friends might prove
The blessings of a Saviour's care and love ?
14. What mighty empire o'er the earth bore sway
When here on earth our blessed Lord did stay ?
15. Who, when a prophet was by grief oppresst,
Did come to aid him and procure him rest ?
16. The land for Israel's sake supremely blest,
Type of the Christian's everlasting rest ?
17. An altar raised, for Israel's sons to trace
That they belonged to that much favored race ?
18. Who was the grandsire of a mighty seer
Who taught the Jews to overcome their fear ?
19. A beauteous emblem in the temple riven,
To show that Christ our Lord hath opened heaven Y
20. The holy priest who Israel's thousands led,
And before whom the waves of Jordan fled ?
In these initials you will find
Precept and promise both combined.
If you, by grace, the first obey,
You then will find the heavenly way
That leads you to the realms above,
Where all is peace, and joy, and lore.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 28.
I . The man who credence gave on touch of hand.
2 That which is equal to a murderous deed.
3 A fruit much eaten in an Eastern land.
4. Bathsheba's husband, as by Matthew read.
5. What animal on Judah's hills was found ?
6. The first five letters of the precious things
Which in Saul's reign in Israel did abound.
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7. The trusting bird that flew with soft white wings
To bring Noah comfort in an olive leaf,
And end at last his time of waiting grief.
Take/r.ste and/na/s, and a text is made,
Which in temptation's hour may prove an aid.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS, No. 29.
Afar they watch my whole arise,
Its summit seems to touch the skies ;
" When all is done," the crowds exclaim,
" Then shall we make ourselves a name ! "
Remove a letter, and behold 1
A shepherd issue from his fold,
With blood devoutly draws he nigh,
Himself, alas ! how soon to die.
Remove a letter still, and now
Before an idol-god they bow ;
To wood and stone is worship paid,
And men adore what men have made.
Remove a letter yet once more,
We see an altar stained with gore ;
And he who built it named it thus,
To teach a precious truth to us.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 30.
1. A word which signifies "peace."
2. A child who was born on the day of a great national ca
lamity.
3. A city which was popularly supposed to produce nothing
food.
4. A son of Saul who reigned over Israel for two years.
5. The father of Boaz.
6. An orator who accused St. Paul before Felix.
7. A king of Syria who was anointed by a prophet of Israel
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8. David's eldest brother.
9. The queen of Egypt in Solomon's time.
10. The town in which Samuel's house was.
11. The people who erected an altar " to the unknown God *•
12. The only leper who was cleansed during the reign oJ
Jehoram, King of Israel.
13. A conqueror whose death was more disastrous to his
memies than his life had been.
14. The country whence Elijah originally came.
15. A Moabitess who married into the tribe of Judah.
16. The Ethiopian eunuch who interceded for Jeremiah.
17. The mountain given to Esau for a possession.
18. The church to whom it was said. " Thou hast a name
that thou livest, and art dead."
19. Leah's fifth son.
20. The conqueror of Chushan-rishathaim.
21. A servant whose master granted him leave of absence
for twelve years.
22. A runaway slave who was sent back to his master by
St. Paul.
23. The age of Moses when he visited his brethren.
24. Absalom's daughter.
25. An Egyptian slave who became the mother of a great
nation.
26. The father of Bathsheba.
27. The well near which Isaac dwelt.
28. The tribe to whom it was said, " As thy days, so shall
thy strength be."
29. A charge which was given to the disciples and to all
Christians.
The initials of the above names (or words) give us a definition
of sin .
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 31.
1. Whose army fell beneath an angel's wing?
2. Lo ! hence the captive ark they homeward brir j.
3. Before this ruler, Paul his case explained.
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4. A prophet, as deserter, who detained ?
5. Victor in death, heaven opened to his view.
6. Hero tyrant fell by stone a woman threw.
7. An ancient river, famed in Deborah's song,
That swept the vanquished in its course along.
8. Great city which, by prophet warned, repented.
9. A captured town to Solomon presented.
10 To whom was first earth's future all displayed?
11. A slave escaped, whom Paul a convert made.
12 Chemosh was worshipped on this nation's ground.
13. This governor left Paul unjustly bound.
14. A champion felled by stone a shepherd hurled.
15. Goddess revered by " Asia and the world.'*
Two of 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 12 and 14, take
Initials ; three of 6 ; of others one, and make
A text, which sets before the Christian life's chief end,
First of all aims to which his hope should tend.
" Make thou His service thy delight,
Thy wants shall be His care."
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 32.
1. An emblem of the Lord of life and grace,
Whose death has wrought salvation for our race ?
2. What typifies our Heavenly Father's care
And shows the love He to his children bare ?
3. And in sad contrast, name a type of those
Who 'gainst God's Word have dared their ears to cic*-.
4. Who first brought sorrow to this world below,
And was the source of all its sin and woe ?
5. A type of Him, of whom it is foretold
That He shall draw all nations to his fold ?
6. A type of Jesus' kind and gentle sway,
By which He leads us in the heavenly way ?
* To what choice jewel, beautiful and rare,
Did John the founders of the Church compare ?
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8. A tree that symbolized the Jews of old,
And in a figure their sad fate foretold ?
9. An emblem that our Lord doth typify ?
How safe are those who on His aid rely !
10. A symbol brought to show God's wrath did cease,
Which hence became the well-known type of peace i
11. What is of coming day a herald bright,
And typifies the God of love and light ?
12. A type of Him who did from heaven descend,
And feeds all those that on His grace depend ?
13. A type of that which makes all sorrows light,
And throws a beam across the darkest night ?
14. An emblem of a city placed on high
Which dared Almighty power to defy ?
In the initials of these types we read
Not to depend on man in time of need ;
But put our trust in God's Almighty power,
Who help will give for every trying hour.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 33.
1. The prophet who was sent to tell David of the punish
ment he had incurred by numbering the people.
2. A man who " feared the Lord greatly."
3. The country where the gospel was preached by a man
who had once been the terror of the inhabitants.
4. A man who plotted to destroy a whole nation for the of
fence of one man.
5. The only man who escaped the slaughter of the priests I y
Sau.
6. The mountain in whose neighborhood Sisera was de
feated.
7. The prophet who reproved Asa for trusting to the King
of Syria.
8. The name which Jacob gave to the place w
of God met him.
9. " A prince and a great man.**
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10. The king by whose decree the building of the second
temple was finished.
11. The wife of Aaron.
12. The man to whom David showed kindness for Jonathan's
sake.
13. A mm who was spared by a king, and slain by a prophet
14. The city of the priests.
15. The prophet who was slain by Jehoiakim.
16 Herod's brother.
17 The place where the Israelites fought their first battle
after leaving Egypt.
18. The murderer of Gedaliah.
19. The Hebrew name of the place where our Lord was con
demned.
20. The father of Lot.
21. The city to which Jehoshaphat attempted to send ships.
The initials of the above names (or words) form a statement
which shows us that we are " very far gone from original right-
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 34.
1. He who with Joshua only of the land
Who quitted Egypt reached the promised land.
2. Name of a street, Saul's blindness here had end.
3. Man plants and tends ; God only this can send.
4. A judge who cared not to take either side.
5. A pronoun oft in friendly speech supplied.
6. Who was it, to whom plainly Christ confessed,
The " Son of Man " was " Son, too, of the Blessed ?
7. King of Damascus, when St. Paul thence fled.
8. The city where, in Egypt, Joseph wed.
9. Of Solomon the royal Tyrian friend.
10. Whom Peter smote, his Master to defend.
Initials two of 1, 2, 3, 8, 9,
With four of 4 and 3 of 7 combine ;
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One of the rest : a counsel thus is made
Of comfort full, yet ill, alas ! obeyed.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 35.
1. Another name by ancient men
To land of Edom given.
2. The first four letters of a fruit
To Nazarites forbidden.
3. What man, for taking a stronghold,
Obtained his cousin's hand ?
4. The place where Lydia purple sold,
The richest in the land.
5. A Grecian game to which St. Paul
Compares the Christian's path.
6. A tree of which the Jews burnt much
On their domestic hearth.
7. A very profitable use, for Scripture,
Paul did name.
8. The first three letters of a man
To whom death never came.
9. Name the third mount to whose high top
King Balak, Balaam led.
10. Give for a parable a name
In Bible pages read.
11. Reverse the name where gold was found—
A celebrated place ;
12. And give the mighty ancestor
Of Edom's hardy race.
When you the fasts and finals find,
A sentence you may frame,
A promise made by Christ on earth
Which we in heaven may claim,
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 36.
Curiously hinged and jointed
To its fellow hangs my Jlrst ;
To preserve man's life appointed,
When the ground, through sin, was cursad ;
Yet it never
Fails to deal destruction round,
To whatever
May within its reach be found.
With substantial fabrication
Is my unseen second blest ;
Made a wondrous habitation,
For a still more wondrous guest :
Framed to cherish
Force of arm — the warrior's trust ;
Doomed to perish —
Earth to earth, and dust to dust I
From a feeble creature taken,
Once my whole appeared in sight ;
And by strength vindictive shaken,
Slew a thousand in the fight ;
'Twas selected
To rebuke the Gentiles' pride ;
Soon rejected,
Like a weapon cast aside.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 37.
( Showing a possession lost for us by the first Adam; regain e<i
for us by the second Adam.)
1. The name of one of the first seven deacons.
2. A man who, as a king, offered willingly land and goods
to build an altar, and to offer sacrifice to God.
3. A family which earned the approbation and reward from
God by their obedience to the command of their ancestor.
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4. A maiden given to wife as a reward for capturing a city ;
and who sought and obtained, of her father, land with springa
of water. (N.B. — The account of this is ^;iven twice over in
the Bible ; give reference to both passages.)
5. The omitted tribe in the account, in the Revelation, ui
the sealing of the hundred and forty-four thousand.
6. The father of that prophet of the Lord who dared speak
unpalatable truth to the wicked king to whom the rest ol thf
prophets had spoken palatable falsehood.
7. A convert called by St. Paul " the first fruits of Achaia,'
and whose household that apostle baptized.
8. That prophet whose visions, in the Old Testament, arf
often much akin to those of St. John the Divine in the NP.W.
The initials of the above will give the answer
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 38.
From the New Testament alone,
Resolves these questions truly ;
The answers two acrostics make,
When ranged in order duly.
1. The brook that Jesus had to cross,
The traitor's band to meet ?
2. The symbol of the prayers of saints,
Acceptable and sweet ?
3. When Mary saw the Master risen,
Her cry of recognition ?
4. The fourth of seven — the daily care
Of widows was their mission ?
5. He who, in recklessness profane,
His birthright blessing sold ?
C. And he who vexed his righteous soul
With Sodom's crimes of old ?
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7. The band wherein a Roman served,
With right devout behavior ?
8. AndAe, at Rome, whom Paul salutes,
" Our helper" in the Saviour ?
•. And lastly, he, progenitor
Of Christ's reputed father,
Whose name the sixth in upward rank,
From Joseph's line we gather ?
The initials and the/na/s take
From every term selected,
Except "the symbol of the prayers,"
And this must be bisected.
See the/rs£ Gentile Christian's name,
Framed from the signs initial ;
And in the finals upward read,
Behold his rank official
May we, like him, by Peter taught,
Renounce our Gentile pride,
And by the Spirit from above
Our hearts be purified !
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 39.
From the tangled thicket bounding,
Roars myjirst ;
Through the wild his voice, resoundiiig
Hath dispersed
All the tribes that prowl and prey
In the night :
From his path they flee away
With affright.
O'er the path my second gliding
Bites the heels ;
In the treacherous wine-cup hiding
Stings and kills.
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But the Christ, creation's Head,
David's Root,
Shall my first and second tread
Under foot !
Look! my third has made its dwelling
Underground ;
And its mimic mountains swelling,
Rise around :
Image of the carnal mind,
Child of earth,
'Tis by nature dark and blind
From its birth.
So my fourth, with scanty vision
Of the light,
Flitting, finds its whole provision
In the night.
To my third and/owr^, 'tis told,
Man shall cast
All their gods of sordid gold,
At the last.
Who theybwr initials borrows,
Shall display
One, who all our sins and sorrows
Bore away :
Like this creature — though Divine —
He became,
And his name, in type and sign,
Is the same.
SCRIPTURAL ENIGMA, No. 40.
What godly priest on Judah's throne his wife's young nepha*
placed ?
What land unto Urijah gave a shelter, when disgraced?
Who was the youngest son of him who ear:::J a curs* (ore-
told?
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vVhat relation was Paul to one who told of plotters bold Y
\Vho mourned when one for Israel's good help from a king ro-
oeived ?
What was it last poured out on them for whom out Sa \iour
grieved ?
What prophet of the Lord most high did Syrian plots defeat?
What brother in the Lord did Paul for one estranged entreat'/
'/That bishop of an eastern church had learned God's holy
truth,
While yet a child, and served the Lord e'en from his earh
youth?
If you have answered this aright, the initial letters prove
Our blessed Saviour's sympathy, his tenderness and love ;
And then il\e final letters read, for these will let you know
A place where Christ with tears of love His sympathy did
show.
SCRIPTURAL ENIGMA. No. 41.
From the New Testament these questions solve,
And thus these names evolve :
1. Who was it oft-times trembled while he heard
A Roman prisoner's word ?
2. What Jew from Egypt did at Corinth preach
With strong, persuasive speech ?
3. Who, by presentiment of faith possessed,
His twin-born children bless'd?
4. Who, with a life by earliest faith begun,
Was call'd the apostle's son ?
5. Who, by her daughter's " light fantastic" tread
Obtained a prophet's head ?
6. Whose name stands serond in th* ascending tre*-
Of Jesu's pedigree ?
7. What slave was to his, injured master sen*
Bv Paul, a penitent V
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8. Who was that Jewess, whose experienced gpeect
Did a great teacher teach ?
9. Who was his mother who, in early youth,
Believed and preached the truth ?
1C. Who was the first of all the Gentile rac-j
To learn the Saviour's grace V
11 Who — though not first — all Asia led astray,
And turned from Paul awav ?
12. Who, by one lie, called forth th' apostle's powei
And perished the same hour ?
13. Who heard the voice of Peter at the gate,
And made the apostle wait ?
14 What epithet both marks a traitor's shame,
And clears his namesake's fame ?
15. Who for St. Paul his longest letter penned
And kind salute did send?
18. What title, in three vowels, doth express
The Saviour's faithfulness ?
Now from each term evolved th' initial take,
And an acrostic make.
Three sovereign graces that in Christians dwell,
The several letters spell.
Thefrst, without saving power, looks back to »
The Saviour's agony.
The next, with steadfast eye, looks upward still
To heavenly Zion's hill.
The last, the greatest, labors to be blest
In heaven's eternal rest.
The first completed, and the next made sure
The third shall still endure.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 42.
1. The tribe to which Korah belonged ?
2. The son of Ruth?
3. That by which the sheep know the shepherd ?
4. David's eldest brother ?
6. The man whom Philip brought to Christ ?
6. The father of Ahab ?
7. The birthplace of St. Paul ?
8. The man who " boasted himself to be somebody V "
9. The city given by Joshua to Caleb ?
10. The prophet who said " I am not better thau my fathers " "
11. That which Pharaoh's daughter promised to Jochabed ?
12. The man who was " blessed because of the Ark of God? "
13. The place where Elkanah lived ?
14. That of which Jacob made pottage ?
15. The man who was " greatly beloved ? "
The initials form a precept much needed in this world.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 43.
Tis night — myjirst runs out, another comes,
Another and another, ere the morn
Wakes up a slumbering world
And lights the toils of men.
'Tis day — my second runs his weary round.
And groans in pain, or travails with his task,
Or sits enthroned in pride,
Or in the dungeon pines.
'Tis night again — my whole with lofty pyt\
T/ooks out beneath him on a slumbering w(«l^.
The dim horizon j.cans,
And kens the comma: fo«.
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Simile.
The Christian's life is like the first ; and he
Should like the second quit himself, be strong,
Be wise ; and, like the whole,
Look for his coming Lord.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 44.
In the initials placed aright,
Appears that spot of memory sweet,
Where He who dwelt as man on earth
Loved with his followers to meet.
1. My wicked wiles could not avail
God's servant to dismay.
2. In bitterness of soul I knelt,
Before the Lord to pray.
3. Beside a river's bank I stood,
And viewed a wondrous sight.
4. To me a crown of gold was given,
And robes of blue and white.
5. In time of danger I concealed
God's prophets in a cave.
6. In vain to "Egypt did I fly,
My threatened life to save.
7. With saddened heart I left the land
Where those I loved were laid.
8. In Pekah King of Israel's days,
I did his land invade.
9. A city I must first besiege,
Ere I my wife could win.
10. I trembled at my prisoner's words
Yet would not l^ave my **»••
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11. My giant strength became as nought
Opposed to God's great might.
12. My tribe was chosen by the Lord,
To serve Him day and night.
13. As musing in the field I walked,
I saw my bride draw near.
14. I would not, at my lord's command,
Before his court appear.
15 My harsh reproofs but served to add
Unto my friend's great woe.
16. I perished on the battle-field,
But not by sword or foe,
My own right hand the weapon held,
Which made my life-blood flow.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 45.
The prophet who " loved the wages of unrighteousness."
The native land of Ishmael's wife.
The man who would not part with the inheritance of hi§
fathers.
The tenth part of an ephah.
The city to which Barnabas went to seek Saul.
The number of years that Moses sojourned in Midian.
The saint who, " being dead, yet speaketh."
The medium of communication between Joseph and hh
brethren.
St. Paul's " own son in the faith."
The father of King Manasseh.
Isaac's brother-in-law.
The prophet visited on his death-bed by King Joaah.
The city where Omri was buried.
The Benjamitp who cursed David.
These initial* make a charge of our Saviour to His
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 46.
Whose faith and courage saved her people's life ?
Who won a battle trusting in the Lord ?
Who gained a sharp rebuke for jealous strife?
Who perished by a traitor's cruel sword ?
Who checked his rage to prove a prophet's word ?
The initial letters take — they form his name
Who did his foe's unwilling praise proclaim ;
Then take thejinals, and they give the same.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA. No. 47.
1. A type of our Lord ; one who entered the land of Egypt
and the house of bondage, and there saved his people.
2. One who preferred a present and temporal benefit, to
that which was future and eternal, and repented, when too
late.
3. The name of a King of Israel ; also of one who, from a
persecutor, became an apostle.
4. One who put out a rash hand, unauthorized by God, to
steady the ark, which he thought to be in danger, and received
not praise, but punishment from God.
5. The name of that church of whose angel (or bishop) was
§aid, " Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead."
letters of these make up the sweetest human name
it the world.
u It makes the wounded spirit whole
It calms the troubled breast ;
TIB manna to the hungry §onl,
And to the weary reit.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 48
What is Christian worship ¥— -
You shall quickly know,
When you solve the queries
Following here below : —
Name the fifth disciple,
Of Bethsaida he,
Jesus found, and called him ,
Saying, " Follow me ! "
How shall we take warning ?
Learning from Lot's wife,
Who, though saved from Sodom
Turned, and lost her life !
With the traitor's silver,
When this field was bought,
There the doom he suffered,
Of the deeds he wrought.
Paul once found at Corinth,
Lately come from — whence ?
Two good souls, when Csesar
Drove all Jews from thence.
Early in the morning,
With the Marys came
One, to look for Jesus ;
Mark recites her name.
Jacob's father's father —
Tell his worthy name :
In the line of David
You shall find the same.
First th' initial letters,
Next the finals take ;
Then, with holy incense
sweet offerings make •
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This to tell God's mercies,
That to seek his face,
Through the blood of sprinkling,
At the throne of grace.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 49.
A faithful martyr's honored name,
A prophet- judge's dwelling-place,
A warrior who to David came,
A priest who perished in disgrace,
A prophet's home, a mountain land .
The initial letters spell,
Reverse their order as they stand,
A mournful name they tell,
Which one, oppressed with deepest woea.
In bitterness of spirit chose.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 50.
Mjjirst is known in every Christian clime,
The fatal instrument of deadly crime..
Abhorred, beloved, accursed, and yet most blest,
A path of trouble to a land of rest.
For the initial letter substitute
The next in alphabetic order found,
And all most valued, held in best repute,
In this vain world most worshipped or renowned,
Weighed with my first, so painful, yet so dear
To each true heart, my second will appear.
The two first letters of this word remove,
And place instead the initial of her name
Who cheered God's saints with words and deeds of lore.
Embraced myfrst, and gloried in the ihame.
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The word thus formed is used by one most blest,
That great apostle whom she made her guest,
To tell what all the world's wealth, learning, fame,
Whon he beheld my first, to him became.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 51.
In many a bosom fondly nursed,
A fiery serpent is my first •
When Jesus came for us to die,
He crushed this deadly enemy.
My second is a city's name,
Where Israel's host was put to shame,
Because my first still unrevealed,
Was lurking in their camp concealed.
Upon my whole, pronounced by heaven,
The knowledge of my first was given.
The chosen people gathered round,
And trembled at the dreadful sound.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 52.
Earth revolves, and lo 1 I come,
Out of darkness springing ;
Men and beasts their task resume,
Birds their carols singing;
Glad my smiling face to see,
Earth wakes up to welcome me.
Earth revolves, and, like again,
Out of darkness beaming,
Shine I in Night's diadem,
On the wavelets gleaming;
And my radiance dies away,
>nly in returning day.
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Earth revolves, and now 'tis mine,
Out of darkness glancing,
To announce the night's decline,
And the day's advancing;
And my hopeful brightness, so,
Doth the Saviour's coming show.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 5&
From all the names in Scripture,
Of just six letters framed,
Find hers who, for her beauty,
Was far and justly famed ;
'Tis true hei lot was lowly,
Yet, though her birth was mean,
She, from a captive maiden,
Became a mighty queen.
Transpose the same six letters,
And now his name we find,
Whose meditated treason
Was timely brought to mind ;
And Providence so ordered,
That a great king was taught
To magnify the humble,
And bring the proud to nought.
Five of the six exhibit
A mount on Dan bestowed,
Where still, though put to tribute,
The Amorites abode.
Five show what creatures coyer
Th' unbrageous forest-lands,
And soon — the prophet tells us —
They all shall clap their hands
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Five more denote the number
Of Anak's sons of old
(Not one, nor two, nor many),
Whose several names are told.
Five changed show what, in vision,
From heaven to Peter came,
Filled with all living creatures,
That he might eat the same.
Four of the same selected,
Describe that other seed
Instead. of him— the victim
Of man's first murderous deed.
Four other letters chosen
Will Samuel's office show,
What time some urgent matter
A young man sought to know
Four name that Hebrew letter
That stands the last but two •
The longest psalm, in portions.
Will prove the answer true .
Four make the sweetest offer
The weary soul can hear ;
Come, and receive it freely,
Who yoke or burden bear
And four denote the person
Who with " good comfort " heard
When to the poor blind beggar
They told the Saviour's word ;
And the same voice of comfort
To every conscience speaks,
When Jesus, by his gospel,
Bach Door blind sinner *e«V«
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 54.
Faith shall be swallowed up in sight,
Hope in fulfilment end,
When on our twilight life the light
Of heaven shall descend.
A sister-grace to these, more great,
Shall brighten when they wane ;
O let us more and more to this,
Even in this life, attain I
The initials of the following will give the name of this most
excellent grace :
1. The grandmother of Timothy.
2. The good servant of a wicked king, who kept one hundred
prophets of the Lord from the vengeance of the queen.
3. A queen who resisted her husband's command, and was
deposed.
4. A good man, but a bad father.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 55.
The father of the first artificer in brass and iron.
The man who said, "I thy servant fear the Lord from my
youth."
The wise man's estimate of earthly pleasure.
The place where David slew Goliath.
Rehoboam's successor
The people who stole the oxen of Job.
Herod's chamberlain.
The city where Jehu was anointed king.
The kingdom of Chedorlaomer.
Paul's amanuensis when he wrote the Epistle to the Romans
The mother of Adonijah.
The wife of Mahlon.
The name of the altar that was built by the children of
Reuben and Gad.
The younger son of Bilhah.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 56.
My first enjoins a watchful car*,
To see and shun each lurking smaife,
With earnest and unceasing prayer.
My second speaks a kingdom mine,
Where life and peace and joy divine
In uncorrupted glory shine.
My third would contradict my first,
'Tis watchful earnestness reversed,
By careless, prayerless folly nursed.
Faith is my fourth, of things not seen
While on the word of truth we lean,
Though clouds and darkness intervene
These several subjects find in turn,
And as their primal signs you learn,
My whole in figure you discern.
This type of Jesus, and His saints
Their living, fruitful union paints,
And patient love that never faints.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 57.
THREEFOLD ACROSTIC.
1. R-uin and wrath, and mortal gloom,
2. B-y nature's fall and righteous doom,
8 A-ll drive the sinner to the tomb.
N-one can escape the just reward,
Y-et the long-suffering of the Lord
E-ndures the acts of men abhorred.
D-eath and the grave wide open lie,
D-read and destruction hover nigh,
P-erdition waits, which none can fly.
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B-ut lo I the gospel brings to light
U-nlooked-for help in Nature's night,
E-den and life restored to sight.
M-ercy receives the dreadful stroke,
Y-ea, justice doth the doom revoke,
R-einoves the curse, and breaks the yoke.
C-hrist in our flesh the price hath paid,
P-eace through His precious blood is made,
P-ardon and life for man displayed.
T-here, on the shameful cross he bled,
O-ffered to judgment in our stead,
H-umbled, and numbered with the dead ! *
W-ith hell he fought and won the day,
1-n dying took death's sting away,
A-nd rose triumphant from the fray 1
0-to obtain what Christ hath won!
E-njoy the grace on earth begun !
S-o life shall crown what Love hath done,
N-ow may we trust the sure record,
R-eceive what grace and power award, —
E-ternal glory with the Lord !
The initials in due order spun,
From every verse selecting one,
Three times acrostically done,
Will show the work of God's dear Son ;
His suffering course on earth begun,
And His eternal kingdom won.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 58.
The letters in the following words, when re-arranged, form the
ttame of a false god, to whom human sacrifices were offered :—
1. A man noted for wisdom.
2. An unclean beaut.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 59,
[n every clime, through every age,
Cn history's eventful page.
My first will always rise to view,
And wakes our love and hatred too.
My second and my third will each
Express the self -same part of speech,
And, though two interjections brief,
May paint a world of joy or grief.
My whole most surely was my first;
But far more brave and firm in faith,
His wife a mighty patriot nursed,
Who nobly died a hero's death.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 60.
In finals and initials may be found
The names of two, for beauty both renowned;
The one, her days 'mid courtly splendors spent.
The other, in a patriarch's lonely tent.
1. Who did in ancient times that city found,
In Jonah's history afterwards renowned ?
2. Who with Agrippa, to the judgment hall,
Came with great pomp, to hear the case of Paul ?
8. Who thought to slay king David in the fight,
But fell himself before Abishai's might?
4 Whose kindness to a prophet of the Lord,
Met with a precious unforeseen reward ?
5. Who did the Lord his vision bid to write,
And make it plain that all might read aright T
5 Who did a queen, although his near of kin,
Deprive of office for her grievous sin ?
7. Who viewed his young opponent with disdain,
Yet by that stripling's hand was quickly slain
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 61.
The letters constituting the following words, rearranged, will
form the name of a murderer who fled from this country:—
1. The father of the inventor of organs and harps.
2. An organ built near Jordan.
3. A man one of whose kindred rebuked a good man
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 62
The hiding-place of Jonathan and Ahimaaz.
The prophet who was a herdman of Tekoah.
Cain's grandson.
The judge who succeeded Abimelech.
The prophet who foretold the destruction of Edom.
Hezekiah's name for the brazen serpent.
The place where Samson slew the lion.
Nehemiah's father.
Aaron's wife.
The city whence Sennacherib's ambassadors came.
The man of whom St. Paul says, " He was not ashamed of m."
chain."
The king of Syria who fought with Ahaz.
The tribe omitted when the rest are enumerated in the Boofe
of Revelation.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 63.
My first is oft prefixed to words,
And signifies " beneath,"
My second's blessing is the Lord's,
To save from sin and death;
And planted oft on heathen soil,
It well repays the gracious toil.
When patient Job prepared his soul
To bow beneath the rod,
Without reserve he gave my whole
To meet the will of God.
EN I GMA .S. I 4 *
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 6*
To solve the following questions,
Write numbers one to eleven in rote ; then bring
The well-spent names of person, place, or thing.
That answer these suggestions :—
Noa. 1, 4, 5, 2, 8, 9—
Range under these six letters
The name of one found sitting next a throne.
And riding second to the king alone ;
His feet once galled with fetters.
Nos. 2, 8, 9, 7, 6—
Make that capacious measure,
Viewed by the prophet as a woman's seat,
Winged with the wind to her secure retreat.
The land of power and pleasure.
Nos. 3, 4, 5, 9, 2, 10—
He last the sceptre wielded,
Ere Israel's throne was humbled to tl><' dust ;
A king who vainly did in Egypt trust,
And to Assyria yielded.
Nos. 4, 5, 3, 2, 7—
Through Canaan's utmost borders,
Twelve chieftains journeyed to search out the land
One name appears that did augmented stand
Thenceforth, by Moses' orders.
No*. 5, 9, 10, 8,6, 7, 11—
These show that prophet's father,
Who twice received from Israel's mighty seer
His fallen mantle. This will soon appear,
When you these letters gather.
Nos. 6, 2, 11, 3—
Show from what race descended
The man who owned and sold a field and care,
'Vhere six illustrious strangers found a grave —
'< these four letters blended.
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Nos. 7, 5, 10, 8, 9—
Tis he, with song poetic,
First of three seers, as ordered by the king ;
And still his twelve sweet canticles we sing,
In psalmody prophetic.
NTos. 8, 7, 5, 2., 10, 9, and 8, tf, 7, 5, 2, 10, 9—
From Babylon retrrning,
Lo ! twice recounted the Nethinims' bands ;
What name, next Uzza, of these fathers' stands
Its varied form discerning ?
Nos. 9, 4, 5, 7, 6—
The bounds of Asher tracing,
From Helkath to the sea-board, I require
The name next following the strong city Tyre —
These numbers rightly placing.
Nos. 10, 1, 7, 9—
From Seir the Horite springing,
Behold the name of Zibeon's elder son,
Whose brother's daughter Jacob's brother wou—
These several numbers bringing.
Nos. 11, 4, 10, 3—
In Kohath's line ascending
Count back from Samuel, of those sons of song
Whom David set to lead the choral throng ;
In EliePs father ending.
Behold his name completed,
Who reigned in Ahab's days on David's throne ,
By whom his righteous father's ways were shown,
And Judah's foes defeated.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. C5
Swift of foot and fearless,
Strong and terrible in fight,
Great of heart and careless
Of the glancing weapons bright ;
Yet a thing forbidden
To be kept or ridden,
By the people of the Lord,
VVT^en the tribes of Israel warred.
Mean, debased, and sordid,
Sprung from a corrupted line ;
Yet his name recorded,
Shows an origin divine.
Fragile now, and tender,
Now in power and splendor,
'Tis a paradox involved,
'Tis a riddle unresolved.
By thejirst and second
Must the whole be brought to light ;
Strong in valor reckoned,
Yet not seldom put to flight :
Hark ! the battle rages —
Host with host engages I
Yet the strong, the swift may yield,
And the weak may win the field.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 66.
Who prayed for death in dark despair t
To what did Christ himself compare ?
What queen was fairest of the fair?
Now either way the initials place,
And still the selfsame name they give
Of one who sunk in deep disgrace,
Did yet a glorious hoi>e receive.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 67.
First name a chief, the bitter foe
Of Judah's Lord, and Judah's land.
A river next, whose waters flow,
By old Damascus' heathen strand.
What did the Lord of Hosts o'erthrow,
In pity to his chosen band ?
What word is oft-times used to show
The wonders of his mighty hand V
Next mark the name first borne in youth,
By one, who in the cause of truth,
With manly courage risked his life,
To still the murmuring people's strife.
And, last, his father's name set down,
Known only by that son's renown ;
The initials form a monarch's name,
Who, once a mighty empire swayed;
Yet are his exploits lost to fame,
And all his glory sunk in shade.
His captain's name the finals tell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 68.
The letters in the answers to the following will, if righr,!y
placed, form the name of a learned teacher : —
1. One of the encampments of the Israelites where there
were wells of water.
2. A man who conspired against Abimelech, and was thru nl
out from the city where he had dwelt.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 69.
Letters taken from the following give the name of a plao*
where a rich and good man, in the time of Christ, dwelt : —
1. A leading man of the tribe of Naphtali, who was to
" stand with " Moseg.
2. A son of Ishmael.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 70.
Six letters spell the name of one who was early dedicated
to God. These six letters are the initials of six proper names
which we will describe as follows : —
1. A quiet Prince. 4. A word which sealed the
doom of an empire.
2. An Eastern River. 5. A mighty man of valor.
3. A priest of Baal. 6. A Levitical city.
When you have formed these six words, the initials of which
spell the name of one who was early dedicated to God. The
final letters of these six words, either up or down, spell hi*
mother's name.
Who was the boy ? Who was his motb«r ?
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS No. 71.
1. WHOSE mournful death made widows to lament (
2. What woman from her master's house was sent?
3. Who saw bright visions by a river's side ?
4. What treach'rous servant to his master lied?
5. What warlike prince upon a rock was slain?
6. Who water sought when God withheld the rain ?
7. Who came uninjured from the lion's den ?
8. Who once near Lehi slew a thousand men?
9. Whose prayers and tears did a kind answer gain ?
10. In what famed valley was a giant slain ?
11. Who for his sin most bitterly did weep?
12. Where did his flock the son of Amram keep ?
13. Who with a brother was at deadly strife ?
H. What woman by her faith did save her life ?
15. Who a fierce foe did in a monarch find,
But in that monarch's son a friend most kind?
Take the initials, and, as noonday clear,
A title of the Saviour will appear.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 72.
What woman armies to the battle led ?
In troubled times who gave God's prophet bread?
Who told a lie, to please his thirst for gain ?
Whose house the holy ark of God received ?
Who early of her husband was bereaved ?
Who felt a loving father's keenest pain ?
In these initial letters find,
A precept all our deeds to guide,
That bids us think of others weal,
And cast all thoughts of self aside.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 73.
1. A name, the symbol of mere worldly gain ;
To love it and love God — the attempt is vain.
2. A vale Tobiah sought, with feigned alarm,
To entrap there Nehemiah to his harm.
3. A plain where building projects of proud aim,
By heaven confounded, soon was brought to shame.
4,. A word of Christ, which ears fast chained unbound.
5. For incense, jewels, gold, a land renowned.
The initials of these words read downward and the ftnaU
and you have the names of two brothers.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. ',4.
1. The first Duke on record.
2. The mount on which Aaron died.
3. Aaron's wife.
4. An Apostle whom the Greeks took for their god Jupiter
5. The place where the Israelites murmured for wator.
6. The father of Moses.
7. A ruler of the Jews, who secretly sought Jesus that he
might be taught by him.
8. A name given to Simon Peter.
9. A prophet in the reign of King Asa.
The initials form one of the names 01 our Lord
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 75.
1. A foreigner, of royal herdsman, head,
His tongue to lie, his hand blood swift to shed
2. Who, when his counsel was rejected, died,
By his own hand, victim of wounded pride.
3. Who ruled, when captive Judah left their land
The remnant poor and died by treacherous hand
4. A seer, dissuading Israel (not in vain)
In bonds their captive brethren to retain.
5. Who, drunken, dared a warrior chief j .revoke
His wife averting the avenging stroke.
The word the initials form, an idol names,
Made signally to prove Jehovah's claim;
In prostrate shame his glory to display
While through that laud reigned trouble and dismay
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 70.
1. A little plant which grotvs upon a wall.
2. A tree of Bashan, strong and stout and tall.
3. Those which once sheltered a sad captive race.
4. In room of briars and thorns, this shall have place.
5. In figure, said to flourish, when men fail.
6. 'Mong presents, sent with Joseph to prevail.
7. They camped by Elim's wells, its palms close by.
8 When this puts forth its leaves, lo ! summer's nigh
9. 'Tis in the wilderness, from dwelling far.
10. Compared unto thy tens, these. Jacob, are.
1 1. By God's power flourishing when all is low.
1-2. A tree not known now by this name to grow.
13. The desert wild shall blossom like to this.
14. All things were perfect in this land of bliss,
15. On either side a river's brink it grew.
16. He shall resemble this, whose life's untrue.
17. Thus often, thou shall tithe thy fields and laud.
18. Egyptian corn not smitten by Almighty hand
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19. This tree was asked o'er other trees to reign.
20. That which once budded, when man's words vrere vain
21 No Nazarite with vow might eat of these.
22 Christ saw Zaccheus, passing 'neath this tree.
He that hath eyes to see, and heart to love,
Will quickly guess the initials writ above ;
For day by day the earth repeats the same,
And bids us laud and magnify His name.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 77.
1. Who life and pardon for her nation won ?
2. The name of noble Samuel's eldest son.
3. Who lost his two sons in a single day ?
4. A king who captive led the Jews away.
5. An emperor to whom the world belonged.
6. A king who prayed and had his life prolonged.
7. Assyria's scornful messenger of pride.
8. The seer whose message all his threats defied.
9. Who curst King David as in grief he fled?
10. Who scarce believed Christ risen from the dead ?
11. A man who lost, but got again his sight.
12. What Syrian had a dream from God at night ?
13. Who brought on all mankind increasing woe ?
14 A captain swift of foot as a young roe.
15. A mighty judge betrayed by woman's art.
16. What man did rashly with his birth-right part ? '
17 A noble monarch, warrior, poet, seer.
18. Who would not let King David taste his cheer ?
19. A man who served the Lord in Ahab's court.
20. The place from which the finest gold was brought?
21 A faithful Archite, to King David dear.
22 Who said his wife was not his wife, through fear?
23. From whom did Jesus seven devils cast ?
24. The brother Joseph kept and bound so fast.
25. Who quickly for Rebecca water drew *
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28. The famous mount where stately cedars grow.
27. Who in his prisoner no evil found ;
And knew him innocent, yet left him bound?
By these initials you will plainly see,
To live like Christ, unselfish we must be.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 78.
1. What good physician was Paul's loving friend ?
2. A place to which, for gold, they used to send?
3. What tree did Jesus with himself compare ?
4 The vale whence finest fruits the spies did bear ?
6. How oft might man approach the holy place ?
6. His house where God's ark rested for a space ?
7. Whom did God smite because he touched the ark ?
8. Who, old and wise men's counsels would not mark V
9. A holy man of God who never died ?
10. Who sought his coming unto Christ to hide
11. An Israelitish king, by Zimri slain.
12. Who over Judah reigned the longest reign ?
13. Whom did his son deceive when old and weak ?
14. What prophet dumb became, and could not speak ?
15. Who owed to woman's wise advice his fall,
His head thrown lifeless from the city wall ?
If men obeyed this precept more,
There soon would be an end of war ;
For love would bid contention cease,
And give to all the nations peace.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 79.
1. The pious mother of an eminent Christian pastor.
2. A king who records the prophecy taught him by hi«
mother.
3. A stranger and an exile, but a faithful friend.
4. A people who dwelt in the mountains of Canaan.
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5. An idol to which the heathen burnt their children in th«
fire.
6. The father of a bitter enemy of the Jews.
The initials and finals give the names of two prophelg ID
Ir-rael
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 80.
1. A woman who guarded the bodies of seven slain men.
2. A queen who was good and beautiful.
3. A Roman emperor who trembled under the reasoning of
Paul.
4. A horned and untamable animal never used for sacrifice.
5. A climbing tree of rapid growth, under which the prophet
Jonah once sat.
6. The name given to fierce wind mentioned in Acts.
The initials give that which Christ promised believers in tiirf
of trouble.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 81.
1. Word that God alone can claim.
2. A slave who won a dearer name.
3. A holy woman raised to life.
4 A man who took a gleaner wife.
5. A feast of triumph after pain.
6. The robe that martyr myriads gain.
7. The name that ' ' laughter ' ' doth expivsa.
8. A bishop charged to faithfulness.
9. A counsellor and faithful friend.
10. A thing once yours, for ever gone.
11. A name of Christ that means " the end."
12. The light from Aaron's breastplate thrown,
Tu these initials doth there lie,
The full form of the word eood-by
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 82.
1. The first military captain on record.
2. One who interceded with the king for the release of thi
prophet Jeremiah, when he lay in the dungeon of a prison.
3. The first man who was called a Hebrew.
4. The name given ty Jesus to Simon when presented bj
A. n drew.
5. An encampment of the Israelites where were twelve wel!*
of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees.
The initials form the legacy Christ left his disciples.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 83.
1. The founder of Samaria.
2. A prophet who was imprisoned because his prediction was
diapleasing to the king.
3. A distinguished soldier, and one in high favor with his
king, yet who was afflicted with a horrible disease.
4. A son of Saul who was murdered in his bed.
5. A base time-server, who cursed King David in his adver
sity, and fawned upon him in prosperity.
6. Naomi's second son.
7. The town to which Paul and Barnabas went when driven
from Antioch in Pisidia.
8 . A village to which the disciples were going when Jesue
joined them after his resurrection.
9. One who, according to the laws of Mosaic economy, sepa
rated himself unto the Lord by a vow.
10. The disciple who, not recognizing the risen Saviour, re
lated to him the circumstances of his own death and burial.
11. A prophet whom the Jews expected would reappear upG2,
earth.
The initials form one of the incommunicable attributes
of the Deity.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 84.
1. Sweet home! from whence the feet of Jesus spe<i,
With tender sympathy to raise the dead.
2. 'Twas Rezin's mighty king this city chose,
To give Syria, driving thence her foes.
3. From out these vineyards came a lion wild,
In angry rage, 'gainst Manoah's favor'd child.
4. Within this city's walls they mourned for shame,
When evil tidings of Damascus came.
5. An aged patriarch, ere he closed his life,
Bade his loved son go seek from thence a wife.
6. Oh! woe was thine, for those who dwelt in thee,
Through Israel's sword, entered captivity.
7. This city of the Jews, in peace he trod,
Waiting in faith the kingdom of his God.
8. There the disciples saw their risen Lord,
And worshipped Him, though not with one accord.
9. " Go to this land," he said, " there corn to buy;
Hasten, my sons, or we shall surely die."
Nearing Jerusalem, to this place they came.
(My nine initial letters tell its name),
Where Jesus bade his two disciples speed,
To loose a colt, and say, the Lord hath need ;
Thine mighty God, is all on land and sea;
Yet wonderous love ! the Lord has need of thee.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 85.
1. A teacher of the church of Antioch who ministered to
the Lord.
2. A man who is mentioned by one of the apostles as being
" subject to like passions as we are."
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3. A wicked man who tried to prevent Paul from converting
a deputy.
4. A man of Benjamin, whose son was a choice young man
and goodly.
5. The time when it is good for a man to bear the yoke.
6. One who was said to be the first fruits of Achaia iinio
Christ.
7. A man who wrote one of Paul's epistles.
8. A hill where David once hid.
9. One of the boundaries of King Ahasuerus' kingdom.
10. One of three women, who were fairer than any in the
land.
11. A son of Amoz, who wrote a book.
12. A woman whose name signified pleasant.
13. A man who received a visit from an angel, while thrash
ing corn.
14. One of the kings of Chaldea of the seed of the Medes.
15. A Moabitess, who married a man of the seed of the
Ephrathites.
16. The name of a relation of a leader of the Jews.
17. A prophet to whom the Lord sent a vision concerning
Edom.
18. One of the governors of Csesarea.
19. One of the chief cities of the Philistines.
20. A place where the children of Israel pitched.
21. The wife of Felix.
The initial letters of the answers to the above questions givf
H Scripture exhortation of the highest importance.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 86.
An element sometimes used as a symbol of the Holy Ghost
The place to which he belonged who, together with Nic<x
d«inus, buried Christ.
A disciple whom Peter raised from the dead.
The father of Achan.
A liver by the banki of which Daniel saw a vision
166 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
An inspired herdman.
A prophetess who endeavored to intimidate Nehemiah when
engaged in rebuilding the well of Jerusalem.
One who stirred up a revolt against Paul at Ephesus.
One who, for his godly zeal, had conferred upon him and
his posterity an everlasting priesthood.
A king of Syria who drove the Jews from Elath.
A place of which it was proverbially said, in old time, '* TL^
shall surely ask counsel, and so end the matter."
That which is good for a man to bear in his youth.
The initials of the above words form a solemn admonitioj
giyen by our Saviour.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 87.
1. The son of Phineas.
2. A city in central Palestine
3. A name borne by one of the children of Anak.
4. One of the sons of Ashur.
5 An herb named by our Lord.
6. The builder of Jericho.
The initials and^mafo give the names of two great prophets.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 88.
1. A doubter.
2. A proud courtier.
3. A scribe.
4. A king who remembered his mother's teachings.
5. The first judge of Israel.
6. A foolish young man.
7. A heathen king who acknowledged the power of the true
God.
8. A king's son who was murdered in his bed.
9. One who tried craft to hinder a good work.
10. One who wished to entertain an angel.
11. A burden, which, when Christ's, is easy and light
12. A selfish nephew.
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13. The assassin of one of Nebuchadnezzar's governors.
14. One who suffered for avarice and uutruthf ulness.
15. A man whose wife was more famous than himself.
16. A king of Assyria, at the time Pekah king of Israel.
The initials give a saying of the Psalmist expressing faith
« nd joy.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 89.
One who, when the evil deeds he subsequently committed
iv ere foretold by the prophet, was horrified at the recital.
One whose covetousness was punished with death.
One " who through faith subdued kingdoms."
A man who, when a woman threw a stone upon his head,
begged his armor-bearer to slay him, that he might escape the
reproach of being killed by a woman.
The city of waters.
The initials of the preceding words form the name of the first
person on record to whom an angel appeared.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 90.
1. To what doth God compare His holy Word ?
2. What did a refuge to our race afford?
3. From whence was Paul compelled in haste to fly ?
4. A city famed for cloth of choicest dye.
5. The haven where we all desire to go,
Reserved for those who serve their Lord below.
If these initials side by side you place,
You find what strengthens every Christian grace ;
What doth this world of pomp and sin o'ercome.
And give us power to reach our heavenly home.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 91.
1. That to which the trial of faith is compared.
2. That by wfci«h the Lord confirmed his promi«« K)
Abraham.
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3. The wages of sin.
4. He who, according to Solomon, " shall suffer hunger."
5. An emblem to which our Saviour likens the righteous
6. The mystic form in which the Saviour was seen by John
in the Apocalyptic vision.
7. An animal with which Israel is unfavorably contrasted ;
for ever, the dumb beast knoweth its owner.
8. That which at the crucifixion was torn asunder, as a sign
tbat the Mosaic economy was superseded.
9. The bird to which David compared Saul and Jonathan iu
his lamentations for their death.
The initials form a statement which fills the heart of hire
irho realizes it with adoration and joy.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 92.
1. The name of one connected with another —
The eldest born of a great patriarch's brother.
2. In peace and purity her life was past,
Till entered sin , and sorrow came at last.
3. His daughters an inheritance was given,
Because a son had been denied by Heaven.
4. The mother of a minister of truth,
Who knew the sacred Scriptures from his youth.
5. They failed him in the day of his distress,
When sickness came, and none stood by to bless.
6. Faithful and true where'er the king might b<i.
A stranger in a foreign land was he.
7. The thing his mother valued most he took,
And straightway burnt, by Kidron's peaceful brook.
8. This man is known under two separate names;
He glorified his Maker in the flames.
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letters of a sovereign tell
Who lost his eyesight when Jerusalem fell ;
And my initials form another name,
To whom, in prayer, a gracious answer came.
Both bent in patience 'neath the cli listening rod
So must our wills before the will of God.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 94.
The physician beloved by St. Paul.
The name which signifies " a prince of God."
The tree used as a figure of Christ and His people.
The place where there was twelve wells and seventy palm-
trees.
The Church that ministered to St. Paul when he was in
Thessalonica.
" A ready scribe in the law of Moses."
The prophet whose words were quoted by St. James, in hi§
address to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.
The province in which St. Paul was born.
The son of Josiah whose name was changed to Jehoiakim.
The captain of Saul's host.
The mother of Solomon.
The tribe that left the kingdom of Israel for that of Judah.
That time when it is good for a man to bear the yoke.
The initial letters of these names compose a precept which
f obeyed, would cause "wars to cease."
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No 95.
1. On Lebanon, the trees of God,
The stately cedars, grew;
What strength supplied tlvm as they stood,
And m:it!e their beauties new ?
What send" the Lord of Nature forth
[n inorseis from the frozen north
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3. Where did the blessed Saviour rest,
When to God's holy law
lie gave the meaning, ever blest,
But never knew before.
4. What word will give the sacred tbr<*
Their unity and Trinity ?
5. When torn with anguish and distress,
God's ready help we crave,
What simple word may best express
He is at hand to save,
And will attend the humble prayer,
And soothe the mourner's weary care V
The initial letters of these words combine,
A great apostle's name will rise to view,
And if the finals we proceed to find,
We then shall gain his chosen surname, too.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 96.
That which Saul called David, when dissuading him f roa
countering Goliath.
The father of Bathsheba.
The city to which Demas went when he forsook St. Panl.
The place where Zimri " slew his master."
The father of Milcah.
The native land of Ebedmolech.
The woman who was "justified by works."
The mother of David's sixth son.
The materials of which Jabin's chariots were made.
The ruler who was beaten before Gallic 's judgment-seat
The father of the man to whom Jehu displayed his zeal.
The rival of Tibni.
The child whose grandmother was his nuree,
The first word written on the wall of Belshazzar's palace.
The initials of these words make a sentence in one of *he
^Hos \vhich suggests that the day of grace is not yot prut.
SCR/P TURK ENIGMAS.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 97.
1 . I he witness-stone that kinsman raised
On Gilead's mount on solemn day.
2. Whence came the spoilers whom the sword
Of God and Gideon swept away?
3. A hill wh*»re outlaws spared a king,
And foes were quickly turned to friends.
4. A warrior, whom, with change of name,
His chieftain on employment sends.
5. Once nigh to perish ; of twelve sons
The father, and of mighty race.
6. A city whence invaders driven,
In mourning seek Jehovah's grace.
7. Where o'er the pain the idol reared
Its height, and martyrs God revered.
8. Unrighteous judge, degenerate child;
Brief was the rule his sin defiled.
Th' initials and thefaals show
A loyal friend, a traitorous foe;
Over a royal head they strive,
And one departeth not alive ;
The latter justly death overtakes,
The former gratitude forsakes.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA,. No. 98.
i A captain and a murderer,
With sword he smote and perished so.
2. Foolish, while seeking to be wise,
Tempted and tempting, wrought she woe.
n. Kye hath not seen, ear hath not heard,
What else, but this we know " remaineth '
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4. God's priest, with too compliant art.
A king's idolatry sustaineth.
5. Prince of the sons of Simeon
In their appointed place.
8 Title of " the Jews' enemy,*'
That marked his God cursed race.
7. A city " quiet, and secure,"
Till swift in ruin buried.
8. A Jewess of true Christian faith,
To Grecian husband married.
9. Where the angels of God a wanderer met,
Like a guardian camp around him set.
Th' initials and the finals show
Two cities great and small;
The first a kingdom's capital,
Rich with all beauty, bright with history's glow ;
The second honored more, in power less,
Little, yet not the least, royal in humbleness.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 99.
1. The first country visited by St. Paul after his COM version
2. Saul's eldest daughter.
3. A judge of Israel during eight years.
4. A town of Crete, by which St. Paul pass M!.
5. The possession of the children of Lot.
The initials and the finals give the names of two captain?
unlike in birth and service, alike in their end.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 100.
The city where Amaziah was slain.
The country which was a general resort in time of famine.
The rival of Omri.
The word which signifies "Thou art weighed in " -> l.j.'jMii-ft
^"«l art found wanting:."
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The man who is emphatically called "the Jews' enemy."
The prophet who foretold the death of Ahab and Jezebel.
The mother whose love for her children, when they were
dead, is without earthly parallel.
Sennacherib's successor.
The man whom God appointed to utter destruction.
The king of Moab whom Israel served eighteen years.
The tribe which was set apart to bear the ark of the cove
nant.
The prophet who foretold the discomfiture of Sennacherib.
The mountain where Saul was slain.
The father of the prophet Jehu.
The king of Assyria who distressed Ahaz.
The initial letters of these names form a command whiet
illustrates in the most sublime manner the power of God.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 101.
The man who brought David before Saul with Goliath's
head in his hand.
The disciple whose surname was Thaddeus.
The city where St. Paul was when the inhabitants attempted
to worship him.
The King of Heshbon.
The man who said, " I will not eat till I have told inmn
eirand "
The first born son of Seth.
The place where the spies were sent.
Absalom's daughter.
The woman who " lent her child to the Lord."
The prophet who was told to anoint Hazael kiii£.
The band to which Cornelius belonged.
"The city of waters."
The country to which Jehoshaphat attempted to *eu«i s> tjv<
for gold.
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The place where Jonathan found honey.
The city where the angel appeared to the Virgin Mary.
The initial letters of these words show the universal selfishness
of human nature.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 102.
That which is the Christian's reproach and yet his glory.
That which is a burden to be carried, and yet as wings to
bear him along.
That which upon his forehead, is either the badge of Christ's
soldier, or the brand of the deserter-may be discovered by the
last letters of the following words:
1. One who digged again the wells of his father, which the
enemy had stopped.
2. The mountain in which Esau dwelt.
3. A King of Egypt whose name consists of two letters.
4. The head of a household baptized by St. Paul.
5. The name of the Apostle who took the place of the traitoi
Judas.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 103.
1. First name a woman whose heroic faith
Saved all his kindred from impending death.
2. A proposition next proceed to find,
Twc words of gracious invitation joined.
3 Whc judged God's people three-and-twenty years?
4. Who Abraham's brother's first born son appears?
Thefnal letters form the name of one
Who was that first heroic woman's son.
The initials give his name (his willing bride)
Who was to her near kinsman first allied.
Both bride and mother came of heathen race.
Yet both were honored with special gracf .
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From them not kings alone may trace their birth,
But one far greater than the kings of earth.
When God vouchsafed to take our mortal frame,
Him as their child may both these woman claim.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 104.
Into what " parts " was Jesus led,
What time he had four thousand fed V
And what was Paul, by birth, that he
Should be from bonds and scourges free ?
What epithet was once applied
To him who Israel's host defied.
To Dura's plain the grandees go,
Their seventh high rank and title show.
Through what was Christ, Pilate led,
" Denied " and "killed " as Peter said V
Who is that king who gave the word,
That he had from his mother heard ?
Jezreel and Lo-ruhamah — tell
Their young brother's name as well.
What " King of Kings" of mighty fame
To Ezra wrote ? Take half his name.
With care and diligence combined,
An answer to each question find.
Write down each name of subject next,
And prove it from the sacred text.
The first and final letters scanned,
Behold 1 two names conjunctive stand.
One was a Jewess, one her lord,
heard a "Roman prisoner's word.
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He said, though trembling, " Go thy way;
I'll hear thee more another day."
Like him, alas ! too many hear,
But their obedient faith defer.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 105.
When Ruth had gleaned the field all day,
She threshed and bore my first away
To where the good Naomi dwelt,
And eased the care the master felt.
When Barek fought and Sisera fled,
My second came into his head;
By Jael forcibly suggested,
And Deborah's song the deed attested.
When Paul was in Damascus kept,
My third conveyed him while they slept,
That so he might escape their hand,
And safely reach his fatherland,
Divide, in halves these terms rehearsed,
And of their sections take the first;
Then with due care combine the same,
And you shall find a good man's name.
With Paul at Lystra see him now —
They hail him Jupiter ! and bow ;
But soon they drive, with changed opinion.
The apostles forth from their dominion.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 106.
Go to the land of Uz, ; that tried one see ;
Ask for his second daughter — lo 1 'tis she.
Go to that mighty man, the third of three ;
Ask for the Hararite — behold ! 'tis he.
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Go to Shusham, a proud man's sons there be ;
Ask for the second, and behold ! 'tis he.
Go to your tent; the childless patriarch see;
Ask for his steward, and behold! 'tis he.
Go to Jerusalem; David's children see;
Ask for Bathshua's eldest— lo ! 'tis he.
Go down where Moses and his people be;
Ask for the son of Raguel— lo ! 'tis he.
The initials down, the finals upward trace,
And lo! the scene of Israel's dire disgrace.
God said, " Go up, possess the land! "
But they drew back from his command.
There they rebelled. Through unbelief they fell.
If we their said example shun, 'tis well ;
We too are called a rest to win,
But only faith shall enter in.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 107.
The father of Shimei.
The man who took Kirjath-Sepher.
The wife who delivered her husband into the hands of his
en tnies.
A servant in the house of John surnamed Mark.
The only one of our great religious festivals that is men
tioned in the Bible.
The name of the palace of Artaxerxes.
The place to which Paul and Barnabas came when they were
ex/ died from Antiocft in Pisidia.
The wilderness between Elim and Sinai.
The birth place of St. Paul.
The man who in the most ungodly age of the world prophe
sied of the coming of the Lord with all his Saints .
An impostor who collected 400 followers, but was eventually
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The place which was built seven years before Zoan.
The place " whose merchants " were princes and '• whose
traffickers " were " the honorable of the earth."
The king of Judah who broke the brazen serpent in pieces
The tribe to which Joshua belonged.
The man to whom Michal was given when Saul tov>k \it»
fr^in David.
A mother who taught her son deceit.
The governor of Ahab's house.
The king of Judah who was struck with lepros\
A mother in Israel.
The initials of these names or words form a statement ,sh--\»
ing us God's estimation of a sin the world thinks lightly oi.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. JOS.
Three prophets' names suggest,
Whose minor rank their words attest,
With brevity expressed.
The first his vision told
Of Nineveh, renowned of old,
To wrath and vengeance .sold.
With long foretokened gloom,
The second published Esau's doom,
Whom Joseph should consume.
In Jotham's days the third,
To Salem brought Jehovah's word,
And all Samaria heard.
Divide each several name.
And the first syllables proclaim,
A widowed matron's fame.
From Bethlehem's fertile plain,
She did a pilgrim's toil sustain,
Then flourished there again.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 109.
A people who wept through unbelief in God's power to deliver
A place where came destroying fire :
Another name for prophet.
The name of one to whom a certain leader said, " Thou may-
est be to us instead of eyes."
A handsome but rebellious young man.
One who heard the gospel by a river-side.
An Evangelist who travelled with the Apostle St. Paul.
A place where lived one who forgot all care when listening k
words of Jesus.
A valley around which Paul and his army gathered for battle
What is better than rubies ?
The name of one who saw wonderful visions by a river-side.
A son of Jacob and Leah.
The father of Noah.
Who journeyed far, carrying gifts to an infant ?
The youth who nearly perished when cast out into the wilder
ness.
A mountain of Palestine.
Another mountain where God gave the Law to Moses.
The city of a woman who sold " purple."
One of the sons of Eli.
An ancient river whose name means " good and abounding
A woman who tended sheep.
A patriarch who was deceived by his own son .
One afflicted tnrough life for deceit and lying,
A king who watched a sun-dial with great anxiety.
A city over which Hiram once reigned.
A man of Bethlehem, Judah, who went to sojourn in Moabii,
times of famine.
A prophet who proclaimed the doom of Edom.
A sacred emblem worn by Aaron.
A word of gladness in the song of the redeemed.
The initials of these words give a truth known to those whc
place their trust in Christian righteousness
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 110.
N»me the awful mystery worn
By the priest on holy morn.
Who delighted in the Lord
When she proved how true his word?
Whose whole family was blest
When he took the ark in rest?
By what river dreamed the seer
Scenes of many a distant year?
On what sea though lacking rest,
Jesus walked, God manifest?
Where the deadly angel stayed ?
Who a mighty man betrayed ?
Whom did Peter doom to death?
Name the son of righteous Seth?
Seek the town his cousin built?
Who the blood of thousands spilt?
Who through Peter lived once more?
With the poor she lived before ?
Name the land of Reuel's well !
And the vale where Giant fell?
A truth lies here that we must prove
Like the poor outcast — may it be in love
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. Ill
The pwple to whom Joseph was sold.
Jesse's second son.
The mother of Asa.
The place where the wise woman lived wht> i/rterceded with
David for Absalom.
The prophet whose writings contain these words, " The just
shall live by his faith."
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. \ 7 1
The counsellor who forsook David for Absalom.
The city where Lydia laved.
One of Saul's sons " who reigned for two dire years oye»
Israel."
The place to which Abiathiar was banished by Solomon.
The prophet whose words the Angel Gabriel quoted in hi!
interview with Jacharias.
The initials of the above words give the Divine name aa do •
:lared in the words from heaven.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 112.
Where first did David seek his promised crown ?
Who won his wife by capturing a town?
Where fled a man before his brother's threat ?
Who in a desert land three monarchs met ?
Who seeking Canaan died upon the way V
Who killed his master that in sickness lay ?
Name where an exiled king in sorrow trod,
Whose son in cunning service wrought from God Y
What prince was slain at noon upon his bed ?
Say at whose threshing floor a priest fell dead.
Where first did Israel eat of Canaan's corn ?
What son to Boaz was in gladness born ?
Who sought to turn Paul's teaching into scorn ?
Learn with the Psalmist, from whose words we borrow
To serve the Lord and trust him for the morrow.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 113.
An Edomite who was an adversary to Solomon.
The birthplace of Apollos.
The city which St. Paul said he " must see."
The plain where the golden image was set up.
Tho valley where David slew Goliath.
Jeroboam's successor.
172 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
The prophet that was honored by being left out of A don
ijah's counsels.
The prophet who forbade the children of Israel to ni.-ik«
slaves of their brethren.
St. Paul's secretary when he wrote to the Romans.
A word which is typical of dominion.
The sixth son of Jesse.
The man whom David killed with the sword of the chil Jren
of Ammon.
The place where Amalek first fought with Israel.
Manasseh's mother.
The word which signifies " be opened."
The woman given to Joseph to wife.
The woman commended in the New Testament, both £01
faith and works.
The Ephesian in whose school St. Paul disputed.
The people who carried off Job's oxen and asses.
Now take the initials, and you have my whole
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 114.
1. What prophet, sent by God's own voice,
Forced on a king a dreadful choice V
2. The place by Jacob Bethel named —
For evil afterwards so famed.
8. A righteous man who feared the Lord,
And saved his prophets from the sword.
4. A king of Syria, Judah's bane,
And by Tiglath-Pileser slain.
5. How oft did Jephthah's friends bemoan,
The vow that made his daughter lone ?
6. A place where Jephthah's dwelt.
And Pharaoh's powerful sway was felt.
7. A house that God profusely blest,
Because his ark in it did rest.
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8. What city did King Asa found,
When he razed Ramah to the ground?
9. A house by Paul beloved, whose head,
As far as we can tell, was dead.
10. A nurse who after death was laid,
Beneath a mighty oak-tree's shade.
In these initials you may find
What's due to God from all mankind.
The initials of the above names (or words) form a caution
given to the Jewish nation by David and repeated by Qt. Pan!
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 115.
AN EASTER ACROSTIC.
The first of men who made and tasted wine.
He foretold the fall of Edom's line.
That which is due to none but God alone.
A judge, of whom but little now is known.
The place o'er which an ancient priest was king.
A town that oft Jesu's words did ring.
A prophet at the time of the return.
People from whom God told the Jews to learn.
A Gittite chieftain of King David's host.
Assyria's king, so fond of foolish boast.
An Ammonite who greatly vexed the Jews.
The place where Joshua x\malek subdues.
A son of Saul most treacherously slain.
A Seer who prayed for thunderings and rain.
The " stone of help" that Samuel once setup.
The man who handed Artaxerxes' cup.
A man who trembled at the words he heard.
The place where Samuel dwelt and was interred.
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King Elah's chief who reigned a wicked n-Mgn
A priest of Baal in his temple slain.
An orator who once accused Paul.
An envious man who compassed his own fall.
A man who rescue from a prophet sought.
A place from which the prophet he was brought.
An altar which at Shalem Jacob made.
A man who stole and dearly for it paid.
He who tries hard in sin to snare the soul.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 116.
" An eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures. "
A woman of Athens who believed St. Paul's preaching.
The god of the Philistines.
The governor of the west of the Euphrates.
The man whose threshing-floor was the site of the Temple
A manufacture imported by Solomon from Europe.
The prophet who foretold the destruction of Edora.
Job's native land.
One of the wells that Isaac's servants dug in Zeror.
The successor of Felix.
A « fellow soldier " of St. Paul.
A giant slain by Abishai.
The name of the tenth month.
The mother of Adonijah.
A type of the house of Israel.
The land that was made desolate as a punishment for rejoi-:
•ig at the desolation of Israel
The father of Hobab.
A king of Hamoth who sent presents to David.
A king of Judah in whose reign there was an earthquake.
The descendants of Esau.
The initials of the above names (or words) form a receipt
\rbich shows us that " faith without work is dead."
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 117.
1. Who through faith had sight restored V
2. Who through scorn lost sight deplored ?
3. Seek from whence an angel went.
Warning Israel to repent.
4. Where did sudden waters play?
5. Where did waters heaped, delay?
6. Where was once an image raised,
Which a mighty nation praised.
7. Who to Gerar went for food ?
8. Who a sinning king withstood ?
9. Who, when bribed, refused his aid.
10. Who the temple vessels made ?
11. What Moabite ruled Israel?
12. Where did Paul a cripple heal?
13. Who in camp received a crown V
14. Name Elkanah's native town.
15. Where did one, a Syrian king,
Vainly send a seer to bring ?
Find the initials and they will recall
The lessons of the mercies given to all.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 118.
1. Where in the Temple, with sad delay,
Did the Lord's glory in departing stay ?
2. Whose wicked scheme against a captive race,
Procured his death of terrible disgrace ?
3. Name from what prophet Paul essayed to prove,
That God would call the Gentiles in his love ?
4. Who through his wife, by Matthew is embraced
Among the names by which Christ's birth is traced
5. Who would have killed the Baptist in her spite ?
6. Who wished to slay a sleeping king by night ?
7. Who through his land the pilgrim host forbade?
& Th°n say what Micah with ephod made?
176 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
0 What power did Peter say came not of man
10 What warlike king the Temple did profane ?
11. Whose merchants were called princes by the seer ?
la burning words they were too proud to fear.
12. What place remembered with a ghastly name,
I« linked for ever with a deed of shame?
13. From whence did Machir much provisions bring
To cheer the heart of his desponding king ?
14. Upon what mountain did an altar rise,
To burn a large and varied sacrifice ?
The initials and finals discovered will prove a fond recog
nition of measureless love.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 119.
The man who was full of the " spirit of wisdom."
The city which worshipped Baalzebub.
One of the five kings of Midian who was slain in conse
quence of the idolatry of Baal-peor.
A country famed for its wisdom.
The man to whom David showed kindness for Jonathan's
sake.
The ruler of the half tribe of Manasseh in the reign of
David.
The emblem of industry.
The place where Israel defeated Arad the Canaanite.
The initials of the above names (or words) give the name of
i prophet who was also a priest ; the finals the name of the city
where he dwelt.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 120.
1. One who received the blessed gift of sight
From Him who came to be the world's true light.
2 What priest of God with all his sons wf^re slain
The favor of a tyrant king to gain V
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3. What people did their fathers' law obey,
From ancient times until the prophet's day V
4 . To what great city was a prophet
Whose people with contrite grief repent ?
5. Whence came that mighty host, by a /i gels slain,
To prove that God o'er all the earth doth reign?
6. What beauteous sign was placed the earth above,
Emblem of God's sure truth and love ?
7. To what lone land did holy Paul retreat,
To make himself by his high office meet?
8. What monarch o'er a mighty realm had sway,
And bore the tribes of Israel far away ?
If the initials side by side you place,
You'll find the name of one renowned for grace.
His name, the comfort that he brought, will show,
To those that were in trouble and in woe.
H-e gladly gave up all that he possessed,
To aid the church of Christ, when sore distressed.
He was among the first of those who bore
The gospel light to many a heathen shore.
Oh ! may we imitate his works of love,
And share with him in glorious joys above.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 121.
Rebekah's nurse.
A river of Damascus.
The priest of Baal in the reign of Athaliah.
A friend of St. Paul who was a tentmaker.
The father of Boaz.
The messenger who was despatched to David with tidings oi
Absalom's death.
An Israelite who lost his life on a day of great national
rejoicing.
The name which means "princess."
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The initials of the above words form the name of the city ih
whose outskirts occured the most wonderful consecration on
record ; the finals give the Jewish name of Shachach.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 122.
1. A holy woman famed for works of love.
2. The saint who was first called to heaven above.
3. Who led a king his fearful love to see ?
4. Who from his childhood home was forced to flee?
5. From whence with mighty signs was Israel brought V
6. What king was by his mother's wisdom taught ?
In the initials you may trace,
A noble youth, who, by God's grace,
Was not ashamed his faith to own,
Before a heathen tyrant's throne.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 123.
1. The most liberal contributor to the treasury of God.
2. Jesse's second son.
3. The place where God appeared to Samuel.
4. Queen Esther's other name.
5. The people who burned Ziklag with fire.
6. The sister of Tubal Cain.
7 The first city in which St. Paul preached Christ.
8 The king of whom Ahab said " he is my brother."
9. The city where Tyrannus lived.
10. The place where Nabal sheared his sheep.
11. St. Paul's hostess at Philippi.
12. Hagar's native land.
13. The prince who raised a monument to his own memory
14. The idol in whose temple Sennacherib was slain.
The initial letters of these words show the remedy prescribed
to a great captain wbo was suffering under a malady that only
God could cure.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 124.
1. TLe great apostle of the Gentile race?
2. The first man who in heaven found a place?
3. A youthful Christian in God's law well read?
5 The Lord's peculiar people by him led?
5 One who his birthright for a trifle sold?
6 An Israelite, indeed — one of Christ's fold?
7. Tho promised land with milk and honey blest V
8 A younger son by God beloved best ?
The initial letters take and you will find,
One virtue of the lowly Christian mind.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 125.
1. A wanderer guilty of his brother's blood?
2. The father of the seer who saw the flood?
3. 4. Cain's mother next, and then her husband take,
5. Then one who mourned in heart for Zion's sake,
6. A king whose sinning caused his early fall,
7. And one who toiled with the Apostle Paul.
8. Who wrote the long epistle unto Rome?
9. What hill did hunted David make his home ?
10. What prophet pleaded for the captive race ?
11. What priest made altars for his monarch base?
12. Who vainly sought to know an angel's name?
13. What altar knew no sacrificial flame ?
14. Who left a prisoner bound to please the Jews'-*
15. What king did the council of the wise refuse?
16. What city, famed, to Joseph gave a wife?
17. What king, defeated, took a prince's life?
18. Who smiled contemptuous at an angel's word?
19. Whose bitter rage was calmed with flocks and herda ?
20. What pagan prince was God's anointed named?
21. Whose family for temperance was famed V
22. What well did Isaac yield to those who strove ?
23. Who would his faith bv actual vision n
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24. From whom did Paul to Caesar's court appeal ?
25. What soldier did the thing accursed steal ?
26. Who sinned in fearing lest the ark should fall ?
27 What man did Jesus from the grave recall ?
28. Who vainly did the Apostle Paul accuse?
29 What seer a king's entreaty did refuse?
Range these initials, and in all thy need,
Remember still this searching prayer to plead.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 126.
1. The name of David's second son disclosed,
A name a prophet afterward did bear.
2. Where was the son of Zedekiah killed ?
3. Whose son was in the temple long concealed ?
4. Where did a woman once two men bestow?
5. A priestly city Doeg filled with woe?
6. Name from what giant David once was saved,
7. And one whom none but he before had braved.
8. What seer did Asa into prison cast?
Who told of wars throughout his life to last?
9. Where did a judge's son though conquering meet
The death that did his shameful life befit?
10. Who grieved, though could not leave her widowed home
11. Where did the legion -hunted maniac roam?
12. Who to a trembling monarch sold his land,
While both beheld an angel near them stand?
13. Whence did a prophet lead a blinded band?
Learn the injunction which these initials give.
And in their strict observance, seek to live.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 127.
1. He, loving rest, a double burden fears.
2. God's chief delight when He creation rears.
3. Him, in his blind old age, his son deceived.
1. They charge of God's most Holy things received.
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5. The place where weapon small great carnage makes
8. He, branded for his sin, God's presence fled.
7. Who hid and fed the prophets in a cave?
8. He who his blessing unto Abraham gave.
9. God's priest, yet his house could not command.
10. Whose counsel did his father's friend withstand?
11. A cHv overthrown for wicked deeds.
12 Once and again great tidings speeds!
13. The glory gone, the ark the Gentiles prize.
14. Where, Moses sees the goodly land and dies?
The initials manifest his promise dear,
Who ever lives our waiting hearts to cheer.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 128.
1. A town where Peter performed a miracle, and afterwards
saw a vision, the object of which was to teach him that he must
preach the gospel to the Gentiles as well as to the Jews.
2. Naomi's husband.
3. David's fifth son.
4. A king who served God during the early part of his reign,
which was consequently prosperous, but who, becoming self-
confident, fell into error and was severely punished.
5. An Amanuensis 'to St. Paul, and one whose hous* *"w
said to have been the first fruits of Achaia.
6. One of the names of Christ.
7. David's eldest brother.
8. The birthplace of Rachel.
9. The father of Abraham.
The initials of the above names give an incident in the life of
Christ which marks more impressively, perhaps, than auv
other, his perfect humanity.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 129.
1. The king to whom a prophet said " Set thine houae ic
order, for thou shalt die, and not live."
2. A priest whose city name consisted of two letters.
182 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
3. One of the two cities which the Hebrews built for
Pharoah.
4. Noah's godly ancestors.
5. A city which formed part of the first kingdom on re
cord
The initials give the mount on which was the rock typical of
Christ.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 130.
1. The name of one of whom it was said "as thy days, so
shall thy strength be."
2. Moses' eldest son.
3. A man of the tribe of Dan, who was one of the twelve
spies sent out by Moses to see and report on the land of
Canaan.
4. One who prophesied o± Christ in the words u There shall
come a star out of Jacob, and a spectre shall arise out of
Israel."
5. The birthplace of Haran, Lot's father.
6. A King of Egypt who made war upon Judah, in the
reign of Rehoboam.
The initials of the above names give one of the New Testament
prophets.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 131.
1. From whence did Israel precious metal bring ?
2. Of what sweet tree did ancient prophets sing?
3. A holy seer who wondrous visions saw.
4. Whose children did obey their father's law ?
5. What wicked man did take his brother's life V
6. Who took a city to obtain a wife ?
7. Seven of this name are found in holy writ.
8. The land which Israel once in haste did quit.
9 . Who uttered forth a deep and bitter cry ?
10. Whose son was sent the promised land to spy ?
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11. What aged saint with deepest grief opprest,
Saw not that all was ordered for the best ?
12. Who when on earth, his sufferings meekly bore,
13. Then, led by angels, up to heaven did soar?
14 Who with a stone did once a conqueror slay?
15 Who sent his daughters from their liome away J
16. What merchant city once was rich and great,
But through it's sins was brought to low estate V
17. The mount from whence the blessing did proceed.
18. Who succored prophets in their greatest need V
19. The bird that sat on Babel's ruined towers.
20. A youth who served his God with all his powers.
In the initials of these names combined,
A heavenly receipt you will clearly find ;
Which if we humbly from our hearts obey,
Will make us victors in the heavenly way.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 132.
1. The name which Jacob gave to Luz, in memory of the
Lord's appearing to him when he fled from Esau.
2. The wife of Moses.
3. A woman noted for her affection to her mother-in-law.
4. A man remarkable for his swiftness of foot,
The initials give the name of a priest and ready scribe.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 133.
1. "Woe unto thee ! " 'twas thus the Saviour spake.
And named two cities ; we the first one take.
2. Here the disciples Jesus' love rehears'd,
Here it was men called them Christian first.
3. A church which had not yet the faith denied.
But sheltered those who to serve Satan tried.
4. Tell whilst Apollos was to Corinth brought,
In what great city Paul the Apostle taught.
184 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
5. To what famed place did Paul a prisoner come
And dwelt two years in his own hired house.
6. Here men were pardoned when they turned to Goti.
And this displeased a prophet of the Lord.
7 A place where heathen superstition trod,
Where was an altar to the unknown God.
8 His land who could alike in good or ill,
In health or sickness, "bless his Maker " still
9. Four hundred shekels was the price he paid,
And in this cave the patriarchs wife was laid.
The city's name in these initials given
Was once exalted ; as it seemed to heaven :
But from its blest estate through sin it fell.
And grace despised brought it down to hell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 134.
1. Three of the seven churches, deserts now,
By man forsaken and by God laid low.
2. The ruler whom our Saviour taught by night,
Because he feared to come when day was bright.
3. The man who ministered to Paul in need.
4. A youth who proved a man of God indeed.
5. Easy to bear if by our Saviour given.
6. The mount whence Christ ascended unto heaven,
7. That which in every Christian home should reign.
8. The blessed name our Saviour died to gain .
9. The wife whose prayer a child from heaven brought
10. The Judge who watched her lips with evil thought.
11. A singer of sweet songs in David's time.
12. A place where refuge might be found for crime.
13. A lake enclosed by scenery sublime.
14. A pool where healing gifts were said to dwell.
15. A man who from an upper window fell.
16. An ancient town for commerce greatly famed.
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17. The last who king of Syria was named.
18. A man who saved one hundred holy lives.
19. Then he who foremost in the battle strives.
20. Because his wife was deemed divinely fair.
21. The place which sheltered Jonathan's lame heir.
22 A queen who saved her race from death and shame
23. A King who from our Saviour's parents came.
The initial letters of each name will show,
Dear words of comfort breathed by Christ below.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 135.
Oh listen ! listen to those pleading tones :
Two sorrowing mothers mourn their little ones
Yet let us check the sympathetic sigh,
Their errand glorious, and their mission high ;
Unerring wisdom marks the way they take,
And joy and praise in thousand hearts awake.
They die ; but at their death a nation lives,
And peace and plenty the great Giver gives.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 136
Not within and not without ;
Yet it could content
One who sought to know about
News to sinners sent.
Ah , beware 1 The place is not
A proper seat for all.
Few are safe in such a spot ;
One, alas ! did fall.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 137.
Oh skilful the workers, oh mournful the day,
When within its recesses they hid him away,
So gracious, so noble, the pride of the State,
Their friend and their patron, the good and the great.
186 CURIOSITIES OF THE BLBLE.
Oh wondrous the moment when forth from the land
They bore it, fulfilling the solemn command ;
Still truly remembering the vows of the past,
And keeping the long-cherished promise a-t last.
Oh great the rejoicing when , after long years,
Its treasure unfolded still changeless appears ;
Unfolded awhile, then for ever concealed
Till the day when the secrets of all are revealed.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 138.
It is a word I love to hear,
Though not of English birth :
A gentle word that fitly falls
From hapless sons of earth —
From patient souls that seek and love
The help which cometh from above.
No plainer words, no simpler words,
To baby lips belong ;
For turn this way, or turn it that
You cannot turn it wrong ;
And yet the holiest lips were heard
To utter first this simple word ;
Two letters make this simple word ;
But oh ! how much they mean ;
They touch our earth, they soar to heavea
They span the gulf between ;
And when its mission here is o'er,
This word shall reach the further shore.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 139.
I " A son and shield," is God the Lord, the sons of Korab
chanted,
And they record his two great gifts, to all the upright granted •
What these shall be you soon may see by noting this sugges •
tion : —
First to obtain an answer plain to every following question :
I.
1. What Christian virtue stands the sixth in one of Peter's let
ters?
2. And who are they that scarcely saved one till to mercy deb
tors?
3. And how are hope and faith described in Christ securely
resting?
4. And how does John describe the same God's faithfulness
attesting?
5. And what God's sovereign purpose is that full determina
tion?
That make the greater serve the less and bring the Safrl
salvation ?
The initials show— in one short row, for all the answers
quoted —
The eternal source and steadfast course of man's redemption
noted.
n.
1 . Then what is godliness combined with thankful moderation I
2. And what surpasses hope and faith in absolute duration ?
3. What name of Jesus tells the end of earth's completed story 1
4. Tell the reward of troubled Saints when Christ appears !n
glory ?
5. And what are all the promises to each believer spoken
6. When Christ himself is made of these the earnest and t ve
token?
188 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
The initials quote and these denote the Saints' full joy and bless
When Christ appears, their toils and tears in endless life re
dressing.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 140.
The man from whose instruction St. Luke wrote.
The place where Miriam was smitten with leproey.
The word that signifies, " be opened."
A mighty hunter before the Lord.
The man that went out to meditate at Eventide.
Moses' eldest son.
The third river of the Garden of Eden.
The city where St. Paul left his cloak.
The place where Nathanael came.
The man who helped Ahab to seek pasture for his cattle.
Hezekiah's successor.
The place near Salem where John baptized.
The fellow-laborer to whom St. Paul said, " Let no man de
spise thy youth."
The father of Lot.
The initials suggest a solemn warning.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 141.
1. What Priest his son-in-law did keep,
To watch and tend his fleecy sheep ?
2. Who for a relatives resort,
Prepared the temple's sacred court ?
3. What servant did a King endow,
With riches his esteem to show?
4. First named of two who prophesied,
While Joshua to prevent them tried?
5. What name a water-fount received
When an angel human grief revealed?
6. Who gladdened with a child a wife,
And raised that child, when dead, to life ?
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7. Who had a son who God did save,
While many found a watery grave?
Once in Samaria's lovely land.
In peace and quietude they trod
And dwelt a holy prophet band,
The servants of the living God.
But soon the Queen resolved in hate,
Nor headed all their deep distress,
These prophets to exterminate,
Unmindful of their faithfulness.
But ere the wicked earthborn plan
Ivi author satisfaction gave,
The Lord designed a godly man
His persecuted ones should save.
The King's chief governor kindly led,
And hid them in a hollow rock,
And there with bread and water fed
The Lord's preserved and faithful flock.
In initials you may read
The queens unhallowed name ;
The finals show the men whose deed
Will live in long recorded fame.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 142-
1. Whose house gave refuge to a sacred thing,
While Israel mourned and never murmured lor a king?
2. There with the poor, the leprous, and the vile,
Was found our Lord's last earthly domicile.
3. This they broke up, to let the sick man through,
And try what he, the sinners friend could do.
4. Seven Persian princes — this the third — had place
Next to the monarch, and beheld his face.
5. Daughter of Israel, weep! thy Priests are slain
He and his brother love the ark in vain !
190 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
0. Say, on what mount did all mankind combine
In solemn sacrifice and songs divine ?
7. There on that hill-top, see the patriarch stand ;
The victim bound by his obedient hand.
First the initials then the finals quote,
And therein two acrostics will denote
Who found imputed righteouness, and how
Then go and follow his example now.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 143.
1. From Paul they parted, ere their work was done ;
But mark the cause of strife was MARY'S SON.
2. Yes, but persuasion had the bait so gilded,
That, just for once she looked admired and yielded
3. Of Judah's tribe Ahumai's brother see,
But once inscribed in Shabals pedigree.
4. Some of her house conveyed to Paul sad tidings,
Of the Corinthian's schisms and party tidings.
5. Thy daughter love him whom his servants slew
But quickly was the treasure punished too.
6. What single sign is that, both ways the same
What of ttimes stand for God's most glorious name
The initials down, the finals up,
Reveal a Name
Of wondrous fame,
Of one who hold the Priestly cup
And breaks the bread and pours the wine
And gives the benison divine
And lo ! a royal diadem
Encircles now
His lofty brow
TTith glory from the Hod of Shera
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 144.
The city in the siege of which Uriah the Hittite was killed V
The place where Baal-zebub was worshipped ?
The metropolis of Ahab ?
The city built by Solomon in the wilderness ?
The Father of twelve princes?
The invader from whom Saul delivered Jabesh Gilead ?
The place to which Jonah thought to flee?
The rebuilder of Jericho ?
The man who rescued Jeremiah from the dungeon?
The author of the last chapter of Proverbs ?
The mountain ascended by David when he fled from Absalom 'i
The mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth?
The birth place of Abraham's steward?
The initials will give a receipt of Consolation.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 145.
1. 'Tis the loving friend of David who prepared,
Stone and timber for the temple ready squared.
2. 'Tis the brother of a Priest, whose hasty touch,
Cost him his life, and grieved King David much.
3. 'Tis the King of Eglon hiding in a cave,
Where he quickly found his ruin and his grave.
4. 'Tis his threshing floor that once became the scene,
Of such mourning as in Canaan had not b^en.
6. 'Tis she that with the Mary's stood amazed,
When into the empty sepulchre they gazed.
6. 'Tis Eliakim's grandson in the line
Of a King whose last descendants were divine.
7. 'Tis the fifth of those great chamberlains that stood,
To fulfil what e'er the Persian King thought good.
8. 'Tis the chamberlain who did the maidens bring,
In their order, to the presence of the kingf.
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When you these correctly frame,
The initials spell her name,
Whose rare beauty won her fame,
Which her station could not claim.
What though Persia's royal dame
Was in anger put to shame;
And in virtue of the same,
She a mighty queen became.
And her cousin's name as well,
Who did near the palace dwell,
Then thejinal letters spell
And the royal records tell,
How he did the treason quell ;
And the changes that befell
When his adversary fell,
Who with pride and wrath did swell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 146.
L Four giant chiefs whom David's warriors
Dwelt in one city bring its name to view.
2. Last of eight officers in David's court,
One the chief ruler stood — his name report.
3. Second of twelve who furnished a kings table
Tell me his fathers name if thou art able.
4 When three old sages failed to answer one,
This youth adventured, and the task was done
5. An oak, a wine press, and an angels visit,
An altar, and a grave — behold! where is it?
8. Think of a Levite chief consumed by fire
"M his next Brother' half require.
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The initials downward, make his well known name.
Whose steadfast faith and dauntless courage claim
To be by all remembered evermore :
His sword Israel put mighty foes to shame,
His victories still Jehovah's power proclaim,
Who still defend his people as of yore ;
Theyma/s, upwards, meant the humble fame
Of one the faithful servant of the same —
Who did, with him, the hostile camp explore.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 147.
My first descends
From Heaven, and tends
To make the gems of nature grow ;
My second bends
And swiftly sends
Destruction to a distant foe ;
My whole attends
Where wrath impends
God's covenant of peace to show;
And beauty blends,
And witness lends
Of God's good-will to all below.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 148.
rst is luscious, sweet, and round,
And pleasant to the taste is found ;
My second in the forest grows,
And bears an acorn or a rose :
My whole may in a vineyard stand,
And well repay the planter's hand,
Or else seem flourishing and fair,
And yet stand profitless and bare,
^nd only mock the masters care
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So once when Jesus sought my first.
Sought vainly — he my second cursed ;
And so my whole, with swift decay,
Stood withered on that solemn day,
That all might fear that passed that way.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 149.
1 My name a glowing gem of price ;
2 A " nothing" groved by man's device '
3 What may not pass a needles eye ;
4 And what we call the slowy sky ;
5 What all thing have when gone and part.
6 And a rich odorous ointment last.
The initial letters joined will tell.
What men so often love too well,
Yet lead down multitudes to hell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 150.
1. A place where the ark of God rested.
2. The Babylonian name of one of the months of the year,
3 A king one of whose governors wished to apprehend Paul,
but failed to do so.
The initials both in order and reversed form the name of one
who obeyed God, and caused others to do right. The third
letters, with orders reversed, the name of one who disobeyed
God and caused others to do wrong.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 151.
1. Think of a precious sense in men V
2. Its duplex organs think of them ?
3. What most befits the weary think V
4. And into what the wicked sink V
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5. Think what will inelt with fervent heat V
6. What pierced the Saviour's hands and feetV
7. What were his fellow sufferers tell?
And mark the initial letters well.
These show who told the earliest toe,
And made our tempted parents die.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 152.
First find these places all in Canaan's border,
Among their names are letters in due order,
(In line will serve, in column would be better.)
Then take from every name a single letter ;
Select the letters nearest to the middle
And you shall find a key to solve my riddle.
Wonders of power and pity
Were oft within her busy streets displayed ;
1. And yet we hear the Saviour's voice upbraid
This unrepenting city.
There twice the battle raged
Against the living God and Israel ;
2. And there two champion Giants fell.,
Whom David's chiefs engaged.
Though obscure and lowly, —
The least of cities — yet must One have birth,
8 Within her walls the ruler of the earth,
The faithful and the holy !
'Twas the Priests gave aid
To David, fleeing from the face of Saul,
4. Who in his anger sought to slay them all,
Tn their kind deed betrayed.
The wail of woe and sadnets !
Rings through her gates and echoes o'er the plalng 1
6. But lo ! the lost ones shall return again
,\nd change her grief to g\ dness!
196 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
On Arnon's brink arose
This ancient city; but the mighty hand
6. Of Israel's leader seized on Canaan's land,
And dispossessed their foes.
'Twas there they kept the wedding,
When Sampson's Bride the riddle did disclose,
7 But to bestow the prize he stopped his foes,
Their blood in vengeance shedding.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 153.
1. A city noted for wonderful preservation of life.
2. One whom God's spirit made to prophesy, and whom, a
young man afterwards a pious ruler wished to be prevented
from prophesying.
3. A mighty king who lost his kingdom for a time but was
afterwards restored to it.
4. A king's mother who was carried captive.
5. A father whose three children were all famous amongst
the children of Israel.
6. A city against which Christ promised woe for its impeni
tence.
6. A chamberlain of a king ruling from India to Ethiopia.
8. A hiding place of David.
9. A city where a Christian sought and found Paul.
10. A child of promise.
11. One of the idols worshipped by the children of Israel.
The initials form the name of a king that was slain ; the
finals that of one of his sons, who assisted in slaying him.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 154.
1. The son of Zuph, an Ephrathite in the fourth generation;
The ancestor of one who gave two kings to Israel's
nation.
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2. The King of Zabath went to war with chariots and with
horses ;
But David smote and spoiled him and scattered all his
forces.
3. The aged priest of Israel grieved by his son's backslidinga,
Fell down at last and perished, overwhelmed with evil
tidings.
4. There, when God sent his Angels, to tell them of theii
failing ;
All Israel wept and called it the place of tears and wail
ings.
5. The last of five great Princes who in Midian's country
reigned,
Whom Moses smote, and Reuben their fruitful land ob
tained.
6. The Ezrahite prophetic, who sang Jehovah's mercies,
To David and his kingdom, in joyful, mournful verses.
7. The father of the officer who David made recorder,
Then David judged the people to Canaan's f arth» et
border.
8. The Horonite that envied the cities renovation,
What time King Artaxerxes gave the Jews their restora
tion.
9. The place where they complained for Egypt's pleasures
yearning,
But Israel's God was angry, and punished them with
burning.
10. The second son of Jacob's heirs, from his chief place
rejected,
Then to his birthright portion a younger was elected.
11. The city that was captured, and for their dwelling claim
ed it,
Who sprang from Bilhah'i elder son, and after him they
named it.
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12. The lofty place in Canaan where Israel s bounds ex
tended,
From the salt sea and onward its sunny side ascended.
13. The king who heard when David subdued a hostile
nation,
And sent his son to bless him, with gifts and salutation
14. The keeper of the household, beneath his royal master,
Then Judah's land was saved by Assyria's great dis
aster .
If the first and final letters from all these names be
quoted,
You will find in two acrostics two wondrous things de
noted.
The one was worn by Aaron four rows of jewels showing,
The other shone around it, with heavenly lustre glowing,
Oft as the priest was standing in service mediatorial,
The one he wore, the other bore his peoples bright me
morial ;
This well adorned his person upon his robes of glory,
That told in signs mysterious some glad or gracious story,
Some message from Jehovah, their God and King and
Saviour,
To teach them his good precepts, and their behaviour,
And our High Priest in heaven, his robes of glory wearing
From richer gems reflected, a bright radiance bearing,
Still lives to make memorial of all for whom he suffered,
And bears their names upon him for whom his blood was
offered,
And those that trust his mercy nought from his love shaD
sever,
He will guide them with his counsel, and lift them up foi
ever.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 155.
1. Who like the lion seeketh to devour
The godly man in an unguarded hour?
2. Whose occupation did the apostle share,
When forced to labor for his daily fare?
3. In what did Ruth her present take away,
Which to her mother she did straight convey?
4. To what great sin was Israel's nation prone,
Which robbed their God of what was his alone ?
5. Who was by faith enabled to despise
The lion's yawning jaws and glaring eyes?
Take the above initials, and you'll ^
The name of one most favored of mankind;
One from a number chosen by the Lord
To rule a nation by his sacred word.
Sweet were the sounds that issued from his songs
In praise of him to whom all praise belongs.
He, choosing in his youth the bettor part,
Was styled by God one after his own heart.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 156.
1. Who challenged Israel's hosts to single fight?
2. What prophets hid in caves as dark as night ?
3. What poet sounded forth his Maker's praise?
4. Who was expelled from his home in early days ?
5. What king neglected and despised God's word ?
6. What woman's heart " was opened by the Lord f '
7. What conquering king the towers of Shemer raised !
8. WTho would not come to hear her beauty praised?
9. And who to heaven on fiery wheels was borne,
His mantle falling on his friend forlorn?
Take the initials, and in them you'll find
Wise words of counsel, for the young designed.
200 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 157.
1. Whither did Jonah vainly seek fcom God to flee?
2. Who once three angels entertained beneath a tree?
8. A noted brook that flowed beside Jerusalem ?
4. A "ready scribe" who wrote the book that bears hia
name?
5. A judge who hoped to gain a bribe for Paul's release ?
6. Who made a molten calf rebellious tribes to please?
7. A man that grossly mocked and cast stones at his king?
8. Whom did Paul ask his parchments, books, and cloak to
bring ?
9. Who unto Solomon for God's house workmen sent?
10. And where was it for precious gold his servants went ?
11. Whom, four days dead, out of the grave did Jesus ca-11 ?
12. Who loved this evil world, and hence deserted Paul?
13. On whose behalf did Paul an earnest letter write?
14. To whom was he conveyed a prisoner by night?
15. Whom did his godly father on an altar bind ?
16. And for whose vineyard was it that a king repined?
17. A word th' Ephraimites could not pronounce aright?
18. Where Paul, from Troas travelling, tarried for a night r
19. Where was the birthplace of the prophet Samuel ?
20. Who touched God's ark, and instantly a victim fell ?
21. Who cherished angry thoughts, and then his brother
killed ?
22. And into whose young mind were holy truths instilled ?
23. A king's son on his bed once barbarously slain ?
24. Who proved a friend to Paul, ashamed not of his
chain ?
25. A man that timidly, with deeply felt concern,
Came unto Christ by night, the way of truth to learn ?
In the first letters of each name combined,
A gracious attribute of God you find.
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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No 158.
1. Whose son was raised by Christ's almighty power?
2. What friend of God proved faithless for one hour V
3. Whose youthful life was saved for future fame ?
4. Who cast a lustre on a mother's name?
5 On whose behalf did Paul the apostle plead?
6. O'er fall'n Jerusalem whose heart did bleed?
7 Whose life was saved that many might rejoice?
8. Who for the ruined temple raised his voice?
9. Who did with Baal's prophets long contend ?
10. To whom did Abram prove the firmest friend?
11. Who feared to tell the king the prophet's word?
12. Where dwelt the judge so faithful to the Lord?
13. And who, though oft by Satan's wiles deceived,
A man of God's own heart the name received ?
The initial tetters form a Scripture exhortation.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 159.
1. In whom did Jesus say there was no guile?
2. What king did hinder Israel for awhile?
3. Who sought by letter Ezra's. work to stay?
4. Whose fame for wisdom sounded far away ?
5. Who called his wives to hear his doleful tale ?
6. What friend of Paul in trouble did not fail ?
7. What was the faithful Abram's father's name :
8 Who trembled at the Saviour's growing fame ?
9. Before whose bar did Paul most nobly plead?
10. What warlike man for David's crime did bleed?
11. Wrhat book shows forth the prophefs grief and pain 1
12. And by whose hands was Gedaliah slain?
13. Whose vinevard did the wickorl Ahnb claim?
202 CURIOSITIES OF THE IUBLE.
14. And what blind man did Jesus not disdain?
15. Where dwelt a patriarch of early date?
16. Who owed to woman's hand his direful fate?
17. What name proclaims the Saviour's ever near?
18. What Ammonite made Israel's heart to fear?
19 What faithful servant sought help from the Lord?
20 Who, firm in faith, feared neither fire nor sword?
21 Who, taking the infant Jesus in his arms,
Bade Mary's heart prepare for great alarms?
These initials show, when read aright,
A precept wrise and true,
To do with all thy power and might
Whate'er thou h'nd'st to do.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 160.
1. What gates did Samson bear with ease away?
2. Whose debt did Paul take on himself to pay ?
3. What god before the ark fell flatly down?
4. Whose father died beneath God's angry frown?
5. Whose servant bore an open letter forth ?
6. What Syrian's flocks were bless'd for Jacob's worth?
7. Who by his brav'ry won his cousin's hand ?
8. Who boldly disobeyed her lord's command?
9. What country nourished Israel's chosen race,
Till friendly kings to cruel ones gave place ?
Take now the letter that begins each name :
A very precious text you'll find the same.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 161.
1. What ruler of the Jews did Paul baptize ?
2. Who saw a man of God to glory rise ?
3. Who fell'd a bough to fire a city tow'r?
4. Who with great skill could speak of tree and flow'r 1
6. What Hebrew bore a gift to Moab's kins?
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fl. From whence did*Solomon much treasure bring?
7. Whose threshing-floor stood on the temple's site""'
8. Whose men did swear their king should no more fight V
9. Who forty years' repose for Israel gained?
10. What Moabitish king o'er them then reigned?
11. What queen in royal house a feast did make ?
12. Who from a husband fond a wife did take ?
13. Whose worldly choice became to him a snare,
And says with warning voice to us, Beware?
You'll solve my rhyme, whate'er may be your age,
If well you search the Bible's sacred page ;
Name after name must its initial give,
And if you heed the text your soul shall live.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 162.
1. Who in a chariot preach'd with telling power?
2. Who met her future lord at eve's calm hour ?
3. Who first was stoned with stones, then burn'd with fire i
4. What kind of pigeon did the law require?
5. From whence was cast a sinful queen to die ?
6. Who had twelve sons, with towns and castles high?
7. Whence came one to plead with Israel's king ?
8. A prophet's mother who with joy did sing?
9. Who built a town upon a hill he bought ?
10. To whom was husbandry with pleasure fraught ?
11. Where was a burning quench'd by earnest prayer?
12. Who drove three giants forth with courage rare ?
13. A cunning hunter, to his father dear?
14. Who hired an army ere he fought with Seir ?
15. What king, when wounded, ended his own life ?
16. For whom did Eliezer seek a wife ?
17. Who had a guileless heart, that priceless boon?
18. Where stood the sun, while also stayed the moonf
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Your Bibles search (an act the Papist blames J)
These questions all must answer'd be by names.
The letter first of each place in a line .
To obey the words may God your heart incline !
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 163.
1. What Jew became a convert of our Lord,
And with the seventy went to preach the word i
2. What name was given to Phinehas' infant son,
Significant of Israel's glory gone?
3. Where David was compelled with foes to live,
What city to him did king Achish give?
4. Who was a chosen vessel of the Lord,
To guide his church and spread his name abroad '.
5. Who was the victim spared by Saul's command,
Who fell at length by Samuel's feeble hand ?
6. What favored minion had a gallows made,
And fell into the snare himself had laid ?
The above initials will name a place
Whose story -pleases every child of grace,
Since to a covenant God wre there commend
The present and the future of our friend.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 164.
1. On what high mountain were seven altars made <
2. Who was for her son's safety much afraid ?
3. From what town were th' apostles forced to flee '
4. Whom did our Saviour 'neath the fig tree see? "
i>. Who to a king did tidings sad convey?
6. And who did once Goliath's brother slay ?
7 Whose valor was rewarded with a wife ?
8. Who trembled when Paul preached a future life f
9. What king to Abram did his wife restore V
10. Who was a ready scribe in Moses' law?
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12. A king of Judah in his chariot slain ?
12. A town where Jesus did some time remain ?
1& Who walked with God, and knew not death or pain?
Take these initials; and a name they form
Of Him who, speaking, hushed the angry storm,
And where he walked, in gentleness and might,
A peaceful radiance shed, the Lord of light.
Oh may his reign within our hearts begin,
And his abounding grace prevail against our sin!
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 165.
1. The word whereby the test was onoe applied,
Where nations met beside the swelling tide ?
2. The portion of the day first named on earth ?
3. The power that gave created things their birth ?
4. The dried-up stem that blossomed like the rose ?
5. The number of the saints whose hands disclose
The Saviour's mark ? The prophet's earnest call
6. To take the water offered unto all ?
7. The twice-repeated words by God once spoken,
8. To save the house that all his laws had broken ?
9. What Christ is to his church? The frame whereii
10. Time's cycles move ? In what should we begin
11. To worship God ? The word each one is bound
To speak, inviting others by the sound
12. To drink the living waters ? Christ's command—
What we should be who seek the better land ?
13 In what did the Creator fashion man,
Last of his works, yet chief in all the plan ?
14. The last bequest the Saviour gave to those
Who heard his voice in blessing when he rose?
15. That which the lilies do not, and yet they
A glory greater than a king display ?
16. By what was judgment asked before the Lord,
When Joshua first assumed the leader's sword?
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17. What Christ declared the people went to see
Who waited on his herald's ministry ?
18. How the rich man shall sadly go away V
19. What we shall be who love the Lord's great day ?
In one great precept the initials weave :
Obey, and you shall Christ himself perceive ;
He spake the words, and all who seek his face
Shall find him in them, full of truth and grace.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 166.
1. The king whom Abram slew to save Lot's life ?
2 . The king whose son took Jezebel to wife ?
3. The king whose pride by God was brought down low?
4. The king who, fearful, to a witch did go ?
5. The king's son who was murdered on his bed ?
6. The king who mourned in song his foe when dead ?
7. The king who to Jehoiachin was kind?
8. The king who would ruot aged counsellors mind ?
9. The king whose warlike help king Ahaz prayed?
10. The king who begged that God would grant him aid r
11. The king who cruelly died by Ehud's blade?
12. The king whose mother words of wisdom taught?
13. The king's court which the gentle Esther sought?
14. The king-built city where the king was slain?
15. The king's consoler sent to ease his pain?
16. The king whose brothers twain their father slew ?
17. The king who, more than any, heavenly wisdom knew I
Combine the initials of these royal names ;
They give a text which man's poor splendor sbameft.
In summer glory God the earth arra}s,
And crowns with beauty the succeeding days
Go, walk the fields and breathe the fragrant air
And mark the perfect wisdom everywhere :
What palace is there lite the vaulted sky?
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What king's attire can with these flowerets vie?
Oh them, who clothest thus the verdant field,
Tc us the needed blessing daily yield.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, N... 107.
1. Who sheltered David in an hour of need?
2. Who died 'mid household grief and public gloom?
3. Who stained the young earth with a cruel deed?
4. Whose words averted Judah's coming doom?
5. Who through an erring monarch's treachery died?
6. Whose faltering conscience saved his brother's life'k
7. Who did the toils of Nehemiah deride?
8. Who bore a gift and a destroying knife?
0. What infant's birth made glad a widow's heart?
10. Who for untimely forwardness was slain ?
U . Who rashly with a God-sent gift did part ?
Yet by his death a victory did gain ?
In the initial letters see,
A precept that 'twere well to heed,
For it imparts the cheering charm,
Which in its turn each heart doth need.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 16t
The initials tell of one wno
For Christ his life laid down ;
The finals of another,
That later won that crown .
They died his faithful martyrs
Their warfare ended well ;
And 'mid the " noble army "
With him in triumph dwell.
1. A city where a widow
Received a reverend guest.
*. On earth the Christian's portion^
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For this is not his rest.
3. A land of slave and tyrant,
God's freedmen stay not there.
4. Here, from a loathsome dungton,
Hymns freight the midnight air
5. This seek in every danger
Of God, and not of man.
6. A priest and a reformer,
Who inarched in freedom's van
7. He once approached the Master
In darkness and in gloom ;
Again, a bolder mourner,
Enriched that Master's tomb.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, Xo. 169.
These initials -diidjinals two cousins declare
Who wandered with Israel many a year :
The latter was chosen the priesthood to share,
The former the sanctuary's vessels to bear.
1. An Eastern province often named,
2. A rocky mount for curses famed.
3. A city with an empire wide.
4. A city on a mountain side.
5 A nephew of a patriarch.
6. A spy sent Canaan's land to mark.
7. A homeless prince's generous host; trr.e to his kii:f
Whose throne was los*.
SCRIPTURE (CHRISTMAS) ENIGMA, No. 170.
Comes again the festive season ;
Peals again the gladsome bc-11 ;
Sounds again the wondrous story ;
God with us is come to dwell :
Praise to Bethlehem's Babe we bring •
^hild ot earth is heaven's
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Listen to the joyful tidings :
" Unto .us a Child is born ,
" Unto us a Son is given : "
Hail this happy Christmas morn !
Prophecy fulfilled we see,
Man enshrines the Deity.
1. Who foretold his humble birth, —
Crowned him " Prince of peace " on earth ?
2. Who supplied his wants — reproved,
Even as she served and loved ?
3. Who sat listening at his feet —
Attitude for woman meet ?
4. Who within the temple knew
Mary's babe as Christ the true?
5. Who embalmed his Lord when dead,
Ere in Joseph's tomb he laid V
6. Where dwelt he whose promised son
Typified th' anointed One?
7. Where were they who mourned their Lord
Gladdened by himself restored ?
8- Who awoke and left his tomb,
Bid by Jesus rise and come ?
The initials of their names will make
His name of whom the prophet spake ;
A name to human hearts how dear,
For lo ! it brings the Godhead near.
Thrice welcome day, when Christ was born .
Be GOD WITH us this sacred morn !
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No, 171.
FOR THE NEW
1 Who, by the preaching of Paul knew the Lord, ana with
gladness his servants received ?
4
'10 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
'. Who, taught of Christ, his apostle sought out, and in
time of sore trouble relieved?
8. Who, in the service of Master above, learned his duty to
master below ?
4 Who against God and his high priest rebelled, and met
death in confusion and woe ?
5. Who in the years yet to come saw his Lord, a^ Ihe chili}.
unto us that is born ?
6. Who came in secret to Jesus by night, nor could meet
the Jews' hatred and scorn ?
7. Who for the truth's sake in Christ was beloved by apostle
most dear to the Lord ?
8. Who in the pride of his heart forsook God, and wat>
smitten a leper abhorred ?
9. Who in his doubt went to Jesus, and found that front-
Nazareth came Israel's king ?
10. Who, as a brother beloved in the Lord, did from Pau<
news to Ephesus bring ?
11. Who in the fear of the Lord hid his saints iiom the wrat)
of an impious queen ?
12. Who, when the mob to take Jesus drew near, in their
front a lost traitor was seen ?
13 Who by the aid of his God restored health to a lepei
reproving his pride ?
14. Who bearing witness to Jesus was stoned, and forgiving
his enemies died ?
15. Whence came the patriarch, faithful when tried, and the
pattern of all who believe?
16. Whom did our Saviour forewarn of the sin, over whicfc
he should bitterly grieve ?
Join the initials of each of these names, and a motto
they give for the year :
Heeding the which in our journey through life <*.ver safe
is our pathway and clear.
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SCRIPTURE ANAGRAM, No. 1.
Six letters in one name appear,
AH in the sequel will be clear I
And numbered thus in order due,
May be discovered by this clue : —
You find in six, five, one, two, three,
One hung on his own gallows-tree.
Three, four, five, six, his name compose.
From whom man's second lineage flows.
In six, two, one, his son you find,
The least beloved of all his kind.
In one, two, three, you clearly trace,
The name of our degenerate race.
From one, two, four, and three, you ken.
Of Judah's twos the first of ten.
Three, two, five, one, of Judah's tribes
The least of Caleb's sons describe.
Two old Egyptian cities see, —
This in three, four, and that four, three.
With all the six, describe at length,
The Father of the man of strength.
SCRIPTURE ANAGRAM, No. 2.
My fourteen letters will a name unfold,
In vision imagined by a head of gold.
You must not guess the characters to tell,
But in the sacred pages search and spell.
First find the following names, the initials take,
And these combined the monarch's title make.
1. Kind numbers one, seven, eight, thirteen and three
Aj»d one who died for sacrilege you see.
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2. Find ten, twelve, fourteen, seven, — a scribe is found
Who raised a fallen city from the ground.
3. Three, thirteen, fourteen, four, five, six, denote,
' A scribe who twice the prophets warning wrote.
4. Four, twelve, eleven, seven, and six, and such
His name who died for one unlawful touch.
6. Five, sixteen, fourteen, four, and three, will bring,
A wondrous creature with an outspread wing.
6 Find six, ten, three, two, fourteen, you shall view
A man whose wife the weary Sisera slew.
7. Find seven, three, nine, ten, fourteen, and recall
The great war captain of the house of Saul.
8. Eight, four, fourteen, and seven, — its plain extends
Where nations to a golden image bend.
9. One, ten, seven, six, reveal, the utmost bound,
The eastern limit of Zebulun's ground.
10. Ten, eight, two, nine,— behold a garden fair!
And lo ! a matchless couple dwelling there.
11. Eleven, two, fourteen, ten, and eight,— appears,
Israel's last journey in the forty years.
12. Twelve, thirteen, three, four, eight,— you apprehend
The son of Nathan, and a wise king's friend.
13. Find thirteen, twelve, eleven, seven, six, and tell
The utmost border where the Avims dwell.
14. Fourteen, two, four,— behold the patriarch's name,
The son of Peleg, in th« line of Shem.
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SCRIPTURE ANAGRAMS, NO. 3.
1 am a word of fourteen letters.
My 9, 10, 14, will give the name of Saul's uncle.
10, 11, 14, 13, A godly scribe.
3, 2, 11, 10, 14, A city of refuge.
4, 11, The dwelling-place of a patriarch.
5, 7, 9, 13, A town of Galilee.
6, 4, 14, A friend of Moses.
7, 3, 13, 9, 7, A river of Damascus.
8, 7, 9, A tribe oi Israel.
1, 4> 9, A father of a general.
2, 6, 4, 8, A judge of Israel.
11, 10, 2, 3, A prince slain at a wine press.
11, 10, 3, 7, 6, A king of Midian.
13, 3, 1, 2, 14, A warrior.
14, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, A son of Jacob.
The first letters of each of these names united will giro thn
name of a proud imperious king.
SCRIPTURE ANAGRAM, NO. 4.
I am a word of nine letters.
My 1, 6, 2, 7, will give the name of one mentioned in the
Bible as •" Blessed above women."
My 2, 7, 6, 9, The eldest son of Shem.
My 3, 6, 9, One of the sons of Hezron.
My 4, 3, The birthplace of Abraham.
My 5, 6. 9, 4, 8, 7, The last judge of Israel.
My 6, 3, The chief town of Moab.
My 7, 2, 9, 4, 8, 7, A king whose instructions are in tbe
last chapter of the book of Proverbs.
My 8, 5, 6, 4, The father of the Edomites.
My 9, 6, 3, 5, A hill on which St. Paul preached to th€
people of Athens.
My whole is a city of ancient fame.
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BIBLE PICTURES.
FROM THE BOOK OF RUTH.
1 A hostile land a Gentile name describes,
Apart from Israel's tribes.
2. Four strangers there, by famine forced to roam.
Found refuge and a home.
3. Of Judah's lineage, and of good renown,
They left their native town.
I. One of the four was to his burial borne,
And one was left to mourn.
5. Two Gentile damsels gave their heart and hand,
To join that little band.
6. Three widowed mourners now our tears engage,
Alike — but not in age .
7. Two went their husband's heritage to find,
But one was left behind.
8. And one, though urged to stay, with fixed intent,
To that far country went.
9 When earth again th' abundant harvest yields,
She goes to glean the fields.
10, Led by God's providence, she turns her hand
To glean a kinsman's land.
II. The lowly stranger there her kinsman spied,
And she became his bride.
12. The once lone widow, with maternal joy,
Embraced a darling boy.
13. And from her darling, crowned with manly grace,
Sprang a right royal race
BIBLE C
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 1. [Key
A noted teacher of Jewish law, whose reasoning had gr«
weight with the council at Jerusalem.
The initials of the following prove the uame :-
! The portion of Palestine which was the birthplace ,
3 A
of Cyprus,.with whom Paul lodged during hi,
of St. Pau! during his last prison-
* ThHuy i" Minor fro. whence the Jews came who
7 ThrvTnageaUwhere our Saviour spent the first evening
aA2^"Sr££ Peter ministered to the saints.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 2.
An Eastern king, whose lying awake at night hadimpo,
consequences.
The initials of the following prove the name
1. A woman whose discretion and courteous behavio
to great exaltation.
2. rhe place where an eminent high pnest died
3 The cousin of Saul, who was captam of his host.
4 A violet opposer of the rebuilding of the temple.
t One whose ill-timed zeal provoked the anger of
6 A se" ant, the first named in Scripture.
7, i2Sr— .»• -iyhomeof anOId
ment character.
9. An Old Testament name of Christ.
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 3.
The meeting-place of four hundred discontented Israelites.
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. One " who through faith quenched the violence of fire."
2. The feeding-place of Israel's flock, and in later times th«
scene of a miracle.
3. The name of a king of Judah who was punished for his
presumption.
4. The uncle of Esau.
5. The old name of Bethel.
6. The name of one who, through covetousness, " troubled
Israel."
7. A Danite, the father of a famous Judge in Israel.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 4.
A flourishing church of Asia Minor.
The initials of the following prove the name : —
1. A Christian householder.
2. A kinsman of St. Paul.
3. One of the divisions of the Holy Land mentioned in the
New Testament.
4. A place where St. Paul was in peril from his own coun
trymen.
5. An eloquent man, and one mighty in the Scriptures.
6. A city from which St. Paul narrowly escaped with hu
life.
7. The first fruits of Achaia.
8. One of the apostles.
9. A succorer of St. Paul.
10. A political sect among the Jews.
11. A division of the Roman army.
12. A New Testament prophet
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 5.
A man who left his native city when famine arose.
The Initials of the following prove the name :—
One of the brothers of the king of Israel, famous for hii
commanding stature.
2. The original name of the city of Dan.
3. The district in Palestine likened to an ass bowing down
between two burdens.
4. The burial-place of a patriarchal family.
5. An Ethiopian who delivered a prophet from danger.
6. The mountain which the Hebrew lawgiver prayed tc
see.
7. The seaport where a royal fleet was wrecked
8. A king prophesied of by name.
9. The rebuilder of Jericho.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 6.
The talented politician who proved a traitor to his king and
country.
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. The only member of a royal family in Israel who was to
be mourned for and buried.
2. A prophetess whose teaching proved a temporary check
to idolatry in Judah.
3. One of whom it was prophesied, " He shall dwell in the
presence of his brethren."
4. The burial-place of the great military leader of the chil
dren of Israel.
£ The minister of an Eastern king whose ambition resulted
in his ruin.
6. The husbandman with the kingly heart
7. The watery grave of a multitude.
8. The birthplace of Absalom.
9. A memorial of deliverance in battle.
JO. The Bather of the second founder of the human race.
218 CURIOSITIES OF Till: BIBLE.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 7.
The godly governor of an idolatrous household.
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. One who chose idolatry and home rather than suffer af
fliction with the people of God.
2. A city of Judah, for many years the abode of the Ark of
the Lord.
3. The inspired herdsman of Tekoa.
4. A faithful servant of God, in whom was fulfilled the
promise, " Them that honor me I will honor."
5. A giant, out of whose hands king David was delivered
by one of his chief captains.
6. A wife promised and given as the reward of valor.
7. The builder of a city which lay under the curse of God.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 8.
Whose eagerness to secure a blessing for her son brought
•orrow instead of joy ?
The initials of the following prove the name :-—
1. Whose rejection of faithful counsellors led to a national
rebellion ?
2. To whom was the charge of the tabernacle committed
during the wilderness journey ?
3 The ambitious prophet who perished among the enemies
of the Lord.
4. The prophet who was a witness for God before multi
tudes, yet fled for his life at the threat of a woman.
& What city did David deliver from the Philistines, but its
inhabitants would not protect David from the anger
of Saul ?
6. At what place was Israel's army first defeated after en
tering Canaan ?
7. Whose navy was celebrated in old times, and brought
great riches to Jerusalem ?
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 9.
The loyal and attached subject of a fugitive king.
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. The meeting-place of a king and patriarch.
2. The favorite child— a leader of revolt.
3. A people whose obedience was a subject of Divine com
mendation.
4. The person whose daughters were the first female inherit
ors of land in Palestine.
5. One of the grandsons of Eli.
6. The city where a king of Judah met with a violent
death.
7. What tribe was prohibited from having any possessions
in the land of Israel ?
8 The prince and great warrior killed in revenge.
9. The faith of a son proved by the faith of a lather.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 10.
What king set aside God's laws, and established laws of his
own, to gain the affections of his people ?
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. The father of a king beloved of God
2. One of the river boundaries of the Promised Land.
3. The dwelling-place of one who served God ai;d judge*7
Israel all his life.
4. A deliverer and judge of Israel's people.
5. The mother of Israel's mightiest monarch.
6 The king of one o-f the nations destroyed by God's coin
inand when Israel entered Canaan.
7. One who took a principal part in bringing the ark of GoiJ
out of the Philistine's land.
8. A Jew who rose to great honors in a foreign court
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 11.
Whose covetous and deceitful conduct brought immediate
%nd lasting punishment on himself and family ?
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. Where was the first memorial raised to tell of Israel s
entrance into Canaan ?
2. The meeting-place of a king and a wicked woman.
3. One of the supporters of Moses during the battle with
Amalek.
4. Who alone escaped from the massacre of the priests of
Nob?
5. Where was want changed to sufficiency in time of na
tional distress ?
6. The eastern boundary of the Persian empire.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 12.
A Gentile soldier who was fruitful in good works.
The initials of the following prove the name :—
1. Who gave largely of his substance to be counted a Roman
citizen ?
2. One who sought out and aided an imprisoned apostle.
3. From what city were all Jews expelled by law in the first
century ?
4. Where was a widow's heart turned from mourning to re
joicing?
6. A tempestuous wind, to which St. Paul was exposed in
one of his voyages.
6. A Christian church noted for its lukewarmness and self-
righteous spirit.
7. In what country bordering on the Adriatic Sea did St
Paul preach the gospel ?
8. One who assisted St. Paul in his missionary work.
9. Whose history is given us in the words, " She ministered
to Christ of her substance ? "
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BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 13.
X. great man, who used his newly acquired power to help a
tu brother.
The initials of the following will supply the name :—
1. What were some of the lowest of the Jews?
2. A garment used to promote a parent's comfort.
3. A sleepless occupant of a comfortable bed.
4. One of the offerings in the temple.
5. One of the plagues.
6. A country which sheltered both the type and the antt
type.
7. An herb of note among the Pharisees.
8. An object of regret.
9. A servant who betrayed a fugitive to his master.
10. A form of speech adopted by Job.
11. The innocent cause of a father's despair.
12. A man who, without being a king, may possess a crown.
BIBLE CHARACTERS, No. 14.
The initials form the name of a young man whose life waa
in danger, but who was saved in answer to prayer. The finals
form the name of his father.
1. One of David's chief rulers
2. The youngest son of the builder of a noted city.
3 One whose sons sold part of their land.
4. The assumed name of a child of sorrow.
5. A farmer who offered some of his property to the service
of God.
6. The country of an anxious inquirer after truth.
7. The character of one of the early churches.
222 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
No. 15. What Scripture characters most strikingly illus
trate the power of maternal influence for good or for evil?
No. 16. What Scripture characters show the danger and evil
of self-trust ?
No. 17. What Scripture characters exhibit the sin and pun
ishment of irreverently treating holy persons and things?
No. 18. Who were those on whose devotion God put dis
tinguished honor?
No. 19. What Scripture characters exhibit the power of
faith ?
No. 20. What Scripture characters illustrate the
3f early devotedness to the service of God ?
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Concert Exercise.
THE LORD'S PRAYER— BIBLE PROOFS.
44 Our Father " Isa. Ixiii. 16.
1. By right of creation Mai. ii. 10.
2. By bountiful providence Ps. cxlv. 16.
3. By gracious adoption Eph. i. 5.
" Which art in heaven " 1 Kings viii. 43.
4. The throne of Thy glory Isa. Ixiii. 15.
5. The portion of Thy children 1 Pet. i. 4
" Hallowed be Thy name."
6. By the thoughts of our hearts Ps. Ixxxvi. 11.
7. By the words of our lips Ps. li. 15,
8. By the works of our hands 1 Cor. x. 31,
" Thy kingdom come " Ps. ex. 2.
9. Of providence, to defend us Ps. xvii. 8.
10. Of grace, to sanctify us 1 Thess. v. 23.
11. Of glory, to crown us Col. iii. 4.
" Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven " Acts
xxi. 14.
12. Toward us, without resistance 2 Sam. iii. 18.
13. By us, without compulsion Ps. cxix. 36.
14. Universally, without exception Luke i. 6.
15. Eternally, without declension Ps. cxix. 93.
" Give us this day our daily bread."
16. Of necessity, for our bodies Prov. xxx. 8.
17. Of eternal life, for our souls John vi. 34.
" And forgive us our trespasses " Ps. xxv. 11.
18. Against Thy commands 1 John iii. 4.
19. Against the grace of Thy gospel 1 Tim. i. 16.
" As we forgive them that trespass against " . . .Matt. vi. 15.
20. By defaming our character Matt. v. 11.
21. By embezzling our property Heb. x. 34.
22. By abusing our persons Acts. vii. 60.
"And lead n? not into temptation, bnt deliver us from evil."
23. Of overwhelming affliction Ps. cxxx. 1.
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24. Of worldly enticements. 1 John ii. 15.
25. Of Satan's devices 1 Tim. iii. 7.
26. Of sinful affections Rom. i. 26.
" For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
for ever."
27. Thy kingdom governs all ps. ciii. 19.
28. Thy power subdues all 2 Chron. xx. 6.
29. Thy glory is above all ps. cxlviii. 13.
" Amen." Eph. i. 11.
30. As it is in Thy purposes Isa. xiv. 27.
31. So it is in Thy promises 2 Cor. i. 20.
32. So be it in our prayers Rev. xxii. 20.
33. So shall it be to Thy praise Rev. xix. 4.
Concert Exercise.
NINE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD,
As taught in the 145th Psalm. Each person should read or re
cite in concert the appropriate passage, followed by ex
planations and illustrations by the leader.
1. Omnipresence (v. 18), The Lord is nigh unto all, etc.
[present everywhere],
2. Omniscience (v. 15), The eyes of all, etc. [knowing
all things].
3. Omnipotence (v. 10, having all power), All Thy works
shall praise Thee.
4. Eternity (v. 13) endureth throughout all generations
[living always].
5. Benevolence (v. 9), The Lord is good to all [perfect
goodness and kindness].
6. Holiness (v. 17), Holy in all His works [perfect holiness].
7. Mercy (v. 9), Tender mercies are over all His works
[perfect mercy].
8. Justice (v. 17), Kighteous in all His ways [always just].
9- Truth (v. 18), Nigh to all that call upon Him in truth.
THE LIFE AND TIME* OF ST. PAUL.
What do the Scriptures tell us of his childhood, education, and
early religious tielief? 1. Acts xxii. 3 • 2. Acts ^xvi. 4, 3 ;
3. Phil. iii. 5.
What of his persecuting Zeal ? 4. Acts xxii. 20; 5; Acts viii.
3 ; 6. Acts ix. 12 ; 7. Acts xxii. 4, 5 ; 8. Acts xxvi. 9, 10, 11.
What of his conversion to Christianity ?. . . .9. Acts ix. 3-9. (if
desired, two other accounts.)
What of his baptism ? .10. Acts xxii. 12-16".
What of his promptness and zeal in preaching Christ?. .11. Acts
ix. 20-22; 12. Acts xvii. 1-3; 13. Acts xxviii. 23.
What of his commission to preach the gospel ?. . . .14. Gal. i. 1 ;
15. Gal. i. 11, 12.
What of his doctrine, addresses, and epistles? 16. 1 Cor. i;
23, 24; 17. 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4 ; 18. Rom. iii. 23, 24.
What of his address to the Athenians ? 19. Acts xix. 81.
What of the miracles he wrought ?. . . ; 20. Acts xvi. 16-18 ; 21.
Acts xiv, 8-10.
What of his miracles not recorded ? .22. Acts xix. 11, 12.
What of the treatment he received from his countrymen ? 23.
Acts ix. 23, 24; 24. Acts xxiii. J2-15.
What of his own narrations of perils and sufferings ? 25. 2
Cor. xi. 24-28.
What of the success that attended his labors?. .26. Acts ix. 31 •
27. Acts xiv. 1,3; 28. Acts xvii. 4; 29. Acts xviii. 8- 30.
Acts xix. 20.
What of his miraculous deliverance from prison ? 31. Acts
xvi. 25-30.
What of the viper that fastened on his hand ? . . .32, Acts xxviii.
3-5.
•vVhat or1 the closing record found in the Acts of Apostles ?. .33.
Acts xxviii. 16, ;30, 31.
—S, S. Times.
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE YOUNG BIBLE READER.
As you look upon the board, you see a very important charge,
that was given by an aged servant of God, to a youthful dis
ciple: " Give attendance to reading." Paul gave the charge,
and Timothy received it. He wished Timothy to take his copy
of the Old Testament Scriptures, and read very carefully and
constantly. He urged him to attend to it. Mark the fact that
this was not a new book to Timothy. He had often read it be
fore, and understood it very well. Turn to 2 Tim. iii. 15, and
you will see the proof : " From a child thou hast known the holy
scriptures." But though he had known the book so well, and
for so long a time, Paul did not excuse him from reading it.
Many now excuse themselves from this duty, because the Bible
is an old familiar book. They throw it aside for something
new. What a mistake! Remember the charge to this young
Bible reader. You may read papers, periodicals, and books on
art, science, and literature, but do not neglect the book. " Give
attendance to reading."
You also see the figure of a hand, having several words writ
ten upon it. On the pnlm is the word "Read, "and on the
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fingers and thumb you see other words in the form of questions.
Let us take these questions in their order, and see what answers
Can be obtained. The first is, " TF%" should we read? When?
What? Where? How? (Give answers, with Bible proof of
each.) William King, the poet, was a great reader. It is said
that when he was yet quite young " he had read over and made
remarks upon considerably more than twenty thousand books
and manuscripts." — Buck. He gave attendance to reading.
The Marquis of Lome, now Governor-General of Canada, is a
Bible reader, and recently published a metrical version of the
Psalms of David.
You also see a book in the picture, and a statement written
upon its pages. It is very positive and emphatic. " The Bible
is the Book of Books." That is true. Think of its Author.
"All scripture is given ~by inspiration of God." 2 Tim. iii. 16.
Think of its teachings. They make men " wise unto salvation."
2 Tim. iii. 15. Think of its duration. Not " one jot or tittle
shall pass till all be fulfilled." Matt. v. 18. What book can
compare with it ? " When John Jay, at the age of eighty-two
years, was urged to tell his children on what foundation he
rested his hopes, and from what source he drew his consolation,
his brief reply was, ' They have the book.' " — Foster.
Children, you also have the book. Read it.
If we do not see the golden thread through all the Bible
marking out Christ, we read the Scripture without the key. —
Cecil.
HOW TO SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
S-eriously Acts xvii. 11 ; 2 Tim. ii. 15.
E-arnestly Josh. i. 8 ; Ps. cxix. 12.
A-nxiously John xx. 31 ; Ps. cxix. 9.
R-egularly Acts xvii. 11 ; Ps. i. 2.
C-arefully Luke xxiv. 27 ; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17.
H-umbly Luke xxiv. 45 ; Jas. i. 22.
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LIGHT ON OUR PATHWAY. Ps. cxix. 105.
Here we have a picture which, at first sight, may not seem to
be very interesting, and yet it is one of the most instructive that
can be produced. Look at it for a moment, and see what it
represents. You see, in part at least, the figure of a man, and
he seems to be walking. You also see the outlines of a street,
and at the corner you observe a lamp-post. In the man's hand
you see a burning lamp, while the street-lamp also sends out its
rays of light upon the darkness, thus enabling the man to see his
way. Near the top of the picture you also see a book, which
represents the Bible, the word of God. How beautifully the
picture illustrates the Psalmist's declaration, "Thy word is a
lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.''
This man is carrying the light because he needs it. If the sun
were shining, or the moon or stars, he might not. need it. But it
is night, and so dark that he must have the light. So we need
the light of God's word. "It is not in man that walketh to
direct his steps." Jer. x. 23. The way is dark, and he cannot
tell where to go. He wanders, stumbles, and falls. But when he
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turns to God's word he finds u a lamp unto his feet, and a light
unto his path." I have read of a traveller on the mountains who
was for a time enveloped in a heavy mist, and could scarcely see
his way from one rocky spur to another. Suddenly the mist,
rolled away, and to his surprise he found himself standing on
the verge of a fearful precipice. The misty cloud was swept
away just in time to show him his danger. So, when God's
word becomes a "lamp to our feet," it shows us the perils of
the way, and we walk in safety. " The entrance of thy words
giveth light. Ps. cxix. 130. Let us remember that we are to
keep this light with us wherever we go. A lamp will do us no
good on a dark night if we leave it at home. What is this man,
in the picture, doing with his light ? You say, " Carrying it with
him." Yes. And you are to take the word of God with you.
Do you ask liow ? Carry it on the tablet of your memory. Keep
it there. Do as the little boy did, who had to give up his Bible
to the priest. The priest burned up the book, but the little boy
said, " Thank God, you cannot burn up the twenty-eight chapters
of Matthew that I have got in my head." lie carried the light
with him. We are pilgrims. Our way is dark. Let us take the
light with us, and we shall walk in comfort, confidence, and
safety.
WHY WE SHOULD TAKE GOD FOR OUR GUIDE.
1. Because as travellers we need a guide Jer. iii. 4.
2. Because He knows the road Heb. iv. 15.
3. Because He lias Himself encountered its dangers. .Heb. ii. 10.
4. Because He goes with the traveller all the way. .Ps. xxiii. 4.
5. Because He cheers and supports when weary. .Ps. xxxvii. 23.
6. Because as travellers we must follow our guide. . 1 Peter ii. 21.
WHAT IS HEAVEN ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.
1. Our Father's house John xiv. 2 ; Isa. Ixiii. 15 ; 1 Kings
viii. 30; Matt, xxiii. 9, Matt. vi. 9; Matt. vii. 11.
2. The home of Jesus John iii. 13 ; John vi. 38 ; John xx.
17; Acts iii. 21 ; Heb. ix. 24; 1 Thess. i 10.
3. The future abode of believers. . . .John xiv. 2, 3 ; 2 Cor. v. 1 ;
[G. A.] Heb. xi. 10,
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THE SPIDER'S WEB.
KEEP ME FROM THE SNARE
LYING IM WAIT /
DESTROY
We have here the picture of a spider's web. The spider is a
repulsive insect, and few, indeed, admire him. I have read of
a man who had a " pet spider," and, when a tune was whistled,
the little creature would instantly come out of its hole to listen.
Few, however, would like such a "pet." We may dislike the
spider, but we cannot fail to admire his work. See the delicate
fibres, and the perfect form of this web. What ingenuity and
skill it shows! But let us look a little more closely at the
spider's work, and see if it has a lesson for us. See, first of all,
how orderly and systematic it is. The lines running from the
centre to the outer edge seem to be of equal length, and the
distance between them seems to be equal also. Then, there are
cords that cross the long threads, and these, too, are arranged
with perfect order and system. Here is a lesson for us. "We
are not to work in a hap-hazard way. We are to have order in
our plans and pursuits. We are to have "a place for every
thing, and everything in its place." "To everything there is a
season." Eccl. iii. 1. The time to serve God is now. " Seek
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ye first the kingdom of God." That is the order we are to ob-
observe.
See, again, how this work of the spider becomes an agency of
torture and destruction. The chief mission of the spider seems
to be to ensnare and capture other insects. Many a thoughtless
fly comes buzzing along, and is hopelessly entangled in the
web. It tries in vain to escape. It dies a slow, lingering death.
How full of meaning are the words you see on the board :
" Lying in wait to destroy." Many things in this life become a
snare to us ; they deceive us and lead to ruin. The wineglass
may seem tempting, but it carries death in its sparkling con
tents. " He that is deceived thereby is not wise/7 Prov. xx. 1.
The saloon may be gilded, and the hall of revelry may be at
tractive ; but beware of them, for, like the spider's web, they
may become agencies of destruction. The prophet tells us that
the " wicked may weave the spider's web." Isa. lix. 6.
What do you see written above the web? " Keep me from
the snare." That is a prayer. Let us adopt it. This is a prayer
for those who want to keep out of the snare. " Keep me from
the snare." Some people run right into snares, and then won
der why they are caught. It is good to get out of the snare, but
a thousand times better to keep out. " Watch and pray that ye
enter not into temptation." Matt. xxvi. 41.
WHAT WE ARE BY NATURE.
1. Evil in our thoughts continually Gen. vi. 5.
2. Unclean Job xiv. 4.
3. Shapen in iniquity Ps. li. 5.
4. Unclean and as filthy rags Isa. Ixiv. 6.
5. Deceitful and desperately wicked Jere. xii. 9.
6. All under sin Rom. iii. 9-23.
7. The children of wrath Eph. ii. 3.
8. Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel Eph. ii. 12.
9. Alienated from the life of God Eph. iv. 18.
10. T^pad in trespasses and sin Co1.. ';, 13.
CUHIOS1TIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE DOOR OPEN OR SHUT.
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The term door literally means entrance, and denotes the way
into a building. Jesus uses the term in a metaphorical sense, and
applies it to Himself. " I am the door." John x. 0. He is the
only way of entrance into spiritual life, into the church, and
into heaven. Hence, his language is, " I am the way.1' John
xiv. 6. How clearly did the ancient Fathers teach this truth,
when they said, " Christ, from the foundation of the world, has
been the Father's way to earth and the sinner's way to God.1'
That open door has a very gracious meaning. It means that
Jesus is now ready to receive us. He is saying to us all, " Come
unto me" Matt. xi. 28. An open door invites us to enter, and
so Jesus wait* to receive us as we come to Him. Listen to His
cheering words : " Him that comoth to me, I will in no wise
cast out." John vi. 37. Enter the door now, while you are
young. Many as young as you have done so. Polycarp en
tered when he was only four years old. At the age of ninety
he said, " Eighty and six years have I served Him." Lady
Huntington entered it when she was only nine years old. Bishop
Hedding sought Christ at the age of four years. Alfred Cook-
man entered the door when he was ten years old. How true the
promise : " Those that seek me early shall find me." Prov. viii.
17. Kemember the door is open now. But the door that is
shut has a very sad and solemn meaning. It means that Jesus,
at the last, refuses to receive those who have refused Him. Can
you pass through a doorway when it is closed against you ? No.
You turn away, and say the " d®or is shut." The foolish vir
gins found the "door was shut." Matt. xxv. 10. How terrible
it will be for the soul to be homeless forever, and unsheltered-
amid the storms of eternity. If this door is shut against us, no
other will open to receive us. Wait, and the door may be shut.
Then you will vainly cry, " Lord, Lord, open unto us." Luke
xiii. 25. "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now." — Tennyson.
A blacksmith, when he pulled his iron out of the fire, used to
call out to his son, " Quick ! quick ! Now or never." — Foster.
" Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth." Eccl.
xii. 1. It may be now or never with us.
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLK
THE VINE AND ITS BRANCHES.
We have here a picture of a well-known vine. Let us see if
we can learn a few lessons from it.
And, first of all, it does not claim to be anything but a vine—
a grape-vine.
Look at it, and it appears like one ; touch or test it in any
form you please, and it always shows itself in its true character.
It never tries to put on the appearance of some beautiful plant,
nor look like some tall, stately oak. We, too, should alwayg
show ourselves to be as and what we are. Bad men often try
to make others believe that they are good. They are ashamed
to be known to others just as they are known to themselves.
They claim to be what they are not. The vine, in this respect,
rebukes them, for it is always just what it seems to be. Let all
our boys and girls be true, and avoid deception of every kind.
Henry Clay once said, "I would rather be right than to b«
President."
The rise also shows us the necessity of having some
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support. Does this vine stand alone, or seem to hold itself in
an upright position by its own strength ? There is a trellis or
frame to which it clings, and this frame gives it support.
Children, can we stand alone in life? Certainly not. We
need each other's help. " Baarye one another's burdens." Gal.
vi. 2. We need Christ's help still more. He has said, " With
out me, ye can do nothing." John xv. 5. Take away the trellis,
and what would happen to the vine? Fall? Yes, it would
fall to the ground. Many are in the dust to-day, because they
have forsaken God, their only strength and support. ** God is
our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
The vine also teaches us a lesson on fruitfulness. Some vines
have perfect branches, heavy foliage, and pretty blossoms, but
no fruit. The vine here represented is full of rich clusters.
How fruitful it appears ! Shall our Lves be barren? If vines
bear fruits, shall souls be unfruitful ? Jesus once found a tree
bearing upon its branches " nothing but Leaves" Mark xi. 13.
What a disappointment ? Nothing but leaves. Trees and vines
all covered with rustling leaves and fragrant blossoms, may be
fery beautiful indeed, but to be useful they must be&r fruit.
"In Eastern poetry they tell of a wondrous tree on which
grew golden apples and silver bells, and every time the breeze
went by and shook the fragrant branches, a shower of these
golden apples fell, and the living bells chimed and tinkled
forth their airy ravishment." — Biblical Museum.
Children, so live that the fruit of your lives may be more
sweet, wholesome, and valuable than all the " golden apples
and silver bells " that fancy ever painted.
GOD'S BEST GIFTS.
1. Joy in believing Ps. xxv. 9.
2. Rest Matt. xi. 28 ; Jer. vi. 16.
3. Peace John xiv. 27 ; Isa. xxvi. 3, 4 ; Job xxii. 21.
4. Eternal life John x. 28 ; John iii. 36.
5. The Holy Spirit John xiv. 16 ; Ps. li. 12 ; Titus iii. 5 ; 2
Cor. iii. 17; 1 Thcss. i. 6.
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CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
SIN AND SALVATION.
ATAN,
THE
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BROUGHT
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LOOKljAVlOUR
1 "fE >#y WHO BRINGS
gg^ ALVATION
We have here the figure of a serpent. In Gen. iii. 1, we have
the first scriptural mention of the serpent. The serpent repre
sents Satan, and led Eve to disobey God in paradise. Said she,
" The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." Gen. iii. 13. How
true, then, the words written upon the board : " Satan the Ser
pent brought Sin."
We are to remember that sin is a great evil. It is here — all
around us and within us. What is the Bible definition of sin ?
" Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John iii. 4.
If we break the law voluntarily and knowingly, then we are
guilly of sinning. Have we not done this in some way and at
sometime? Yes. "For all have sinned." Rom. iii. 23. True,
we may not have broken the whole law, but we are no less sin
ners, even though we have transgressed only a small portion of it.
" Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
point, he is guilty of all." Jas. ii. 10.
Where is the person who has not transgressed " one point," at
least, of God's law ?
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u We sprang from the men whose guilty fall,
Corrupts his race and taints us all"
This picture presents another great fact, and that is salvation.
Salvation denotes deliverance from dangers or from enemies.
Turn now to the picture and read, " We have a Saviour who
brings salvation.''1 Satan brings sin, but the Saviour brings
salvation. We have the one ; shall we not have the other f
We brought with us into this world a sinful nature, without
our consent, but we can have salvation only by choice. "Choose
you this day whom you will serve.1' Josh. xxiv. 15.
Salvation never will be thrust upon us. Jesus is the "Saviour
of all men, specially of those that believe." I Tini. iv. 10. Re-
member, then, though we have a Saviour, He will not save us,
unless we "believe on Him."
We have Sunday schools, churches, Bibles, and Christian ex
ample, yet, if we do not love the Saviour, we shall be lost.
" The saddest road to hell is that which runs under the pulpit,
past the Bible, and through the midst of warnings and invita
tions."— %&?.
Rev. John Newton, in his last moments, said that he remem
bered two things :
1st. That he was a great sinner.
3d. That Jesus Christ was a great Saviour.
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation."
Heb. ii. 3.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS OF THE FOOL.
1. His belief ................... Ps. xiv. 1. There is no God.
2. His walk ..................... Eccl. ii. 14 — is in darkness.
3. His standing before God. . . .Eccl. v. 4. No pleasure in him.
4. His heart ............. Eccl. vii. 4 — is in the house of mirth.
5. His food ..... Eccl. x. 12. His life will swallow up himself.
G. His house ............. .Matt. vii. 26 — is built on the sand.
7. His end. . . .Luke xii. 20. Death.
c&RiosiTttis OP THK
THE BOW IN THE CLOUD.
(Draw the rainbow with pieces of colored crayons, held side-
wise, and write the words heavily with white crayon. A beauti
ful effect may be produced if skilfully drawn.)
" And the bow shall be in the cloud ; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is upon the face of the
earth." Gen. ix. 16.
State the facts of the flood, and so onward, until this covenant
of God. Dwell on the shape and colors of the bow. These
may be remembered by the initial word, " Vib gg or-y" and
these letters placed in the several spaces.
The bow is the token of God's promise. Explain the word
" token" by instancing gifts of parents, teachers, etc. Explain
covenant or agreement. The first covenant made by God with
man. God's covenant, wherein the Lord agrees never again to
destroy the world with a flood. Man is asked for no agreement
in return. The Lord says, v. 13, " My bow." Token of God's
forbearance. God forbears what He might justly do: drown the
world again and again. His condescension is brought visibly to
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our minds when we see His bow in the clouds. He condescends
to bind Himself by covenant promise, and to give us a token of it.
Thus He displays His grace, that source of all His blessings.
1 Cor. xv. 10.
These lessons are taught by His bow over the world (which
write, as in diagram, under the bow). And the rainbow, this
token of God's forbearance, condescension, and grace, surrounds
His throne forever in heaven. Read Rev. iv. 3, and have the
children repeat it in concert, as also the text which is the theme
of the lesson. — From Teacher and Class.
WHAT CHRISTIANS HAVE.
Faith in God Mark xi. 22.
Everlasting life John iii. 36.
Light of life John viii. 12.
My joy fulfilled in themselves John xvii. 13.
Hope toward God Acts xxiv. 15.
A conscience void of offence Acts xxiv. 16.
Peace with God Rom. v. 1.
Access by faith Rom. v. 2.
Fruit unto holiness Rom. vi. 22.
First fruits of the Spirit Rom. viii. 23.
A building of God not made with hands 2 Cor. v. 1.
These promises 2 Cor. vii. 1.
All sufficiency in all things 2 Cor. ix. 8.
COME TO JESUS FOR WHAT?
Pardon Eph. i. 5-7.
Comfort Isa. Ixi. 2-3.
Health Matt. viii. 16, 17.
Strength Phil. iv. 13.
Holiness . . . .John xv. 4. 5. Eternal life John vi. 47.
Peace John xiv. 27.
Joy John xv. 10, 11.
Rest Matt. xi. 28.
Happiness. . .Prov. xiii. 17, 18.
240 CARIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
LIGHT FROM THE BIBLE.
In this picture you see a lamp, a torch, a rock, a ship, and a
book. All these objects are suggestive. Lamps and torches are
used to light up dark places. If we go down into deep mines,
or caves, or into some dens of the city, what do we find ? Dark
ness. Yes. The sunlight never enters these places, and so we
must take the lamp or torch along to light up the way. Go
down into the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and you must flash
your torch upon the darkness if you would see.
There is darkness in the spiritual as well as in the natural
world. Hence, Paul said of wicked men, " Their foolish heart
was darkened" Rom. i. 21. He also affirms that the Gentiles
had "the understanding darkened." Eph. iv. 18. Now, what
do we need in this darkness of the soul ? Light. Yes. Where
shall we find it ? In the Bible. Men who follow the Bible never
go astray. It banishes their darkness. Hear what Peter says
about it: " We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; where-
unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place." 2 Pet. i. 19.
This is the book we love to study Sabbath after Sabbath, and
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no other book can guide us to heaven. What would we do
without it ? " Rob us of our Bible, and our sky has lost its stm*
and in the best of other books we have naught but the glimmei
of twinkling stars." — Gulhrie.
In the picture you also see a vessel and in the distance a rock.
The vessel seems to be dashing right on toward the rock. But
there is a chart on board, and this gives timely warning, and the
vessel is saved. There arc rocks in the current of your lives,
children. Name some of them. Pride, Revenge. Falsehood,
Disobedience, etc. Take the Bible for your chart. After one
of the old Reformers had finished a controversy with an enemy
of the truth, a friend begged to see the notes he had used in the
discussion, and was surprised to find written there, many times
in succession, the word?, "More light, Lord — more light, more
light ! " Make this your prayer. " More light, more light ! "
THE BIBLE MIRROR.
1. It is a wonderful mirror Ps. cxix. 129.
2. It shows us our own image Jas. i. 23-25.
3. It shows us what is wrong Luke vii. 40-47, Ps. cxix. 9.
4. It reveals a glorious light John i. 14 ; 1 John i. 1, 2.
5. It reflects a light on those who look into it. .Ex. xxxiv. 29, 30.
6. It should be used daily Ps. i. 9-.
HOW MAY WE GET TO HEAVEN?
1. Through our God, He will save us Isa. xxv. 8, 9.
2. By serving the Lord with all our heart . .1 Sam. xii. 23, 24.
3. By following after righteousness Prov. xv. 9.
4. By doing the will of our Father Matt. vii. 21.
5. Through Christ, the door . .John x. 9.
6. Through Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. John xiv. 4.
7. By access through Christ and the Spirit to the Father.
Eph. ii, 18.
8. Through Christ bearing our sins Heb. ix. 27, 28.
9. By the blood of Jeaus Heb. x. 19.
10. Thrown the open door Rev. iii, 5,
242 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLK.
THE GREAT SHIP AND THE LITTLE HELM.
Turn to James, iii. 4, and you will read as follows: " Behold
also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of
fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,
withersoever the governor listeth." Now, look at the picture,
and you will see the " helm " of which St. James speaks. Ob
serve the fact that it is very small compared to the great size of
the ship. The masts are tall and the body of the vessel seems
large, but the "helm" is "very small"
What power it exerts upon that huge ship 1 Here we learn
the importance of little things. We read that the " Conies are
but a feeble folk,'" Prov. xxx. 26 ; and we also read of the "lit
tle foxes that spoil the vines."' Song ii. 15. The " tongue is a
little member and boasteth great things." Jas. iii. 5. These
expressions show the importance of little things. A clever
Dutchman amused himself one day by cutting some letters of
the alphabet on the bark of a tree. It was a very small thing,
but out of that little thing came the art of printing. Little
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things often produce great results. "Who hath despised the
day of small things?" Zech. iv. 10. But observe that while
this helm is so very small, it controls the movements of the
vessel. To this fact St. James here calls special attention. He
reminds us that these "great" ships are "turned about" by the
helm. "Turned about/' They arc guided and kept in their
proper course by the helm. The vessel would drift along with
the wind and tide if left to itself, but the pilot's hand is on the
helm and that guides the ship to its destination. We are all out
on the stormy ocean of life. We shall drift with the tide of
evil influences and drift into ruin, unless we are guided in our
movements. Let God be our Guide, and the promise is, "He
shall direct thy paths." Prov. iii. 6. Said David, "Thou shalt
guide me with thy counsel." Ps. Ixxiii. 24. The ship never
refuses to " mind'1'1 the helm. So let us follow our Divine Guide,
and we shall reach the eternal harbor.
Then we will sing:
"Drop the anchor, furl the sail,
We are safe within the vale."
SIX COMMANDS OF CHRIST.
1. Turn from death Mark i. 14, 15.
2. Look for life John i. 29.
3. Come for rest ., .Matt. xi. 28.
4. Abide for fruitfulness John xv. 4.
5. Obey for friendship John xv. 14.
6. Watch in readiness for His coming Mark xiii. 35-37.
INDISPENSABLE THINGS.
1. Without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. ix. 22.
2. Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. xi. 6.
3. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. . . .Heb. xii. 14.
4. Without works faith is dead Jas. ii. 26.
5. Without love I am nothing 1. Cor. xiii. 1, 3.
6. Without chastisement ye nre not sons Heb. xii. 8.
7. Without mo (Jesus) ye can do nothing Jrtin xv. 5.
24A CURIOSITIES Off THE BIBLE.
FIGS OR THISTLES— WHICH ?
DO MEN GATHER
FIGS OF THISTLES?
You see here a cluster of grapes and a branch of the thorn-bush.
Then, in the words written upon the board, you see a reference
to figs and thistles. The question relates to these four objects.
We find it in Matt. vii. 16. Two of these objects, grapes and
figs, are useful; the other two, thorns and thistles, are worthless.
If we should ask, " Which do you prefer ? " you would quickly
answer, and not one of you would choose the thorn nor thistle.
You would "gather" the grapes and figs. Let it be your aim
always to choose the good in the moral world rather than the
evil. Let the thistles, which irritate and annoy, and the thorns
which pierce and pain be rejected. God offers you pleasant,
palatable, healthful things in abundance. Take these, and let
the had and larren things alone. Be like Mary. " Mary hath
chosen that good part." Luke x. 42.
But this question of the Saviour implies that fruit will always
harmonize in its essence with the nature of the plant or tree that
produces it. This is the chief point of the question. A certain
tree or a plant has a capacity to produce a certain kind of fruit.
It cannot bear anything else. A thorn cannot bear grapes, nor
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. thistle figs. The idea is that a W life cannot produce good
, said Jesus, "Neither can a »rr* tree bring forth
vf^ virtues without ^ conditions,-
man out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth
way useful. So may it be in this Sunday-school.
EXAMPLES OF PRAYER IN DANGER, AND BY WHOM.
^"' *
1. Jacob, from his brother
». Joshua, for deliverance hi, eoe
. Josiab, for mercy
10. David, in fear. . . .
11. Disciples in the storm
12. Peter in prison ............ ^
13. Paul and Silas in pnson ............... -^ •
14. Paul on his voyage ...... • ..... "
246 CURIOSITIES OF THE E1BLL.
THE UPLIFTED SAVIOUR.
Son- a
3: 14= 15
This picture recalls a very interesting event in the history of
the Israelites. They were journeying through the wilderness.
They suffered many painful hardships. Their trials overtaxed
their patience, and at last they began to murmur and complain
most bitterly. As a punishment, God sent serpents into their
camp, and the murmuring people were bitten by them. "And
the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the
people; and much people of Israel died." Num. xxi. 6. God
is never at a loss for means to punish the wicked. He can make
the winds and the waves do His will. Here fiery serpenjts become
the ministers of his wrath. Observe they did not enter the
camp and bite simply because it was their nature to do so, for
the "Lord sent fiery serpents among the people." Let us take
care how we provoke Him. Moses was directed to " make a ser
pent of brass and set it up upon a pole," and the bitten ones
looked upon it and were healed. They did not have to go to it,
but only look upon it, and they lived. How simple, how easy the
Ijietbod of their cure. Now, this uplifted serpent reminds us of
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the uplifted Saviour. Read the words of Jesus: "As Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of
man be lifted up." John iii. 14, 15.
This refers to His crucifixion :
He was "taken, and by wicked hands crucified and slain.11
^cts ii. 23. He was "lifted up" upon the cross, and He suf
fered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to
God. 1 Pet. iii. 18. We need a remedy for sin as much as
the Israelites needed one for the poisonous bite of the serpent.
They found theirs in the uplifted serpent ; we find ours in the up
lifted Christ. They looked and lived. Are you " looking unto
Jesus"? Heb. xii. 2. Hear the command of God: "Look
unto me, and be ye saved." Isa. xlv. 22. This you all can do.
How simple it is. " Here is one little word of four letter, and
two of them are alike ! Look" — Spurgeon. Let us fco&, believe,
and live.
WHAT CHRIST IS TO US.
The door John x. 9. Enter and be saved.
The Way John xiv. 6. Walk ye in Him.
The Light of the World . . . .John viii. 12. Walk in the Light.
The Bread of Life John vi. 35. Eat and be satisfied.
The Smitten Rock. . . .1 Cor. x. 4. Drink of the living streams.
Our Saviour 2 Tim. i. 10. Receive Him.
Our Peace Eph. ii. 14. Rest in Him.
Our Shepherd John x. 11- Hear His voice.
Our Example John xiii. 15. Follow Him.
Our High Priest Heb. vii. 26. Look up to Him.
Our Lord John xiii. 13. Obey Him.
The King of kings Rev. xix. 16. Wait for His appearing.
THE CHRISTIAN'S DEDICATION.
[ take God the Father to be my God 1 Thess. i. 9.
I take God the Son to be my Saviour Acts v. 31.
I take God the Holy Ghost to be my Sanctifier 1 Peter i. 2.
I take the Word of God to be my rule 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17.
I take the people of God to be my people Ruth i. 16, 17.
I likewise dedicate my whole self to the Lord. . .Rom. xiv. 7, 8.
And I do this deliberately — Josh. xxiv. 15. Sincerely — 2 Cor.
i, 12. Freely— Psalm ex. 3. And forever—Rom, viii. 35-8y,
248 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
SIGNALS OF DANGER.
In this picture you see a portion of a railroad track, and just
at the curve you see a locomotive. You also see a line of tele
graph-wires, and, located near them, is an electric battery, which
is put in motion when the train passes, and thus gives notice o^
its coming. A person walking on the track or waiting at the
station hears the alarm-bell ring and knows that the train is near.
It is to him a signal of danger.
.Our pathway in life is beset with many dangers, and there are
alarm-signals out on every side. Dangers on the railroad are
often met with at the curves. Persons walking there do not see
ihe train, and it dashes upon them and destroys them. There is
danger at the curve, and they must watch the signal. So there
are curves or turning -points in every life. Be careful how you
approach them — how you go around them. As you go out of
childhood into youth, you pass a curve on life's pathway. As
you go from youth into manhood you pass another. These are
turning-points in your history. And just at these points life may
become a bane or a blessing. Some round the curve with no
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thought of what they are to do as they pa«s it. Go around the
curre with a purpose. Resolve to make all your after-life better
than it was before. Some are in a feverish hurry to get around
the curve. They want to press on to honor, pleasure, and wealth
with undue haste. And here is their danger. They are too
eager, too venturesome. Sometimes scholars decide to leave the
school. Then they reach a turning-point in their history. There
is danger before them. They arc too hasty and inconsiderate.
They may go astray, and never return to the right way. Let us
look out for danger at these turning-points in life.
Signals of danger will be useless if we do not heed them.
Let the whistle blow or the alarm-bell ring; but if the man on
the track does not heed it, he will be destroyed. Let the mariner
ignore the lighthouse, and his vessel will run upon the rocks, and
all may be lost.
A bell was once so arranged that in a storm it would ring
loudly, and thus warn mariners of their danger. Some pirates
muffled the bell so that it would not ring out its alarm, hoping
that, in its silence, some unfortunate vessel might be driven upon
the rocks and became their prey. Strange to say, they them
selves were the first to suffer. They had silenced the warning-
bell, and all perished. Let us never muffle the bell of .con
science. Let us heed the warnings of truth.
THE GOSPEL RAILROAD.
The graded road Isa. xl. 3-3 ; Isa. Ixii. 10.
The track, Jesus John xiv. 6.
The engine. Charity M Cor. xiii. 13.
The engineer, The Holy Spirit John xiv. 26 ; xv. 26.
The headlight, The Word of God Ps. cxix. 105.
The red lights, danger signals Matt vii. 13, 14.
The car, our Saviour John x. 9.
The conductor, our Heavenly Father Ps. xxxiii. 18-20.
The travellers, Believers Rev. vii. 9, 10.
The destination Heaven. .1 Peter i. 3, 4 ; DCD. xiii. 14; 2 Cor.
J. A-
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
GAINING AND LOSING.
or- Qj<um£/.
There you see a pair of scales. One side hangs down, as though
it were heavily loaded, and the other rises upward, as though it
had only a light burden to bear. On one side we see a repre
sentation of the World, and the other is supposed to be borne
down by something more solid and valuable than the world itself
— even a soul. A soul on one side, the world on the other. What
a difference ! Bear this in mind, and you will see tho force of
the question. " What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul ! " Mark viii. 36. Your
soul is greatly superior to the world, and should not be exchanged
for it.
A little blind girl once asked, " What is soul? " Her instruc
tor answered, " That which thinks, feels, hopes, loves." How
little, how meagre, how trivial are all the pleasures, riches,
honors, and glories of the world. " One soul outweighs them
all." You have only one soul, and if you lose that, all is gone
forever and ever. We sometimes lose one friend, but we have
others left. Sometimes one portion of property will be taken
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a\vuy, but some other portion remains. Lose the soul, and ak
is gone. You cannot recall it, you cannot replace it. " He that
is unjust, let him be unjust still" Ilev. xxii. 11. Your soul cost
an immense price, and is valuable beyond all computation. "Yc
are bought with a price." 1 Cor. vi. 20. That " price " is the
blood of the Son of God. " We have redemption through his
blood." Eph. i. 7. Estimated by its cost, how valuable the soul
is! What profit will it be for a man to lose his precious soul,
and have nothing in exchange, but a vain, worthless, decaying
world. That soul will live on iorever and ever. Yea, it wilK
live, " when the riches, powers, and pleasures of the world have-
passed away like a snow-wreath beneath a vernal shower. "-
Rowland Hill.
Gain as much of the world as you can consistently, but at the
same time resolve to save your soul. A collegian, distinguished
for his mathematical attainments, was fond of challenging his
fellow-students to a trial of skill in solving difficult problems.
One day a class-mate came into his study, and, laying a folded
paper before him, said, " There is a problem I wish you would
help me to solve," and immediately left the room.
The paper was eagerly unfolded, and there, instead of a ques
tion in mathematics, were traced the lines, u What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ; or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? "
With a gesture of impatience he tore the paper to atoms and
turned again to his books. But in vain he tried to shake off the
impressions of the solemn words he had read. The Holy Spirit
pressed home his conviction of guilt and danger, so that he could
find no peace till he found it in believing in Jesus. He subse
quently became a minister of the Gospel he had once despised,
and his first sermon was from the words, so blessed to his own
soul, " What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul ? "
The apostles were very full, because very empty ; full of the
spirit of God, because empty of the spirit of tjsp world. — St.
252 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE CHRISTIAN'S DEFENCE— 2 KINGS vr. 8-18.
OVERCOME S.N AND TEMPT*T/0 '
^ \
THROU&W OUR V.ORO itSUS C)HK\ST
Our lesson finds the man of God sore beset. Enemies are all
.around him, and there is no apparent escape. Yet how perfect
is his security and safety. The one on his side is infinitely more
than all his enemies. If God be for us, we have One who is mor,e
than all they that be against us.
^otice hia perfect trust. While his servant is stricken with
jfear, his heart is calm. The plot of his wicked enemies seemed
complete, but it had one fatal defect — God was not for them.
The true servant of God is surrounded by enemies — sin and
temptation surround him. They are our foes, but we have a
heavenly Defender. If God be for us, we shall surely overcome.
To have God for us, we must be clearly and decidedly for God,;
we must be on the Lord's side.
There is no surrender in the fight with sin and Satan — np
parleying or making terms with Satan. We are to "Jight the
goodfiyht." )Ve are to resist the deyi,!, i^ we would have ihi,m
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flee from us. If we had only our own strength to dtpend upon
there would be but little hope of victory ; but the weapons of
our defence are heavenly. The shield of Faith is a sure de
fence. Trust in God never disappoints.
We are not only to fight, but to conquer the evil one. God
will not only keep us through faith in Him, but he gives us a
precious and priceless weapon of defence — " the sword of the
Spirit."
How necessary an acquaintance with its use — a knowledge of
its power. The word of God should be " hid in our hearts"
that we may delight in it and feel its power in our lives.
God is not only our Defender, but our Reward. Faithful
here, victory will be sure, and the reward of His presence for
ever.
[Diagram by J. G. Phipps, Indianapolis.]
GOD IS ABLE.
Able to save Jas. iv. 12.
" " " from the furnace heat Dan. iii. 13-18.
" « " " the lion's mouth Dan. vi. 18-24.
" " " " all uncleanness Ezek. xxxvi. 29.
" «« " " our sins Matt. i. 21.
" " " " death Heb. v. 7.
" " " to the uttermost Heb. vii. 25.
Able to succor the tempted Heb. ii. 18
" make us stand Rom. xiv. 4.
" build us up Acts xx. 32.
" keep us from evil 2 Thes. iii. 3.
" keep us from falling Jude xxiv.
" keep that which we commit to Him 2 Tim. i. 12.
" perform His promises Rom. iv. 21
" do more than we ask Eph. iii. 20.
" make all grace abound 2 Cor. ix. 8.
" subdue all things to Himself Phil. iii. 31.
" raise us from the dead Heb. xi. 19.
" preient us f aultle*s J«dc xxir,
'254 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLti.
THE TWO LADDERS.
PHARISEE
PUBLICAN
JUSTICE^
VNNOCENCCI
IFAULTSOri
/ ALMS
PRAYER
'• JUSTIFIED
[REPENTANCE!
FASTINGS I
IHUMILITYi
These two ladders are intended to represent the moral character
and life of the Pharisee and the Publican. These characters
differ very widely from each other, and the ladders drawn upon
the board, with their peculiar inscriptions, make the difference
between them all the more apparent. The parable is given by
the Saviour in Luke xviii. 10-14. In the ladder which the
Pharisee is represented as climbing, you see five rounds, bearing
significant names, and these indicate the various stages or stept
by which he hopes to reach heaven. The first round is fasting.
See how he magnifies it. He is careful to mention that he fasts
twice in the week. Will that make a man good, or save him ? No.
fie might fast twice as often and yet be lost. Fasting is a
Christian duty, but we cannot be saved by it. The second
round is alms. That means gifts to the poor and needy. And
this man was liberal, for he gave one-tenth of all he had. It is
right to give to the destitute. Jesus said, " Ye have the poor
always with you." Matt. xxvi. 11. We are to remember that
" Ho that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the Lord,"
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Prov. xix. 17. "A miser is a monster that no one can love."-
Dr. Thomas.
The next round is described as the faults of others. He names
a list of faults. How natural it is for us to see the sins of other
people. It would bo better to see our own, and forsake them,
"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would
make him pull his hat over his eyes." — Gaelic Proverb.
The next round is a broken one. It is marked innocence. All
the other rounds seemed strong enough to hold the Pharisee, but
when he reached that round it gave way. He was far from
being an innocent man. Every human scheme breaks down at
this point. " All have sinned and come short of the glory of
God. Rom. iii. 23.
The next round is justice. Of course he could not reach that,
for the round below was broken, and his upward course was
arrested. All this suggests one of the most striking utterances
of the Saviour, " He that climbeth up som : other way, the same
is a thief and a robber." John x. 1.
Now look at the other ladder, which represents the course
Mursued by the Publican. You see the same number of rounds,
and each one has a proper title. Name them. You see no broken
rounds in this ladder. Each one is solid and strong. The
Pharisee failed, but the Publican did not. Will you follow the
Publican? He went down to his house justified. Be humble
and prayerful, and ever trust in God. "The devil told St. Mar-
carius, " I can surpass thee in watching, fasting, and many other
things ; but humility conquers and disarms me." — Poster.
THE PATH TO ETERNAL LIFE.
1. Is a straight path Prov. iv. 25-27; Heb. xii. 13.
2. Is a narrow path Matt. vii. 13, 14.
3. Is an upward path Prov. xv. 24 ; Isa. xl. 31.
4. Is an old path Jer. vi. 16.
5. IB a pleasant path Prov. iii. 17.
6. Is a light path Prov. iv. IB.
7 Which leads to a glorious city Ps. cvii. 7.
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THE YOKE OF CHRIST— MATT. XT. 30,
COME ONTO ME ALLYETHAT LABOR. AND AR.E
MY BURDEN
Is LIGHT
Haying drawn the text upon the blackboard or slate, as ex
plained above, call special attention to the fact that the yoke
is intended for use.
It never is regarded merely as an ornament, but is designed
for service. It may be very strong, and quite perfect in every
respect ; but unless it is used it will be almost worthless.
The yoke of Christ's teaching and example will be serviceable
to us if we use it. He says to us: " Take my yoke upon you."
Did a yoke ever place itself upon the neck of the oxen ?
No, it had to be put there by somebody. So, when you wear
the yoke of Christ, it must be taken upon you. Remember,
children, the Saviour asks you to take it ; He does not try to
force it upon you. Yokes sometimes seein heavy, because of the
burdens that are attached to them.. But Christ tells us that His
joke is easy, and His burden is light. Animals that bear the
yoke have no rest until the yoke is removed. But the Christian
kas rest, even while he bears the yoke of Chrigt. Will you try
'i children ?
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Mr. Moody tells ua that " the seryice of Christ is the only true
liberty." The best time to bear the yoke is in youth.
It is a yoke of restraint. Learn self-control now. It is a yoke
of service. Learn to render service now. It is a yoke of sacrifice.
Learn to practise self-denial now.
The prophet tells us that " it is good for a man that he beat
the yoke in his youth." Lam. iii. 27.
41 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth."
"COMES" OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Come into the Ark Gen. vii. 1.
Come thou.with us Numbers x. 29.
Come, let us reason together Isa. i. 18.
Come, return Isa. xxi. 12.
Come, my people, enter into thy chambers Isa. xxvi. 20.
Come ye to the waters Isa. Iv. 1.
Come unto me Isa. Iv. 3.
"COMES" OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
Come unto me all ye that labor Matt. xi. 28.
Come, ye blessed Matt. xxv. 34
Come apart and rest. Mark. vi. 31.
Come down Luke xix. 5
Come and see John i. 39.
Come unto me and drink John vii. 37.
Come forth John xi. 43.
Come and dine John xxi. 1 2.
I will come again John xiv. 3.
Come over and help us Acts xvi. 9.
Come out and be ye separate 2 Cor. vi. 1 7.
Come boldly unto the throne of grace Heb. iv. 16.
Come out of her, my people Rev. xviii. 4.
Come, the Spirit and the Bride say . .Rev. xxii. 17,
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THE CHRISTIAN'S CROWN.
OF Li FE
SHALL IT BE MINE?
We have here an object, at once beautiful and immensely
valuable. It is a crown — the crown of life. In Rev. ii. 10, we
read, " Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a
crown of life. Crowns are worn by earthly sovereigns to de
note their royal character, official dignity, and dominion. Oi>
state occasions, crowns, sparkling with courtly splendor, deck
the brows of princes, kings, and queens. The Christian has the
promise of a crown. He is now a king in his minority. " There
is laid up for me a crown of righteousness," is his triumphant
utterance. 2 Tim. iv. 8. It is waiting for him in the " crown-
chamber" above.
This crown will never fade away. The laurel wreath that
rests upon the victor's brow withers, and he soon casts it aside
as worthless. The brightest diadem of earth soon loses its
lustre. But this crown always remains untarnished. " Ye shall
receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." 1 Pet. v. 4.
Try to win this crown. The worldling's crown if "corrupt-
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ible," the Christian's "incorruptible." 1 Cor. ix. 25. This
crown is invested with great value.
Many things in this world are prized because they are rari
and costly. "The Queen of England wears a crown of gold,
filled with diamonds and precious stones, worth $20,000,000."
One of the Queen's crown jewels alone is valued at $1,500,-
000. But here is a crown surpassing the value of all the crowns
of earth combined. It outshines them, outweighs them, outlasU
them.
Remember that the crown is to Jollow the cross. One has
said, " After the cross cometh the crown." Bear the cross, if
you would wear the crown. " Forty brave soldiers of tho
Thundering Legion were called to adjure Christ or die. One of
them said, ' Let us forty ask God to send us to our crowns to
gether/ " — Foster. They laid down forty crosses and took up
forty crowns. A dying saint caught a glimpse of the crown-
chamber, and shouted, " Crowns ! crowns ! crowns of glory
shall adorn this head of mine ere long." Ask the question
earnestly, "Shall the crown be mine?" "Hold fast, that
which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." Rev. iii. 11.
" The crown that worldlings covet,
Is not the crown for me ;
Its beauty fades as quickly
As sunshine on the sea."
"So run that ye may obtain." 1 Cor. ix. 24.
GOD'S WAY AND OURS CONTRASTED.
Pleasantness and peace.. Pro v.
iii. 17.
Strength Prov. x. 29.
Good and upright.. Ps. xxv. 8.
Restful Jere. vi. 16.
Righteousness and life.. .Prov.
xii. 28.
Folly Ps. xlix. 13.
Wasting and destruction. . .Isa
lix. 7
Upside down Ps. cxlvi. 9.
Hard or weary.. .Prov. xiii. 15.
Death.. . .Prov. xiv. 12.
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THE FULL SURRENDER.
GIVE
OUR
JESUS
We have here the picture of a hand. It is open, thus showing
that nothing is kept within its grasp, nor even concealed from
sight. Some persons boast that they never " Show their hand» "
in what they do. They love to appear shrewd and sly. But
Jesus wants boys and girls to show their hands in His service.
This open hand and the motto, and also the letters you see
written upon the fingers, are intended to show that all we have
should be given to the Saviour. It is said that, on the occasion
of a missionary collection, a young man was so anxious to serve
the Saviour that he wrote upon a card the single word " My
self," and dropped it into the basket. What a grand sentiment !
Myself for Jesus. Nothing kept back — all given to Christ.
Children, open your hearts and give all the sympathy and love
that throbs in them to the Saviour. Hear His voice, saying to
you each : " Son, give me thy heart." Give it to Him entirely.
Do not think that He will be pleased with just a little place in your
heart, for He wants it all, and will have no rival. " The Roman
soldiery chose Valentinian to be their emperor ; afterwards they
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261
consulted how they might join a partner with him in the throne.
On hearing this, the emperor replied, that, although it had been
in their power to give him the empire, it was no longer in their
power to gire him a colleague." — Biblical Museum.
He wanted the whole empire under his rule. So Jesus wants
tike whole empire of the soul.
Children, go with open hands to Jesus, and keep nothing back.
Can you tell me who tried to " keep back part of the price," and
received a terrible punishment for the crime ? Yes, Ananias and
Bapphira. How dreadful their doom ! Keep back nothing that
the Lord claims. Let your brains think for Christ. Let your
hearts beat with His love ; let your eyes be fixed upon Him ; let
your hands bear His cross ; let your feet walk in the " straight
and narrow way." All your hearts for Jesus, now and always.
TEMPERANCE.
Bible proofs that strong drink leads to —
Shame Example of Noah Gen. ix. 21.
Confusion " " Lot Gen. xix. 33.
Folly " " Ahasuerus Esther i. 10, 11.
Defeat " " Benhadad 1 Kings xx. 16-20.
Poverty Warnings of Solomon Prov. xxiii. 21.
Trouble " " " Prov. xxiii. 29, 30.
Sacrilege Example of Belshazzar Dan. v. 1-5.
Eternal rejection of God 1 Cor. vi. 10.
Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is de
ceived thereby is not
wise. — Prov. xx. 1.
Drink waters out of
thine own cistern and
running waters out of
thine own well. —
Prev. y. 15,
They that
tarry long: «t
the wine
Babbling,
Redness of
Eyes
Wounds
Sorrow,
Wo«.—
Fror. xxiii. 29.
CURIOSITIES Off THE BIBLE.
THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
The cross here represented is surmounted with a crown, and
there are written upon it four letters of the alphabet. These
letters are intended to denote knowledge, belief, love, and
obedience. You also see two arrows pointing towards a central
letter X, and this letter is used to denote the word Christ.
These letters suggest that we are to know, believe, love, and
obey Christ. The arrow pointing towards the central letter in
dicates that Christ is the centre of attraction. "Jesus only."
Matt. xvii. 8. At the foot of the cross you read : " God forbid
that I should glory, save in the cross." Gal. vi. 14.
The literal cross was a gibbet made of two pieces of wood,
crossing each other. The vilest criminals were put to death
upon the cross. Hence it became a badge of shame. But
Paul accepted it as though it were the highest badge of honor,
and gloried in it.
We glory in the cross, because it is the symbol of Christianity.
We see the zealous Jew bearing a yoke as the symbol of his
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faith, a heavy, burdensome yoke of rites and ceremonies ; but
the Christian finds his symbol of faith in the cross. " By the
cross, then, we mean that which embodies the great doctrines of
the Gospel, and presents them in all their clearness and force to
the mind. Here the whole Deity is known. No wonder Paul
glories in it. We glory in the cross, because it is an independ
ent moral force. There is only one cross, and it stands alone.
It does its own work and will win its way to universal triumph.
"I would say to the insidious skeptic : Sir, Christianity asks no
permission to live from either you or me — she draws her life
from a higher source." — Bishop Clark.
Constantine looks up into the beautiful heavens at noon, and
beholds, written upon a cross of wondrous beauty, the words,
:' In this sign conquer." Christianity will conquer by the cross
— the cross alone. " There is none other name given under
heaven among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts iv. 12.
Take the cross and glory in it. " The old crusaders used to
wear a cross upon their shoulders. This was their badge of
service." — Foster. Jesus says, "If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
Matt. xvi. 24. Take the cross and let it elevate the soul. A
heathen ruler, who had heard the story of the cross, was dying.
3e said to his attendants, " Make a cross, and lay me upon it."
They did so, and as he lay there dying, he laid hold on the
blood of Christ, and said, " It lifts me up; it lifts me ; it lifts
me ; it lifts me." — Bible Museum. So may it lift us all into
light and life.
John Newton, in commenting upon Paul's statement to the
Corinthians concerning himself (1 Cor. xv. 10), says : "I am not
what I ought to be ; I am not what I wish to be ; I am not what
I hope to be. Yet though I am not what I ought to be, nor what
I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, / am not what I once toas,
and * by the grace of God I am what I am.'" How much of
truth, thought, and experience in these few words I
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CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE TWO PATHS. PROV. iv. td-/9
/PURITY
^OBEDIENCE
THE DAWN OF LIFE
Commencing with the dawn of our lives, the beginning of our
knowledge of right and wrong, we choose our own path in
which we walk in this life. Two paths before each of us. The
sin in our hearts will lead us in the path of disobedience, which
through all its wanderings will lead at last to death and punish
ment.
Trace the steps in this " way of the wicked," writing them
upon the board as in the diagram, enlarging and illustrating.
The very first step in the " path of the just " is love.
Trace the progressive steps, and refer to the passages of Scrip
ture indicating them. The end of the two ways. Practical am
personal enforcement of the lesson : in which path am If
Give familiar illustration of losing the way and taking the
wrong path. In order to reach our home we must get in the
right way. Our heavenly home. But one right way — the " path
of wisdom." Not to love God and keep His law is wicked and
foolish. The path of wisdom leads to heaven. The path of
folly takes us farther and farther from God. Need of getting
into the right path, in youth. — J. B. PMpps.
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Concert Exercise.
WANTED FOR THE LORD'S SERVICE.
1. Men like Daniel, who dare to do right Dan. vi. 10-16.
2. Men like Shadrach, ready to suffer. Ex. xx. 4, 5 ; Dan. iii. 4-7.
3. Men in authority, with Nehemiah's faith Neh. xiii. 4-9.
4. Men like Isaiah, full of eloquence and fervor. .Isa. Iv. 1-13.
5. Men of courage like Joshua. . .Num. xiv. 6-9 ; Josh. vi. 16.
6. Men like Elijah, bold to proclaim the trutli . . 1 Kings xvii. 1.
7. Men like Paul, taught of the Spirit 1 Cor. xii. 3.
8. Men like Timothy, zealous for the Lord. . .2 Cor. xvi. 10.
9. Men like theBereans, gifted with wisdom. .Acts xvii. 10, 12.
10. Young men, like Jabez, who fear God 1 Chron. iv. 10.
11. Young women, like gracious Ruth Ruth i. 16, 17.
12. Matrons, like the pious Shunamite 2 Kings iv. 8, 13.
13. Fathers, like Abraham Gen. xxil. ; Prov. x. 21.
14. Brethren, like Aaron and Hur Ex. xvii. 9-12.
15. Sisters, who, like Mary, sit at Jesus' feet Luke x. 38, 39.
16. Heads of families, like Caleb Acts x. 2 ; Num. xiv. 24.
17. Wives, models in their lives Prov. xxxi. 10-31.
18. Mothers, like Hannah, consecrating their children. . .1 Sam.
i. 10.
19. Maidens, taught of God. .2 Kings v. 1-4, 15; Prov. xv. 23.
20. Servants of Christ, Ufce Barnabas . Acts xi. 22-26 ; Acts ix. 27.
SOWING AND REAPING— GAL. vi. 7.
SEED. HABVEST
Idleness Poverty.
Unkindness Unkindness.
Tippling , Drunkard's grave.
Profanity God's curse.
Sinful life Wretched death.
Rejection of Jesus T , . Eternal death.
arc you sowing ?
¥, T. B,
20(5 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE FAMILY IN THE ARK,
A FAMILY SAVED!
THROUGH!
FAITH.
COME THOU INTO THE ARK."
— NOW —
We have here a picture of the ark. How long was Noah oc
cupied in building it ? One hundred and twenty years. How
large was it ? " If you should put it into one story and one
floor, it would have been about sixteen feet high, two hundred
and forty feet wide, and one thousand five hundred feet long." —
Moody. God told Noah how large it must be. Gen. vi. 15.
When God said to Noah, " Come thou and all thy house into
the ark," the whole family marched in, and were safe while the
deluge swept over the earth. That family consisted of eight
persons— Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives.
You see the word Christ written upon the ark in the picture.
That shows that Jesus is the soul's ark. In him we find safety,
happiness, and life eternal. God wanted the whole family of
Noah saved. So to-day Jesus wants to get our families into the
ark of salvation. How blessed i* is for a whole family to be
»aved. How sad Noah w^uld have felt, had any of his house
hold been left out of the ark. It is a great joy to have some of
tli? family in the ark, but we want them qll saved. Some of
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you have parents in the ark, and they want you to join them.
Someone has said, " Noah went in first and his children followed
him." Follow your friends into the ark.
How possible it is for a whole family to be saved. There was
room in the ark for Noah's family, and there is room in the lov
ing heart of Jesus for us all. He takes the children of the
family to His heart, and tells us that " Of such is the kingdom ot
heaven." Matt. xix. 14.
He also waits to welcome the older members of the home-cir
cle. All may come. " Whosoever will, let him take the water
of life freely." Rev. xxii. 17.
As the ark carried Noah to a happy destination, so will Christ,
the spiritual ark, convey us home to heaven at last. Some are
there now. They await us. A dying child, after exhorting her
friends to meet her in heaven, said, "I'll be watching for you."
Be anxious to get into the ark, every one of you. A little girl
stood on the deck of a sinking vessel, and, when the life-boat
came near, she sprang into the sea, crying, " Save me next ! save
me next." Hasten to the ark. Cry out, save me — save me now.
THE SIX ONE THINGS.
Sinner— One thing thou lackest Matt. xix. 20, 21.
Blind man — One thing I know John ix. 25.
Mary — Hath the one thing needful Luke x. 42.
Christ— One is your Master Matt, xxiii. 10.
Paul— One thing I do Phil. iii. 13.
Joshua — Not one thing has failed Josh, xxiii. 14.
D. L. MOODY.
WHAT THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER MUST DO.
1. Must fight Tim. vi. 12.
2. Must obey his commander Luke vii. 8 ; Acts xxvii. 23.
3. Must be armed for war Eph. vi. 11-18 ; Ps. xviii. 34, 35.
4. Must never desert, but be ready to die in the service.
Heb. xii. 4 ; 2 Tim. iv. 6, 7.
5. Must not engage in other service. . .2 Tim. ii. 4 ; Matt. vi. 24.
5. Result — victory and re ward. Rom. viii. 36; 2 Tim. iv. 8; iii. 3.
GURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
LOVE NOT THE WORLD.
IFAN/ MAN LOVE
The
LOVE not t
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER
is not in Him.
The picture of the world, here given, is designed to illustrate
the meaning of the passage of Scripture written on the board,
found in 1 John ii. 15. " If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him." This does not mean that we are
not to love the material world : for its hills and plains, and
mountains, and its rippling brooks and rolling oceans, its plants
and trees and flowers, all are very beautiful, and challenge our
love.
But we are not to love the lad spirit, nor follow the unchris
tian practice of the world. Paul speaks of it as " this present
evil world." Gal. i. 4. Again, in Romans xii, 2, he admonishes
his brethren against being " conformed to this world" In the
picture we have a reference to some of the things we are not to
love. Its teachings, honors, etc. The man who loves these
cannot have the love of the Father in him. There is not room
enough for God and the world in any one heart. One or the
other must be crowded out. "Ye cannot serve God and Mam
mon." Matt, vi. 24. Dr. JTranJclip once gave an apple to a
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very little child. The child could scarcely hold it in his hand ;
he then gave another, which occupied the other hand. Then
choosing another, remarkable for its size and beauty, he pre
sented that also. The child, after many ineffectual attempts to
hold the three, dropped the last on the floor, and burst into
tears. "See there," said Franklin, "there is a little man with
more happiness than he can enjoy." If the world fills our hearts
and hands, there will be no room for the Master. Let us be wise
and give our love to the Father. Demas was charged with the
crime of forsaking Paul, and the reason assigned was that he
"loved this present world." 2 Tim. iv. 10. How many have
given up their hope of heaven for the pleasures and follies of a
sinful world. How disappointed they will be, when they find
how insufficient and unsatisfactory the world is to the soul. It
will allure you to its embrace, and promise you much pleasure ;
but remember that the " pleasures of sin " are but " for a sea
son." Heb. xi. 25. " In St. Mark's Church, Venice, will be
found the tomb of Duke Sebastian Foscarinus. Upon it are in
scribed these words : ' Hear, O ye Venetians ! and I will tell
you which is the best thing in the world ; it is to contemn and
despise riches.' " — Foster.
WHAT IT IS TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
In faith, a believer in Christ ». . .Mark xvi. 16.
In knowledge, a disciple John viii. 31.
In character, a saint Rom. i. 7
In influence, a light Matt. v. 14
In conflict, a soldier 2 Tim. ii. 3.
In communion, a friend John xv. 15.
In progress, a pilgrim Heb. xi. 13.
In relationship, a child Rom. viii. 16.
In expectation, an heir Rom. viii. 17.
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STEPS IN SIK 2 KINGS v. 20-27
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tieg\n$&ma\\,\<^r^$2
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Erin g$ Pu n ishment.
Draw a picture of steps, twelve in number, with the uppci uua
lower pairs divided. The six upper steps are Gehazfs steps in
sin ; the six lower, the results to which they lead. He took the
first six voluntarily, the other six necessarily.
Place in order the six sins of Gehazi; begin with the Covetous
Thought, ending with Lying.
"Perverted Power" refers to the fact that he misused the
spiritual gifts of Elisha for his own personal gain.
When a sinner begins, he knows not where he shall end. Hav
ing taken these steps, he was compelled to receive six conse
quences. Guilt, Discovery, etc. " Lost Privileges ; " but foi-
this sin he might have been Elisha's successor in the prophetic
office.
" Tainted Blood ;" the leprosy extending to his seed after him.
On the margin (or other side of the board) write the four
lessons as taught by this event, as per diagram. — Rev, J.
lurt.
ILLUSTRATIONS, <*•<-. 2T1
Concert Kxercise.
THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
Atones for the soul Lev. xvii. 11.
Brings us into the covenant of grace Matt. xxvi. 28.
Cleanses us from all sin 1 John i. 7.
Delivers God's people from judgment Ex. xii. 13
Everlasting in its value Heb. xiii. 20.
Furnishes the only ground of peace with God Col. i. 20.
Gives us access into His presence Heb. x. 19-21.
Has already obtained for us redemption Eph. i. 7.
Imparts eternal life John vi. 54.
Justifies us in the sight of God Rom. v. 9.
Keeps us in the holy of holies Heb. ix. 22-26.
Links us to God's electing purpose 1 Peter i. 2.
Makes us nigh to Him Eph. ii. 13.
Nev«r needs to be offered again Heb. ix. 12.
Overcomes the power of Satan Rev. xii. 11.
Purchases us Acts xx. 28
Quenches the righteous wrath of God Rom. iii. 25.
Redeems us from our state of ruin 1 Peter i. 18, 19.
Speaks to God and to us of salvation Heb. xii. 24.
Tunes the voices of the saints in holy song Rev. v. 9.
Unites us in Christian communion 1 Cor. x. 16.
Victorious over tribulation Rev. vii. 14.
Washes us from every stain Rev. i. 6.
X-ian's hope, is the 1 Tim. i. 1.
Yields the price that bought the church Acts xx. 28.
Zealous of good works, makes us Titus ii. 14
THE PRECIOUS PROMISES.
I will help thee Isa. xii. 10.
I will hold thee Isa. xlii. 6.
I will hear thee Isa. Ixv. 24.
I will heal thee . . . .Isa. Ivii. 17.
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THE DOOR OF THE HEART— REV. m. 20.
JESUS STANDS AT THE
SHALL I
Jesus speaks of the soul as though it were a house into which
He would like to enter, and abide as a guest He calls it " The
Door." His language is, " Behold, I stand at the door and
knock." Your heart is the door. Did you ever think that the
Saviour stands there waiting for you to open the door, BO that
Fie may come in and abide there ? When some friend comes
and knocks at the door of your house, you or some one quickly
hastens to open the door, and let that friend come in. You do
not keep your friend standing and waiting very long, if you
can help it, but you throw open the door just as soon as pos^
sible. How do you treat the Saviour who comes and asks you
to let Him come in ?
How would your friends feel if they knew you were listening
to their knocking, and yet would not let them come in ? They
would be grieved, and very likely would go away in great sor
row and anger. But do you not fear that the Saviour will be
come weary, and turn away and leave you all alone in your sina
and sorrows? Sometimes you may not desire to have a person
enter your house ; but surely you would not feel like refusing to
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admit such a guest as the Saviour. It will make but little dif
ference to you, sometimes, whether you open the door or not,
when some persons are knocking, for you will be just as happy
without their presence ; but not so in this case.
It will make a great difference whether you open the door
or keep it closed against the Saviour.
Open it, and He will come in, and help you and comfort you,
and save you at last in His heavenly kingdom.
When the Prince of Wales came to this country, what a wel
come he received ; there wasn't anything too good for him.
When the Prince of Russia came to this country, I saw him as
he was escorted up Broadway, and cheer upon cheer went up
all the way. — Moody.
But Jesus is the Prince of Life Eternal. Give Him a glad
welcome.
WHAT WE DO BY FAITH.
We live Gal- "• 20-
We stand 2 Cor. i. 24.
We walk 2 Cor. v. 7.
We fight 1 Tim. vi. 12.
We overcome 1 Joun v- 4-
We die R°m- vi- n-
We sit with Him Rev. iii. 21.
NEW THINGS OF THE BIBLE.
New birth (conversion) John iii. 3.
New nature (Christian life) 2 Cor. v. 17 ; 2 Peter i. 4.
New heart (affections changed) Ezekiel xi. 19.
New friends (Christians) John xv. 15 ; Heb. xii. 22-24.
New name (Sons of God).l John iii. 1 ; Rev. ii. 17; Rev. iii. 12.
New food (Heavenly Manna) John vi. 48-51 ; Rev. ii. 17.
New tongue (To tell the story) Mark xvi. 17 ; Acts ii. 4.
New song (Redemption) Rev. v. 9.
New home (Mansions above) Rev. xii. 1-4.
All things new (in Christ) 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Rev. xxi. 5.
274 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
GOD'S PROMISE IN THE RAINBOW.
When Noah left the ark, God gave him a promise not to de
stroy the race again with a flood. As a " token " of this cove
nant, He " set His bow in the cloud." Gen. ix. 13. Every time
Noah saw the beautiful bow spanning the heavens he knew that
God was keeping the promise, and he felt happy and secure.
The bow was silent, and yet it seemed to say, " God is faithful to
His promise.'1
Let us turn our attention to some features of the rainbow.
And, first, the rainbow is always associated with a storm. We
do not see it when the noon-day sun is shining, but we must
wait till the clouds gather and the rain-drops fall. Then the
bow appears and delights our eyes. So in the storms of life, we
see the beauty of God's promise shining through the gloom.
The bow of His promise spans many a dark cloud of sorrow.
Again, the rainbow appears very often.
We suppose Noah saw it a great many times. Even some
of our younger children have seen it quite often. God is never
at a loss for a rainbow. He can make one at any time, and it
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would seem as though He had already made a great many. 80
many rainbows are so many renewals of His promise. And He
has many promises for us all in the Bible. Some one has it that
there are more than thirty thousand distinct promises in the
Word of God. Think of it — thirty thousand lows of promise in
the Bible. Take this one, children, as your own : " Those that
seek me early shall find me." Prov. viii. 17.
The rainbow has all its original beauty unimpaired. It is jnst
as brilliant to-day as when it first spanned the heavens. It has
not changed its form, nor lost any of its bright colors. It is
still God's token, unchanged and unchangeable. Some one has
termed it " an old thing, invested with a new meaning." So
His promises are firm and true. " All the promises of God in
him are yea, and in him Amen.'1'1 2 Cor. i. 20. "An old man
once told me that he had marked at all the promises of God the
letters * P. T.'— which stood for * Proved and Tried.' None of
the promises of God ever will or can fail." — Moody.
Well may it be said, " The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise." 2 Pet. iii. 9. What promise is written upon the bow
in the picture ? Will you try to obtain that rest ?
THE APOSTLES' CREED.
I believe in God the Father Jer. xxxii. 17.
In Jesus the Son of God 1 John iv. 9.
In His human birth Rom. i. 3.
In His sufferings under Pilate John xix. 1.
In His crucifixion Luke xxiii. 33.
In His death John xix. 30.
In His burial Matt, xxvii. 59, 60.
In His resurrection Matt, xxviii. 5, 6.
In His ascension Mark xvi. 19.
w. F. c.
276
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE ASCENDING LORD.
From Heaven He came John iii. 13 ; 1 Cor. xv. 47-
Of " " spake Matt. v. 12.
To
To
To
In
In
From
pointed Matt. iv. 17 ; John xvii. 24.
ascended Heb. x. 12; Acts ii. 33.
invites us Matt. vi. 19-21 ; Rev. iii. 21.
intercedes for us ... Rom. viii. 34 ; Heb. vii. 25.
prepares a place for us John xiv. 2
will come again Lesson.
How to
witness for
JESUS.
READY WHEN HE COMES!
Seed Thought: "Lamps trimmed and burning."
Some will be
.
Glad ........................ 1 Thess. n. 19.
How Will I Bef
The teacher's unconscious influence, like " bread cast upon the
waters to return after many days," is beautifully set forth in the
above exercise, as put upon the blackboard by Richard P. Clark,
teacher of the Young Ladies' Bible Class, Puritan Church, Brook
lyn, N. Y. The lesson for the day — Easter Sunday — was, the
Resurrection, outlined as above, with comments full of tenderness
and pathos, contrasting the glories and miseries of that eventful
day, with the direct appeal, Is your lamp trimmed and burning?
The truths of the lesson left their convicting and converting in
fluence upon at least one member of the class, who was taken
sick during the week and died in the glorious triumphs of a
risen Saviour. Before her death she sent word to her teacher
thanking him for the faithful presentation of that lesson, and
assuring him that it, through him, had been instrumental in
bringing peace and comfort to her heart, and that her lamp
was trimmed and burning.
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277
Mr. Clark was then sick : that Easter Sunday was his last
appearance before the class, his last diagram upon the black
board, the last lesson he taught. He died with the blessed satis
faction of knowing that his Sabbath-school efforts had not been
in vain, and passed to his reward.
" He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gather 6th fruit unto life
eternal, that loth lie that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice to
gether." John iv. 36.
May this lesson, so eminently suggestive, prove an incentive
to Sunday-school workers everywhere.
WHAT JESUS SAYS.
"Behold I stand at the
door and knock. If any
man hear my voice and
open the door, I will come
in to him and sup with him
and he with ME. Rev. iii.
20; John xiv. 20."
This is a representation
of what Christ is actually
doing at the door of every
human heart. We cannot
doubt it, for He Himself
declares it to be a fact.
Besides this we all feel at
times that His hand does gently touch our hearts. How near He
comes. "At the door." How patient He is. We have refused
to open the door, and yet He lingers and waits. How earnest He
is. He does not stand in silence, but " knocks," pleads, begs for
admission. He comes to our hearts. Open now. Receive this
heavenly guest, and the " feast shall be everlasting love."
278 CURIOSITIES OF THE MBLE.
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TRIUMPHS OF THE CROSS.
The cross upon which the crucified Redeemer suffered and
died was placed on Golgotha, or Calvary, the place of a skull,
so named from the sufferings and tortures of the wretched
malefactors who were there crucified.
The gospel, with its plan of salvation, is based on human de
pravity. When this lost and ruined state is fully recognized
in us and understood by us, then we can rightly appreciate the
gospel message that comes to us through the cross, ever pointing
heavenward to the Paradise of Saints ; even to the throne of God;
Between earth and Paradise, Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the
world, hung in agonies unutterable, and by His death He tri
umphed over sin, suffering, sorrow, and even death.
JACOB'S LADDER. GEN. xxvin. 10-23.
" This is none other but the house of God ; this is the gate of
heaven." Thus said Jacob as he awoke from his dream on the
stony pillow at Luz (afterward called Bethel). The gate of
heaven is nearer to each of us than we think. It is good to re
member that God is always near ; and this thought should be
our guard against yielding to temptation and sin. Our loneli
ness and times of trial are often the occasions when God mani
fests Himself nearer and dearer to us, and ^'ives us clearer and
more precious views of His purposes concerning us. Jacob's
pillow became a pillow of remembrance— a memorial ; his lonely
resting-place upon the plain, a Bethel — a House of God. Do
we set up pillars of remembrance of His mercies to us ? Jacob's
ladder is emblematic of the way of salvation, which is like a
ladder "set up on earth," its top reaching to heaven. Ou-r
good works, (sincerity, and acts are like rounds or steps by which
we hope to reach the heavenly home; these alone will not save
us. Our only hope is through Christ. The rounds of a ladder
are useless without sides. Let the sides represent Christ. If
our desires, intentions, and acts are sanctified by resting in and
through Christ, then we have that hope which is as an anchor to
tli'1 foul, sure and steadfast. Without Christ all will be u/?H< -s§.
280
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE WORLD FOR JESUS.
More than eighteen hundred years ago, Jesus said to His Apos
tles : " Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature." He thus taught that His gospel is to be the heritage
of the whole world. It is a gospel for the entire race, and is to
be proclaimed everywhere. The picture shows the effect of the
gospel where it has been preached. It has carried light to the
people, and will yet banish darkness from the pagan world. It
is to spread from clime to clime in its conquering sweep, until
11 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run."
The day will surely come when the " earth shall befiUed with
the knowledge of God as the waters cover the great deep."
The field is vast, the work is great, and the difficulties/0r7?mZ-
dble, but victory is assured. " Ask of me and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession." Ps. ii. 8.
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" The Duke of Wellington once met a young clergyman, who,
being aware of his former residence in the East, and of his
familiarity with the ignorance and obstinacy of the Hindoos in
support of their false religion, proposed the following question :
" Does not your grace think it almost useless and extravagant to
preach the gospel to the Hindoos?" The Duke immediately
replied: "Look, sir, to your marching orders. 'Preach the
gospel to every creature.' " — Foster. [tory.
Obedience to these " marching orders" will lead to final vie-
But this conquest will be achieved only by the prayers, sacri
fices, and toil of God's people. The old and the young are to
join in the work. Some may become missionaries. Some may
be called to teach and others to preach the word. Some may ob
tain wealth, and that is to be consecrated to God. "The church
must fling down her gold at the feet of Jesus." — Dr. Eddy.
" God loveth a cheerful giver." The missionary cause waits for
the gifts of the people. There is room here for all workers.
There is a demand for all talents. Be ready to take your place
when the call comes. If God asks your best personal service,
give it. If He asks your time, talent, or wealth, lay it all upon
the altar in the Master's name. He is saying to you, " Go." Go
then, in some way, and minister to the spiritual wants of the
world. H- H- B-
HE LEADETH US.
To living fountains of water Rev. vii. 17.
Beside still waters Ps. xiiii. 2.
In green pastures PS- xxiii. 2.
Through the depths Ps. cvi. 9.
Safely Ps. Ixxviii. 53.
Through the wilderness Ps. cxxxvi. 16.
Through the deep Isa. Ixiii. 13,
In the right way Gen. xxiv. 48 ; Ps. cvii. 7.
In a plain path Ps. xxvii. H.
To the rock that is higher Ps. Ixi. 2.
in^ in the way, the Lord led me Gen. xxiv. 27.
282 CURIOSITIES OF THE
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CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
Christ teaches us that he is represented in the moral world by
His people, who are to let their " light shine before men." Matt.
v. 16. This is your privilege, even though you are so young.
The light often shines through young hearts just as clearly as it
does from aged saints. You are to banish darkness from your
homes and from the social circles in which you move. Keep
the light shining in your own heart. Keep it shining on the
pathway of others.
" Let the lower lights be burning !
Send a gleam across the wave !
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save."
P. P. BLISS.
THE CROSS.
The chief idea conveyed by this illustration is that the
Christian reaches heaven by the way of the cross. The word
Christ stands out very prominently on this ladder, indicating
that Christ is the source of its strength ; while above it we have
a glimpse of the sun, showing that it leads to a fair and sunny
land. On the rounds of this ladder we see the words of Peter
written in his 2d Epistle, 1st chapter, 5th and 6th verses. The
order, however, seems to be reversed. Peter saye: "Add to
your faith, virtue," etc., and the most natural thought would be
that "faith" should be at the lower round, and all the other
virtues above it ; and then ascending the ladder, we might " add "
all other essential graces. But we see the wisdom of this or
der when we remember that the grandest exhibitions of charity
are found in the lower realm of human life. He who is at the
top of the ladder needs no charity for the angels nor the saints
in light, but he does need it for those who are below him. Exer
cise charity. Let faith lift you up to Christ, and then you will
have His spirit, and you will be true to yourselves and true to
others.
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
CHRIST OUR GUIDING STAR.
c.
YESTERDAY
TO DAY'
Ma.
Christ, the hope of the world, may be symbolized by a star,
leading men to a better life, and pointing them heavenward.
The magis and shepherds found Christ through the light and
guidance of the star of Bethlehem. Christ is revealed in all the
Scriptures, both Old and New Testament, as the Saviour for
All, and Forever. The Bible has been, and is, such a star to
day, and by its light all men may be led to Christ which taketh
away the sin of the world.
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In 2 Pek i. 19 reference is made to the Word as a light shin
ing in a dark place, and to Christ as a day Star.
The points of the star, the lights and shadows composing it,
all point to or centre in Christ.
In the diagram the various portions of the Bible that make
up the grand luminary are indicated as follows: P. for Penta
teuch ; H. for Historical Books of the O. T. ; Po. for Poetic
Books ; L. Pr. for five Longer Prophets ; S. Pr. for Shorter
Prophets ; G. for Gospel ; A. for Acts ; E. for Epistles, and R.
for Revelation. The whole Bible shining as one star, with the
pre-eminent purpose of bringing all men to a saving knowledge
of the truth as it is in Jesus ; and to illustrate the universal
reign of Christ and His salvation for the whole human family,
we represent upon the outer points of the star the far-off nations
or races of the world. C. for Caucasian, or white; A. for
American or Indian ; E. for Ethiopian or Negro ; Ma. for Ma
lay ; Mo. for Mongolian. All of which, through the enlight
ening and converting influence of the gospel, are to be brought
to know Christ as the Lord of lords and King of kings.
• Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run ;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till moons shall wax and wane no more."
"COMES" OF CHRIST.
1. Come unto me Matt. xi. 28.
2. Come, ye blessed ' Matt xxv. 34.
3. Come apart and rest Mark vi. 31.
4. Come clown Luke xix. 5.
5. Come forth John xi. 43.
6. Come and dine John xxi. 12.
7. Come and see John i. 39.
8. I will come again John xiv. 3.
286
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
LESSONS FROM THE LION.
THE
RIGHTEOUS A
AMONC
The lion is the king of the forest, and from this proud, noble
monarch of the animal kingdom we may learn some useful les
sons.
The lion is destructive when enraged. A single stroke of his
paw lays the strongest man in the dust. Satan, in this respect,
is a being in the moral world that is compared to the lion.
He "goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may de
vour."
Beware of this lion of the soul, for he is more cruel than the
lion of the forest.
The lion is bold. His eye never quails, his form never trembles
with/mr. The " righteous " are said to be as " bold as a lion."
Will you also be " bold " in opposing the wrong, and in defend
ing the right ? Cowards are detestable. Be lion -like in cour
age. Learn to say no when necessary. " When sinners entice
thee, consent thou not." Be strong and bold.
" The wicked flee when no man pursueth ; but the righteous
are bold as a lion." Prov. xxviii. 1.
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SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES.
287
HOPE , jox
-t. v'..
I COMFORT! PEACE
We are to do this for various reasons. It would be sufficient
to say that Jesus has commanded us to do so. u Search ye the
scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life." John v.
39. No book has been searched as the Bible has, from its origin
to the present time. Foes have searched it with evil designs, but
it bears their severest criticisms. Friends have searched it with
sincere motives, and have found in it a response to all their long
ings and hopes.
How it rewards all who search it. It offers light for their
darkness, and truth for error. It kindles hope in the soul, comforts
it in sorrow, and reveals the way of salvation. Its teachings thrill
the soul with joy, and lead to the precious boon of peace, here
and hereafter. Search it, young and old. It is able to make us
" wise unto salvation.''
" All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profita-
able for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness :
" That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works.1' 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17.
288
CUIUOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
THE WINE CUP.
Behold the ingredients
of the cup !
See the serpent coiled
within the glass, wait
ing to fix his poisonous
fangs upon the unsus
pecting victim, and
thrust the deadly poison
through both body and
soul. The glass may
seem harmless, but it is
surcharged with the ele
ments of destruction. It
may glow and sparkle,
but the hiss of the ser
pent is in it. " At the
last it biteth like a ser
pent." Prov. xxiii. 32.
No wonder the Bible
comes to us saying:
" Look not thou upon
the wine." Prov. xxiii.
31 ; xx. 1.
Children, beware of
wine, and beware of "be-er
as well. It is a very popu
lar drink in America
as well as in Europe,
but it is a dangerous,
ruinous beverage. Some say it is nutritious. How false. Lie-
big shows that " one must drink twenty-three barrels of it to get
as much nutriment as there is in a five-pound loaf of bread."
Try the lread, and shun the leer. Let this be our motto, " Touch
not, taste not, handle not."
PHATER MEETING OUTLINES. 289
WHAT A PRAYER MEETING SHOULD BE.
1. Regular and punctual attendance Heb. x. 25; Ps. Ixxxiv.
1, 4; Actsii. 1, 6.
2. Bring others Num. x. 29 ; Ps. xlii. 4 ; Dan. xii. 3.
3. Come praying John xii. 21 ; John xv. 5.
4. Continue in prayer. .Phil. iv. 6; Gen. xxxii. 26; Eph. vi. 18.
5. Avoid criticism. .Ps. cxxxiii. 1 ; Rom. xii. 10 ; John xvii. 23.
6. Participate promptly and heartily.. .Col. iii. 16; Heb. iv. 16.
7. Let all exercises be brief. Eccles. v. 2 ; Matt. vi. 7.
8. Keep in mind that we speak and sing before God 2 Cor.
xii. 19; 1 Sam. xri. 7.
9. Christian testimony Ps. xl. 10; Ps. li. 15; Ps. Ixiii. 3-5 ;
Mai. iii. 16, 17; Heb. iii. 13; James v. 16.— w. F. c.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
Ye are a P-raying Eph. vi. 18.
E-arnest Jude iii.
C-onsecrated 1 Cor. i. 8.
U-nited Eph. iv. 13.
L-oving Rom. xiii. 8.
I-mmortal Ps. xxxvii. 29.
A-ctive 2 Peter i. 5.
R-ighteous PEOPLE Isa. Ix. 21.
Ye are a chosen generation ; a royal priesthood ; a holy nation ;
a peculiar PEOPLE 1 Pet. ii. 9.— j. B. A.
THE TWO MASTERS.
The work of
The D-eceives, Rev. xii. 9 But J-ustifies, Rom. iii. 26.
E-ntices, 2 Tim. ii. 26 E-levates, Matt. xxv. 23.
V-itiates, 2 Cor. iv. 4 S-anctifies, 1 Cor. vi. 11.
I-nfatuates, John xiii. 2. . . U-uites to God, Eph. ii. 14.
L-eads to hell, Matt. xxv. S aves, John iii. 17.
41; 1 John iii. 8. . s. w. M.
290 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
HOW SHALL I APPROACH THE MERCY-SEAT—
HKB. iv. 16.
B-elieving God Matt. xxi. 22.
O-beying God Heb. v. 9.
L-oving God Gal. v. 6.
D epending on God Jas. i. 17.
L-ooking to God Heb. xii. 2.
Y-ielding to God Rom. vi. 13.
J. B. A.
WHAT SHALL I DO WITH JESUS?
Prove Him Mai. iii. 10.
Prize Him Eph. i. 21.
Praise Him Ps. c.
Preach Him 2 Cor. iv. 5.
Pray to Him John xiv. 14.
j. B. A.
HOW SHALL I FIND JESUS?
If I S-incerely Phil. i. 10.
E-arnestly Heb. ii. 1.
A-ttenti vely Luke xix. 48.
R-epeatedly Phil. vi. 18.
C-arefully 1 Peter iv. 7.
H-onestly 1 Tim. ii. 1-3.
Seek TTTT1T while He may be found.
Call upon •" -1-iV-L while He is near Isa. iv. 6.
TO WHOM SHALL WE GO FOR SAFETY?
Flee to C-aptain of our salvation Heb ii. 10.
H-orn of salvation Ps. xviii. 2.
R-oot of Jesse Isa. ii. 10
I-mmanuel Isa. vii. 14.
S-hepherd of Israel Ps. Ixxx. i.
T-rue God 1 John v. 20.
w. F. c.
PRAYER MEETING OUTLINES. 291
SEVEN CONFESSIONS OF THE BIBLE.
" I have sinned "—By whom and the motive of each.
1. Pharaoh, from slavish fear Ex. ix. 27 • x. 16.
2. Balaam, for a reward Num. xxii. 34.
3. Achan, being detected of God Joshua vii. 20.
4. Saul, from cowardice 1 gam. xv. 24.
5. David, being reproved 2 Sam. xii. 13.
0. Judas, from despair Matt, xxvii. 4.
7. Prodigal Son, from an honest heart Luke xv. 18, 21.
GOD'S PROVIDENCE.
Mysterious Psalm x. 5 ; Job xi. 7-9.
Seems sometimes not to regard the right Ps. Ixxiii. 2-16 ,
But really upholds the right. .Ps. Ixxiii. 17-20 ; Ecc*. »«ii. 12, 13.
Brings good out of evil. . .Gen. 1. 20 ; Ex. xiv. 4 ; Deut. x*iii. 5.
Directs events Ezra v. 5 ; Prov. xvi. 9; Prov. «i. 1.
THE ATONING SAVIOUR.
U-NWORTHY, Acts xiii. 46.
N-EEDY, Matt. ix. 12.
G-UILTY, Rom. iii. 19.
DIE D O-LD, Ps. xxxvii. 25.
D-RUNKARD, 1 Cor. VI. 10.
FOR THE L-OST, Luke xix. 10.
Y-OUNG, Eccl. xii. 1.
C. N. P.
ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.
WE KNOW THAT
T-RIALS, 2 Cor. iv. 17.
H-ATRED OF POE8, Gen. ll. 5.
I-NFIRMITIES, Acts iii. 11.
N-ECESSITIES, Ps. xxxvii. 25.
G-RIEFS, Heb. xii. 11.
S-UFFERINGS, 2 Cor. xi. 23-28.
ILL
mogether for /^ ood to „
1 htm that love U~ O D. Rom' vm- 28'
J. B. A.
292 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
SEVEN THINGS TO HOLD FAST.
1. That which is good 1. Thess. v. 1.
2. The faithful word Titus i. 9.
3. The form of sound words 2 Tim. i. 13,
4. The confidence and rejoicing of the hope Heb. iii. 6.
5. The profession of our faith Heb. x. 23.
6. That we have, that no man take our crown Rev. iii. 11.
7. The unfaithful, hold fast and repent Rev. iii. 3.
THE SEVEN "MUSTS."
1. What MUST I do to be saved ? Acts ivi. 30.
2. Ye MUST be born again • John iii. 7.
3. No other name under heaven, whereby we MUST be saved.
Acts iv. 12.
4. So MUST the Son of man be lifted up John iii. 14.
5. As thou hast said so MUST we do Ezra x. 12.
6. Zacchseus, To-day I MUST abide at thy house Luke xix. 5.
7. For we MUST all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
2 Cor. v. 10.
THINGS TO WHICH WE SHOULD TAKE HEED.
That no man deceive us Mark xiii. 33-37 ; 1 Cor. i. 7 ; Titus
ii. 13 ; Heb. ix. 28.
What we hear Mark iv. 24 ; Prov. vi. 27 ; Isa. viii. 20 ;
Jer. xxii. 29; John xvi. 13.
How we hear 1 Sam. iii. 9, 10 ; Ps. cxix. 11 ; Heb. ii. 1.
To ourselves Luke xxi. 34 ; Phil. ii. 3 ; Mark vii. 21,
23; 1 Cor. x. 12; 1 Tim. iv. 16.
How we build. . . .1 Cor. iii. 10, 11 ; 1 Cor. x. 31 ; Matt. vii. 24.
Lest there be in any of us an evil heart of unbelief .... Heb. iii.
12; Rom. xi. 20; 1 Pet. i. 8.
To the sure word of prophecy 2 Pet. i. 19 ; 2 Tim. iv. 4 ;
Heb. x. 37 ; Rev. xxii. 20.
That we endure to the end Heb. iv. 1 ; Rev. ii. 26 ; Rrv.
iii. 21 ; 2 Tim. ii. 3.
PART II.— KEY
ANSWERS
To
BIBLE CURIOSITIES
PBBTAININO TO
Jfttst
1. Light Gen. i. S.
2. The coming of Christ Gen. iii. 15.
3. Cain. The city of Enoch Gen. iv. 17.
4. Moses Num. i. 1.
5. Mosea. Ex. xviii. 13
6. Abram Gen. xii. 1, 6.
7. Abel. Gen. iv. 4.
8. Cain Gen. iv. 9.
9. Water turned into blood Exodus vii. 20.
10. When the morning stars sang together . ..Job xxxviii. ?
11. Aaron Exodus xxviii. 1.
12. The woman Eve Gen. iii. 1; Tim. ii. 14.
13. Adam Gen. ii. 15.
14. Rebekah Gen. xxiv. 64, 65.
15. Tubal-Cain Gen. iv. 22.
16. Adam Gen. iii. £4.
17. Ear-rings, bracelets, jewels, &c Gen. xxiv. 22, 30, 53.
18. The words " Holiness to the Lord " upon Aaron's
mitre Ex. xxviii. 36 ; Ex. xxxix. 30
19. Moses Ex. xxiv. 4
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
2U. Abraham Gen. xxiii. 3, 4, 16, 1ft
21. Nimrod Gen. x. 8, 9.
22. Noah. The ark Gen. vi. 14, 22
23. Cain Gen. iv. 14.
24. Stephen Acts vii. 58.
25. Pharaoh Gen. xli. 42
26. Abraham Gen. xxii 3
27. Ishmael Gen. xvi. 11.
28 Hagar in the wilderness Gen. xxi. 16.
29. Moses (?) Ex. xxxii. 19.
30. Abel Gen. iv. 8
31. Adam Gen. v. 5
32. Song of Moses Ex. xv
33. Jacob Gen. xxxii. 9
34. Rachel Gen. xxxi. 19
35. Jewelry Ex. xxxii. 2
36. Rachel Gen. xxix. 9
37. The son of Zarephath s daughter 1 Kings xvii. 21
38. Jacob at the sfrave ot Rachel Gen. xxxv. 20
39. Maaseiah Ezra x. 18
40. Ararat Gen. viii. 4
41. Be fruitful and multiply, &c Gen. i. 28
42. The Eunuch of Ethiopia Acts viii. 27, 38
43 Abram Gen. xiv. 13.
44. Solomon's navy 1 Kings ix. 26.
45. When the men of Juaah crossed the Jordan at Gilgal
to King David 2 Sam. xix. 18.
46. By God. After the creation Gen. ii. 2, 3.
47. At Antioch by Paul and Barnabas Acts xiv. 26.
48. Abraham purchased a burying planse for Sarah at
Machpelah Gen. xxiii. 3.
49. See Job xix. 23, 24.
50. By Abraham in the purchase of land. . . . Gen. xxiii. 16.
51. Repent Matt. iv. 17.
52. On giving names to the animal creation. . . .Gen. ii. 19.
53. The defeat of the armies of Israel by the tribe of Ben-
jamin Judges xx. 26
FIRST THINGS.
W. St. Peter. By the selection of a particular passage and
the explanation thereof Acts ii. 14.
55. Daniel, appointed by King Darius over a province of
Chaldea Dan. vi. 2.
56 To Noah and his family after the Hood Gen. ix. 3.
57. When Deborah judged Israel Judges iv 1
58. The tribe of Judah Num- x; U'
59. Water turned to wine John 11. 1.
60. The men of Sodom Gen. xm. 13.
61. Abraham Gen. xxi. 24 ; xxiv. 3.
62. The house of the rolls, or books, the king's library,
Ezra vi. 1.
63. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Ex. xv. 18.
64. God save the king I Sam- *• 24'
65. See Psalms cix. 10-
66. Swords into plowshares, &c., and learn war no more,
Isa. ii. 4.
67. Joshua in dividing the land Josh, xviii. 8.
68 See Acts xviii. 17; xv. 23.
69 B.C. 607 years. By children of Rachab. . Jer. xxxv. 1, 11.
70. In the wilderness, by Anah Gen. xxxvi. 24
ANSWERS
TO
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PERTAINING TO
1. Abraham GeQ- xv- 5
Zedekiah for deliverance Jer. xxxviii. 3.
2. Five. Pharoah to be relieved of the plagues . . .Ex. viii. 8
Israel to be relieved of serpents Num. xxi. 7.
Jeroboam when his hand withered 1 Kings xiii. 6.
Simeon's prayer Acts riii. 24.
3. Maachah 1 Kings xv. 13.
4. Cyrus Isa- xliv- 28' Ezra|' l'
5. Because of their cruelty to the Shechemites . Gen. xlix. 7.
6. Abimelech JudSea ix' 45'
7 Jethro Exodusiii. 1.
8. Elisha and Elijah 1 Kings xix. 19.
9. John the Baptist Malachi iv. 5, 6.
10. During the siege of Samaria 2 Kings vi. 29.
11. Jehoshabeath. Joash 2 Chron. xxii. 11.
12 Cave of Adullam 1 Sam. xiii. 6.
13. Jachin and Boaz 1 Kings vii. 21.
14. Makkedah .^ Josh. x. 26.
15. Elisha 1 Kings xix. 19
16.
Ahab •• 1 Kings xxii. 3!
10 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
17. A iathar 1 Sam. xxii. 20,
18. Eliphaz Job iv. 15
19. Nebuchadezzar Jer. lii. 4»
20. Zedekiah Jer. lii. 8
21. Hoshea 2 Kings xvii. 6.
22. Mount Tabor 2 Kings xxiii. 29
23 Saul 1 Sam. xxii. 18
24. Athaliah 2 Chron. xxii. 10.
25. After the captivity Neh. viii. 17,
26. Zedekiah Jer. lii. 11,
27. On Mount Carmel by King Ahab 1 Kings xviii. 20
28. Deborah Judges iv. 4, 5.
29. Ehud Judges iii. 15.
30. Abimelech Judges ix. 5.
31. Men of Shechem Judges ix. 24.
32. Abimelech Judges ix. 53.
33. Hezekiah 2 Kings xx. 6.
34. Balaam Numbers xxiii. 10.
35. Vopshi, Num. xiii. 14 ; Vashni, 1 Chron. vi. 28 ; Vashti,
Esther i. 9.
36- Abimelech at Mount Zalmon .Judges ix. 48.
37. Joash 2 Chron. xxiii. 11.
38. Ahaz 2 Chron. xxviii. 24.
39. Zophar, Bildad and Eliphaz by Job Job xiii. 26.
40. Aaron Numbers xvi. 48.
41. Uzziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 20.
42. Adoni-bezek Judges i. 6, 7.
43 Jehu the blood of Jezabel 1 Kings xxi. 23
44 Abimelech at Thebez Judges ix. 54,
45. Esther
46. Jehoehaphat, King of Judah 2 Chron. xvii. 7, 11
47. Moses to Hobab Num. x. 29
48. Saul and Jonathan . . -2 Sam. i. 23
49. Shamgar Judges iii. 31.
50. Pharaoh's daughter Exodus ii. 10
51. Bera Gen. xiv. 2
52. Birsha , , Gen. ^iv. 2
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS 1 1
63. He held his peace Lev- *• 3
54. Jonah Jouah *• 3
55. In the valley of Moab Deut. xxxiv. 6
56. Seeis * Sam- ix- 9
57 One thousand and five 1 Kings iv. 32.
58. Song of the well Numbers xxi. 17, 18.
59. Benhadad, King of Assyria 2 Kings viii. 7, 15
60 Jair IChron. ii. 22
61 Tiglathpileser, first King of Assyria 2 Kings xv. 2!
62 Ahasuerus Esther viii- 10'
63 Abraham Gen. xii. 2.
64. Saul, by falling on his sword 2 Sam. i. 6.
65. Workmen on the temple 2 Kings xxii. 7.
66. Jonathan and Ahismaz 2 Sam. xvii. 17.
67. Jonathan 2 Sam. i. 25.
68. Saul and Jonathan 2 Sam. i. 23.
69. Hadadezer, captured by David 2 Sam. viii. 4.
70. King of Salem Gen. xiv. 18, 21.
71. Jehu 2 K^g8 x;.15-
72. Jeroboam. Arm withered 1 Kings xiii. 4.
73. Zipporah Exodus ii. 21.
74. Korah Num- xvi- 81-
75. Agur Proverbs xxx. 8.
76. Job Job xiii- 15'
77. Bildad the Shuhite (Shoe-height) Job ii. 11.
78. Josh. x. 14; Judges vi. 2; 1 Sam. xiii. 6; 1 Sam. xxii. 1
79. Love them as themselves Lev. xix. 33, 34
8 ). Gibeonites, by order of Joshua Josh. ix. ^
81. Hewers of wood and drawers of water Josh. ix. 27
82. Amalekites Ex- xvii- 8' 13'
83. Obediah 1 Kin£S xviii- 4
84 Jacob's Gen- L 9<
85, Jeremiah Jeremiah xix. 9.
86, Pashur, because he smote the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. xx. 4.
87. Jeremiah Jer- **• 4-
88. To repair the house of the Lord. .2 Chron. xxiv. 4, 1!
8ft. Relv&ah
12 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLfi
90. Achan. Joshua vii. 21
91. Abraham Deut. xxxiv. 7.
92. Abigail and David 1 Sam. xxv. 42
93. Job Job iii. 17.
94. David, 1 Sam. xxi. 13 ; Abraham, Gen. xii. 13 ; xx. 1,12.
95. Michal the daughter of Saul 2 Sam. vi. 20, 23
96. The Lord gave, &c Job i. 21 ; ii. 10
97. Elisheba Exodus vi. 23.
98. "It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth good,"
1 Sam. iii. 18.
99. Ezekiel to Chebar Ezekiel i. L
100. Samuel 1 Sam. ix. 25.
101. Amos, herdsman of Tekoa Amoa i. 1 ; vii. 14.
102. Son of Isaiah Jer. xxxviii. 6-
103. Aaron, the golden calf Ex. xxxii. 4, 20 ;
104. The children of Israel under Ahaz captured Judah,
2 Chron. xxviii. 8.
105. Obed 2 Chron. xxviii. 9.
106. David 2 Sam. xxiv. 1.
107. Elisha, the Shunamite widow and her two sons,
2 Kings iv. 1
108. Solomon 1 Kings x. 22
109. The prophet Ezekiel at the death of his wife,
Ezekiel xxiv Ib
110. Gad, 2 Sam. xxiv. 11-19 Nathan 2 Sam.xii. ; 1 Chron. xxi.
111. Ahaz 2 Chron. xxviii. 3.
112. David. Three days pestilence. Because he numbered
the people 2 Sam. xxiv. 13.
113. He that ruleth his spirit Prov. xvi. 32.
114. David their father 2 Sam. i. 17, 27.
115. Maher-shalal-hash-baz Isa. viii. 1, 4.
136. Jeremiah Isa. viii. 1, 4
117. David 2 Sam. xxi7. 14,
118. Ezekiel Ezekiel ii. 9 ; iii. 2.
C Miriam, Ex. xv. 20 ; Deborah Judges iv. 4.
lift. -J Huldah, 2 Kings xxii. 14 ; Anna Luke ii. 36.
( Philip's daughters . Acts xxi. 9
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS 18
120. Josiah 2Kmgsxxiii
121. David and Jonathan 1 Sam. xvm. 1.
122. He was first to smite the Jebusites 1 Chron. xi. 6.
123. Asa 2 Chron. xiv. 11.
124. Moses, Num. xi. 15 ; Elijah 1 Kings xix. 4.
Jonah Jonah iv- 3 » v< 8<
125. From Heaven Lev- ix- 24-
126. Moses, Ex. ii. 10 ; Hadassah Esther ii. 7
127. Ahab 1 KinSs xxi' 25
128. Sons of Joseph 1 Chron. v. 1, 2
129. Abijah 1 Kings xiv. 13.
130. Sidonians l Kings v. 6.
131. Deborah Gen- xxxv- 8'
132. Elijah's 1 KinS3 ? **m- 41.
133. Nehemiah Neh- ™- 1{\13'
134. Nazarites Num- ™- l'
135. David : 1 Sam.xvi. 11; xvii. 15.
136. That he might die the death of the righteous,
Num. xxiii. 10.
137. Hoshea 2 KinSs xv' 30'
138. See - Exodus xxv. 40.
139. Solomon 2 Chron. vii. 12.
140. Sacred Singers 1 Chron. ix 33.
141 Midianites .... • • • -Judges viii. 26.
142 Korah, Dathan, Abiram Num xxvi. 10.
•43 " They which are of faith " and " if ye be Christ's,"
Gal. iii. 7, 29-
144. Children of Rachab Jer. xxxv. 1, lu
145. Gideon with his band of three hundred,
Judges vii. 4, 5
146. Midianite army Judges vii. 12.
147. Uzziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 1!
148. Shaphat ! KinSs xix- 19
1 49. Gideon J™%es vm" *
150. Joshua Joshua vm. 30
151. Ahaz 2 Chron. xxviii. 24
\52.Joshua Joshuax. 11
U CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
153. Gideon and Phurah Judges vii. 7, 1(X
154. The city of Timnath-serah Joshua xix. 50
155. Zachariah Zach. viii. 5.
156. Cain Gen. iv. 17
157. Uzza. 1 Chron. xiii. 9, 13.
158. Adoni-zedek, Hoham, Piram, Japhia and Debir,
Josh. x. 3.
159. Obed-edom. Three months 1 Chron. xiii. 13.
160. Jonathan's house. The prophet Jeremiah,
Jer. xxxvii. 15.
161.. Irijah, the captain of the ward Jer. xxxvai. 13.
162. The Jews Neh. v. 3.
163. Nehemiah Neh. v. 14, 18.
164. Abel Gen.iv. 8.
165. Adam Gen. v. 5
166. Nebuzaradan 2Kings xxv. 8, 9.
167. Hezekiah 2 Kings xx. 1.
168. Three thousand 1 Kings iv. 32,
169. Moses Exodus xxxiv. 33.
170. Shammua, from the Tribe of Reuben.
Shaphat, " " % " Simeon.
Caleb, " " " Judah.
Igal, " " " Issachar.
Oshea, afterwards called Joshua, tribe of Ephraia.
Palti, " " " Benjamin.
Gaddiel, " " " Zebulun.
Gaddi, " " " Manasseh.
Ammiel " " " Dan.
Sethur, " " " Asher.
Nahbi, " " " Naphthali.
Geuel, " «« " Gad.
Numbers xiii. 4, 16
171 By his own sword, because defeated. . . 1 Chron. x. 4
172. Naaman ... 2 Kings v. 3 -
173. David. He slew Goliath 1 Sam. xvii. 12, 24,
174. Daniel Dan. v. 7, 16, 29
175. Moses, upheld by Aaron and Hur Ex. xvii. 9, 13
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 16
176. Manoah . ...Ju.lges xiii. 20.
177. Solomon his son 1 Kings v. 1
178. Manoah Judge xiii. 5
179. Samson's father Judges xiii . 21.
18C. Elijah in the cave on Mount Horel> 1 Kings xix. 8, 9.
181. Four. Jesus1 Luke i. 28
John the Baptist's Luke i. 13.
Isaac's Gen.xviii. 10.
Samson's Judges xiii. 3
182. Lot Genesis xix. 15
183. Joshua Joshua v-13'
184. Two. Gabriel I>an. ix. 21 ; Luke i. 28.
Michael Rev. xii. 7 ; Jude ix
185. Thirty-one Joshua xii. 1, 24.
186. Abishai 2 Sam. xxiii. 18.
187. Adino 2 Sam. xxiii. 8.
188. Benaiah 1 Chron. xi. 23.
189. Jacob Gen. xxxii. 9.
190. Maaseiah Ezra- x- I8-
191. The Angel that appeared to Abraham Gen. xix. 2.
192. Daniel Dan- ix- 2L
193. Jeroboam 1 Kings xi.
194. Samson Judges xiii. 5.
195. Four. Sennacherib's army . . 2 Kings xix. 35 ; 2 Chron.
xx vn. 21 ; Isa. xxxvii. 36,
First born in Egypt Ex. xii. 29
( 2 Sam. xxiv. 16, 17
Israelites ] j Chron. ^ 14j 15
Herod Acts xii- 23
196. Elijah * • • -1 Kings xix. 4, 8,
197 Joao 1 Chron- xi« e
198. Benaiah 1 Chron. xi. 23.
199. Gather all nations and sover the wicked from the
^U5t Matt. xiii. 41, 49.
200. Abraham ^"- xviii. 2. 4 ; xix. 2.
i Samson Judges xiv. 5
201. -/David 1 Sam. xvii. 31
i Benaiah ° Sam. xxiii. 2C
16 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
202. Moses Ex. iii. 5; Joshua v. 13, 15
203. The first to smite the Jebusites 1 Chron. xi. &
204. Jethro. Exodus xviii. 5.
205. Anak the Canaanite, during 40 years' wanderings.
Num. xiii. 33
206. Put to death by a plague Num. xiv. 87.
207. Ahijah 1 Kings xi. 31
208. Moses and Lazarus Jude 9 ; Luke xvii. 22.
209. Jeremiah J^r. xiii. 4.
210. Amos Amos vii. 14
211. Shishak, King of Egypt 1 Kings xiv. 25, 26.
212. Hannah 1 Sam. ii. 19.
213. Abraham Gen. xv. 1.
214. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. 2 Kkigs xxv. 1, 11.
215. Daniel Daniel vi. 10.
216. He that ruleth his spirit Prov. xvi. 32,
217. Nebuchadnezzar Dan. iv. 37.
218. Nebuchadnezzar Dan. iv. 33.
219. Builders of wall of Jerusalem Neh. iv. 16, 18
220. Hezekiah to messengers of Merodach Baladan,Isa.xxxix
221. Cyrus Ezra i. 7.
222. Hananiah from Jeremiah Jer. xxviii. 10, 11.
223. Joshua Josh. viii. 2.
224. King of Ai Josh. viii. 23, 29
225. Oshea Num. xiii. 16.
226. Jeroboam, King of Israel 1 Kings xii. 28
227. Nebuchadnezzar Dan. iv. 30.
228. Spies sent into Jericho Joshua ii.
229. Vision of the Cherubim Ezekiel i. 1, 28.
230. Solomon * 1 Kings ii. 2 Chron. v. 7.
281. By the coming of Christ . Malachi iii. 1. Luke ii. 27.46.
232. Isaac Gen. xxiv. 63.
233. Nebuchadnezzar Dan. iv. 33.
234. Nebuchadnezzar 2 Kings xxv. 7.
235. Joseph by Pharaoh Gen. xxxix. 5.
236. Jeremiah Jer. xxvii. 2
237. David.. . . 1 Chron. xxix. 1,5
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 17
238. Zerubbabel fifty-two years after the destruction of the
first temple Ezra v. 2.
239. Haggai Haggai ii. 6, 9.
240. Ezekiel . . . Ezek. xxxvii.
241 Elijah's 1 Kings xvii. 1; xviii,42
242. The men of Jabesh-gilead 1 Sam. xxxi. 11-13.
243. Samuel 1 Sam. xv. 22.
244. Jeroboam, King of Israel 1 Kings xiii. 1.
245. Nebachadnezzar Dan. iv. 24, 36,
246. Solomon 1 King ix- 18.
247. Isaiah 2 Kings xx. 7; Isa. xxxviii. 21 .
248. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Dan. i.6, 16
249. See Deut xxiii. 3, 4
250. Elisha 1 Kings xix. 20
251. Job Job xlii. 11.
252. Ezra Ezra ix. 3, 12.
253. Rebekah and Isaac Gen. xxiv. 59.
254. The prophet Jonah against Nineveh Jonah iii. 4.
255. The prophet Nahurn's Nahum Iii.
256. Joshua in Jordan as a memoral of God's deliverance
Jos. iv. 9.
257. By Jacob and his brethren when he covenanted with La-
ban Gen. xxxi. 46.
258. He commanded Daniel to be clothed in scarlet and that
a gold chain be put about his neck for interpreting
his dream Dan. v. 7.
259. Darius the Median Dan. v. 31
260. Barak with prophetess Deborah Judges iv 8
261. Miriam Ex. xv. 20.
262 Shadrach; Meshach; and Abednego Dan. iii. 30
283 Belshazzar, grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. . .Dan. v. 18.
264 Daniel appointed by Darius King of the Chaldeans.
Dan. vi. 2
265. Nehemiab Neh. ii. 5, 18.
266. Simeon Luke ii. 25, 27
267. Because they served idols and forsook the command
ments of their God 2 Kings xvii. 7, V\
16
L8 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
268. Manassah 2 Chron. xxxiii. 11. li*
269. Six cubits and a span (11 feet 8 in.) 1 Sam. xvii. 4
270. A man of Gath 2 Sam. xxi. 20
271. Ezekiel — Noah, Daniel and Job Ezekiel xiv. 14
272. Seventy souls. Jacob and his family Gen. xlvi. 27.
273. Six hundred thousand Ex. xii. 37
274. Doeg by command of Saul 1 Sam. xxii. 18k
275. Jonathan 1 Sam. xiv. 24, 27, 43, 45
276. Josiah 2 Chron. xxxiv. 1&
277. Shebna Isaiah xxii. 15, 18.
278. Absalom 2 Sam. xviii. 18.
279. Ahab and Zedekiah Jer. xxix. 22.
280. Son of Zaraphath's widow by Elijah. .1 Kings xvii. 22.
Shunamite's son by Elisha 2 Kings iv. 30.
The man in the Sepulchre by Elisha. .2. Kings xiii. 21.
281. King Asa 2 Chron. xiv. 9.
282. Ahab 1 Kingsxxi. 29.
283. Ahab 1 Kings xxii. 30.
284. Azubah 1 Kingsxxii. 42.
285. Ezra. Ezra vii. 6.
286. Ahab 1 Kings xxi. 25.
287. Jeremiah Jer xx. 2
288. Because of his cruelty to the prophet Jeremiaa.. Jer. xx.3.
289. Evil-merodach Jer. lii. 31 .
290. Nehemiah Neh. i. and ii.
291. Adonijah 1 Kings i. 50; Joab. 1 Kings ii. 28.
292. Elisha 2 Kings iii. 15.
293. King Solomon 1 Kings x. 27.
294. Ahab 1 Kings xxii. 38.
295. Samuel, 1 Sam. i. 1, 4 ; Abijah. 1 Kings xiv. 1, 1&
Obadiah, 1 Kings xviii. 12; Josiah, 2 Kingsxxii. 1, 2;
Solomon, David, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
Dan. i. 6, 17 ; Timothy 2 Tim. iii. 15.
296. Lahmi, slain by Elhanan, son of Jair. .2 Sam. xxi. 19.
1 Chron. xx. 5
297. The Moabite in the sepulchre of Elisha 2 Kings xiii. 2C
298. Levites, the Lord was their inheritauce..Deut~ ^vjji 1, 5.
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 1«
299. King Joash by Elisha 2 Kings xiii. 14, 18
800. Obadiah 1 Kings xviii. 4
301. Pharaoh to Jacob. 130 years Gen. xlvii. 8
302. Micah Judges xvii. 10
303. Naaman, by the little captive maid 2 Kings v
304. Daniel's prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem,
Dan. ix. 2Q
The prayer of the Church for Peter in prison,
Acts xii 5
305. The sons of Jonadab Jer. xxxv. 8, 10'
306. Micah stole eleven hundred sheckels ... Judges xvii. 2
307. " Out of the eater came forth meat and out of th«
strong came forth sweetness " Judges xiv. 14
308. Jacob Gen. xxxii. 24.
309. The seventy sons of Ahab by Jehu 2 Kings x. 7.
310. Og, King of Bashan Deut. iii. 11
311. The Philistines, and were dug out by Isaac,
Gen. xxvi. 1ft
312. The Shunamite 2 Kings viii. 1, 6.
313. By Jonah in the whale's belly, in the Mediteranean
Sea Jonah ii. 1.
314. Job Job xxx. 23.
315. Absalom 2 Sam. xviii. 9, 18.
316. Rehoboam 1 Kings xii. 8, 19.
317. Pul . . .1 Chron. v. 26.
318. Josiah, 1 Kings xiii. 2 ; Christ Isa. ix. 6.
81 9. Asshur Gen. x. 1 1
320 Reubenites, Gadites and the half tribe Mana»sa,
1 Chron. v. 26.
321 Joseph Gen. 1. 17.
322. Eber, being 464 years old, surviving Abraham about
four years Gen. xi. 17.
323. Miriam and Deborah prophesied, and those of th6
tribe of Levi sang in the temple,
Exodus xv. 2, 20 ; Judges iv. 4
&si. Sarah the mother of the faithful, aged 127 years,
20 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
325. Joash 2 Kings xiii. 14
326. Eleazar 2 Sam. xxiii. 8
327. King Uzziah is called Azariah, 2 Chron.; 2 Kings xv.j
Jehoichin is quoted Coniah, 2 Kings xxiv. 8 ; Jer.
xxii. 24 ; Jehoahaza, is called Shallum, 2 Kings
xxiii. 31 ; 1 Chron. iii. 15.
328. Dan shall judge thee. Samson was the son of Manoah,
which was of the tribe of Dan Gen. xlix. 16.
329. Dan is omitted from the list in Rev. vii.; Simeon from
that in Deut. xxxiii.
330. See Ex. xii. 23. ; 2 Kings xix. 35.; 1 Chron. xxi. 16.
331. Because a band of men who had come with the Arabians
had alain all the eldest sons .2 Chron. xxii. 1.
332. By covering the spies with stalks of flax, and after
wards by letting them down through a window with
a cord Josh. ii. 6, 15.
333. Elias. "And Elijah said, If I be a man of God, then
let fire come down from heaven and consume thee
and thy fifty," and there came down fire from heaven
and consumed him and his fifty. . .2 Kings i. 10, 12.
334. To illustrate God's dealings with those of the house of
Judah who had gone into captivity, and with those
who were left behind in Jerusalem. .Jer. xxiv. 1, 3.
335. That the daughters should marry to some one in their
own tribe Num. xxxvi. 6.
336. To show where Nebuchadnezzar would set up his throne
in his conquest with Egypt, which the prophet then
foretold Jer. xliii. 9.
337. A hundred talents of silver 2 Chron. xxv. 6.
338. Omri 1 Kings xvi. 23,
339. When Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, drew up Jeremiah
out of a dungeon Jer. xxxviii. 11, 12
34C Jehoiachin 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9.
341. The son of Shelomith, of the tribe of Dan,
Lev. xxiv. 10, 11
&12. As a token against the rebels, and as a proof that Aarm-
had been especially chosen by God . . . Num. xvii. b.
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS 21
343. Under the oak of Jabesh, by the men of Jabesh-gil(>ad
1 Chron. x. 11, 12
844. Ahab, 1 Kings xxii. 34 ; Josiah. . . 2 Chron. xxxv. 22
345. David Psalms L 4-
346. Uncle 1 Chron. ii. 16
347. By putting an image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's
hair for his bolster 1 Sam. xix. 13
348. Jehoiachin 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9.
349. Joel (or Vashui) and Abiah 1 Sam. viii. 2
860. Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and
let them that hate thee flee before thee. " Return,
O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel."
Num. x. 35.
851. Uzziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 19
852. The daughters of Shallum, the son of Halohesh.
Neh. iii. 12
353. Jonathan, his uncle 1 Chron. xxvii. 32.
354. Deborah .....Gen. xxxv. 8
355. Nebucar-adan Jer. xxxix. 11, 14.
356. By means of his Prophet Elisha, he multiplied the
widow's oil 2 Kings iv. 4, 7
357. Forty-two thousand, three hundred and three score.
Ezra ii. 64
358. Oman and his four sons 1 Chron. xxi. 15
359. Huldah, the prophetess
2 Kings xxii. 14; 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.
360. See ye how this son of a murderer has sent to take
away mine head 2 Kings vi. 32.
381. The mighty men who came to David at Ziklag.
1 Chron. xii. 1, 2
362. They were destroyed by fire from the Lord, because
they offered strange fire Lev. x. 1.
363. See. Exodus iv. 6
364. The body of Saul 1 Sam. xxxi.lC
365. Of seven hundred of the tribe of Benjamin.
Judges xx. 16.
366. Benaiah Chron. xi. 22
J2 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
367 Joash 2 Kings xiii. H.
368. Issachar 1 Chron. xii. 32,
369. Ebed-melech Jer. xxxix. 16.
37C. Ishmael Jer. xli. 1.
371. Jeremiah Jer. xliii. 10,
372 Elam Jer. xlix. 36
373 They put out his eyes Jer. lii. 8.
374. Joshua Num. xi. 28.
375. Zebulun 1 Chron. xii. 33.
376. Oman 1 Chron. xxi. 20.
377. Adopted daughter Esth. ii. 7.
378. Samuel 1 Sam. ix. 13.
379. Uzziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 10.
380. Benaiah 1 Chron . xi. 22.
381. Moses Exod. iv. 24.
382. Michal 2 Sam. iii. 14.
383. Potipher at the priest of On his grandsons were Joseph's
sons, Ephraim and Manessah Gen. xli. 45.
384. Jehoiada 2 Chron. xxiv. 22.
385. Solomon 1 Chron. xxii. 9.
386. Gedaliah Jer. Ix. 14.
387. Issacher 1 Chron. xii. 32.
388 Exod. xii. 23; 2 Sam. xxiv. 16; Kings xix. 35.
389. David 1 Sam. xx. 3.
390. Baruch Jer. xlv. 5.
391. Thirty . . Jer. xxxviii. 10.
392. See 2 Chron. xxx. 10.
393. Uzziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 19.
394. Nahash 1 Sam. xi 2
895. Elijah 2 Kings i. 9, 18.
396. Ishmael, Isaac, Solomon, Josiah,Cyrus, John and Jesus
397. The high priest Lev. xxi. 14.
39$. Abiram and Segub Josh. vi. 26; 1 Kings xvi. 34
399. David, Ps. Ixxxv. 2, 3 ; Hezekiah, Isa. xxxviii. 17
400. See 1 Chron. iv. 23.
401. Ahithophel and Hushai 1 Chron. xxvii. 33,
402. Rehoboam. . . .2 Chron. xi. 21.
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. *S
403. gee Acts i. 16 ; 2 Sam. xxiii. 1, 2.
404. The tribe of Issachar 1 Sam. xxiii. 12.
405. Ezekiel Ezek- xlvii- 12
406. See Isa- xxvL 19'
407. Ezra the scribe Neh. yiii. 4.
408. Moses and Caleb Deut. xxxiv. 7; Josh. xiv. 11.
409. Araunah 2 Sam. xxiv. 23
410. Amaziah 2 Kings xiv. 19
411. Uzziah 2Chron.xxvi. 10.
412 All the people sat in the street, Ezra x. 9.
413 Joash to Elisha 2 Kings xiii. 14.
Elisha to Elijah 2 Kings ii. 12.
414. Joseph, aged 110 years Gen. 1. 26.
415. The old man of Ephraim Jud. xix. 29.
416. When Anaziah said to Amos " Go fly thee away into
the land of Judah,and there eat bread and prophesy,'
Amos answered and said, " I was no prophet, neither
was laprophet's son " Amos vii. 12, 14.
417. Uzziab was struck with a leprosy for trespassing on
the priest's office. 2. Chron. xxvi. Isa. xxiii. 43, 44.
418. Moabites Isa- xv- 2-
419. Gen. xii. 3; Gen. xvii 8; Gen. xvii. 16.
420. See Deut. xviii. 15, 19.
421. Because he asked for a Shunamite's wife.
1 Kings ii. 13, 25.
422. Isaac Gen. xxii. 6.
423. For the free will offering a blemished animal might be
offered I^v. xxii. 23.
424. Abraham Gen. xxii 18 ; xxi. 12.
Isaac Gen. xxvi. 4 ; Jacob Gen. xxviii. 14
425. King David to Joab 2 Sam. xi. 15
426. The son of the widow of Zarepath . 1 Kings xvii. 17, 23.
The Shunamite's son 2 Kings iv. 18,37.
The man buried in Elisha's grave. .2 King xiii. 21.
427. Because God said " Ye shall henceforth return no more
that way" Deut. xvdi. 16.
428. Doeg the Edomite 1 Sam. xxii. 19
24 CURIOSITIES OF THE
429. The King of the Ammonites 2 Sain. xii. 3U
430. Kiel, the Bethelite, fulfilling the prophecy of Joshua,
Josh. vi. 26.1 King xvi. 34.
431. See 2 Kings vi. 32
432. Saul and his Armor bearer 1 Sam. xxxL 4
Ahithophel 2 Sam. xvii. 23
Samson Judges xri. 35
Zimri, 1 Kings xvi. 18; Judas Matt, xxvii. 5
433. Forty-eight Josh.xxi. 11.
434. JeLoiakim Jer. xxii. 18, 19.
435. Ishmael Gen. xvii. 20.
436. By Nathan he was called Jedediah. . . .2 Sam. xii. 25.
By his mother he was called Lemuel. Prov. xxxi.
437 . The wicked judges Ps. Iviii. 4
438. Pashur, a governor of Judah Jer. xx. 4.
489. Ahaz Iga. vii. 14.
440. Moses and Elijah Ex. xxiv. 18 ; 1 Kings xix. 8.
441. Seven sons of Saul 2 Sam. xxi. 9.
442. Hezekiah, Because the children of Israel did burn in
cense to it 2 Kings xviii. 4.
443. Nadab and Abihu Lev. x. 1, 2.
444. " Thou shall not put any in thy vessel," Deut. xxiii. 24
445. Jubal Gen. iv. 21.
446. The Amalekite in hope of winning David's favor, de
clared falsely that he had slain Saul, 2 Sam. i. 15.
447. Ahasuerus Esther v. 3, 6
Herod Mark vi. 22, 23
t48. Abner slain by Joab in Hebron 2 Sam. iii. 27
119. Moses and Jeremiah the furnace of iron,
Deut, iv. 20 ; Jer. xi. 4
450. Jeroboam 1 Kings xiv. 1 1
Baasha 1 Kings xvi. 4 .
Ahab 1 Kings xxii. 38
451. Death by fire Lev. x. 1,3.
452. Ishmael Gen. xvii. 20
453. The battle of the four Kings Gen. xiv
454. Smothered by HazaeJ 2 Kiogs \ iii. 8
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 2b
*65. Because they put their trust in horses and chariots,
Isa xxxi 1
456. Baasha. 1 Kings xvi. 17 ; Jehoshaphat,
2 Chron. xi\ 2
457. Eldad and Medad Num. xi. 16.
458. Potipher, Gen. xxxix. 5 ; Laban Gen. xxx. 27
459. Mesha 2 Kings iii. 4.
460. Ahijah the Shilinifce 1 Kings xi. 29.
461. Jonathan and Ahimaaz 2 Sam. xvii. 20
462 Twice 1 Kings ix. 2.
463. See Deut. vii- 8
464. See Job xvi- 1]-
465. Ezeikel Ezek. xxiy. 15.
466. Balaam, Num. xxii ; Caiaphas John xi. 49.
467. By Balaam Num. xxxi. 15.
468. At the dedication of the Temple. . . .1 Kings viii. 46 ;
2 Chron . vi. 36.
469. That of Ephraim 2 Sam. xvii. 17.
470. Adah and Zillah, the wives of Lamech, and his daugh
ter Naamah Gen. iv. 19.
471. Tne Wench, &c 2 Sam. xvii. 17
472. Balaam 2 Pet. ii. 15 ; Num. xxxi. 8 ; Achan, Josh.
vii. 20 ; Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. ; Ananias and Sap-
phira, Acts v. ; Judas, Matt. xxvi. 15 ; Acts i. 18.
473. See 2 Kings xxi. 18.
474. (1) Isa viii. 20 ; (2) John v. 39 ; Acts xv. 11 ; (3) Thess.
ii. 13 ; Heb. iv. 12.
476. The children of Israel did burn incense to it, " there
fore, Hezekiah bioke it in pieces". .2 Kings xviii. 4.
476. In the wilderness of Pharan Num. xii. 16.
477. David, for numbering the people, made cnoice of a
tnree day's pestilence 2 Sam. xxiv. 13.
478. Shimei 1 Kings ii. 36.
479. Jezebel used Ahab'sname 1 Kings xxi. 8.
480. Ezekiel in his vision Ezek. viii. 3
481. David 1 Sam. xxi. 12
482. Samson to Delilah Judges xvi. 6
ctrntosiTiEs OF THE BI&LK.
483. Noah, Daniel and Job Ezek. xiv 14
484. " Yet now there is hope," &c Ezra. x. 2.
485. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, Ex. iii. 6, 15, 16; Christ said, God is not
the God of the dead, but of the living. Matt xxii. 32-
486. Speaking of their father ; he died in his
own sin Num. xxvii. 2
487. The mother of Sisera Judges v. 28.
488. Ahijah. King Jeroboam's wife 1 Kings xiv. 4.
490. Jonah was sent to the heathen city of Nineveh,
Jonah. i
491. Zachariah being stoned to death. . .Matt, xxiii. 35, 37
492. Hagar and Ishmael Gen. xxi. 14, 17.
493. The birth of Samson to the wife of Manoah . . Judges xiii,
494. David 2 Sam. xviii. 3.
495. Adonibezek Judges i. 6
496. Joab of King David's army 1 Chron. xxvii. 34.
497. Ahasuerus. The good service of Mordecai,
Esther vi. 1, 3.
498. Nehemiah sent by Sanballat Neh. vi. 5.
499. Elisha 2 Kings vii. 1.
500. Agag, King of the Amalekites, by Samuel,
1 Sam. xv. 33.
601. See Zechariah xii. 11 ; 2 Kings xxiii. 29 ;
2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25.
502. See Job. iv. 9.
503. Abraham's expedition against the kings of
the East Gen. xiv.
504. Melchizedek, King of Salem, blessed Abraham as
priest of " the most high God **. ..Gen. xiv. 18, 19.
505. Amos Amos v. 25.
606. After Moses slew the Egyptian
Ex. ii. 11, 15 ; Acts vii. 24, 29
607. For the Israe.ites the way through the Red Sea was
a way of life, for the Egyptians it was a way of
death Ex. xiv.
508. Ishniael. . .Gen. xxi. 17
OLD TESTAMENT PERSONS. 27
609. The prophet Isaiah Isa. vi
510 Joel Joel i.20
511 One of the children of the prophets, by Jehu the king,
2 Kings ix. 1, 11
512 He fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber,
2 Kings i 2
613. Moabitee. Because Ahaziah worshipped Baal,
1 Kings xxii. 51, 53 ; 2 Kings i. 1
614. Elijah's, in which " dogs should lick his blood "
1 Kings xxi. 19, 22, 24
615. Bigthan and Teresh. They were hanged on a tree
Esther ii. 21
516. Athaliah, 2 Kings xi. 1 ; Esther Esther ii. 17
517. Jehoram (Elijah's prophecy) 2 Chron. xxi. 19.
618. Jehoshaphat, King of Judah. Encouraged by the
Prophet Jahaziel 2 Chron. xx. It
519. Zechariah stoned to death because he reproved Joash
King of Judah 2 Chron. xxiv. 21.
520. Jehu, by one of the children of the prophets,
2 Kings xi. 2.
521. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and Mannasseh were the
first to suffer, as from their position on the East o(
the Jordan they were exposed, while their country,
being rich in pasture -land, would be very attractive
to neighboring nations 2 Kings x. 32, 33.
522. Athaliah 2 Chron. xxiv. 7
523. Jehoram 2 Chron. xxi 20
524. Dukes Gen. xxxvi. 15
525. Gehazi, servant of Elisha 2 Kings v. 27
526 Jemima, Kezia, Kerenhappuck, daughters of Job,
Job xlii. 14.
527 Jonah when he refused to go as missionary to Nine-
veh . Jonah first and second chaps.
52ft Saul lSam.xiv.52
28 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
529. Samuel 1 Sain. xii. 2.
530. Ahab appropriated Naboths 1 Kings xxi. 7.
531 . Jehosaphat 1 Kings xxii. 30.
532. David by Shimei 2 Saro. xvi. 5.
533 Abraham Gen. xviii. 27.
534. Sarah, 127, Gen. xxiii. 1 ; Anna, 84, Luke ii 36.
535. Samuel 1 Sam. vii. 15,
536. His son Eleazer, and Moses Num. xx. 28.
537. When God ordered Samuel to go to Bethlehem and
anoint David as King. 1 Sam xvi. 2.
638. Moses took the blood of a ram which had been offered
up and put it on the tip of their right ears and
upon the thumbs of their right hands and upon the
great toes of their right feet Lev. viii. 23, 24.
539. Because he was first successful in the attack upon the
Jebusites 1 Chron. xi. 6.
540. Because he had told King Artaxerxes that God would
keep them from danger and therefore he was ashamed
to ask the king for help Ezra viii. 22.
541. Isaiah to Hezekiah 2 Kings xx. 7.
542. Asa 2 Chron. xvi. 12.
543. Zedekiah 2 Kings xxv. 7
544. Eleazar Num. xx. 26.
545. Ammonites 2 Sam xii. 31.
546. Jacob Gen. xxviii. 17.
547. Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar Job. ii. 11.
548. Ebenezer. By Samuel after the victory of Israel y\ er
the Philistines 1 Sam. vii. 12
549 The law of inheritance. Moses. Daughters of Zelophe*
had Num. xxvii. 1,11
560 The two kings of the Amo rites Joshua xxi v. 12
81
ANSWERS
TO
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PKBTAININO TO
1. Felix, Acts xxiii. 24 ; Festus. Acts xxiv. 27.
Fortunatus 1 Cor. xvi. 17
2. Lydia at Thyatira Acts xvi. 14.
3. Phebe Romans xvi. 27.
4. Felix before Paul Acts xxiv. 25.
5. Forty men to kill St. Paul Acts xxiii. 21.
6. Tertullus Acts xxiv- I-
7. Tertullus Acfcs xxiv- 5-
8. St. Paul Acts xxi- 34» 40-
9. His address at Jerusalem Actsxxii.
10. Quartus Rom. xvi. 23,
11. Him that overcometh Rev. ii. 17-
12 St. Paul Acts xx. 7.
13 Peter John xiii- 37-
14. James Acts ***• 2'
15. At the stoning of Stephen Acts vii. 58.
16. Peter. Malchus John xviii. 10.
17 gee John i. 45; John xii. 20-22.
18. Tarsus Acts xxii. 3
J9.
32 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
20. The angel to the Laodiceans Rev. iii. 16
21. He knew no sin 2 Cor. v. 21.
22. Go, teach all nations, baptizing them, &c, Matt, xxviii. 19
23. Apollos Acts xviii. 24,
24 The apostle John John xxi. 25.
25. If ye have love one to another John xiii. 35,
26. I exceedingly fear and quake Heb. xii. 21
27. When rebuked for healing on the Sabbath, Mark iii.
5; and for blessing little tfiildren Mark x. 14.
28 See John xxi. 18. 19.
29. I am with you always Matt, xxviii. 20.
30. Eutychus Acts xx. 9.
31. St. Paul Acts xxiv. 5.
32. The eunuch Acts viii. 26-39.
33. Agabus Acts xxi. 10-11.
34. Anna the prophetess Luke ii. 36.
35. Jesus John i. 9; viii. 12; xii. 46.
36. Persecuting the disciples Acts ix. 18; xxii. 5-6.
37. Lord what wilt thou have me 'to do Acts ix. 6-11.
38. Ananias Acts ix. 9-18.
39. Corinthians 1 Cor. ix. 2.
40. The Jews Rom. x. 2.
41. John x. 20; Paul, Acts xxvi. 24.
42. Gamaliel Acts v. 34; xxii. 3.
43. 1930 years Bible Chronology.
44. He first appeared to her Mark xvi. 9.
45. Cleopas and Luke, two of his disciples.. . .Luke xxiv. 15.
46. To the eleven Apostles Mark xvi. 14.
47 By our Saviour to the Apostles, " as they sat at meat "
after his resurrection and just previous to his as
cension? Mark xvi. 14-15.
18 ONE VOICE IN BEHALF OF JESUS.— Amid all the Scribes.
and Pharisees ana devout Jews ; among all the
disciples who were at Jerusalem at the passover; in
all that excited multitude which seemed hungry
for the blood of the captive Christ, there was one
voice that was publicly lifted up in behalf of that
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. 33
14 Just man." Only one! The Apostles were affright
ed. Bold Peter acted the coward and the craven.
The Marys and Marthas felt themselves forlorn and
impotent to help. But one woman, the wife of the
heathen governor, Pontius Pilate, boldly petitioned
for the life of the innocent. This noble act was
deemed worthy of a record in the Gospel. It should
be ever remembered to the honor of womanhood,
Matt, xxvii. 19.
49 Nicodemus John iii. 2.
50. Simon a Cyrenian Mark xv. 21.
51. Father forgive them for they know not what
they do Luke xxiii. 34.
To-day thou shalt be with me in paradise, Luke xxiii. 43
Woman behold thy Son John xix. 26.
Behold thy mother John xix. 27.
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani Mark xv. 34.
I thirst John xix. 28.
It is finished John xix. 30.
Father into thy hands I commend my spirit,
Luke xxiii. 46.
52. Art thou the King of the Jews? Luke xxiii. 3.
53. Peter, James and John Gal. ii. 9.
54. Our Saviour John v. 39.
55. John
56. Simon the leper Matt. xxvi. 6.
57. Paul Aets xvii. 28.
58. Peter Acts xii. 8
59. When healing the cripple at Lystria Acts xiv. 8.
BO. Mercurius, by the heathen at Lystria, when he healed
the cripple Acts xiv. 12.
61. Jupiter Acts xiv. 12.
62. Dionysius Acts xvii. 34.
63. Demas 2 Tim. iv. 10.
64. St. Paul to the Philippians Phil. ii. 10.
«5. Gaius Rom. xvi. 23; John, 3rd £pi»*]p. v. 0
17
84 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
66. Those that have washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. . . .Rev. vii. 13, 17.
67. A professedChristian and yet a malicious person 3 John 9.
68. Agabus Acts xi. 28.
69. Paul Acts xxiii. 2
70 Jesus Christ John xix, 23
71. New Jerusalem Rev. xxi. 14.
72. Paul at Damascus Acts ix. 25 ; 2 Coi. xi. 32.
73. Tentmaking Acts xviii. 3.
74. Damaris Acts xvii. 34,
75. Ananias and Sapphria Acts v. 1, 10.
76. Peter. That they might be healed Acts v. 15.
77. Paul Acts xxviii. 3. 6
78. Stephen's Acts vi. 15.
!Jairus' daughter Matt. ix. 25.
Widow's son of Nain Luke vii. 15.
Lazarus John xi. 44.
Tabitha by Peter Acts ix. 40.
( Eutychus by Paul Acts xx. 10.
81. The saints which slept Matt, xxvii. 52.
82. Two whole years Acts xxviii. 30.
83. St. Paul's Acts xxiii. 12.
84. Matthias Acts i. 23.
85. By the sword, by order of Herod Acts xii. 2.
86. The Queen of Sheba 1 Kings x. 1; 2 Chron. ix. 1.
87. Diotrephes 3 John ix. 10.
88. Stephens Acts vii. 60.
89. See Matt. iv. 11 ; Luke xxii. 43.
90. St. Luke Luke x. 1
91 St. Paul Rom. x. 19.
92. Ephesus Acts xxi. 29.
93. Herod Agrippa Acts xii. 2
94. The law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms,
Luke xxiv. 44.
95. See John iii. 1; vii. 50 ; xix. 39.
96. Barnabas \cts iv. 34, 37.
97. At the beginning of his ministry,
John ii. 14, 16 and near its cJc'^ • Mat*- xxi. 12, IS
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. 85
98. The raising of Jairus' daughter, Matt ix. 23; Mark v. 38,
99. See Matt. viii. 29; Mark iii. 11 ; Luke iv. 34, 41.
100. Before Annas, John xviii. 13 ; Caiaphas, Matt. xxvi. 57
The council Luke xxiii. &
101 . St. Paul. By the people when he healed the impotent
man Acts xiv. 12.
102. Peter 1 Peter ii. 25,
103. Philemon Phil, xxii,
104. See Acts xv. 36.
105. Twice. St. Paul Gal. vi. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 13.
106. See Jolm xvii- 3
107 Gen. xl. 20; Matt. xiv. 6.
108. Jesus answered and said "If I had spoken evil, bear
witness of the evil, but if well, why smitest thou
me ? '» John xviii. 23.
109. The Apostle Peter 2 Peter ii. 5.
110. Drusilla, the Jewess Acts xxiv. 24.
111. Because he believed not the angel who told him of the
birth of his son Luke i. 20
112. Agabus -Acts xi. 28.
113. The preaching of Christ crucified 1 Cor. i. 23.
114. Herod Luke xiii. 35.
115. The salutation of Paul with mine own hand which is
the token in every epistle 2 Thess. iii. 17.
116. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I, Paul,
Dnce and again, but Satan hindered us,
1 Thess. ii. 18.
117. When he took upon himself the vow of a Nazarite and
went into the temple to fulfil the same according
to the Lord Num. vi. 2, 21 ; Acts xxi. 23, 27.
i 18. Epaphroditus, whom St. Paul sent as a messenger from
Rome to the Philippians Phil. ii. 25, 9,
119. St. Paul. Whensoever I take my journey into Spain.
I will come by you into Spain Rom. xv. 24, 28.
120. Zenis Titus iii. 13
121. Publiua Act? xx viii. 7
36 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
122. When Peter wished to kiiow what would happen to St
John John xxi. 21, 23.
123. The Epistle to the Galatians Gal. vi. 11.
124. Lucius, Jason and Sosipater Rom. xri. 21.
125. That in the upper room, waiting with the apostles the
out-pouring of the Holy Ghost Acts i. 14.
126. Because the disciples were the witnesses of his resurrection,
and the full reception of this fact was necessary for
the faith of future ages Acts i 2,
127. The gift of the Comforter and his own personal return.
John xii. 16, 19, 22, 28.
128. Menander Cor. XT. 33.
Epimendes Titus i. 12.
129. See John xvii. 15.
130 Acts vii. 45; xiii. 6; Col. iv. 11
131. (1.) St. Paul Phil. iii. a
(1.) The rich fool Luke xii. 1&
(1.) Balaam Xum. xxiii. 10.
132. The seven sons of Sceva Acts xix. 14.
133. Agabus. Acts xxi. 14.
134. Mephiboa th, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul,
2 Sam. iv. 4.
135. Trophimus. Acts xx. 4.
136. How is it thm e sought me ? Wist ye not that I must
be about o father's business, and it is finished,
John xix. 30; Luke ii. 49.
137 Of Simeon, Pet ' and Andrew his brother. .Mark i. 17.
138- St. Peter 1 Peter ii. 25.
139. To Philemon. . . - Phil, xxii
140. See Matt. xxi. 16.
141. Diotrephes 3 John 9, 10.
142. Archelaus s Matt. ii. 22.
143. See John v. 7.
144. The Sadducees say th } is no resurrection, neither angei
i*or spirit, but the Pharisees confirm both,
Acts xxiii. 8
145. Body Heb, x. 5
NEW TESTAMENT PERSONS. 3?
Soul.
John xiL 27.
Spirit John xiiL 21
146. Thirteen times as seated, but only once as standing,
Acts vii. 56.
147. His body unconfined by the laws of nature, he appeared,
the doors being shut, and vanished from the sight of
the two disciples of Emmaus, Luke xxiv. 31 ; John
XT. 19; finally unrestrained by the laws of gravita
tion, rose materially into a cloud that received him
out of their sight Acts L 9«
148. " A dark place " 2 Peter i. 19.
149. *« Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it John ii. 5.
150. •* Darkness." The darkness comprehended it not,
John i. 5.
151. See John i. 15.
152. gee 2 John x ; Titus iii. 10.
153. Nathaniel. " Behold an Israelite, indeed, &c."
John i. 47.
154. " Passed from death unto life."
1 John iii. 14 ; John v. 24.
155. When Satan is cast out and overcome Rev. xii. 12.
156. John the Baptist: "I am the voice of one crying in
the wilderness" John *• 23'
157. Stephen ; . -Acts vii. 55. 56.
158. " Which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty • • • Rev- 'l- 8-
159. Spoken to the angel of the church in Sardis,
Rev. iii. 1.
160 The two malefactors crucified with our Lord,
Luke xxiii. 324&
161 Claudius Actoxviii.2.
162. Epaphroditus Phil. iv. 18,24.
163. Julius Actsxxvii.1.
164. Paul to the Jews Acts xvm. 6.
165. See •£***
166. At the grave of Lazarus
Over Jerusalem Luke xix. 4
58 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
In Gethsemane Het v. 7
167. See J-ames ii. 19.
168. Crispus, Gaius, & Stephanas 1 Cor. i. 14, 16
169. See Luke i. 47.
170. Salome, the mother of Zebedee'a children. Matt. xx. 20.
171. Peter on the day of Pentecost Acts ii. 41.
172. Pergamos : " Where Satan's seat is, " or where Satan
dwelleth Rev ii. 13.
173. Paul and his companions before the shipwreck,
Acts xxvii. 37.
174. " That for which I give thanks " 1 Cor. x. 30
175. ()n His way to Cavalry. "Weep for yourselves, &c."
Lnkexir-" *
41
ANSWERS
TO
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PKBTAJUTENO TO
Iacc0 cm* £ocalitie0.
............... Geuesis xix. 23
^ByAdamin'thoGardenofEden
3. Nineveh . 0
4. Jerusalem .......................... ' J2 Kmg ™- £
5. Jericho ........................... 2Chronxxvu,15.
6. Bethlehem ......................... Gen. xxxv. 19, 20.
7 Babylon ................ IB. riii. 19, 20; Jer. xxv. 12.
8". From the river of Egyptto the Euphrates. ..Gen. xv. 18.
9. See ................................. ffT^S
10. See ....................... • ......... 2Sam. «x. 18.
11. Solomon's navy at Ezion-geber ou the
Red Sea
12. Gibeon ...................... •
13 In Jerusalem in the reign of. Solomon. . . ..2 Chron. i.
17 Daroascus. See Bible Dictionary en. xiv. 15
18 Mount Tabor ..................
19. Mount Camel by King Abab. . . . 1 King-
20. MakkedMi ............................... Jof
42 VUhlOaiTllte Oh IHk,
21. Sisera and Barek Judges iv. 15
22. See Isa. xiii.l, 22 ; xiv. 22; Jer. 1.
23. Shall stand before kings and not before mean men,
Prov. xxii. 29
24. A lion 1 Kings xiii. 24.
25. The turtle dove and pigeon. Lev. v. 7.
26. See Lev. v. 5; Prov. xxviii. 13; 1 John i. 9
27 See Prov. iii. 12; Heb. xii. 6; Rev. iii. 1-9.
28 See . . Gen.vii. 1 ; xix. 12 ; xxx 27 ; xxxix. 5 ; Acts, xxvii. 23,
20, Stork, turtle, crane, and swallow Jer. viii. 7.
30. Righteousness Prov. xiv. 34; Ps. xxxiii. 12; cxliv. 15.
31. A dove Gen. viii. 12.
32. Genesis xv. 18; xvii 8.
83. Gibeon, Chephirah, Buroth, and Kerjath jearim,
Josh. ix. 17
84. Ai Josh viii. 5, 25.
35. Mount Moriah in Jerusalem 2 Chron. iii. 1
86. Nimrod Gen. x. 8, 12.
87. The name given by Laban to the monument erected by
Jacob, signifying, "The Lord watch between me
and tbee, when we are absent one from another,"
Gen. xxxi. 49.
88. If ten righteous persons could be found. . .Gen xviii. 20.
89. Six. Kedesh, Shechem, Hebron, Uezor, Ramoth-Gilead,
and Golon Josh. xx. 7.
10. Fifty Num. viii. 25.
11. The stone which Joshua set up as a memorial and wit
ness of a covenant with the tribes of Shechem,
Josh xxiv. 27,
42. Nineveh Nahum iii. 10.
13. At Jehovah- jireh ...!.. Gen. xxii. 14.
14. Solomon's temple was built on Mount Moriah where
Abraham built the altar for Isaac. .. .2 Chron. iii. 1.
45, See 2 Chron. xxv. 12.
46 The territory that Caleb passed over when he spied the
land Deut. i. 36-
47 Shechem . . . Jwd i r 4*
OLD TESTAMENT PLACES AND LOCALITIES. 43
18. See Jud'vi 2L
49. See Jud. x. 4,
50. Mount of Corruption 2 Kings xxiii. 13.
See origin in same verse.
51. Eagles indicated Romans..Deut. xxviii.49 ; Matt. xxiv. 28.
52. Forty-eight J°sh- xxi- 4L
53. By Heile, the Bethelite, fulfilling the prophecy ol
Joshua Josk vi. 26; 1 Kings xvi. 34
54. Because he took the city from the Jebusites.2 Sam. v. 7.
55. King Omri, Hill of Samaria 1 Kings xvi. 24.
56. Mount Gerizim Deut. xxvii. 12
57. Mount Ebol Deut. xxvii. 13.
58. Mount Gilboa 2 Sam. i. 6.
59. Thirty-one Judges xii. 24.
60. Jerusalem Jer- ^i- 4, 6
81. See Gen. xxviii. 19; Hosea w. 15.
62. The fall of Jericho Joshua vi.
ftg. " Bethel shall come to naught " ^mo« v. 5
47
ANSWERS
TO
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PKBTATNTNO TO
|)lace0 anb Cocalitie0.
1. The mourning made for Jacob by his son Joseph. Gen. 1. 11
2. Gadarenes; compare Matt. viii. 28; Mark v.
3. Mount Olivet Acts *• 12-
4. Canain Galilee John i. 47.
5. At Antioch in Picidia Acts xiii. 14.
6. Betheny Matt. xxvi. 6; Mark xiv. 3; John xii. 1-
7. Mount of Olives Luke xxi. 37 ; John viii. 1.
8. Melita Acts xxvii. 41.
9. Antioch Acts xiv. 26.
10. Lystrea Acts xiv. 19.
11. Paphos in Cyprus Acts xiii. 6.
12. Gath-hepher 2 Kings xiv. 25
13. Capernaum Matt. xi. 23
14. At Thessalonica, of the disciples Acts. xvii. 1, 6
15. Roman I:ike "• ]
16. Nazareth J°hn J- 46
17. Athens Act* xvil 22
ANSWERS
TO
OLD TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PERTAINING TO
1. A cherubim and a flaming sword Gen. in. 24.
2. The Serpent Gen. iii. 14.
3. Gopher wood Gen. vi. 14,
4. That water had abated from the face of the earth,
Gen. viii. 8-
5. Balm, honey, spices, myrrh, nuts and almonds,
Gen. xliii. 11.
6. Shittim wood Ex. xxv. 10.
7. Fear God and keep his commandments Eccl. xii. 13.
8. A brother offended Prov. xviii. 19.
9. Cold water to a thirsty soul Prov. xxv. 25.
1C. Pen of iron and point of diamond Jer. xvii 1.
11. On palm leaves, bark of trees and papyrus,
Isa. xxx. 8 ; Luke i. 63.
12. The glory is departed. By Phinehas' wife to her son
whom she named Ichabod 1 Sam. iv. 21.
13. See book of Esther.
11. 1st. A lion killed the disobedient prophet
1 Kings xiii. 24
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
2d, A lion killed the man that disobeyed the prophet
1 King xx. 35, 36
3d, Lions killed Daniel's enemies Daniel vi. 24
4th, Bears killed Elisha's mockers 2 King ii. 24.
15. 150 Shekels (at 33c) about $80 2 Chron. i 17.
16. Seven years 1 Kings vi 38
17. His mantle 2 Kings ii. 13
18. Fire came from heaven and consumed the sacrifice
Glory of the Lord rilled the house
1 Kings viii. 11 ; 2 Chron. vii. 1.
19 Two. 1st, Elijah 1 Kings xviii. 42; James v. 17, 18.
1st, Samuel 1 Sam. xii. 16, 18.
20. By Elijah or Elias. . 1 Kings xvii. 1 ; James, v. 17, 18.
21. Pillar of cloud by day ; pillar of fire by night,
Ex. xiii. 21.
22. Jewels of gold and silver and raiment. . . .Gen. xxiv. 53.
23. The confusion of tongues Gen. xi. 6, 9.
24. Men of Succoth to Gideons army Judges viii. 4, 6.
25. Assyrian army 2 Kings vii. 39.
26. Suits of apparel, rings, &c. Isa iii. 18, 23.
27. A coat of many colors from Jacob to Joseph,
Gen. xxxvii. 3.
28. A linen girdle. On the bank of the Euphrates,
Jer. xiii. 4.
29. The Hebrews of the Egyptians Ex. xii. 35.
30. Trees used for meat. They are man's life.
Deut. xx. 19, 20.
31. Death of the first born Exodus xi. 5
32. See Prov.i. 10; i. 15; iv. 14, 15.
33. Three thousand Job i. 3
34. All things 1 Cor. iii. 21, 23.
35. Jacob Gen. L 8. Joseph Gen. 1. 26.
36. The nation of Israel Exodus xxxi. 13; Lev. 22, 9.
The first born Num. viii. 17
Aaron and his family Ex. xxix. 44.
The tribe of Levi Num. viii. 14 ; Ex. xviii. 25.
The tabernacle. . . . . Ex. xxix. 43.
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 33
The temple 2 Chron. vii. 16.
37. Bulls Ps. xxii. 12. Trees Isa, ii. 13. Fallings
Ezek. xxxix. 18.
38. One third of a shekel Neh. x. 32.
39. It descended from heaven Lev. ix. 24.
40. The plague of darkness Ex. x. 22, 23.
41. Songs of Solomon Chap. ii. 11, 13.
42. See Ps. xxxiii 16; Isa. xxx. 1, 7 ; Jer. xvii. 5, 6
43. See Luke viii. 24 ; Jonah i. 5.
44. See Isa. xxxiv. 16 ; xli. 17, 18; Matt. vi. 26, 31.
45. See Isa. xviii. 2.
16. By the navies of Hiram and Tarshish 1 King x. 22.
47. Six hundred and sixty-six talents valued at $56,900
each, or a total of $37,895,400, 1 King x. 14.
48. Hewers of wood and drawers of water. . . .Joshua ix. 22.
49. By Elisha when he caused iron to swim. . .2 King vi. 6
50. Balaams ass— Num. xxii. 28, 30.
51. Sennacherib, King of Assyria 2 Kings xix. 36
52. The prophet Ezekiel Ezek. xxxvii. 15.
53. The fiftieth year Lev. xxv. 9.
54. Cursed Josh. vi. 26.
55. See Luke v. 21 ; Isa.xliii. 25.
56. In the case of Zacheus Luke xix. 2.
57. By sea on floats • • • • 1 Kings v. 9.
58. See Psa. xxix. 3, 10.
f When Joshua commanded it to stand still,
I Josh. x. 12, 13
* ' When Hezekiah prayed that it should be turned back
[ ten degrees as a sign 2 Kings xx. 11.
60. Paul . . Rom. v. 3. James . . Jas. i. 2. Peter . . Pet. i v. 1 2
2 Cor. xii. 9, 10,
M. Josh. vii. 16 ; 1 Sam. x. 20 ; xiv.41 ; John xix. 23;
Acts i. 26.
(52. Moses deliverance of Israel Ex. iii. 11 ; Josh. vi. 20.
Judges vii. 7, 22 ; 1 Sam. \v\\. 4 ; 2 Chron. xiv. ia
12 ; xvi. 8.
63. Fear ^od and keep hi* oommaiidmeLtts. . . Eccl. xii. 13
CURIOSITIES OF THE Btbi.k.
64. The golden rule James ii. 8
65. In the days of the prophet Samuel 1 Sam. xii. IS
66. A good name Eccl. vii. 1
67. The blessing of the Lord Prov. x. 22
68. Ruling one's spirit Prov. xvi, 32.
69 The tables of stone 2 Chron. v. 1 0
70 Seven. At the creation Gen. ii. 2.
In the wilderness on the giving of manna. . .Ex. xvi. 25.
In the fourth commandment Ex. xx. 10
In the Sabbatk of the seven years Lev. xxv. 4.
In the jubilee seven times seven years Lev. xxv. 9
The Sabbath of the land in the 70 years captivity,
2 Chron. xxxvi. 21
The prophetic Sabbath of the world Heb. iv. 9
Ps. xcv. 11
71. Death Lev. xxiv. 16.
72. Yes. See Isa. Iv. 7 : Ezek. xviii. 21, 22.
73. Two or three Deut xix. 15.
74. Two Gen. xlix. 10 ; Dan. ix. 24, 37
75. See Heb. i. 14.
76. See Eccles i. 7.
77. The Syrian army at Dothan 2 Kings vi. 18.
78. At the siege of Samaria 2 Kings vi. 27.
79. Thirty thousand I.Sam, iv. 6.
80. Forty thousand 2 Sam. x. 18.
81 Forty-two thousand Judges xii. 6.
82. Twenty-four thousand Num. xxv. 9.
83. A three day's pestilence. 70,000 di» f am. xxiv, 15.
) tJhron. xxi, 11
84. Three thousand . . Ex. xxxii. 28
85. Three thousand Judges xvi. 27
86. One thousand Dan. v. 1.
87. One thousand Judges xv. 15.
88. One tln>«3fc.-.d . . Xum. xxxi 4.
89. Eighty pieces of silver ($45) 2 Kings vi. 25.
90. By Bi,»h9 ip storing the poisoned potta-re at Gilgal
2 Kings iv. 41
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 55
91 Crackling of thorns under a pot Eccles. vii. 6.
92. Boards of shittim wood overlaid with gold
Exodus xxvi. 15, 30.
93. Four. 1st, twined linen ; 2d, goats' hair ; 3d rams' skins ;
4th, skin of an unknown (badger) animal
Exodus xxvi. 1, 14
94. The ravens that fed Elijah 1 Kings xvii. 3, 6.
95 Ark of the covenant. Exod. xl. 20, 21. Inside of the
ark was the " testimony," or the two tables of stone,
on which were engraved "ten commandments." 1
Kings viii. 9. Before the ark was laid a pot contain
ing an omer (five one-tenths pints) of manna. Exod.
xvi. 32, 34. Aaron's rod that budded. Num. xvii.
10. By the side of the ark was a copy of the book
of the law. Deut. xxxi. 26. Paul says the pot of
manna and Aaron's rod were inside the ark.
Heb. ix.4.
96. To repair the temple 2 Chron. xxiv. 9.
97. Drawn on a new cart by two cows 1 Sam. vi. 7.
98. One hundred and fifty-three John xxi. 11.
99. Two hundred shekels weight (6 pounds) ..2 Sara. xiv. 26.
100. Three hundred cubits (547 ft.) Gen. vi. 15.
101. Nine hundred chariots of iron Judges iv. 3.
102. Four thousand 1 Chron. xxiii. 5.
103. Four thousand 2 Chron. ix. 25
104. Twelve thousand 1 Kings iv. 26
105. Six hundred Ex. xiv. 7
106 Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain
Isaiah xxx. 1 7
107. See Prov. xxv. 19
108. See 2 Kings xiii. 20, 21.
109. The dew Num. xi 9
11C- Their clothes waxed not old Deut. viii. 4.
Ill King Jehoiachin was only eight years old and was said
to have done evil in the sight of the Lord
2 Chron. xxxvi. 9
112. See •*"*• v- 29
56 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
•113. See Judges iii. 20
114- See Gen. xxxr. 5.
115. By Og, King of Baslian Deut. iii. 11
116 Admah and Zeboim Deut. xxix. 23.
117 Then Isaac sowed in that land (Gerar) and received
in the same year an hundredfold Gen. xxvi. 1%
118. That all raiment of the poor should be returned at
sunset, and that a widow's raiment was never to bo
taken in pledge at all Deut. xxiv. 10.
119. After the battle against the Moabites and Ammon
ites 2 Chroii. xx. 25.
120. Nehushtan 2 Kings xviii. 4.
121. One hundred thousand were slain 1 Kings xx. 20.
122. See Amos v. 8
123. By not being able to pronounce the "n" in the word
" Shibboleth " Judg. xii. 6.
124. And Jesse took an ass laden with bread and a bottle
of wine and a kid, and sent them by David his son
unto Saul 1 Sam. xvi. 20.
125. Mesha King of Moab, was asheepmaster and rendered
unto the King of Israel an hundred thousand lambs
and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool
2 Kings iii. 4.
126. Exod. xii. 23 ; 2 Kings xix. 35.
127. 1. At the deliveration of the Israelites from Egypt
Josh. iii. 1.4.
2. By Elijah 2 Kings ii. 8.
3. By Elisha 2 Kings ii. 14.
128. The oak under which Deborah was buried was called
Allon-bachuth, or the oak of weeping.. Gen. xxxv. 8,
129- See Isa. ixv. 20.
130. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was
Jarhan, and Shesan gave his daughter, Jarhan to
wife 1 Chron. ii. 34, 35.
131. A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the
King of Israel between the joints of the harness
2 (Jhron. xviii. 33
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS 57
By chance there came down a priest that way and
passed on the other side Luke x. 31 .
132. See Isa. viii. 6.
133. " Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that
they make them fringe in the borders of their gar
ments, and that they put upon the fringe of the
border a riband of blue, that ye may look upon and
remember all the commandments of the Lord and do
them" Num. xv. 38.
134 See Rev. xxii. 9.
135. See Isa. xxxiv. 13.
136. Cracknels 1 Kings xiv. 3
137. David at Keilah 1 Sam. xxiii. 11.
138. And I "heard but understood not Dan. xii. 8
139. See Acts xiii. 33
140. Pride Isa. xvi. 6.
141. Syrians against Israel ; 100,000 Syrians slain
1 Kings xx. 29.
142. The attempt made by Haraan to destroy all the Jews in
the kingdom of Ahasuerus Esther ix. 20.
143. Ten thousand talents of silver Esther iii. 9.
144. The Sidomites 1 Kings v. 6.
145. Because the Prince of Tyre had set himself up as God
and lifted up his heart in pride. . . . Ezek. xxviii. 2.
146. Two talents of silver and two changes of garments
2 Kings v. 23.
147. *our 2 Kings vii. 3.
148. The blessing from mount Gerizim, upon which stood
the elders of the tribe of Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin ; the cursing from
mount Ebal, upon which stood the elders of Reuben,
Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali
Deut xxvii. 12, 13
149. Consumption and burning ague Lev. xxvi. 16
150. Stoned to death Num. xv. 36.
151. The Emims Deut. ii. 11.
152. A lamb or a kid Exod. xii. 5.
68 CURIOSITIES OF THE BTBLE.
163. By means of His prophet Elislia He multiplied the
widow's oil 2 Kings iv. 4, 7.
164 . And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharoah ;
for the Egyptians sold every man Ids field because the
famine prevailed over them: so the land became
Pharaoh's Gen. xlvii. 20.
155 Mount of Corruption 2 Kings xxiii. 13
156. See 2 Kings vi. 13.
157. Because the land was God's and they were only strangers
and sojourners there Lev. xxv. 23.
158. That he might thrust out all their right eyes and lay it
for reproach upon all Israel 1 Sam. xi. 2.
159. He stopped the upper water source of Gihou and brought
it straight down to the west side of the city of David
2 Chron. xxxii. 30.
160. See Job xxxix. 13, 14
161. One hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hun
dred 2 Chron. ii. 17
162. On the occasion of giving names to the animal crea
tion Gen. ii. 19.
163. On the sixth day, Friday, man, and subsequently re
deemed Gen. i. 31 ; Luke xxiii. 54.
164. The brazen serpent that Moses had made was broken
in pieces by Hezekiah 2 Kings xviii. 4.
165. See Exod. xxxii. 10 ; Num. xiv. 12.
166. See Exod. iv. 21.
167. David was thirty years old when he began to reign.
and lie reigned forty years 2 Sam. v. 4.
168. Samuel ordered that portion for Saul, which was a mark
of highest respect, the shoulder being the priests'
portion. . . .1 Sam. ix. 24; Lev. vii. 32; Num. vi. 2C
169. Birthright, priesthood, and blessing Deut xxi. 15
170. A prophetic name of Jerusalem Ezek. xlviii. 35.
171 . When the voice of united praise was beard
2 Chron. v. 13.
172- Because every stone wa* cWflelVd, <*vt*rv hoam sawn
OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 59
every hole drilled, and every bolt fitted before being
brought to the city 1. King vi. 7.
173. See Isa viii; \*
174. He that ruleth his spirit Pro*. *vi. 32
175. Polished brass Exod. xxxviii. 8
176. Take great stones in thy hand and hide them iu
the clay in the brick kiln «Jer. xliii. 9
177. See *™'™'}A\l
178. Jonah's gourd Jonah iv. 1(
179. On floats by sea to Joppa 2 Chron. n. 16.
180. See Prov' xxx' 33
181 gee Job xxxviii. 7.
182 Jeremiah vi. 26 ; Amos viii. 10; Zech. xii. 10.
183. It decended from heaven Lev. ix. 24.
Nadab and Abihu Lev. x. 1,2.
184. See Lev- xxvi' 16>
185. Figs. Prescribed by the Prophet Isaiah for King
Hezekiah Tsa- xxxviii. 21.
186. See 2 Kings iv. 18, 20.
187. See ... .Zech. xii. 10.
188. Samuel prophecying concerning Saul.l Sam. xv-2G, 28.
189. The coining of John the Baptist in the spirit and power
of Elijah, Malachi iv. 5. The manifestation of
Christ, under the emblem of the Son of Righteous
ness, Malachi iv. 2. The destruction of Jerusalem,
under the emblem of a burning oven consuming
everything cast into it Malachi iv. 1
190. See Job xxviii cliaPteT
191. The brazen serpent 2 Kings xviih 4.
192. " Teach me thy statutes " Ps- cxl*-
193 See Ezekiel xx 3b
1£L » All is vanity " Eccu-siastc*.
195. See Ezekiel vii. 13.
196 At the death of the Prophet Ezekiel's wife
Ezekiel xxiv. 15, 18
197 Sewing flg leave* Gen. ni. 7
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
202. See" *< urn. iii. 43, 49.
OAQ rt ^ V Isaiah iii. 18, 23
204* See n0t WGl1' Sln Heth at the d°°r- ' ' Gen' **• 7
205! see.'.'.'.';.';.';.'.'.';;;;;;; ^T'1'-5'6
206. « Set ye Uriah in the fore front of the ' hottest battle*
and retire ye from him that he may be smitten and
207 See^ 2 Sam. xi. 15.
9nft TI, "A! V V-'-, Numbers xviii. 20.
08. Those that did not keep the commandments
209. When the Prophet
in twelve pieces 1 Ki • og ^
210. The widow.. xi. .9,3
911 rp, Deut. xxiv. 17,
211. The jaw bone used by Samson Judges xv 15 1Q
212. The fall of the first, the agony and the tdal of ' tht
second Adam, Genesis iii. 3, 7; John xviii. 1, 2- Luke-
xxn. 44; John xix. 41, 42 ; 1 Corinthians xv. 45.
01 . ' ** ' Dent, xxviii. 37.
214. Rehum and Shimshai to Artaxerxes Ezra iv 9
Tatnai and others to Darius Ezra ' »
215. See 'L'
01/> , , _, . rsalm xvm.
216. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me
917 p , Psalm, xxii. 1.
^17. By thunder and ram i SaTn •• 17
nio & Odm. Xll. J / .
Some remove the land marks J0b xxiv o
219. In the battle of Israel with Syria, 100,000 of the latter
oon A1Were/aiD 1 Kings xx. 23, 29
220 Almond XT ..
Li C
ANSWERS
TO
NEW TESTAMENT CURIOSITIES
PEKTAINDfO TO
1. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God
2 Tim. iii. 16.
Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost 2 Peter i. 21.
L Macedonia 2 Cor. viii. 1, 5; Phil. iv. 15, 18.
3. Repent Matt. iv. 17.
4. See Acts xi. 12.
5. See Isa. xliii. 9 ; Zee. ii. 3.
6. The faith of the saints J«de 3.
7. The best gifts 1 Cor. xii. 31.
8. « If any man do His \vill " John vii. 17.
9. Si- against the Holy Ghost Matt. xii. 31
10 At Antioch Acts xi. 26,
11 See Matt. vi. 22 ; Rom. viii. 17.
12 See Matt. x. 29.
13. See Matt. vi. 6 ; Luke xi. 11.
14* See • • • -Heb- *"• 5 » Prov- "*' U
15. Searching the Scriptures Acts xvii. 11.
16. See Heb- iv- 12'
17 gee 2 Cor. iii. 18
64 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
18. See John iy. 14 ; Isaiah xii. 3
19. See 1 Peter ii. 2 ; 1 Cor. iii. 2; Heb. v. 12, 13
20. Heaven Rev. xix. 9.
21. Feeding the multitude Mark vi. 35; viii. 5.
22. The angel announcing the birth of Christ. . .Luke ii. 9.
St. Paul's conversion Acts ix. 3.
Peter's deliverance from prison Acts xii. 7.
23. See John iii. 6 ; Titus iii. 5.
24. Adam. .Gen. ii. 21 ; Abraham. .Gen. xv. 12 ; Saul and
his army 1 Sam. xxvi. 12.
25. Birth of Christ Luke ii. 8.
26. That which is good 1 Thes. v. 21.
The form of sound words 2 Tim. i. 13.
Our confidence Heb. iii. 14.
Our profession Heb. iv. 14.
That which ye have already Rev. ii. 25.
27. The golden pot, Aaron's rod, and tables of the covenant
Heb. ix. 4.
28. A meek and quiet spirit 1 Peter iii. 4.
29. Love Rom. xiii. 10.
30. See 1 Cor. ix. 14; Gal. vi. 6.
31. See James i. 23.
32. Felix Acts xxiv. 25.
33. Aretas 2 Cor. xi. 32
34. A red and lowering sky in the morning. . . .Matt. xvi. 2.
35. St. John the Baptist Matt. xvi. 21
36. Fifty thousand pieces of silver Acts xix. 19.
37. See Matt. v. 34.
38. The turning water into wine John ii. 7, 1C.
The feeding. of the multitudes on two occasions.
Matt. xiv. 15, 21 ; xv. 34, 38.
39. See James iii. 7
40. See 2 Peter iii. 8.
41. The deaf man by the word, Ephphatha. ...Mark vii. 34
42. See John v. 19
43. And being in agony T uke xxii. 44
VEW TESTAMENT THINGS.
44. He never compelled His followers to obey His invitation
to become His disciples John vi. 67.
45. The Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the
Lord is our King: He will save us. ...Isa. xxxiii. 22.
46 He was seen of five hundred brethren at once
1 Cor. xv. 6
47 To Daniel in his visions Dan. viii. 15
Ik) Zaoharias Luke i. 19,
And to Mary, mother of Jesus .... Luke i. 28.
48. Earnestness, determination, and patience. . Luke viii. 15.
49. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant (slave) of sin.
John viii. 34.
50. Retaliation by forgivenness Rom. xii. 20.
51. .He cannot sin nor repent, or deny himself. .2 Tim. ii. 13.
52. See Acts xxvi. 18.
53. Isaiah Isa. xi. 15, 16.
54. See Rom. ix. 16.
55. Wisdom Job xxviii. 18 ; Matt. xiii. 45, 46.
56. That I may " make (or ordain) thee a minister."
Acts xxvi. 16, 18.
57. u Maketh not ashamed " Rom. v. 5.
58. And forgive us our sins Luke xi. 4.
And forgive us our debts Matt. vi. 12.
59. Barnabas Acts iv. 34 ; Num. xviii. 20.
60. Death John v. 24.
61 Light Eph. v. 8.
62. The holy commandment 2 Peter xi. 21.
63 See 1 Cor. xvi. 2
64 On the day of Penticost Acts ii. 2
65. Saints, believers, disciples, and brethren. . . .
66. The hypocrite's hope Jcb viii. 13.
67. See Isa. xxxiii. 16 ; xli. 17; Matt. vi. 26, 31.
68. On the day of Penticost Acts ii. 13
69. FROM EVIDENCES WITHIN ITSELF— il All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God." 2 Tim. iii. 10. "Foi
the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man •
19
16 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost." 2 Peter i. 21.
FROM TRADITIONARY EVIDENCE — It claims to be, and
establishes the claim beyond all reasonable dispute.
The Jews preserved it as such ; the Church has held
it as such ; and its own teachings, and especially its
predictions, so clearly fulfilled, prove it to be the word
of God.
FROM PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE — It being admitted
that there is a Creator, then creation implies government
— and government implies law — man created a moral
agent, it is presumed his Creator would give him a rev
elation, or some law or rule of action.
FROM POSITIVE EVIDENCE— External— The antiquity
of the Scriptures, as proven by the persons, who were
the immediate instruments of these revelations, being
contemporaneous with the events of which they wrote,
also the concurring dates of the books containing the
doctrines. The testimony of ancient authors, (Strabo,
Justin, Pliny, Tacitus, Joseplms, &c.). The uncor-
rupted preservation of the books of Scripture, as
proven by the Septuagint and Joscphus the Jewish
historian. The credibility of the testimony of the
sacred writers ; they were in circumstances to know the
truth and had no interest in making a good story;
their interest lay in another direction.
From miracles, as those of Closes in the passage of
the Red Sea, &c., and those of Christ, the greatest of
which was His resurrection. From prophecies and
their fulfillment, such as the prediction to Adam of the
serpent and the seed of the woman; the apostacies,
punishments and restoration of the Jewish nation, and
upwards of 100 distinct predictions concerning the
birth, life, sufferings, death and resurrection of Christ.
The unity that pervades the different hooks of th«
NEW TESTAMENT THINGS. «7
Bible, though written by different men of different
ages and in different languages.
Internal — The character and attributes of God. The
divine government. The moral and beneficial tendency
of the Scriptures. The style and manner of the sacred
writers. The influence of the Holy Spirit. The gospel
plan of salvation. The faithful promises of God as
exemplified in the life and character of believers.
FROM COLLATERAL EVIDENCE — The marvellous dif
fusion of Christianity, especially during the first three
centuries of the Christian era, when it became the
established religion of the Roman Empire. The actual
effect produced upon mankind.
FROM CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE — Modern discov
eries among the ruins of ancient Nineveh and other
cities of Bible antiquity.
KEY TO "CURIOSITIES"
Involving arithmetical calculations in their solution :
No. 1. 12(Geuesi3 xxxv-22) x 7(Joshua vi-4)+6(Rutu
iii-15)-s-10( Esther ix-10)-2(Genesis vii-9)x 50(11
Kings ii-16)-30(Genesis xli-46)-f-5(I Samuel xviU
40)-15(John xi-18) x 4(Acts xxvii-29)-8(Genesis
viii-18) 188 scholars.
No. 2. 3000(Job i-3)-7-30(Jerem. xxxviii-10)+1000
(Dan'l v-l-)-10(Genesis xviii-32) x 30(11 Samuel v-
4)-8-300(Judges vii-8)+1000(Judges xv-15)-1005
(I Kings iv-32)x7(Jobii-13)-153(John xxi-11)
675 sheep.
No. 3. 6(5G(I Kings x-14)-j-3(Neh. x-32) x 30(Matt.
xxvi-15)-4000(I Chron xxiii-5)+ 100(1 Kings xviii
-4) x 70(Jerem. xxv-12) cost 193,200-*-300(Gen-
esis vi-15)-88(II Chron xi-21)+276(Acts xxvii-37)
—6(11 Samuel xxi-20)-r- 7(1 Kings vi-38)+ 30(1 Kings
Vi_2) 148 ft. high.
KEY TO BIBLE PICTURES
FROM THE BOOK OF RUTH.
1. Moab.
2. Elimelech and his family.
3. Bethlehem.
4. Elimelech— Naomi.
5. Orpah and Ruth.
6. Naomi, Orpin, and Ruth.
7. Naomi and Ruth— Orpah
8. Ruth.
9. Ruth.
10. Fields of Boaz.
11. Boaz and Ruth
12. Obed.
13. David and Cbriv,
KEY TO FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
1. Isaiah xxix. 21.
2. Proverbs xxix. 25.
3. 1. Chronicles xxxii. 8
4. Jeremiah xvii. 5.
5. Proverbs xii. 10.
6. Exodus xv. 11.
7. 1 Sam. ii. 30.
8. Deut. x. 12; xi. 1.
9. Deut. x. 19.
10. Lev. xix. 18, 34.
11. Isaiah xxii. 12, 13.
12. Jeremiah xiii. 23.
13. Proverbs xxix. 1.
14. Zechariah iv. 6, 10.
15. Exodus xxii. 2.
16. Genesis vi. 5; vlii. 21
17. .Ter. xiv. 5: 1 Tim. vi.
18. Pro? «vi.32; Eccles. vii
8, 9.
19. Gen. xviii. 25; Deut.
xxxii. 4.
20. Jobii. 10; Jer. x. 24.
21. Isa. xxx. 2, 7, 15, 16.
22. Job ix. 2, 3: Psa. xi. 12
cxliii. 2.
23. Isa. xxx. 21;Prov.iii.5, 0
24. Job viii. 9; Johu xiii. 7
25. Job xvii. 9; Psa. i. 3.
26. Lam. iv. 20.
27. Isa. ii. 20.
28. Hosea vi. 6.
29. Job xii. 2.
30. 1 Sam xvi. 7
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ANSWERS
TO
BIBLE CURIOSITIES
PEETAIXINO TO
1. Three months Ex. ii. 2.
2. Seven years Judges ri. 1.
3. Seven months 1 Sam. vi. 1.
4. One hundred and forty years Job xlii. 16.
5. One hundred and twenty years Cicn. vi. 4.
6. Three years and six months in the days of Ehas.
Luke iv. 25.
7. Forty-six years John ii. 20.
3. Fifty-two \''JM vi 1 5.
9. Eighteen years Judges in. I 1
10. One hundred and fifty days Gen. vii. 24.
11. Because they believed evil reports and cowardly refused
to enter the promised land Num. xiv. :> !
12. Thirty-one Joshua xii. 1, 24.
13. Forty Num. xii i . iM
14. Three days Ex. xv. 21
15. Thirteen years 1 K ings vii. 1.
Ifi Tiphteen years .Indies x. 8.
L7. Three months in the house of Obed-edom..2 t>am.. vi. 11.
18. Eighty years Ex. vii. 7.
19. Ninet-Piofht 1 Snin iv. lo
70 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
20. Two hundred and fifteen years
21. His time in the land of Midian Acts vii. 80
22. One hundred and fifty days Gen. vii
- 23. Seven days Ex. vii. 25
24. Two whole years Acts xxviii. 30
25. Seven years and six months 2 Sam. ii. 11.
26. Forty Ex. xvi. 35', Josh. v. 12.
27. The fourteenth day Ex. xii. 6.
28. Seventy years Jer. xxv. 11.
29. Three days Acts ix. 9
30. Four hundred and fifty Acts xiii. 20
31. Four hundred and thirty Ex. xii. 40.
32. Seventeen years Gen. xxxvii. 2.
33. About one hundred years Gen.vi. 3 ; 1 Pet. iii. 20.
34. Five years Lev. xix. 25.
85. Ten days -
86. Seven days and niflr^*" Job U. 13.
KEY TO SCRIPTURE METAPHORS. 71
KEY TO SCRIPTURE METAPHORS.
1. ADDER. Because (1st) it is often deaf, Ps. Iviii. 4. (2nd)
It IB poisonous, Ps. cxi. 3. (3rd) listings, Prov. xxiii. 32
Note. — It stings our conscience, Rom. ii. 15 ; and it stings
to death, Jas. i. 15 ; 1 Cor. xv. 56. (4th) It is to be trodden
underfoot, Ps. xci. 13. Hence Gen. iii. 15; Rom. xvi. 20.
2. ADVOCATE. 1 John ii. 1 ; because he is a mediator be
tween the judge and the prisoner, 1 Tim. L. 5.
3. ANCHOR. This is made an emblem of hope, because (Ist^
It fastens itself on something out of sight, Heb. vi. 19; and
(2nd) It stays the ship in the storm, Ps. xlii. 5; Rom. viii.
24.
4. ANTS. Used metaphorically of industry, in Prov. vi. 6 ; ol
forethought, in Prov. xxx. 25 ; and of individual responsi
bility, in Prov. vi. 7, 8.
6. ASHES. Metaphorical oljiailty in Gen. xviii. 27; because
worthless, and the remains of something better: of humil
iation in Esther iv. 1; Isa. Ixi. 3: of sin in Isa. xliv. 20,
because unsatisfying, and miserable to the taste.
6. AWAKING. Used of repentance in Rom. xiii. 11 ; Eph. v
14 ; and of resurrection in Job. xiv. 12 ; John xi. 11
Dan. xii. 2.
7. BABES. 1 Pet. ii. 2. (1st) They are free from pride and
malice, Mark x. 14, 15. (2nd) They partake of the nature
of their father, John iii. 6. (3rd) They grow as the$
advance in years, 2 Pet. iii. 18.
8. BLINDNESS. 2 Cor. iv. 4; Eph. iv. 18.
9. BULLS, in Ps. xxii. 12, 13 ; Isa. xxxiv. 7. BKARS, IL
72 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
Prov. xxviii. 15 ; BOARS, in Ps. Ixxx. 13 ; BEES, in Ps,
cxviii. 12 ; BIRDS, in Rev. xviii. 2.
10. BEAM, in contrast with Mote, Matt. vii. 3, 4.
11. BRIDEGROOM. Matt. xxv. 5, 6. BISHOP. 1 Pet. n. 25.
BREAD. John vi. 48.
12 BROOKS. Used metaphorically of wisdom in Prov. xviii. 4 :
of prosperity in Job xx. 17 : of consolation in Ps. xlii. I ,
ex. 7.
13. BALANCES Dan. v. 27.
C.
14. CROWN. Used for immortal life in Jas. i. 12 ; Rev. ii. 10 .
for eternal glory in 1 Pet. v. 4 : and for heavenly purity in
2 Tim. iv. 8.
15. CANDLE. Signifies the soul of man in Prov. xx. 27: the
favor of God in Job xxix. 3 : and spiritual gifts in Matt
v. 15.
16. COVER, (verb). Used for protecting in Ps. xci. 4 ; and
for pardoning in Ps. xxxii. 1.
17 CORD. Is associated with death in Eccles. xii. 6 ; ruin in
Jer. x. 20 ; strength in Eccles. iv. 12 ; enlargement in Isa.
liv. 2 ; love in Hos. xi. 4 ; affliction in Job. xxx. 11, and
xxxvi. 8 ; sin in Prov. v. 32, and Isa. v. 18.
18. CEDAR. It denotes a king, 2 Kings xiv. 9 ; an empire,
Ezek. xxxi. 3 ; the faithful people of God, Ps. xcii. 12.
19 CHAFF. Used of false doctn.ie, Jer. xxiii. 28 ; and of the
destruction of the wicked in Ps. i. 4 ; Isa. v. 24.
D.
20. DOGS Ps. xx ii. 16; Matt. xv. 26. This metaphor pos
sesses its forces from the contempt in which dogs are held
in Eastern towns: — (1) Dogs snarl and gnash leith their
teeth. So the wicked, Ps. xxxvii. 12. (2) Dogs have to be
shut out of doors. So the wicked from heaven, Rev. xxii.
15. (3) Dogs are greedy and dissatisfied. So are. the
wicked, Isa. Ivi. 11. (4) Dogs are foolish, Prov. xxvi. 11
(5) Dogs are to be avoided, Phil. iii. 2.
KEY TO SCRIPTURE ViI-.T ATHOHS 7$
21. DEW. Ps. ex. :{; Hos. \i 4. DISTIL. iVi.l. xxxii. 2
DRAW. Isa. xii. ii. Duow*. 1. Tim. vi. D. DROP. 1's
Lxv. 11 ; Ezek. xx. 46; Prov. xix. 13. DRINK. Job xv
1(). DK.UTGHT. Isa.lviii.il. DITCH. Job. ix. 31. DEEP
Ps. xiii. 7 : or DEPTHS. Mic. vii. 19.
22. DARKNESS. Used for sorrow in Joel ii. 2 ; for death in
Job x. 21, 22 ; for secrecy in Matt. x. 27 ; for sin in John
i. 5 ; for hell in Matt. viii. 12 ; 2 Pet. ii. 4.
23. The word DOOR is used (1) of Christ, in John x. 9, be
cause he is the only way into heaven for sinners; (2nd)
of faith, in Acts xiv. 27, because faith opened salvation to
the Gentiles; 3rd) of opportunity for preaching, in I Cor.
xvi. 9, Col. iv. 3, because, by the utterance of the mouth,
preaching enters into the heart; (4th) of the heart in Rev.
iii. 20, as giving entrance to truth; (5th) of the lips, as
sending forth the voice, Ps. cxli. 3; (6th) of heaven,
Matt. xxv. 10; (7th) of sloth, Prov. xxvi. 14.
24. DEN. Applied to Jerusalem in Jer. ix. 11; and to thf
Temple in Matt. xxi. 13.
E.
25. END. Prov. xxiii. 18, and 1 Pet. i. 9.
26. EYE-SALVE. Rev. iii. 18.
F.
27. FOUNDATION. Isa. xxviii. 16 ; 1 Cor. iii. 11. FOUNTAIN.
Zech. xiii. 1. FORERUNNER. Heb. vi. 20. FIRSTFRUITS.
1 Cor. xv. 20.
28. FLOWER. Job. xiv. 2.
29. FOWLER. Prov. vi. 5.
30. FAN. Jer. xv. 7, and Matt. iii. 12.
81. Fox. Used of false prophets, Ezek. xiii. 4 ; of a tricked
ruler, Luke xiii. 32.
G.
32. GREY HAIRS. Hosea vii. 9 GOLD TARNISHED. Lam. IT
1 GRASS WITHERED. 2 Kings xix. 26.
74 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
33. GRASSHOPPERS. Judges vi. 5.
34. GOATS. Matt. xxv. 32. GRASS. Ps. xcii. 7 ; xxxyii. 2.
35. GIRDLE. Eph. vi. 14. It is meant to show that we are
held up when weak by the power of truth. (Isa. xxii. 21.)
36 HOUSE. The grave, Job xxx. 23. The body, Job iv. 19 ,
2 Cor. v. 1. The church, I Tim. iii. 15. Heaven, John
xiv. 2.
37. HAMMER. Jer. xxiii. 29. HONEY. Ps. cxix. 103.
38. HEN GATHERING HER CHICKENS UNDER HER WINCW.
Matt, xxiii. 37.
39. ISLES. Isa. xlix. 1.
40 INCENSE. Used of prayer, Ps.cxli. 2 4 and of the merit*
of Christ, Rev. viii. 3.
41. JEWELS. Mai. iii. 17.
42. Kiss. Used in connection with love, Cant. i. 2 ; reverence.
Exod. xviii. 7, and 1 Sam. x. 1 ; submission, Ps. ii. 12 ;
and deceit, Matt. xxvi. 49.
43. KINGS. Rev. i. 5, 6, compared with Rev. xxii. 5.
L.
44. LEAVES. Used of prosperity, Ps. i. 3 ; eternal life, Rev.
xxii. 2 ; mortality, Isa. Ixiv. 6 ; timidity, Lev. xxvi. 36.
45. LILY. Used of Christ, Cant. ii. 1 ; of believers, Hos. v. 14.
LAMB. Used of Christ, John i. 29 ; of believers, Isa. xl. 11.
43 LION. Used for Christ, Rev. v. 5; for believers, Prov.
xxviii. 1 ; for Satan, 1 Peter v. 8 ; for wicked men, 2 Tim.
iv. 17, Ezek. xxii. 25.
47 LEAVEN. Used of sin, Matt. xvi. 6, 1 Cor. v. 6, 7; ol
grace, Matt. xiii. 33.
48. LIGHT. Of God's word, Ps. cxix. 105 ; of happiness, Isa.
Iviii. 8 ; of a good king, 2 Sam. xxi.
49 LEPROSY. Like sin; (1) defiling, Lev. xiii. 44, 45; (2)
spreading, Lev. xiii. 22, 1 Cor. v. 6; (3) separating, Numb.
y. 2, Rev. xxi. 27; (4) sometimes incurable, 2 Kings v. 7,
with Jer. xiii. 23.
60 LEANNESS. Put for temporal calamity, Isa. ac. 16; fot
spiritual weakness, Isa. xxiv. 16, Ps. civ. 15.
KEY TO SCRIPTURE METAPHORS. 76
M.
5L MILK. Isa. Iv. 1 ; MARROW, Ps. Ixiii. 5 ; MEAT, John
iv. 32-34 ; MANNA, REV. ii. 17.
•~>2. MORNING. Put for swiftness in Ps. cxxxix. 9 ; for divine
truth, in Isa. viii. 20 (margin); and for the resurrection,
in Ps. xlix. 14.
68. MEMBERS, in Eph. v. 30 ; MAN, in Eph. iv. 13 ; MER
CHANTMAN, Matt. xiii. 45.
64. MIRK. Used for sin, 2 Peter ii. 22 ; and for contempt, 2
Sam. xxh. 43.
65. NIGHT. Put for death, in John ix. 4 ; fortune of Ignorance,
in Rom. xiii. 12; and for affliction, in Isa. xxi. 12.
56. NOON. Amos viii. 9.
57. NEST. Hab. ii. 9
58. NURSE. Used of Christian kings, in Lsa. xlix. 23 ; and of
Christian ministers, in 1 Thess. ii. 7.
59. OINTMENT. Descriptive of Christ's name, in Cant. i. 3;
and of brotherly unity, in Ps. cxxxiii. 2.
60. ORPHANS. Lam. v. 3; John xiv. 18 (marg.); and OUT
CASTS, in Jer. xxx. 17.
61. OAK. In Isa. vi. 13 ; Amos ii. 9.
P.
62. PILLARS. Gal. ii. 9, and Jer. i. 18.
88. PALACE. Applied to the temple of Jerusalem, 1 Chron.
xxii. 1 ; and to the church of God, in Ps. Ixxviii. 69 ;
xlviii. 13.
64. PRISON. Of sin, Isa. xli. 7 ; and of the grave, liii. 8.
65. PRINCE. Isa. ix. 6.
66. PIT. Snare , Ps. vii. 15 ; sorrow, Ps. xl. 2 ; grave, IM.
xxxviii. 17.
67. POISON. Rom. iiL 13 ; James iii. 8.
QUENCH. Love, Cant. viii. 7; life, Isa. xliii. 17 ; 2 Sam
'. > CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
xiv. 7 ; xxi. 17 ; temptation, Eph. vi. 16 ; Holy Spirit , 1
The.°, v 19 ; Divine wrath, Isa. i. 31 ; 2 Kings xxii. 17.
69. RAZOR. See Ps. lii. 2 ; Isa, vii. 20.
70. REED. Used for instability, Luke, vii. 24; despondency,
Isa. xlii. 3 ; and disappointing hope, Isa. xxxvi. 6 ; 2
Kings xviii. 21.
71. REAPING. See John iv. 36-38 ; Matt. iii. 39.
72. RACE. 1 Cor.ix.24; Heb. xii. 1
8.
73. SALT. Matt. v. 13. STEWARDS, 1 Pet. iv. 10. SHOWERS,
Mic. v. 7. SHEEP, John x. 27. SOLDIERS. 2 Tim. ii. 3!
STORES, 1 Pet. ii. 5. STRANGERS, 1 Pet. ii. 11.
74. SHADOW. Used in connection with death, Ps. xxiii. 4,
divine care, Ps. xci. 1 : and the law of Moses, Heb. x. 1.
T, V.
76. TRAPS. Josh, xxiii. 13. THORNS. 2 Sam. xxiii. 6
THIEVES. .John x. 8.
76. TOWER. Ps. Ixi. 3.
77. TENT. Used of the heavens, Isa. xl. 22; and of the church,
Isa. liv. 2. TEMPLE. Used of the heavens, Ps. xi. 4 ; airl
of the church, Eph. ii. 21.
78. VIRGINS. Matt. xxv. 1, etc. VESSELS. 2 Tim. ii.20.
79. VIPERS. Matt. iii. 7.
80. VAPOR. James iv. 13, 14.
W, Y.
81. WATER. John vii. 38, 39. WIND. John iii. 8.
82. WOLVES. Matt. vii. 15. WAVKS. Jude 13. WKLLI
WITHOUT WATER. 2 Pet. ii. 17.
83. YOKE. Describes the service of Christ, Matt. xi. 29 ; crt*
oppression, 1 Kings xii. 4 ; spiritual bondage, Acts XY. 10,
KEY TO SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 1. — DAVID.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 2. — "EVE." — Geil. Hi. 20.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 3. — "GOG." — Rev. XX. 8, 9.
KEY TO KNIGMA NO. 4. — THE RIVER THAT WENT OUT OI
EDEN.— Gen. ii. 10.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 5. OG*S IRON BEDSTEAD. — Deut. Hi. 11
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 6. — AARON^S ROD.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 7. — THE STONE WHICH SLEW GOLIATH
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 8. — SUNDAY. — Ex. XX. 10.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 9. — "LORD, SAVE US: WE FKRIRIi "
Matt viii. 25.
1. L-ot Gen. xiii. 11.
2. O-thniel Judges iii. 9.
3. R-achel Gen. xxix. 17.
4. D-eborah Judges v. 7.
6. S-hishak 1 Kings xir. 25.
6. A-hab 1 Kings xriii. 18.
7. V-ashti Esther i. 9.
8. E-sther.. . . Bather riii. I.
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
9. U-r Genesis xv. 7.
10. S-myrna Rev. i. 11.
11. W
12. E-den Gen. ii. 8.
'8. P-hilistines 1 Sam. xix. 8.
i. E-gyptians Isaiah xx. 4.
.6. R-hegium Acts xxviii. 11.
L8. I-conium Acts xiii. 51.
17. S-eir Deut. id. 4.
18. H-oreb Deut. i. 6.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 10. — ELIMELECH — IlETHLKHEa
Ruth i. 11.
1. E-lia-6 Nnm. xxvi. 8, 9.
2. L-uk-tf Col. iv. 14.
3. I-scario-f Matt. x. 4.
4. M-eriba-^ Num. xx. 13.
5. E-ba-J Deut. xi. 29.
6. L-ak-« Luke viii. 33.
7. E-la-A ' 1 Sam. xvii. 2.
8. C-oloss-« Col. i. 2.
9. H-eia-ro 2 Sam. x. 16
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 11. — GENESIS — NUMB ME*.
1. G-ideo-n Judges vii. 21.
2. E-sa-w Gen. xxv. 17
3. N-ahu-m Nahum i. 1.
5. E-lia-6 1 Sam. xvi. 7
6. S-alom-tf Mark xv. 40.
6. I-zha-r 1 Chron. vi. 2.
7. 8-o«thene-* Acts xriii. 17.
81
TO KMGMA NO. 12.— "THE DA Y8PRINO."-Lllke i 78
1. T-urtle-dovea Luke ii. 24.
2. H-erod Matthew ii. .7
3! E-gypt Matthew ii. 13.
4. D-ream Genesis xxviii. 12.
5. A-ser Luke ii. 36.
6. Y-oke Matthew xi. 29.
7 S-tar Matthew ii . 9.
8. P-assover. Exodus xii. 11.
Q. ll-ach<>l Jeremiah xxxi. 15.
10. I-ninianuel Isaiah vii. 14.
11. X-n/.areth Luke ii. 51.
12. G-«'thsemane Matthew xxvi. 36.
TO ENIGMA NO. 13.— " I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA1
(Rev. i. 11, 13; xxii. 12, 13, 16, 20), "the First and the
Last " (Isaiah xliv. 6 ; xlviii. 12 ; xli. 4.
1. Ishbosheath 2 Sam. iv. 1—12.
5 1 Sam. xi.; xii. 12 ; Judges xi. 4
2. AM-monites ^ —6 ; 2 Sam. x. 6—19.
< Matt x. 2, 3 ; Mark iii. 16—19
8. ALPH-*us I Luke vi. 13-16.
4 A-mram 1 Chrou. vi. 3 ; Exod. vi. 18. 20.
5. AXD-rew John i. 40-42.
6. OM-ri 1 Kings xvi. 15—18.
7. E-mmaus Luke xiv. 13—31.
8. GA-maliel Acts xxii. 3 ; v. 34—39.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO 14.—" INCREASE OUR FAITH/'—
Luke xvii. v.
1 I-sh-borheth 2 Samuel iv.^
2. N-ethaneel 2 Chronicles xvii. 7, 9.
3 C-apernaum Matthew xi. 23.
4. R-immon 2 Kings v. 18
6. E-lymas Acts xiii. 8. \1
g CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
6. A-rk Gen. vii. 11—13 ; viii. 13—116.
7. S-amnel 1 Samuel iii. ; xii. '2, '2A.
8. E-unice 2 Timothy i. 5 ; iii. 15
9. o_g Numbers xxi. 33
10. U-pharsin Daniel v. 25.
11. R-ehoboam 1 Kings xii. 13.
12. F-ire Jeremiah xxiii. 29.
13. A-ngels Hebrews i. 14.
14. I-shmael Jeremiah xii. 2.
15. T-itus 2 Corinthians vii. 5, 7.
16. H-orn Luke i. 69.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 15.— JONATHAN.— 2 SAM. XV. 36
ABIATHAR.— 2 SAM. XV. 35
1. J-oshu-a Exodus xvii. 9.
2 O-re-& Judges vii. 25.
3. N-imsh-t 1 Kings xix. 10.
4. A-mas-a 2 Sam. xvii. 25.
5. T-rumpe-* Josh. vi. 4, 5.
6. H-ulda-A 2 Kings xxii. 14—16.
7. A-rmeni-a 2 Kings xix. 37.
8. N-ebuchadnezza-r Dan. iv. 25—35.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 16.— " COME UNTO ME."— Matthew XI. 21
1. C-aleb Numbers xiv. 24.
2. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 3.
3. M-ary Magdalene Mark xvi. 9.
4. E-lizabeth .Luke i. 6.
5. U-r. Neh. ix.7.
6. N-ain Luke vii. 11.
7. T-admor ' 2 Chron. viii. 4.
8. O-phir 1 Kings ix. 28.
9. M-icah Micah. i. 1.
10. E-liiah. - 1 Kvncrs xvii. 1
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 83
Art them weary, art thou languid,
Art thou sore distressed ?
Come to me, saith One ; and, coming,
Be at rest
iET TO ENIGMA NO. 17. — DUTY — " IN EVERYTHING GIVE
THANKS." — 1 TheSS. V. 18. PROMISE — " ALL THINili
WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOfc.
—Rom. viii. 28.
1. I-scariot Matt, xxvi . 24.
2. N-athan 2 Sam. xii. 7—10.
3. EVE Gen. iii. 4—6.
4. R-abbi Matt, xxiii. 6—8.
6. Y-ea 2 Cor. i. 20.
6. TH-yatira Acts xvi. 14.
7. I-srael Gen. xxxii. 28.
8. N-ob 1 Sam. xxii. 18, !9.
9. G-ad 2 Sam. xxiv. 11.
10. GT-beon Josh. ix. 3—11-
11. V-au Psa. cxix. 41.
12. E-THAN 1 Kings iv. 30, SI
13. K-ish 1 Sam. ix. 3.
14. S-aul 1 Sam. x. 1.
IEY TO ENIGMA >0. 18— " PRINCE OP PEAm " !•* i* A
1. P-riest Heb. r. 6.
2. R-oot RCT. v. 5.
3. I-mage of God 2 Cor. iv. 4.
4. N-azarene Matt. ii. 23.
5 C-ounsellor Isa. ix. 6.
ft. E-verlasting Father. .Isa. ix. 6.
7. Offspring of David . .Rev. xvii. 16.
8. F-ouutaiu Zech. xiii. 1.
84 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
9. Prophet Deut. xviii. 18.
10. E-mmanuel Matt. i. 23.
11. A-lpha Rev. i. 8.
12. C-hief Comer Stone. .1 Peter ii. 6.
13 E-ternal Life 1 John v. 20.
KY TO ENIGMA NO 19. — "THE LORD BLESS THRU, AW
KEEP THEE." Numbeis vi. 24.
1. T-imothy 1 Tim. i. 2.
2. H-iram 1 Kings v. 10, 11.
3. E-lijah Luke ix. 30, 33.
4. L-eah Gen. xxix. 16.
5. O-bed Ruth iv. 17.
6. R-euben Gen. xxxv. 23.
7. D-avid 1 Sam. xvii. 14.
8. B-arnabas Acts xiii. 1.
9. L-ysias Acts xxiii . 26.
10. E-lhanan 2 Sam. xxi. 19.
11. S-hebue Isa. xxxvii. 2.
12. S-harezer 2 Kings xix. 37.
13. T-ola Judges x. 1.
14. H-ezekiah 2 Chron. xxxii. 33
15. E-srora Luke iii. 33.
16. E-liphaz Job. ii. 11.
17. A-rba Joshua xxi. 11.
18. N-athan 2 Sam. xii. 1.
19. D-eborah Judges iv. 4.
20. K-ish. 1 Sam. x. 21
21. E-liezer Gen. xv. ii.
22. Eunice 2 Tim. I 5.
23. Philip Johni. 43
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
24. T-ertullus Acts xxiv. 1, 2.
25. H-erod Luke iii. 19.
26. E-lyraas Acts xiii. 6-8.
27. E-zekiel Ezek. i. 3.
«ITT TO ENIGMA NO. 20.— " THE LORD REIGNETII."—
xciii. 1 : xcvii. 1 ; xcix. 1. .
1. TIIE-ssalonica Acts xvii. 1. 6.
2. L-ystra Acts xiv. 8, 11, 19.
3 OR-nan 2 Chron. iii. 1 ; 1 Chroii. xxi. 18—
26 ; xxii. 1.
4. D-ionysius Acts xvii. 16, 34.
5. RE-hoboam 1 Kings xii. 1 — 11.
6. I-shbi-benob 2 Sam. xxi. 16.
7. G-ilgal Joshua iv. 19-23.
8. N-ebo Deut. xxxii. 49, 50 ; xxxiv. 5, 6.
9. ETII-baal 1 Kings xvi. 31 ; xviii. 13.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 21. — 27ERUIAH — ABIGAIL — SISTERS
OF DAVID. — 1 Chron. ii. 16, 17.
1. Z-ib-a 2 Samuel xvii. 4 ; xix. 24 — 29
2 E-liashi-6 Nehemiah iii. 1 ; xiii. 4 — 9.
3. R-abb-f Matthew xxiii. 8.
4. U-nbelievin-<7 Revelation xxi. 8.
5. I-turae-a Luke iii. 1.
6. A-bisha-i 1 Samuel xxvi. 6.
7. H-anamee-Z Jeremiah xxxii. 6 — 15.
Zerniah was mother of Joab, Abishai, and AsahH. who are
spoken of as sons of Zeruiah.
86 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 22. — JERICHO. — Josh. vi. 25 - SAMARIA.—
1 Kings xvi. 24, 28.
1 J-uda-5 .............. John xii. 6 ; Matt. xxvi. 15.
2. E-zr-a ............. Ezra vii. 10.
3. R-amathaim Zophi-m 1 Sam. i. 1.
4. I-ndi-a .............. Esther i. 1.
5. C-hedorlaom-r ....... Gen. xiv. 9, 12.
6. H-agga-t ............. Ezra v. 1, etc.
7 O-she-a ..... . ........ Num. xiii.
IKY TO ENIGMA NO. 23. — " COUNSELLOR. "— Isaiah IX. 6.
1. C-edar .............. 1 Kings vi. 15.
2. O-ak ................ Genesis xxxv. 4.
3. U-rijah ............. Jeremiah xxxvi. 23.
4. N-o .................. Jer. xlvi. 25; Ezek. xxx. 14—16
Nalmm iii. 8.
5. S-ycamore ........... Luke xix. 4.
6. E-schol ............. Num. xiii. 23.
7. L-uke ............... Col. iv. 14.
8. L-ydia ............... Acts xvi. 14.
9. O-bed ............... Matt. i. 5.
10. R-ebekah ............ Genesis xxvii.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 24. — "MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOD *"•-
John xiv. 27.
1. M-icah .............. Micah v. 2.
2. Y-ea ................. 2 Corinthians i. 20.
3. P-aul ............... 1 Corinthians ix. 1.
4. E-rnmaus ............ Luke xxiv. 13 — 31.
5. A-saph .............. 2 Chronicles xxix. 30.
6. C-orneiius ........... Acts x.
7. E-agle .............. Deuteronomy xxxii. 11, 12.
.2 Samuel xv. 19—22.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 8?
9. G-alilee Isaiah ix. 1, 2 ; Matt. IT. 12-16
10. I-saiah Isaiah vi. 6-8.
11. V-ine John xv. 5.
12. E-benezer 1 Samuel vii. 12.
13 U-r, of the Chaldees. .Genesis xi. 31 ; xii. 1.
14. N-ehemiah Nehemiah iv. ; xii. 27.
15. T-erah Genesis xi. 27.
16. O-ded 2 Chronicles xxviii. 9-15.
17. T-«ar of jubilee Leviticus xxv. 8-17 ; Isa Ixi. 1 X
18. 0-badiah 2 Chronicles xvii. 7-9.
19. U-pharsin Daniel v. 5, 25-28.
IEY TO ENIGMA NO. 25. — «« LOVE YOUR ENEMIES."— Matt. V. \A
1. L-eah Genesis xxix. 16.
2. O-g Numbers xxi. 33.
3. V-ashti Esther i. 12.
4. E-sther Esther ii. 7.
5. Y-oke Matthew xi. 29.
6. O-nesimus Colossians iv. 9.
7. U-rbane Romans xvi. 9.
8. R-uth Ruth i. 16.
9. E-liashib Nehemiah iii. 1.
10. N-aaman 2 Kings v. 1.
11. E-liab 1 Samuel xvii. 28.
12 M-ercurias Acts xiv. 12.
13. I-shmael Genesis xi. 18-20.
14. E-phraim Genesis xlviii. 19.
15. S-hallum Nehemiah iii. 12
88 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 26. — " Behold, I STAND AT THE DOOR, AND
KNOCK: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, 1
will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with
Me." -Re/, iii. 20.
1. IS-sachar Gen. xxx. 17, 18.
2. TA-rshish Jonah i. 3, 4.
3. N-athaniel John i. 47.
4. DAT-ban Numb. xvi. 1, 31-33.
5. THE-udas Acts v. 34, 36.
6 . DO-than 2 Kings vi. 18.
7. OR-pah Ruth i. 8, 14-16.
8. AN-nas John xviii. 13.
9. D-emas 2 Tim. iv. 10.
10. KNOCK.
SKY TO ENIGMA NO. 27. — " ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE."—
John xvi. 24.
1. A-thaliah 2 Kings xi.
2. S-hebna Isaiah xxii 15-19.
3. K-irjath-arba Joshua xx. 7.
4. A-bed-nego Daniel iii.
5. N-ehushtan Num. xxi. 8, 9 ; 1 Kings xviii. 4.
6. D-iana Acts xix. 35.
7. Y-oke Matthew xi. 29, 30.
8. E-lhanan 1 Chron. xx. 5.
9 S-un Malachi iv. 2.
10. H-ur Exodus xvii. 10-12.
11. A-dah's Genesis iv. 20, 21.
12. L-uz Genesis xxviii. 10-22.
13. L-eri.. ..Luke v. 29.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 8*
14. Koine Luke ii. 1.
15. E-bed-melech Jeremiah xxxviii. 7—18.
16. C-anaan Jee. xii. 5, 7 ; Heb. xi. IS- 16.
17. E-d Joshua xxii. 34*
18. Lddo Zech. i. 1.
19. V-eil of the Temple. .Matt, xxvii. 51 ; Heb. x. 19, 20
20. E-leazar Joshua iii. 13 ; Deut. x. 6.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 28. — " THOU GOD BEKBT ME."—
Gen. xvi. 13.
1. T-homa-s John xx. 27.
2. H-at-tf 1 John iii. 15.
3. O-liv-c James iii. 11.
4. U-ria-s Matt. i. 6. —
5. G-oa-f Psalin civ. 18 .
6. O-rna-m(ents) 1 Sam. i. 24.
7. D-ov-e Gen. viii. 11.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 29* — BABEL.
B-abel Gen. xi. 4.
A-bel Gen. iv. 4.
B-el or Baal Judges ii. 13, etc.
El Gen. xxiii. 20.
EET TO ENIGMA NO. 30.— " SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION 01- ') u I
LAW." — 1 John iii. 4.
1 . S-alem Heb. vii. 2.
2. I-chabod 1 Sam. iv. 21.
3. N-azareth John i. 46.
4. Isbosheth 2 Sam. ii. 10.
5. S-almon Ruth iv. 21.
6. T-ertullua Acts xxir. L
7. H-w»el 1 Kings xbc. 16.
8. E-Uab 1 Sami. xvii. 28.
90 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
9. T-ahpenea 1 Kings xi. 19.
10. R-amah 1 Sam. vii. 17.
11. A-thenians Acts xvii. 22, 23.
12. N-aaman Luke iv. 27; 2 Kings iii.; be. 24
13. S-amson Judges xvi. 30.
14. G-ilead 1 Kings xvii. 1.
15. R-uth Matt. i. 3-5.
16. E-bed-melech Jer. xxxviii. 7-9.
17. S-eir Deut. ii. 5.
18. S-ardis Rev. iii. 1.
19. I-ssachar Gen. xxx. 17, 18.
20. O-thniel Judges iii. 9, 10.
21. N-ehemiah Neh. ii. 6 ; v. 14.
22. O-nesimus Phil. 10-15.
23. F-orty Acts vii. 23.
24. T-amar 2 Sam. xiv. 27.
25. H-agar. Gen. xvi 1 ; xxi. 18
26. E-liam 2 Sam. xi. 3
27. L-ahai-roi Gen. xxv. 11.
28. A-sher Deut. xxxiii. 24, 25.
29. W-atch Mark xiii. 37.
KIT TO ENIGMA NO. 31. — " SEEK (ye) FIRST THE KINGDOM Ol
GOD."— Matt. vi. 33.
1. SE-nnacherib 2 Kings xix. 35.
2. EK-ron 1 Sam. v. 10; vi 7, 8.
3. F-estus Acts rxv., rrvi.
4. IR-ijah Jer. xxivii. 13.
5. ST-ephen Acts vii. 65-60.
«. THE-be* Judges ix. 50-M.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 91
7. Kl-shon Judges v. 21.
8. N-ineveh Jonah iii.
9. G-ezer 1 Kings ix. 16.
10. D-aniel Dan. ii., vii., viii., xi., xii.
11. O-nesiuaus Philemon 10-15.
12. MO-am 1 Kings xi. 7.
13. F-elix Acts xxiv. 25-27.
14. GO-liath 1 Sam. xvii. 49.
15 D-iana Acts. xix. 27.
KMT TO ENIGMA NO. 32. — " CEASE TE FROM MAN."— Isaiah ii. 22
1. C-orn of wheat John xii. 24.
2. E-agle Deuteronomy xxxii. 11, 12.
3. A-dder Psalm Iviii. 4.
4. S-erpent Genesis iii. 1-6.
5. Ensign Isaiah xi. 10.
6. Y-oke Matthew xi. 29, 30.
7. E-merald Rev. xxi 19.
8. F-ig-tree Luke xiii. 6-9; Matt. xxi. 18-20.
9. R-ock Psalm xviii. 2; 1 Cor. x. 4.
10. 0-live Genesis viii. 11.
11. M-orning star Revelations xxii. 16.
12. M-anna John vi. 48-51.
13 A-nchor Hebrews vi. 19.
14. Nest Obadiah 3, 4.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 33. — " GOD HATH MADE MAN UPRIGHT.' --
Eccles. vii. 29.
1. G-ad 2 Sam. xxir. 11, etc.
2. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 3.
3. D-ecapolii Matt viii. 28; Mark v. *).
92 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBI.f,
4. H-aman Esther iii. 6.
5. A-biathar 1 Sam. xxii. 20.
6. T-abor Judges iv. 6.
7. H-anani 2 Chrou. xvi. 7.
8. M-ahanaim Gen. xxxii. 2.
9. A-bner 2 Sam. iii. 38
10. D-arius Ezra vi. 6 — 15.
11. E-lisheba Exodus vi. 23.
12. M-ephibosheth 2 Sam. ix. 6, 7.
13. A-gag 1 Sam. xv. 9, 33.
14. N-ob 1 Sam. xxii. 19.
15. U-rijah Jer. xxvi. 24.
16. P-hilip Luke iii. 1.
17. R-ephidim Exodus xvii. 8.
18. I-shmael Jer. xli. 2.
19. G-abbatha John xix. 13.
20. H-aran Genesis xi. 27.
21. T-arshish 2 Chron. xx. 36.
KBY TO ENIGMA NO. 34. — " CASTING ALL YOUR CAKE Ol
HIM."— 1 Peter v. 7.
1. CA-leb Numbers xiv. 24, 30.
2. ST-raight Aits ix. 11.
8. IN-crease 1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.
4. GALL-io Acts xviii. 17.
5. YOUR
6. C-aiaphas Mark xiv. 61, 62.
7. ARE-tas 2 Cor. xi. 32.
8. ON Gen. xli. 45.
9. Hi-ran 1 Kings v. 1—12.
10. M-alchus John xviil 10.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
KEY 10 ENIGMA NO. 35.—" I GO TO PRKPARV A PLACK
YOU."— John xiv. 2.
1. I-dume-a Isaiah xxxiv. 5.
2. G--ra-;>(e) Cant iL 15>
3. 0 -thine-/ Joshua xv. 17.
4 T-hyatir-a Ects xvi 14.
5. O-lympi-r Heb. xiL 1.
6. P-in-« Neh. viii. 15.
7. R-eproo-/ 2 Tim. iii. 16.
8. E-n-o(ch) Gen. v. 24.
9. P-eo-r Num. xiii. 28.
10. A-llegor-y Gal. iv. 24.
11. R-ihp-o 1 Kings ix. 28.
12. E-sa-u Gen. xxxvi. 1.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 36.— JAWBONE.— Judges XV. 15—17
1. Jaw. 2. Bone.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 37.— PARADISE.
1. P-hilip Acts vi. 5.
2. A-raunah 2 Sam. xxiv. 22.
3. R-echabites Jer. xxxv.
4. A-chash Josh. xv. 16, etc. ; Judges i 12, etc
5. D-an Rev. vii.
6. I-mlah 1 Kings xxii. 9.
7. S-tephanas 1 Cor. xvi 16
8. E-zekiel
\ CURIOSITIES Of THE BIBLE
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 38.
Initials, down — CORNELIUS.
Finals, up — CENTURION.
1. C-edro-n ............. John xviii. 1.
2. O-d-o-urs ............ Rev. v. 8.
3. R-abbon-i ............ John xx. 16.
4. N-icano-r ............ Acts vi. 5.
5. E-sa-u ............... Heb. xii. Itf.
8- L-o-f ................ 2 Peter ii. 7.
7. I-talian-n ............ Acts x. 1.
8 U-rban-e ............ Rom. xvi. 9.
9 8-ado-c .............. Matt. i. 14.
KE5T TO ENIGMA NO. 39.— LAMB.— John 1. 2S.
Psalm xci. 13.
A-dder ............. psalm xci. 13.
M-ole ............... Isaiah ii. 20.
B-at ................ Isaiah ii. 20.
*EY TO ENIGMA NO. 40.— JESUS WEPT AT BKTHAK1
J-ehoiad-a .......... 2 Cor. xxii. 11; xxiii. 11.
E-g}'P-< ............. Jer. xxvi. 21.
1 Kings xvi. 34.
Acts xxiii. 16.
S-anballa-f .......... Neh. ii. 10.
. .Rom. i. 18. 19.
E-Hsh-a ............. 2 Kings vi. 9, 13
P-hilemo-n ........ Phil. 10, 11.
T-imoth-^ ........... 2 Tim. iii. 15.
SCRIPTLRE ENIGMAS. 9*
*KY TO ENIGMA NO. 41. — FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY.—
1 Cor. xiii. 13.
1. F-elix Acts xxiv. 25, 26.
2. A-pollos Acts xviii. 24—28.
3. I-saac Heb. xi. 20.
4. T-imothy . . 2 Tim. 1—5.
5. H-erodias Matt xiv. 3—11.
6. H-eli Luke iii. 23.
7. O-nesimus PhiL 10—12.
ft P-riscilla Acts xviii. 2, 26.
9. E-unice 2 Tim. i 5.
10. C-ornelius Acts x. 30—45.
11. H-ermogenes 2 Tim. i. 15.
12. A-nanias. Acts v. 1 — 5.
13. R-hoda Acts xii. 13, 14.
14. I-scariot John xiii. 2; xiv. 22.
15. T-ertius Rom. xvi. 22.
16. Y-ea 2 Cor. i. 19, 20.
EEY TO ENIGMA NO. 42. — " LOVE NOT THE
1 John ii. 15.
1. L-evi Num. xvi. 1.
2. O-bed Ruth iv. 17.
3. V-oice John x. 4.
4. E-liab 1 Sam. xvii. 28.
5. N-athanael John i. 45, 46.
0. O-mri 1 Kings xvi. 28.
7 T-arsus Acts xxi. 39.
8. T-heudas Acts v. 36.
9. H-ebron Josh xiv. 13.
10. E-li1»h 1 Kin*s xix. 4.
6 CURIOSITIES OF FHE BIBLE.
11. W-ages Exodus ii, 9.
12. O-bed-edom 2 Sam. vi. 11, 12.
13. R-amah 1 Sam. ii. 11.
14. L-entiles Gen. xxv. 34.
15. D-aniel Dan. x. 11.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 43.
JRrti. Watch Psalm xc. 4.
Second. Man Psalm ciii. 15 ; civ. 23.
Whole. WATCHMAN... Psalm cxxvii. 1.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 44. — " THE MOUNT OF OLIVE§.*<
Luke xxii. 39.
1. T-obiah Nehemiah vi. 19.
2. H-annah 1 Sam. i. 10.
3. E-zekiel Ezek. i. 1.
4. M-ordecai Esther viii. 15.
5. 0-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 4.
6. U-rijah Jer. xxvi. 21.
7. N-aomi Ruth i. 6, 7.
8. T-iglath-pileser 2 Kings xv. 29
9. O-thniel Judges i. 13.
10. F-elix Acts xxiv. 25.
11. O-g Num. xxi. 33.
12. L-evi Num. iii. 6, 7.
13. Lsaac Genesis xxiv. 68
14 V-ashti Esther i. 12.
15. E-liphaz Job xri. 2.
18- S-aul 1 Sam. xxxi 4
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 07
C*Y TO ENIGMA NO. 45. — BE NOT FAITHLKM. — John KJL. 27.
B-alaam 2 Peter ii. 15.
E-gypt Gen. xxi. 21.
N-aboth 1 Kings xxi. 3.
Omer Exodua xvi. 86.
T-arsus Acts xi. 25.
Forty Acts vii. 29, 80.
A-bel Heb. XL 4.
I-nterpreter Gen, xlii. 23.
T-imothy 1 Tim. i. 2.
H-ezekiah 1 Kings xx. 21.
L-aban Gen. xxiv. 29, 67.
Elisha 2 Kings xiii. 14.
S-amaria 1 Kings xvi. 28.
S-himei 2 Sam. xvi. 5.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 46. — HAMAN. — Esther VI. 11.
H-adassa-A Esther ii. 7.
A-s-a 2 Chron. xiv. 9-15.
M-iria-m Num. xiL
A-mas-a 2 Sam. xx. 10.
N-aama-n 2 Kings v.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 47.— JESUS.
Joseph Ps. cv. 17-22 , Luke i. 6S-77.
E-san Gen. xxv. 29-34; Heb xii. 16, 17
8-aul 1 Sam. x. 1-16; Acts viii. 1 ; ix. !4
U-zrah 2 Sam. vi. 6, 7.
S-ardis Rev. iii. 1-7.
41 No voice can sing, no heart can frame
Nor can the memory find
A. sweeter sound than Jean's name.
The Saviour of mankind.
93 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 48. — CHRISTIAN WORSHIP
Initials — PRAISE. Finals — PRAYER.
P-hili-;? Matt. x. 3 ; John i. 43, 44.
R-emembe-r Luke xvii. 32.
A-celdam-a Acts i. 18, 19.
I-tal-y Acts xviii. 1, 2.
S-alom-e Mark xvi. 1.
E-leaza-r Matt. i. 15.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 49. — ARAM. — Numb. XxiU. 7. — MAMA.
Ruth. i. 29.
A-ntipas Rev. ii. 13.
R-amah 1 Sam. vii. 17.
A-bner 2 Sam. iii. 20.
M-atton 2 Kings xi. 18.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 50.
1. Cross. 1 Cor. i. 17, 18, 23, 24.
2. Dross.
3. Loss. Lydia. Acts xvi. 14, 15 ; Phil. iii. 7, 8.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 51. — SINAI. — Exod. xx. ; Rom. iii. 20.
1. Sin. Rom. vi. 23. 2. Ai. Josh. vii.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 52.
First. Morning. Psa. xxx. 5. Second. Star. 1 Cor xv. 41.
Whole. MOUNIXG-STAR. .Rev. xxii. 16.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 53. — ESTHER.
Teresh Esth. ii. 21 ; vi. 2, etc.
Heres Judg. i. 35.
Tree* Isa. lv. 12.
.Three Josh. xv. 14.
. A-*CT 11, 1JJ
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. W
Seth Gen. iv. 25.
Seer 1 Sam. ix. 9, 1&.
Resh Psa. cxix. 153.
Rest. Matt. xi. 28.
Thee Mark x. 49.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 54. — 1OYH.
Lrois 2 Tim. 1—6.
O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 4.
V-ashti Esther i. 10—19.
E-li 1 Sam. iii. 13.
1 Cor. xiii. 13. — " And now abideth faith, hope, charity
these three ; but the greatest of these is charity."
1 John iv. 11.— " Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
to love one another."
EEY TO ENIGMA NO. 55.— LOVE AS BRETHREN.— 1 Peter ill. &
L-amech Gen. iv. 19, 22.
O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 7, 12.
V-anity Eccles. i. 1, 14.
E-lah 1 Sam. xxi. 9.
A-bijam 1 Kings xiv. 31.
S-abeans Job 1 14, 15.
B-lastus Acts. xii. 20.
R-amoth Gilead 2 Kings ix. 1, 2.
E-lam Gen. xiv. 1.
T-ertius Rom. xvi 22.
H-aggith 1 Kings i. 5.
R-uth Ruth iv. 10.
E_(j Josh. xxii. 34.
N-aphtali Gen. xxx. 8.
100 CURIOSITIES OF TSE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 56. — VINE. — John. XT. 6
1. V-igilance. 1 Peter v. 8.
2. I-nheritance 1 Peter i. 4.
S. N-egligence 2 Peter i. 12.
4. E-vidence Heb. xi. 1.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 57.
Key to Threefold Acrostic.
Stanza 123456789 10.
Redempt ion.
B y p u r c h as e.
And by p owe r.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 58.— ANAMMELECH— 2 Kings XVil. 8}
1. Heman. 1 Kings iv. 31.
2. Camel Lev. xi. 4.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 59. — MANOAH.— ^Judges xiil
1. Man. 2. OI 3. Ah!
SKY TO ENIGMA NO. 60.— " ABISHAG."— 1 Kings i. 4.— « k
BEKAH."— Gen. xxiv. 16.
1. A-sshu-r Gen. x. 11.
2. B-ernic-e Acts xxv. 23.
3. I-shbi-beno-6 2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17.
4. S-hunammit-e 2 Kings iv. 16-
5. H-abakku-£ Hab. ii. 2.
xv. ,
7. G-oliat-A 1 Sam. xvii. 42—51.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 61.— ADRAMMELECH.— 2 Kings *h 37
1. Lamech Gen . iv. 19—21.
2. Ed Joshua xxii. 10, 34.
3. Ram Job xxxii. 2, etc
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. KM
«FY TV ENIGMA NO. 62.- -WAIT ON THE LORD. — Psalm. XXvii. H
W-elL 2 Sam. xvii. 17, 19.
A-inos Amos i. 1.
I-rad Gen. iv. 17, 18.
T-ola Judges x.l.
O-badiah Obad. 1-16.
N-ehushtan 2 Kings xyiii. 4.
T-imnath Judges xiv. 5, 6.
H-achaliah Neh. i. 1.
E-lisheba Exod. vi. 23.
L-achish 2 Kings xviii. 17.
O-nesiphorus 2 Tim i. 16.
R-ezin 2 Kings xvi. 5.
D-an Rev. vii. 5 — 8.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 63. — SUB-MISSION.— Matt. XlilL 11 |
Job. i. 11.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 64.— JEHOSHAPHAT.— 2 ChrOn. XX 31, 32
1. J-osepn Gen. xli. 41 — 43.
2. E-phah Zech. v. 5—11.
3. H-oshea 2 Kings xvii. 3, 4.
4. O-shea Num. xiii. 8, 16.
5. S-haphat 1 Kings xix. 19 ; 2 Kings ii. 13.
6. H-eth Gen. xlix. 29, 31.
7. A-saph 1 Chron. xxv. 6 ; Psa. 1. and Ixxiii
to Ixxxiii.
8. P-aseah Ezra ii. 49 ; Phaseah, Neh. vii 5!
9. H-osah Josh. xix. 19.
10. A-jah Gen. xxxvi. 10, 24, 25, and 2.
11. T-oah 1 Chron. vi. 34.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 65. — HORSEMAN. — NahllHl ill. 3
Horse Deut. xvii. 16
Man . ..Psa oxliv. 3,4.
10* CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 66. — EVE. — Gen. lit. 1&.
E-lijah 1 Kings xix. 4.
V-ine . . .John xv. 3 .
E-sther Esther ii. 7.
KF,Y TO ENIGMA NO. 67. — " 8ARGON — TARTAN. '— ISA. K* i
S-anballa-/ Neh. iv. 1.
A-ban-a 2 Kings v 18
R-ide-r. Exodus xv. 1.
G-rea-f Psa. cxxxvi. 4.
O-she-a Num. xiii . 8.
N-u-n Num. xiii. 8.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 68. — GAMALIEL — Actfc KX\\ &
1. Elim Exod. xv. 27.
2. Gaal Judges ix. 14
KKY TO ENIGMA NO. 69. — ARIMATHfiA. — Matt XXV11 57
1 Ahira Numb. i. 15.
2 Tema Gen.xxv. 15.
KEY IO ENIGMA NO. 70. — 8AMUKI. — HANNAH. — 1 Saifi 1, 2C
S-eraiah. Jer. li. 59.
A-bora 2 Kings v. 12.
M-attan 2 Kings xi 18.
U-pharsin Dan. v. 25.
E-liada 2 Chi on. xvii. 17.
L-ibnah Joshua xxi. 13.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO 71.— THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
1 . T-abitha Acts ix. 36—39.
2. H-agar Gen xxi. 14.
3. E-zekiel Ezekiel i. 1.
4. G-ehazi 2 Kings v. 25.
5. O-reb Judges vii. 25.
*. 0-badiah ' KiMirs xviii. 5,
7 D-anifil. . , U.inicl vi. 23.
ENIGMAS. 108
8. S-amson Judges xv. 15.
9. H-ezekiab 2 Kings xx. 5.
10. E-lah 1 Sam- xvii- 2» 51
11. P-eter Luke xxii. 61, 62.
12. H-oreb Exodus iii. 1.
13. E-sau Gen. xxvii. 41.
14. R-ahab Heb. xi. 31.
15 D-avid 1 Sam. xix. 1, 2.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 72. — DO GOOD.
D-eborah Judges iv. 9.
O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 13.
G-ehazi 2 Kings v. 20, 22.
O-bededem 2 Sam. vi. 10.
O-rpah Ruth i. 4.
D-avid 2 Sam. xviii. 13.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 73. — MOSES — AAROK.
1. M-ammo-n Luke xvi. 9-14.
2. O-n-o Neh. vi. 2 ; xi. 35.
3. S-hina-r Gen. xi. 1-9.
4. E-phphath-a Mark vii. 34.
5. S-heb-a 1 Kings x. 2, 10 { Jer. vi 20 ; Kaek
xxvii. 22.
KE1 TO ENIGMA NO. 74. — THE BRANCH. — 2 e« lli. 6 ' r\ \1
1. T-eman Gen. xxxvi. 15.
2. H-or Num. xx. 22, 28.
3. E-lisheba Exodus vi. 25.
4. B-arnabas Acts xiv. 12.
5. R-ephidim Ex. xvii. 1, 3.
6. A-mram Ex. vi. 20.
7. N-icodemus John iii. 1, 3.
8. C-ephas John i. 42.
9. H-anani '2 Cliron. rri. 7
104 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 75.— DAGON. — 1 Sam. V. 1-7.
1. D-oeg 1 Sam. xxi. 7 ; xxii. 9.
2. A-hithophel 2 Sam. xvii. 1-3, 23.
3. G-edaliah 2 Kings xxv. 22-26; Jer. ad, 7
12 ; xli. 2-10.
4. O-bed 2 Chron. xxviii, 6-15.
5. N-adal 1 Sam. xxv. 3, 33.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 76. — " HOW MANIFOLD ARE THY WORKS."
—Ps. cix. 24.
1. H-yssop 1 Kings iv. 33.
2. O-aks of Bashan Isa. ii. 13.
3. W-illow trees Psa. cxxxvii. 2.
4. M-yrtle tree Isa Iv. 13.
5. A-lmond tree Eccles. xii. 5.
6. N-uts Gen. xliii. 2.
7. I-sraelites Exod. xv. 27.
8. F-ig tree Matt. xxiv. 32.
9. O-il tree Isa. xii. 19.
10. L-ign aloes Num. xxiv. 5, 6.
11. D-ry tree Ezek. xvii. 24.
12. A-lmug tree 1 Kings x. 11, 12.
13. R-ose Isa. xxxv. 1.
14. E-den Gen. ii. 9.
15. T-ree of life Rev. xxii. 2.
16. H-eath Jer. xvii. 5, 6.
17. Y-ear by year Deut. xiv. 22.
18. W-heat Exod. ix. 32.
19. Olive tree Judges ix. 8, 0
20. R-od Num. xvii. 8.
21. K-ernels Num. vi. 4.
22. S-ycamore tree Luke xix. 45.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 106
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 77. — " EVEN CHRIST PLEASED NOT HIM
SELF." — Rom. xv. 3.
1. E-sther Esther vii. 3.
2. V-oshni 1 Chron. vi. 28.
3. E-li 1 Sam. iv. 10, 11.
4. N-ebuchadnezzer 2 Cbron. xxxvi. 20
5. C-esar Luke ii. 1.
6. H-ezekiah 2 Kings xx. 1—7.
7. R-abshakeh 2 Kings xviii. 19.
8. I-saiah 2 Kings xix. 5, 6.
9. S-himei 2 Sam. xvi. 5.
10. T-homas John xx. 24.
11. P-aul Acts ix. 8, 16.
12. L-aban Gen. xxxi. 24.
13. E-ve Gen. iii.
14. A-sabel 2 Sam. ii. 18.
15. S-amson , .Judges xvi.
16. E-sau Gen. xxv. 27—34.
17. D-avid 1 Sam. xvii. 49.
18. N-abal 1 Sam. xxv. 10.
19. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 1.
20. T-arshish 2 Chron. ix. 21.
21. H-ushai 2 Sam. xv. 32
22. I-saao Gen. xxvi, 7.
23. M-ary Mark xvi. 9.
24. S-imeon Gen. xlii. 24.
25. E-liezer Gen. xv. 2; xxiv.
26. L-ebanon 2 Chron. ii. 8.
27. F-elix Acts xxiv. 27.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 78.— LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. — Matt V. 44
1 L-uke 1 Tim. iv. 11 ; Col. iv 14.
2. O-phir 1 Kings ix. 28; x. 11
3. V-ine John xv.
4. E shx,ol.. . . .Numbers xiii. 23
A CURIOSITIES OF THE LI BLR
5. Y-early Heb. ix. 7, etc.
6. O-bed-Edom 5 Sam. vi. 11.
7. U-zzah 2 Sam. vi. 6, 7.
8. R-hoboam 1 Kings xii. 8.
9. E-lijah 2 Kings ii. 11.
10. N-icodemus John iii. 1.
11. E-lah 1 Kings xvi. 10.
12. M-anasseh (55 years). 2 Chron. xxxiii. 1.
13. I-saac Gen. xxvii.
14. E-zekel Ezek. iii. 26 ; xxiv. 27.
15. S-heba 2 Sam. xx.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 79. — ELIJAH— ELI8HA
1. E-unic-e 2 Tim. i. 5.
2. L-emue-1 Prov. xxx. 1.
3. I-tta-i 2 Sam. xv. 19-21.
4. J-ebusite-s Numbers xiii. 29.
5. A-drammelec-h 2 Kings xvii. 21.
6. H-ammedath-a Esther viii. 5.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 80. — REFUGE. — Heb. vi. 18 ; rii.
1. R-izpah 2 Sam. xxi. 8-10.
2. E-sther .Esther ii. 17.
3. F-elix Acts xxiv. 24, 25.
4. U-nicorn Numbers xxiii. 22.
6. G-ourd Jonah iv. 5, 6.
6. E-uroclydon Acts xxvii. 14.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 81. — GOD BE WITH
1. G-ood Matt. xix. 16, 17.
2. 0-nesimus Phil. x. 16.
3. D-orcas Acts ix. 36—41
4. B-oaz Ruth iv. 13.
5. E-aster. 1 Cor. v. 7. 8
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 107
8. W-hite ............. Rev. vii. 13, 14
7. I-saac ............... Gen. xxi. 4. 6.
' P. T-imothy ............ 2 Tim T.
H-ushai ............. 2 Sam. xvii. 5-14.
10. Y-esterday ........... Ps. xc. 4.
11. O-mega ............. Rev. xxii. 13.
12. U-rim ............... Ex. xxviii. 30
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 82.— PEACE.-^John xiv. 27
1. P-hicol ............. Gen. xxi. 22.
fc. E-bedmelech ......... Jer. xxxviii. 7, etc.
3. A-brara ............. Gen. xiv. 13.
4. C-ephas ............. John i. 42.
(,, E-lim ............... Exodus xv. 27.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 83.— OMNISCIENCE.
1. 0-mri ............... 1 K^gs xvi. 23, 24.
2. M-icaiah ............ 1 Kings xxii. 26.
3. N-amaan ........... 2 Kings v. 1.
4. I-shbosheth .......... 2 Sam. iii. 13; iv. 5, 6.
5. S-himei ............. 2 Sara. xvi. 5; xix. 16, 21
0 C-hilion ............ Ruth i. 2.
7. I-conium ............ Acts xiii. 51.
8. E-mmaus ............ Luke xxiv. 13.
9 N-azarite ............ Numbers vi.
10. C-leopas ............. Luke xxiv. 18.
11. E-liM ............... Matt, xi 14.
108 CURIOSITIES OF THE BlttLh
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 84.— BETHPHAGE.— Matt. XXI 1
]. B-ethany John xi. 1.
2- E-lath 2 Kings xvi. 6.
3. T-imnath Judges xiv. 5, 6.
4. H-amoth Jer. xlix. 23.
5. P-adanaram Gen. xxviii. 1.
6. H-eshbon Num. xxi. 25.
7. A-rimathea Mark xv. 43.
8. G-alilee Matt, xxviii. 16, 17.
9. E-gypt Gen. xlii 1, 2.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 85.— " SEEK YE THE K1NGD )M OF GO
— Luke xii. 31.
1. S-imeon Acts xiii. 1.
2. E-lias James v. 17.
3. E-lymas Acts xiii. 8.
*• K-ish 1 Sam. ix. 1.
5. Youth Lam. iii. 27.
6. E-penetus Roni. xvi. 5.
7. T-urtius Rom. xvi. 22.
8. H-achilah 1 Sam. xxvi.
9. E-thiopia Esther i. 1.
10. K-ezia Job xlii. 14, 15.
11. I-saiah Isaiah i. 1.
12. N-aomi Ruth i. 20.
13. G-ideon Judges vi. 11.
14. D-arius Dan. ix. 1.
15. O-rpah Ruth i. 2, 4.
16. M-iriam Exodus xv. 20.
17. O-badiah Obaaiah i. 1.
18. F-elix Acts xxiii. 33.
19. G-ath 1 Sam. vi. 17.
20. 0-both Num. xxxiii. 43
21. D-rnsilla. . . . Acts xxiv. 24.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 109
TO ENIGMA NO. 86. — "WATCH AJND PRAT." —
Matt. xxvi. 41.
W-ater John viii. 37, 38.
A-rimathea John xix. 38.
T-abitha Acts ix. 40.
C-arrai Joshua vii. 1.
H-iddekel Daniel x. 4.
A-mos Amosi. 1.
N-oadiah Neb. vi. 14.
D-emitrius Acts xix. 24.
P-hinehas Num. xxv. 11.
R-ezin 2 Kings xvi. 6.
A-bel 2 Sam. xx. 28.
Y-oke Lam. iii. 27.
KKY TO ENIGMA NO. 87. — ISAIAH — DAJN'IKL.
1. I-chabo-rf , 1 Sam. iv. 21; xiv. 3.
2. S-amari-a 1 Kings xvi. 24.
3. A-hima-n Num. xiii. 22.
4. I-su-i Gen. xlvi. 17 ; Num. xxvi. 44
5. A-nis-e Matt, xxiii. 23.
6. H-ie-/ 1 Kings xvi. 34.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 88. — " THE LORD 18 MT LIGHT.'
1. T-homas John xx. 24.
2 H aman Esther v. 11
3. E-zra Ezra vii. 6.
4. L-emuel Prov. xxxL 1.
5. O-thniel .Judges iii. 9.
6. R-ehoboam 1 Kings xii. 8.
7. D-arius Dan. vi. 26.
8. I-shbosheth 2 Sam. iv. 5— «
9. S-anballat . . .Neh. vi.
V J CURIOSITIES OF T11E HltiLE
10. M-anoah Judges xiii. 15, 16.
11. Y-ofce Matt. xi. 30.
12. L-ot Gen. xiii. 10.
13 I-shmael 2 Kings xxv. 25.
14 G-ehazi 2 Kings v. 20-27.
15. H-eber the Kenite. . . .Judges v. 24.
16. T-igLath-pileser 2 Kings xv. 29.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 80. — HAGAR. — Genesis XVI. ft-10.
1. H-zael 2 Kings viii. 12; xiii. 22.
2. A-chan Joshua vii.
3. Gr-ideon Judges vii.
4. A-bimelech , Judges ix. 53, 54.
5. R-abbah. 2 Sam. xi. 1.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 90. — FAITH. — 1 Peter i. 3; 1 John v. 1
1. F-ire Jeremiah xxiii. 29.
2. A-rk Gen. vii. 1.
3. I-conium Acts xiv. 1-6.
4. T-hyatira Acts xvi. 14.
5. H-eaven Hebrews xi. 16.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 91. — " GOD 18 LOVE." — 1 John i- 1
1. G-old (tried in the fire). Zee. xiii. 9; 1 Peter i. 7.
2. O-ath Heb. vi. 16, 17.
3. D-eath Rom. vi. 23.
4. I-dle soul Prov. xix. 15.
5. S-alt Matt v. 13.
6. L-amb Rev. v. 6.
7. O-x Isaiah i. 3.
8. V-eil Matt, xrvii. 51.
9. E-agle 2 Sam. i. 23-
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. Ill
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 92. — HEZEKIAH. — Isaiah XXXVil. 15.—
ZEDEKIAH. — 2 Kings xxv. 7.
1. H-u-* Gen. xxii. 21.
2. E v-e Gen. iiL 20.
3 Z-elopheha-d Num. xxvii. 7
4. E-unic-e 2 Tim. i. 5.
5. K-insfol-fc Job xix. 14
6. I-tto-t 2 Sam. xv. lu.
7. A-s-a 1 Kings xv. 13.
8. H-anania-A Daniel i . 7.
fEY TO ENIGMA NO. 94. — " T IVE PEACEABLY." — Roin. XU. Itl
L-uke Col. iv. 14.
Israel Gen. xxxii. 28.
V-ine John xv. 5.
E-lam Exodus xv. 27.
P-hiUippi Phil. iv. 15, 16.
E-zra Ezra vii. 6.
A.-mos Acts xv. 16, 17.
0-ilicia Acts xxi. 30.
E-liakim 2 Kings xiii. 34.
A-bner 2 Sam. ii. 8.
B-athsheba 1 Kings i. 1 1 .
L-evi 2 Chron. xi. 14.
Y-outh Lam. iii. 27.
tVT TO ENIGMA NO. 95. — SIMON PETER.— Matt X 2
Mark, iii, 16 ; Luke vi. 14.
1. B-a-p Psa. cir. 16.
2. I-c-« Pea. cxlvii. 17.
3. M-oun-i Matt. v. 1.
4. O-n-< 1 John v. 7.
112 CURIOSITIES OF THE L.IBL&.
KKT TO ENIGMA NO. 96.—" YET THER* M RO<>W."-
Luke xiv.22.
Y-outh 1 Sam. xvii. 33.
E-tiam 2 Sam. xi.3.
T-hessalonica. 2 Tim. iv. 10.
T-irzah 1 Kings xvi. 9.
H-aran Gen. xi. 29.
E-thiopia Jer. xxxviii. 7.
R-ahab James ii. 25.
E-glah 2 Sam. iii. 5.
I-ron Judges iv. 2, 3.
S-othenes Acts xviii. 17.
R-echab 2 Kings x. 15, 16.
O-mri 1 Kings xvi. 21, 2:2
O-bed Ruth iv. 16, 17.
M-ene Dan. v. 25.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 97. JEHOIADA— ATHALIAH.— 2 CiiTC2
xxii. 10, 11 ; xxiii. 14 ; xxiv. 22.
1. J-egar-sahaduth-a Gen. xxxi. 47.
2. E-as-f Judges vii. 12 ; viii. 10.
3. H-achila-A 1 Sam. xxvi. 1, 9, 25.
4. O-she-a Num. xiii. 8, 16.
5. I-shmae-; Gen. xxi. 16 ; xxv. 12.
6- A-i Joshua vii. 5, 0.
7- D-*r-a Dan. iii. 1, 12.
8. A-bia-A i Sam. viii. 2. 3.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. il
*FV TO ENIGMA NO. 98. — JERUSALEM. — Psa. xlviii. 2.— BKTH-
LEHEM. — Matt. ii. 6.
1. J-oar* 1 Kings ii. 32—34.
2. E-v-« Gen. iii. 6, 20.
3 R-es-f..... Heb. iv. 9.
4 U-rija-A 2 Kings xvi. 10—16.
5. S-helumiei-f Num. ii. 12.
6. A-gagit-e Esther iii. 10; 1 Sam. 15, 3d.
7. L-ais-A Judges xviii. 27—29.
8. E-unic-e 2 Tim. 1, 5 ; Acts xvi. 1.
9. M-ahanai-m Gen. xxxii. 1, 2.
IUCYTO ENIGMA NO. 99. — AMA8A. — 2 Sam. xvii. 25; rx. 10.—
ABNER.— 1 Sam. xiv. 50, 51 ; 2 Sam. iii. 27.
1. A-rabi-a Gal. i. 17.
2. M-era-6 1 Sam. xiv. 49.
2. A-bdo-n Judges xii. 13—15.
4. S-almon-« Acts xxvii. 7.
5. A-r Deut ii. 9.
AN8WF.R NO. 100.—" LET THERE BE LIGHT." — Gen i. 3.
L-achish 2 Kings xiv. 19.
E-gypt Gen. xii. 10 ; xlii. 1, 2.
T-ibni 1 Kings xvi. 21.
T-eKel Dan. v. 27.
H-aman Esther iii. 10.
E-lijah 1 Kings xxi. 19.
R-izpah 2 Sam. xxi. 10.
E-sarhaddon 2 Kings xix. 37.
B-enhadad 1 Kings xx. 42.
E-glon Judges iii. 14.
L-evi Deut. x. S.
I-saiah 2 Kings xix. 20.
(r-ilboa 1 Sam. xxxi. 8.
H-anani 1 Kings xvi. 1.
5 Cbron. xwiii. 20.
!H CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
KKY TO ENIGMA NO. 101. — "ALL SEEK TRKlft OWl».n«
Phil. ii. 21.
A-bner 2 Sam. xvii. 57
L-ebbeus Matt. x. 3.
L-ystra Acts xiv. 8, 13.
S-ihoD Deut. i. 4.
E-liezar. Gen . xxiv. 33.
E-nos Gen. iv. 26.
K-adash-barnea Nam. xxxii. 8.
T-amar 2 Sam. xiv. 27.
H-annah 1 Sam. i. 23, 28.
E-lijah 1 Kings xix. 13, 15.
I-talian Acts x. 1.
R-abbah 2 Sam. xii. 27.
0-phir 1 Kings xxii. 48.
Wood 1 Sam. xiv. 26, 27.
N-azareth Luke i. 26, 27.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 102. — CROSS.
Isaa-c Gen. xxvi. 18.
Sei-r Gen. xxxvi. 8.
S-o, 2 Kings xvii. 4.
Stephana-s 1 Cor. i. 16.
Matthia-s Acts i.26.
ANSWER NO. 103. — RUTH — BOAZ. — Matt. i. 6
1. R-aha-5 John ii. 8 \ Heb. xi. 31,
2. U-nt-o Matt. xi. 1.
8. T-ol-a Judges x. 1.
4. H-n-z . . .Gen. xxii. 21.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. llfi
*EY TO ENIGMA NO. 104. — Initials — DRUSILLA ; F\nal9—*J*i>
FELIX.
D-almanuth-a Mark viii. 9, 10.
R-oma-n Acts xxii. 25, 29.
U-ncircurncise-d ... .1 Sam. xvii. 36.
S-herif-/ Dan. iii. 2, 3.
I-gnoranc-e Acts iii. 13-17.
L-emue-Z Prov. xxxi. 1.
L-o-Amm-t Hosea i. 9.
A-rta-z-erxes Ezra vii 12.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 105. — BARNABAS. — Acts xiv. 11-20
Bar-ley Ruth ii. 17.
Na-il Judges iv. 21.
Bas-ket Acts ix. 25 ; 2 Chron. xi. 32.
EKY TO ENIGMA NO. 106. — KADESH-BARNEA. — Deut. UC. 23.
K-esi-a Job xlii. 14.
A-ge-e 2 Sam. xxiii. 11.
D-alpho-n Esther ix. 7.
E-lieze-r Gen. xv. 2.
S-hime-a 1 Chron. iii. 5.
H-oba-Z> Num. v. 29.
TO ENIGMA NO. 107.— " GOD RESI8TETH THE PROUD."—
1 Peter v. 5.
G-era 2 Sam. rvi. 5.
O-thniel Judges i. 13.
O-elilah Judges xvi. 18
116 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIRT *.
ActsxiilS.
E-aster ............ Acts xii. 4.
S-hushan ........... jSTeh. i. 1.
I-conium ........... Acts xiii. 51.
S'm ................ Exodus xvi. 1
T-arsus ............. Acts xxi. 39.
E-noch ............ Jude 14, 15
T-heudas ........... Acts v. 36.
H-ebron ............ Numbers xiii. 22.
T-yre ............... Isaiah xxiii. 8
H-ezekiah .......... 2 Kings xviii. 4.
E-phraim ........... Numbers xiii 8.
1 Sam. xxv. 44.
R-ebekah ........... Gen. xxvii. 6, 17.
O-badiah ........... 1 Rings xviii. 3.
U-zziah ............. 2 Chron. xxvi. 19.
D-eborah ---- • ....... Judges v. 7.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 108.— NAOMI.— Book of
Na-hum.
O-badiah.
KET TO ENIGMA NO. 109.—" IT SHALL BE WELL WITH 1 HI
RIGHTEOUS."
I-srael ........ ..... Num. xi. 10.
T-aberah ........... Num. xi. 3.
S-eer ............... i sam. ix. 9.
H-obab ............. Num. x. 29.
A-bsalcm .......... 2 Sam. xiv. 25.
L-jdia .............. Acts xvi. 13, 14
l'-'ike ............. 2 Tim. iv. 11.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 117
B-ethany Luke x. 38 ; John xi.
E-lah 1 Sam. xvii. 2.
W-isdom Prov.viii.il.
E-zekiel Ezek. i. 1.
L-evi Gen. xxxv. 23.
L-amech Gen. v. 28.
W-ise-men Matt. ii. 1-11.
I-shmael Gen. xxi. 9-21.
T-abor Psalm Ixxxix. 12.
H-oreb Deut. v. 1.
T-hyathira Acts xvi. 14.
H-ophni 1 Sam. ii. 34.
E-uphrates Gen. ii. 14.
R-achel Gen. xxix. 9.
I-flaac Genesis xxvii.
G-ebozi 2 Kings v. 20.
H-ezekiah 2 Kings xx. 8-11.
T-yre 1 Kings v. 1.
E-limelech Ruth i. 1, 2.
O-badiah Obad. i. 1.
U-rimaii<l Thummim.Exodus xxviii. 30.
S-alvation Rev. vii. 9-21.
KET TO ENIGMA NO. 110.— THOU GOD 8EE8T M«.-
Gen. xvi. 3.
T-hummim Exodus xxviii. 30.
H-annah 1 Sam. ii. 1 .
O-bed-edom 1 Chron. xiii. 14.
U-lai Dan. viii. 2.
G-ennesaret Mark vi. 52.
O-rnan 1 Chron xxi. lf>
D-elilah. . Tud. xvi. 18.
118 CURIOSITIES OF THE
S-apphira Acts v. 9, 10.
E-nos Gen. iv. 26.
E-noch Gen. iv. 17.
S-aul 1 Sam. xviii 8.
T-abitha .Acts ix. 40, 41.
M-idian Exodus ii. 15.
E-lah 1 Sam. xvii. 2.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 111. — I AM THAT I AM. — Eiodufl Ul. 4
I-shmaelites Gen. xxxvii. 28.
A-binadab 1 Chron. ii. 13.
M-aachah 1 Kings xv. 10.
T-ekoah 2 Sam, xiv. 2.
H-abakkuk Hab. ii. 4.
A-hithophel 2 Sam. xv. 31.
T-hyatira Acts xvi. 14.
I-shboseth 2 Sam. ii. 10.
A-nthoth 1 Kings ii. 26.
M-alachi Luke i. 17.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 112. — " HOPE THOU IV €K>D. '—
Psalm xlii, 11.
H-ebron 1 Sam. ii 2-*.
O-thniel Judges i. 11, 33.
P-adan-aram Gen. xxviii. 5.
E-lisha 2 Kings iii. 11.
T-erah Gen. xi. 31, 32.
H-azael 2 Kings viii. 15.
O-livet 2 Sam. xv. 30
U-ri Exodus xxxi. 1, 2.
I-sboheth 2 Sam. iv. 5, 6.
N-aehons 2 Sam. vi. 6.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA s. us
G-ibal Josh, v 12.
O-bed Ruth iv. 17.
D-emetrius Acts xix. 24, 20.
KIT TO ENIGMA NO. 113.— HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTH -
Psalm xcv. 8.
H-adad 1 Kings iv. 14.
A-lexandria Acts xviii. 24.
R-ome Acts xix. 21.
D-ura Dan. iii. 1.
E-lah 1 Sam. xxi. 9.
N-adab 1 Kings xiv. 20.
N-athan 1 Kings i. 10.
0-ded 2 Chron. xxviii. 9.
Tertius Rom. xvi 22.
Y-oke Gen. xxviL 4.
O-zem 1 Chron. ii. 15.
U-riah 2 Sam. xii. 9.
R-ephidim Exodus xvii. 8.
H-ephzi-bah 2 Kings xxi. 1.
E-phphatha Mark vii 34.
A-eenath Gen. xli. 45.
R-ahab. James ii. 15 ; Heb. xi 31.
T-yrannas Acts xix. 9.
S-abeans Job i. 15.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 114. — GLORY TO GOD.— Luke U. 14
1. G-ad 2 Sam. xxiv 11.
2. L-nz Gen. xxviii. 19.
3. 0-badiah 2 Kings xviii. 4.
4. R-ezin 2 Kings xv. 42.
* Y-early. Jud. TI. 4L
120 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
6. T-aphanhes Jer. xliii. 8, 9.
7 O-bed-Edom 2 Sam. vi. 11.
8. G-eba 1 Kings.
9. G-nesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16.
10. D-eborah. . Gen. xxxv. 8.
MT TO EASTER ACROSTIC NO. 115. — NOW IS CHRIST RISE*
FROM THE DEAD. — 1 Cor. XV. 20.
N-oah Gen. ix. 20, 21.
O-badiah Obadiah i.
W-orehip Matt. iv. 10.
I-bzan Judges xii. 8.
S-alem Gen. xiv. 1&
C-apernaum Matt iv. 13.
H-aggai Ezra v. 1.
R-echpbites Jer. xxxv. 13.
I-* ,ai 2 Sam. xv. 19.
S-enacherib 2 Kings xviii. 3.
T-obiah Nem. iv. 3.
R-ephidim Exodus xvii. 8
I-flhbosheth 2 Sam. iv.
S-amuel 1 Sam. xii. 18.
E-benezer 1 Sam. vii 12.
N-ehemiah Nem. i. 11.
F-elix Acts xxiv. 25.
R -amah of Benjamin . 1 Sam. xxviii. &
O-mri 1 Kings xvi. 16.
M-attan 2 Kings xi. 18.
T-ertullus Acts xxiv.
H-aman Esther vii. 10.
E-bed-meleh the
eunuch Jer. ixxviii. 7
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.
D-ungeon Jer. mviii. 13.
E-1-elohe-Israel Gen. ixxiii. 20.
A-chan Joshua vii. 1.
D-euil Eph. vi 11.
BUT TO ENIGMA NO. 116. — ADD TO YOUR FAITH, V1PTU
2 Peter i. 5.
A-pollo8 Acts xviii. 34.
D-amaris Acts xvii. 34.
D-agon 1 Sam. v. 2.
T-atnai ii^zra v. *>.
O-rnan 1 Chron. ixi. 18.
Y-arn. 1 Kings x. 28.
O-badiah Obadiah i.
U_z Job i. 1.
Brehoboth Gen. xxvi. 22.
F-estus Acts xxiv. 27.
A-rchippus Phil. ii.
I-shbi-beuob 2 Sam. xxi. 16.
T-ebeth Esther ii. 16
H-aggeth 2 Sam. iii. 4.
V-ine Isaiah v. 7.
J-dnmea Ezekiel xxrr. IP
R-aguel Mum. x. 29.
T-oi 2 Sam. viii. 10
U-zziah Zee. xir. 5.
E-dcmites Gen. xxvi. 6.
122 CURIOSITIES OF THE HIBLE.
KKY TO ENIGMA NO. 117. — " BE GLAD IN THE LOUD.*' —
Psa. xciv. 34.
1. B-artimeus Mark x. 46.
2. E-lymas Acts xiu. 4.
3. G-ilgal Jud. ii 1.
4. L-ehi Jud. xv. 19
5. A dam Josh. xiii. 16.
6. D-ura Dan. in. 1.
7. I-saac Gen. XXVL 1.
8. N-athan 2 Sam. xu. 13.
9. T-ilgath pilesei , 2 Chron xxviii. 20.
10. H-iram 1 Kings vii. 45.
11. E-glon Jud. iii. 14.
12. L-ystra. . . Acts xiv. 8.
13. O-mri 1 Kings xvi. 16.
14. R-amah 1 Sam. ii. 11.
15. D-athan.. . 2 Kings vi. 13.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO 118. — THOU HAST PUT GLADNESS IN Ml
HEART. — Psa. iv. 7
1. T-heshol-d Ezek. x. 4.
2. H-ama-n Esther vii. 9, 10
3. 0-fie-e Rom. ix. 25.
4. U-ria-* Matt. i. 6.
5. H-erodia-s Mark vi. 19.
6. A-bisha-t 1 Sam. xxvi 8.
7. S-iho-n Num. xxi. 23
8. T-erapi-?n Jud. xvii. 5.
9. P-rophec-y 2 Peter i. 21.
10. U-zzia-fc 2 Chron. xxvi. 16.
11 T-yr-c Isaiah xxiii. 8.
12. G-algoth-a Matt, xxvii. 38.
13. L-odeba-r 2 Sam. xvii. 27.
14. A-rara-f. . . .Gen. viii. 20.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 123
KEY TO EWIGMA NO. 119.— JEREMIAH and ANATHOTH.—
Jer. i. 1.
Joshu-a ............... Dent. xxxiv. 9.
E-kro-n ................ 2 Kings i. 2.
R-eb-a ................ Num. xxxi. 8.
E-gyp-f ................ 1 Kings iv. 30.
M-ephiboshet-A ......... 2 Sam. ix. 6, 7.
I_dd-o ................. 1 Chron. xxvii 81.
A-n-< ................. Prov. vi. 6.
H-orina-A .............. Num. xxi. 16.
KEY TO
ENIGM> NO 120.— BARNABAS.— ActS 1Y. 36, 87
1. B-artimaeus Mark xlvi. 52.
2. A-himelech 1 Sam. xxii. 9.
3. R-echabites Jer. xxxv.
4. N-ineveh Jonah iii.
5. A-ssyria 2 Kings xix. 35.
6. B-ow Gen. Lr. 12.
7. A-rabia Cal. i. 7.
8. S-halmaneser 2 Kings xvii. 3.
IKY TO ENIGMA NO. 121.— DAMASCUS— HANANIAH.— Acts 1
D-ebora-A Gen. xxxx. 8.
A-bana-a 2 Kings v. 12.
M-atta-n 2 Kings xi. 18.
A-quil-a Acts xviik 2, 3.
S-almo-n Ruth iv. 21.
C-ush-t 2 Sam. xviii. 21.
U-zz-a 1 Chron. xiii. 10
(Jen. xvii. 1&
124 CURIOSITIES OF THE B1BLL
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 122.— DANIEL.
1. D-orcas Acts ix. 36.
2. A-bel Gen. iv. 8.
3. tf-athan 2 Sam. xii. 7.
4. I-srael Geii. xxvii. 41.
5. E-gypt Ex. xiii. 3.
6. L-emuel prov. xxxi. 1.
KKY TO ENIGMA NO. 123.— WASH AND BE CLEAN.— 2 Kings V. lit
1. W-idow Luke xxi. 3.
2. A-binadab 1 Sam. xvii. 13.
3. S-hiloh i Sam. iii. 23.
4. H-adassah Esther li. 7.
5. A-malkites. . . 1 Sam. xxx. 7
6. N-aamah Gen. iv. 22.
7. D-amascus Acts ix. 19, 2t».
8. B-enhadad 2 Kings xx. 31.
9. E-phesus Acts xix. 1—9.
10. C-armel i Sam. xxv. 2, 3.
11. L-ydia Actsxvi. 14, 15.
12. E-gypt Gen.xvi. 1.
13. A-bsalom •> Sam. xviii. 18.
14. N-isroch 2 Kings xxxvi. 37.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 124 —PATIENCE.— Rom. V. 8.
1- P-aul ITim. i. 1.
2- A-bel Gen. iv. 11.
3. T-imothy 2 Tim. iii. 15.
4. I-sraelites Exod. xix. 45.
5- E-sau Gen. xxv. 33.
6. N-athaniel John. ix. 17 49.
7. C-anaan Ex. iii. 8.
8. E-pkriam Gen. xlviii. 20.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA S. 1 2 1
JET TO ENIGMA NC . 125.— CLEANSE THOU ME FROM MKC&I
FAULTS. — Psa. cxcii.
1. C-ain ............... Gen. iv. 12.
2. L-amech ............ Gen. v. 28.
3. E-ve ................ Gen. iii. 20.
4. A-dam .............. Gen. iii. 20.
5. N-ehemiah ........... Neh. i. 4.
6. S-aul ................ 1 Sam. xv. 17-30.
7 E-paphroditus ...... Phil. ii. 25.
8. T-ertius ............. Rom. xvi. 22.
9. H-achilah ........... 1 Sam. xxiii. 19.
10. O-ded ............... 2 Chron. xxviii. 9
11. U-rijah ............. 2 Kings xvi. 11.
12. M-anoah ............ Jud. xiii. 17.
13. E-d ............... Josh. xxii. 34.
14. F-elix ............... Acts xxiv. 27.
15. R-ehoboam .......... 2 Chron. x. 13.
16. 0-n ................. Gen. xli. 45.
17. M-oab ............... 2 Kings iii. 27.
18. S-arah .............. Gen. xviii. 11.
19. E-sau ............... Gen. xxxiii. 1&.
20. C-yrus ............. Isa. xlv. 1.
21. R-achab ............. Jer. xxxv. 6.
22. E-zek ............... Gen. xxvi 21.
23. T-homas ............ John xx. 19.
24. F-estas. ............. Acts xxv.
25. A-chan ............. Josh. vii. 20.
26. U-zzah .............. 2 Sam. vi. 6.
27. L-azarus ............ John xi. 43.
28. T-ertulhis .......... Acts xxiv. 2.
29 S-anmel ............. 1 Sam. xv. 26.
126 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
CUT! TO ENIGMA NO. 126.— DRAW NIGH TO GOD.— njafe IV. 0
1. D-aniel 1 Chron. iii. 1.
2. R-iblah 2 Kings xxv. 6.
3. A-haziahs 2 Kings xi. 1.
4. In-a-well 2 Sam. xvii. 18.
5. N-ob. l Sam xxii. 19.
6- I-shbi-benob 1 Sam. xxi. 16.
7. G-oliath l Sam. xvi. 23.
8. H-anani 2 Chron. xvi. 7.
9. T-hebez Jud. ix. 50-54.
10. O-rpah Ruth i. 14.
11 G-adara Mark v. 1-9.
12. O-rnan 1 Chron. xxi. 18.
13. D-othan 2 Kings xi. 13.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 127.— I WILL COME AGAIK.-^John MT *
1. I-ssachar Gen. lix. 14.
2. W-isdom Prov. viii. 30.
3- I-saac '. .Gen. xxi. 16.
4. L-evites Num. i. 50.
5. L-evi Ju4. xv. 9.
6- C-ain.. Gen. iv. 16.
7. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 4.
8. M-elchizedec . Gen. xv. 19.
». E-li l Sam. iii. 13.
10. A-hitophells 2 Sam. xvii. 7.
11. G-omorab Gen. xix. 28.
12. A-himaaz 2 Sam. xvii. 17.
13. I-chabod 1 Sam. iv. 22.
)4. N-ebo. Dent, xxxiv. 1, &
SCRIP TURE EN2 GMAS. 1 27
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 128. — JEBU8 WEPT. John. xi. 36.
1. J-oppa .............. Acts ix. 39.
2. E-limelech ........... Ruth i. 2.
3. S-hephariah .......... 2 Sam. iii. 4.
4. U-zziah .............. 2 Chron. xxvi.
5. S-tephanas .......... 2 Cor. xv. 25.
6. W-onderful .......... Isa. ix. 6.
7. E-liab ............... 1 Sam. xvii. 28.
8. P-adanaram ......... Gen. xxviii.
9. T-erah .............. Gen. xi. 81.
KKT TO ENIGMA NO. 129.— HOBEB. — Ex. Xrii. 6 ; 1 Cor. X
1. H-ezekiah ........... 2 Kings xx-. 1.
2. On ................. Gen. xli. 45.
3. R-aamses ............ Ex. i. 2.
4. E-noch .............. Gen. 22-29.
5. B-abel .............. Gen. x. 10.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 130. — AGABU8. — Acts xi., 27 J XXt
1. A-sher .............. Deut. xxxiii. 25.
2. G-ersLom ........... Ex. ii. 22.
3. A-mmiel ............. Num. xiii. 12.
4. B-alaam ............. Num. xxiv. 17.
6. U-r of the Chaldees. .Gen. xi. 37.
0, S-hishak . , . .2 Chron. xii. 2.
128 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 131. — OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.—
Rom. xii. 21.
1. Q-phir 2 Chron. viii. 18.
2. V-ine Ps. Ixxx. 8; Is. v. 1.
3. E-zekiel Ezekieli.l.
4. R-echabites Jer. xxxv.
5. C-ain Gen. iv. 8.
6. O-thniel Jud. i. 12, 13.
7. M-ary Ex. x.20; 1 Chron. iv. IT,
8. E-gypt Ex. xx. 33.
9. E-sau Gen. xxvii. 34.
10. V-ophsis Num. xiii. 14.
11. I-srael Gen. xlii. 30.
12. L-azarus Lukexvi. 20.
13. W-omen of Thebez.. .Jud. ix. 50.
14. I-bzan. Jud. xii. 8, 9.
15. T-yre Ezek. xxvii. 28.
16. H-ananiah Dan. i. 7.
17. G-erizim Deut. xi. 29.
18. O-badiah 1 Kings xiii. 4.
19. O-wl Isa. xiii. 19.
20. D-anieL Ezek. xiv. 14 ; Dan. xiv. 14
MET TO ENIGMA NO. 132. — EZRA. — Chap. xii. 6.
1. E-1-beth-el Gen. xxxv. 7.
2. Z-ipporah Ex. xviii. 1.
8. R-uth Ruth i. lt>.
4. A-Bahel 2 Sam. ii 18.
ENIGMAS.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 133.— CAPERNAUM.— Matt. xi. 28.
1. C-horazin Luke x. 18.
2. A-ntioch Acts xi. 26.
3. P-ergamos Rev. ii. 12.
4. E-phesua Acts xix. 1.
5. R-ome Acts xxviii. 80.
6. N-ineveh Jonah iiL 5.
7. A-thens Acts xyii. 23.
8. U-z Jobi 1.
9. M-achpel Gen. xxiii. 17.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 184.— " LET NOT YOU* HKABT ••
TROUBLED."
1. L-aodioean Rev. iiL 14.
2. E-phesus
3. T-hyatira Rev. ii. 18-28.
4. N-icodemus John iii. 1-21.
5. O-nesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16-18.
6. T-imothy
7. Y-oke Matt. xi. 18.
8. O-lives, Mount of Acts i. 12.
9. U-nity Ephea iv. 3.
10. R-edeemer Psa. xix. 14.
11. H-annah 1 Sam. i. 14.
12. E-li 1 Sam. i. 17.
13. A-saph 1 Chron. xxv. 1
14. R-amoth Gilead Deut. iv. 34.
15. T-iberias, Sea of John xxi. 1.
16. B-ethesda, Pool of . . . .John v. 2.
17. E-utyohns Acts xx. •.
130 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
18. T-yre Isaiah xxiii.
19. R-ezin 2 Kings xv. 34.
20. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 4.
21. U-riah 2Sam.xi. 15,
22. B-athsheba 2 Sam. xi. 3
23. L-odebar 2 Sam. ix. 4, 5.
24. E-ether Esther viii.
25. D-avid Matt. i. 1.
*EY TO ENIGMA NO. 135.— THE TWO OOWH THAT DREW TH*
ARK UPON ITS RETURN TO ISRAKu —1 Samuel vi. 7—14.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 136.— THE WINDOW FROM WHICH
EUTYCHUS FELL.— Act? XX. 9.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 137.— JOSEPH S COFFIN.— Gen. 1. 26 ;
Exod. xiii IP ; Josh. xxiv. 32.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 138.— " ABBA."— Mark XI Y, 86 ;
Rom. viii. 15 ; Gal. iv. 6.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 139. — GRACE GLORY
1. G-odliness 2 Peter i. 6.
2. R-ighteous 1 Peter iv. 18.
3. A-ssurance Heb. vi. 11.
4. C-onfidence 1 John v. 14.
5. E-lection Rom. ix. 11, 12; 2 Peter I. 10.
1. G-ain 1 Tim. vi. 6.
2. L-ove 1 Cor. viii. 13.
3. O-mega Rev. i. 2; xxii. 13
4. R-est 2Thess. i. 7.
5. Y-ea 2 Cor. i. 10.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 140.— THE NIOHT COMETH.— John IX 1
T-heophilus Luke i. 3; Acta i. 50.
H-azeroth Num. xii. 15, 16.
Mm-l- r\\. 34.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS
N-imrod ....... . . Gen. x. 8, 9.
I-saac Gen. udv. 63.
G-ershom Exodus ii. 22.
H-iddekel Gen. ii. 14.
T-roas 2 Tim. iv.3.
C-ana . . .John xxi. 2.
O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 5, 6.
M-anasseh 2 Kings xx. 21.
E-non John iii. 23.
T-imothy Tim. iv. 12.
H-aran Gen. xi. 27.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 141 — JEZEBEL — OBADIAH.—
2 Kings xviii. 4.
J-ethr-0 Exodus iil 1.
E-liashi-A Neh. viii. 4, 5.
Z-ib-a 2 Sam. ix.
E-lda-d Num. xi. 26-29.
B-eer-lahai-ro-t Gen. xvi. 6-15.
E-lish-a 2 Kings iv. 14. 3.
L-amec-A Gen. v. 80; vi. 8 ; xxii. 7, &
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 142.-r-ABRAHAM— BY FAITH.— Ro»
1. A-binada-6 1 Sam. vii. 1.
2. B-ethan-y Mark xiv. 3.
3. R-oo-/ Mark ii. 4.
4. A-duiath-a Esther i. 14.
5. H-ophn-t 1 Sam. iv. 11.
6. A-rara-< Gen. viii. 4-20.
7. M-oria-* (Jen. xxii. 2, 9, 10
152 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 143. — MELCHIZEDEK. — Gen liv. 18
Psalm ex. 4.
1 M-ar-£ Acts xii. 12; xv. 37, 39.
2 E-v-c Gen. iii. 6.
3. L-aha-«? 1 Chron. iv. 2.
* C-hIo-« 1 Cor. L4.
5. H-aru-z 2 Kings xxi. 19.
8 I Personal pronoun.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 144.—" REST IN THE LORD."—
Psalm xxxvii. 7.
R-abbath 2 Sam. xi. 1.
E-knon 2 Kings i. 2.
S-amaria
T-admor 1 Kings ix. 18.
I-shmael Gen. xvii. 20.
N-ahash 1 Sam. xi. 1.
T-arshish Jonah i. 3.
H-iel 1 Kings xvi. 34.
E-bedmelech Jer. xxxviii. 12, 13.
L-emuel Prov. xxxi. 1.
O-livet 3 Sam. xv. 30.
R-ipzah 2 Sam. xxi. 8.
D-amascus Gen. xv. 2.
KE\ TC ENIGMA NO. 145.— HADASSAH— MORDECAI.-
Esther ii. 7.
1. H-ira-w» 1 Kings v. 1, 15.
2. A-hi-o 1 Sam. vi. 3.
3 D-ebi-r Josh, x, 3, 27.
4. A-ta-rf Gen. i. 10, 11.
5. S-alom-e Mark xvi. I.
6. S-ado-c Matt. i. 14.
7. A-bagth-a Esther i. 10.
8. H-ega-i Esther ii. 8.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 13ft
TO ENIGMA NO. 146. — GIDEON — PHUEAU. —
Judges ii. 9, 11.
1 G-at-A 2 Sam. xxi. 22.
2. I-r-a 2 Sam. xx. 26.
3. D-eka-r I Kings iv. 9.
4. E-lih-w Job xxxii. 1, 6.
5. O-phra-A Judges vi. 11, 14; viii. 32.
6. N-e-p-(heg) Exodus vi. 21 ; Num. xvi
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 147.
1. Rain Isaiah Iv. 10.
2. Bow Lam. ii. 4.
3. Rainbow Gen. xii 12, 17.
^
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 148.
1. Fig. 2. Tree.
Whole, Fig-tree. Luke xiii. 6; Mark ix. 13, 14, 20, 21
KEY TO ENIGMA NO 149. — RICHES.
1. R.uby Prov. xxxi. 10.
2. I-dol 2 Cor. viii. 4.
3. C-amel Matt. xix. 24.
4. H-eavens Psalm viii. 3.
5. E-nd lPeteriv.7.
6. S-pikenard.. John xii. 3.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 150. — ASA — EVE. — 2 Chrcn. xv. ; Gen lif
1. A-b-«-l 1 Sam. vi. 18.
2. S-e-v-an Esther viii. 9.
3. A-r-e-tas 2 Cor. xi. 31.
t»4 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 151. — SERPENT.— 2 Cor. H. 8
1. S-ight Luke iv. 18.
2. E-yes John xi. 15.
3. R-est Matt. ix. 28.
4. P-erdition 2 Peter iii. 7.
5. E-leraents 2 Peter iii. 10.
6. N-ails John xx. 25.
7. T-hieves Matt, xxvii. 38.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 152. — SOLOMON
1. Beth-s-aida Matt. ii. 21.
2. Cr-o-b 2 Sam. xxi. 18, 19.
3. Bethlehem Mic. v. 2.
4. N-o-b 1 Sam. xxii. 9, 19.
5. Ra-m-ah Jer. xxxi. 15, 17.
6. Ar-o-er Deut. ii. 36.
7. Tim-n-ath Jud. 14.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 153. — SENNACHERIB ADRAMMELFCB.
Isa. xxxvii. 37.
1. S-arept-a Luke iv. 25, 26.
2. E-lda-c? Num. xi. 26, 28.
3. N-ebuchadnezza-r Daniel iv. 31, 36.
4. N-ehust-a 2 Kings xxiv. 8, 15.
5. A-mra-m 1 Chron. vi. 3.
6. C-apernau-w Matt. xi. 13.
7. H-eg-e Esther i. 3.
8. E-ge-/ 2 Sam. xx. 19.
9. R-om-e 1 Tim. i. 16, 17.
10 I-saa-c Gen. xvii. 19.
11. B aalbert-A Juices viii. 33.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 13.1
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 154. — THE BREASTPLATE — UR1M AND
THUMMIM.
1. T-oh-w 1 Sam. i. 50.
2 H-adadeze-r 2 Sam. viii. 3.
3. E-l-i 1 Sam. iv. 19, 18.
4. B-ochi-m Jud. ii. 4, 5.
5. R-eb-a Josh. xiii. 21.
6. E-tha-n Psa. 89— title.
7. A-hilu-rf 2 Sam. viii. 16
8. S-anballa-f Neh. ii. 10.
9. T-abera-^ Num. xi. 3.
10 P-all-w 1 Chron. y. x, 2, '6.
11. L-eshe-m Josh. xix. 47; Gen *TX P
12. A-krabbi-m Num, xxxiv. 4.
13. T-o-£ 2 Sam, viii. 9, 10.
14. E-liaki-m 2 Kings xviii. 18.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 155. — DAVID.
1. U-evii 1 Pet. v. 8.
2. A-quila Acts xviii. 2, 3.
3. V-eil Ruth iii. 15.
4. I-dolatry Ezek. xx. 16.
5. D-aniel Dan. vi. 22.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 156. — GOD 18 LOVE.
1. G-oliath 1 Sam. xvii. 4—10
2. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 4.
3. D-avid Psalms.
4. I-shmael Gen. xxi. 13.
5. S-aul 1 Sam xv.
6. L-ydia Acts xvi. 14.
7. 0-mri 1 Kings xvi. ^3, 24.
8. V-ashti Esther i. 11, 12.
9. E-lijah 2 Kings ii. 9-15
136 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 157.— "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTKOC
TION." — Proverbs iv. 13.
1. T-arshish Jonah i. 3.
2. A-biaham Gen. xviii. 7, 8.
3. K-idron 2 Sam. xv. 23.
4. E-zra Ezra vii. 6.
6, F-eluc Acts xxiv. 25, 26.
6. A-aron Exod. xxxii. 22—24
7. S-himei 2 Sam. xvi. 5, 6.
8. T-imothy 2 Tim. iv. 13
9. M-iram 1 Kings v. 9, 10.
10. O-phir 1 Kings ix. 28.
11. L-azarus John xi. 43, 44.
12. D-emas 2 Tim. iv. 10.
13. O-nesimus Philemon 10.
14. F-elix Acts xxiii. 23, 24, 31
15. I-saac Gen. xxii. 9.
16. N-aboth 1 Kings xxi. 1—4.
17. S-hiboleth Judges xii. 5, 6
18. T-rogyllium Acts xx. 15.
19. R-amah 1 Sam. ii. 11.
20. U-zzah 2 Sam. vi. 6, 7.
21. C-ain Gen. ir. 5, 8.
22. T-imothy 2 Tim. iii. 15.
23. I-shbosheth 2 Sam. iv. 5, 6.
24. O-nesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16.
25. N-icodemus John iii. 1, 2.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 158.— " WAIT ON THE LORD."— Psal«
xxvii. 14.
1. W-idowof Nain Luke vii. 12.
2. A-braham Gen. xii. 12, 13.
8. I-shmael Gen. xxi. 18.
4. T-imothy 2 Tim. i. 5 ; iil 15.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 137
6. O-nesimus Philemon 10.
6 N-ehemiah Neh. i. 3, 4.
7 T-abitha Acts ix. 39, 40.
8. H-aggai Hag. i. 3, 4.
9. E-lijah ' .1 Kings xviii.
10. L-ot Gen. xiv. 14.
11. O-badiah 1 Kings xviii. 7—9.
12. R-amah 1 Sam. xxv. 1.
13. D-avid 1 Sam. xiii. 14.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 159. — " NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINE88."-
Romans xii. 11.
1. N-athaniel John i. 47.
2. Q-g Numb. xxi. 33.
3. T-abeel Ezra. iv. 7.
4. S-olomon 1 Kings x. 1.
5. L-amech Gen. iv. 23.
6. O-nesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16.
7. T-erah Gen. xi. 31.
8. H-erod Matt. ii. 3.
9. F-elix Acts xxiv. 1 — 22.
10. U-riah 2 Sam. xi. 14—17.
11. L-amentations Lam. iii.
12. I-shmael 2 Kings xxv. 25.
13. N-aboth 1 Kings xxi. 16.
14. B-artirnams Mark x. 46—49.
15. U-z Job i- !•
16. S-isera Judges iv. 22.
17. I-mmanuel Isa. vii. 14.
18. N-ahash 1 Sam. xi. 2.
19. E-liezer Gen. xv. 2 ; xxiv 12.
20. S-hadrach Dan. iii. 13.
21. S-imeon Luke ii 34, 35.
138 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO EXIGMA, NO. 160.--" GOD IS LOVE."— 1 John IV. 8.
1. G-aza's strong gates San .son bore quite away. Judg. xvi
2.3.
2. O-nesimus' debt Paul said he would pay. Philem. 19.
8 D-agon before the ark foil flatly down. 1 Sam. v. 3, 38.
4 I-chabod's father died beneath God's frown. 1 Sam. iv. 21
6 S-anballat's servant bore a letter forth. Neh. vi. 5, 6
6. L-aban's large flocks were bless'd for Jacob's worth. Gen
xxx. 30.
7. O-thniel by brav'ry won his cousin's hand. Jud. i. 13.
8. V-ashti refused t' obey her lord's command. Esth. i. 12.
9. E-gypt for many years the Hebrews fed. (Gen. xlvii. 27.)
Till forth from thence they were by Moses led.
That God is Love should cheer each anxious heart,
And from that love nought can his children part.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 161. — " CEASE TO DO EVIL." — Isaiah 1. 16.
1. C-rispus 1 Cor. i. 14 ; Acts xviii. 8
2. E-lisha 2 Kings ii. 11, 12.
3. A-bimetech Judges ix. 48, 49.
4. S-olomon 1 Kings iv. 33
6. E-hud Judges iii. 15.
6. T-harshish 1 Kings x. 22.
7. O-rnan's 2 Chron. iii. 1.
8. D-avid's 2 Sam. xxi. 17.
9. O-thniel Judges iii. 9— 1L
10. E-glon Judges iii. 14.
11. V-ashti Estheri.9.
12. T-shboshetn 2 Sam. iii. 15, 16.
18. L-ot Gee xiii. 10, 11.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 139
K«I TO KNIGMA, NO. 162. — " PRAY WITHOUT CEAttlNU. -
1 Thessalonians v. 17.
1. P-hilip Acts viii. 31—35.
2. R-ebekah Gen. xxiv. 63, 64.
3. A-chan Josh. vii. 24, 25.
4. Y-oung pigeon Lev. xii. 6.
5. W-indow 2 Kings ix. 32f 33.
6. I-shmael Gen. xxv. 12—16.
7. T-ekoah 2 Sam. xiv. 1—20.
8. H-annah 1 Sam. ii. 1.
9. O-mri 1 Kings xvi. 23, 2'*
10. U-zziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 9, 10.
11. T-aberah Numb. xi. 2, 3.
( Josh. xv. 14 (See Numb
12« C'aleb 1 xiii.33).
13. E-sau Gen. xxv. 27, 28.
14. A-maziah 2 Chron. xxv. 6, 11.
15. S-aul ' 1 Sam. xxxi. 4.
16. I-saac Gen. xxiv. 2, 3.
17. N-athaniel John i. 47.
18. G-ibeon Josh. x. 12.
KEY TO ENIGMA, NO. 163.— Mizi'AH.— Genesis xxxi. 48, 49
1. M-nason (Calmet) Acts xxi. 16.
2. I-chabod 1 Sam. iv. 21.
3. Z-iklag 1 Sam. xxvii. 6.
4. P-aul Acts ix. 15.
5. A-gag 1 Sam. xv. 33.
6. H-aman . . . Esther vii. 10.
140 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA, 164.— " PRINCE OF PEACE."— Isaiah IX. 6
1. P-isgah Num. xxiii. 14.
2. R-ebekah Gen. xxvii. 41—46.
3. I-conium Acts xiv. 1—6.
4. N-athaniel John i. 48.
5- C-ushi 2 Sam. xviii. 31, 32.
6. E-lhanan 2 Sam. xxi. 19.
7. O-thniel Judges i. 12, 13.
8- F-elix Acts xxiv. 25.
9. P-haraoh Gen. xii. 18—20.
10. E-zra Ezra vii. 6.
11. A-haziah 2 Kings ix. 27.
12. C-apernaum Matt. iv. 13.
13. E-noch Gen. v. 24.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 165. — "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. "-John V.3l
1. S-hibboleth Judges xii. 5, 6.
2. E-vening Gen. i. 5.
3. A-lmighty... . . ijob. «™' 23; Jer
J \ xxxii. 17.
4. R-od (Aaron's) Numb. xvii. 8.
5. C-ountless Rev. vii. 9.
6. H-o, every one that thirsteth Isa. Iv. 1.
7. T-urn ye, turn ye Ezek. xxxiii. 11 .
8. H-ead Eph. v. 23.
9. E-ternity Isa. Mi. 15.
10. S-pirit John iv. 23, 24
11 C-ome Rev. xxii. 17.
12 R-eady Matt. xxiv. 44.
13 1-mage Gen i. 26.
14 P-eace John xx. 26.
15. T-oil Matt. vd. 28, 29.
16. U-rim Numb, xxvii. 21.
17. R-eed Matt. xi. 7.
18. E-mpty Luke i. 53.
19. S-aved . 1 Cor. v. 5,
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. 141
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 166. — " CONSIDER THE LILIES. '-
Matt. vi. 28.
1. C-hedorlaomer Gen. xiv. 17.
2. 0-mri 1 Kings xvi. 28.
3. N-ebuchadnezzar Dan. iv. 33.
4 S-aul 1 Sam. xxviii. 8
5 I-shobosheth 2 Sam. iv. 7.
6 D-avid 2 Sam. i. 17.
7. E-vil-merodach . Jer. lii. 31-34.
8. R-enoboam 1 Kings xii. 8.
9. T-iglath-pileser 2 Kings xvi. 7.
10. H-ezekiah 2 Kings xix. 15-19.
11. E-glon Judges iii. 21, 25.
12. Lemuel Prov. xxxi. 1.
13. I-nner court Esther v. 1.
14. L-achish 2 Chron. xi. 9 ; xxv. 27
15. I-saiah 2 Kings xx. 5-7.
16. E-sarhaddon 2 Kings xxi. 37.
17. S-olomon 2 Chron. i. 12.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 167.—" BE COURTEOUS."—! Peter ill. &
1. B-arzillai 2 Sara. xvii. 27-29.
2> E-li * Sam- iv' 17' 18t
3! C-ain. . . . V Gen. iv. 9, 10.
4 0-bed 2 Chron. xxvii. 9.
5. U-riah 2 Sam. xi. 15-17.
6. R-euben Gen. xxxviii. 26.
7. T-obiah Neh.iv. 3.
8. E-hud Judges iii. 15, 16.
9 0-bed R*th ^. 14-17.
10. U-zzah 2 Sam. vi. 6,7
11 8-amson
142 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 168.— STEPHEN. — Acts vii. 59. ANTIPA8.-
Rev. ii. 13.
1. S-areptra Luke iv. 26.
2. T-ribulatio-n John xvi. 33.
3. E-gyp-f Deut. vii. 8.
i. P-hilipp-t Acts xvi. 12, 25.
5 H-el-/> Ps. be. 11.
6 E-zr-a Ezra vii. 6, 10.
7. N-icodemu-tf John iii. 1, 2 ; xix. 39.
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 169. — GERSHOM. — Exodus Xviii. 3 ; \
Chron. vi. 2 3; Numb. iv. 15. ELEAZAR. — Exodns xxxviii. 1.
1. G-alile-e Luke iii. 1.
2. E-ba-J Deut. xi. 29.
3. R-om-e Acts xviii. 2 ; Luke ii. 1
4. S-amari-a 1 Kings xvi. 24.
5. H-u-z Gen. xxii. 20, 21.
6. O-she-a Numbers xiii 8
7. M-achi-r " ^7™ etc*' *' "
KEY TO ENIGMA NO. 170.— IMMANUEL. — Isdldh vii. 14-
I-saiah ' Isaiah ix. 6, 7.
M-artha Luke x. 40, 41.
M-ary Luke x. 39.
A-nna Luke ii. 36-38.
N-icodemus John xix. 39, 40.
U-r Gen. xi. 28, 31.
E-mmaus Luke xxiv. 13-35.
L-azarug John xi. 43, 44
SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS. US
KEY TO NEW YEARS ENIGMA NO. 171. — " LOOKING UNTO
JESUS."-— Heb. xii. 2.
1. L-ydia Acts xvi. 14, 15.
2 O-Mesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16-18.
3 O-nesimus Philemon, ver. 10, 11
4 K-orah Numb. xvi. 32, 33.
5. [-saiah Isaiah, ix. 6.
6. N-icodemus John iii. 1.
7. G-aius 3 John, ver. 1.
8. U-zziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 19, 20
9. N-athanael John i. 45-49.
10. T-ychicus Ephesians vi. 21.
11. O-badiah 1. Kings xviii. 3, 4.
12. J-udas Matt. xxv. 47.
13. E-lisha 2. Kings v. 10-14.
14. S-tephen Acts vii. 59, 60.
15. U-r Genesis xi. 31.
16. 8-imoD ..Lukexxii 31-34
144 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
KEY TO ANAGRAM NO. 1.
Nos. 6, 5, 1, 2, 3, Hainan.. Esther vii. 10.
•• 3,4,5,6, Noah.... Gen. x. 1.
14 6,2,1, Ham . . . . Gen. x. 6.
;* 1, 2, 3, Man Gen. iii. 24.
" 1, 2, 4, 3, Moon. . .Josh. xv. 55.
41 3,2,5,1, Naam. ..1 Chron. iv. 15.
*4 3, 4, No Jer. Ivi. 25.
•« 4, 3, On Gen. xli. 45.
KEY TO ANAGRAM NO. 2. —NEBUCHADNEZZAR — DaP H. 28
1. N-adab Levit. x. 1-2.
2. E-zra Ezra vii. 6.
3. B-arcah ... Jer. xxxvi. 4 — 3L
4. U-zzah 1 Sam. vi 6, 7.
5. C-herab ExocL xxxvii. 8.
6. H-eber Jud. iv. 17.
7. A-bner 1 Sam. xrv. 50.
8. D-ura Dan. iii. 1,
9. N-eah, Joskxix.lS.
10. E-den Gen. ii. 8.
11. Z-e»-ed Deut. ii. 14, 13.
12. Z-aDud 1 Kings iv. 5.
13. A-zzah Deut. ii. la
14. R-eu ....Gen. zL 18.
ANSWERS TO SCRIPTURE ANAGRAMS.
KEY TO ANAGRAM NO. 3.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
........ 1 Sam. xiv. 60.
...... • • Ezra ^ H'
B-ezer ....... Deut.iv. 43.
C-ana ........ John «• *•
H-ur .... • Exod. rvil. 12.
A-bana ....... 2 Kings v. 12.
D-an ........ Gen- xlix- 16<
jf.^n ........ Numbers xxvii.
E-hud ....... Judges iii. 15.
Z-eeb ........ Judges vii. 25.
Z-ebah ....... Judges viii. 6.
A-bner ....... 2 Sam. ii. 8.
R-enben ....... Deut. xxxui.6.
KEY TO ANAGRAM NO. 4.
JERUSALEM.
J-ael ........ Judges v. 24.
E lam ........ Gen- *• 22t
Ram ........ lChron.ii.9.
^j.r ......... Gen. xv. 7.
S-amuel ....... 1 Sam. vii. 6.
^_r ........ Numb. xxi. 2
L-emuel ....... Prov. xxxi. 1.
E-sau ....... Gen. xxxvi.a
M-arsHill ...... Acte xvii. 22.
146 CVRIOSITIES OF THE
IKY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 1. — GAMALIEL.
Acts v. 34.
1. G-alilee.. Acts ii. 7.
2. A-nna : Luke ii. 36.
3. M-nason Acts xxi 16.
i. A-nanias Acts v. 5.
5 L-uke 2 Tim. iv. 11.
6. I-conium Acts xiv. 19.
7. E-ramaus Luke xxiv. 13.
8. L-ydda Acts ix. SIP
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 2. — AHABUERUB.
Esther vi. 1.
1. A-bigail 1 Sam. xxv. 3, 39.
2. H-or Numb, xx, 27, 28.
3. A-bner 1 Sam. xir. 50.
4. S-anballat Neh. iv. 7.
5- U-zza 1 Chron. xiii. 10.
6. E-liezer Gen. xv. 2.
7 R-amoth Josh. xx. 8.
* *J-r Gen. xi. 31.
». »-niioh Gen. xlix. 10.
a*T TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 3. — ADULLAM. — 1
xxii. 1, 2.
1 A-bed-nego Dan. iii. 27, 28.
2. D-othan | Gevn/ xx^jj 17
3. U-zziah 2 Chron. xxvi. 19, 20.
4. L-aban , Gen. xxvii. 43.
5. L-uz Gen. xxviii 19.
6. A-chan Josh, vii. 24, 25
7. M-anoah Judges xiii. 2
BIBLE CHARACTE&S. 147
KJCY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 4.— PHILADELPHIA.— Rev. I. 11
1 . P-hilemon Philemon 1, 2.
2. H-erodion Horn. xvi. 11.
3. I-turaea Luke iii 1.
4. L-ystra Acts xiv. 19.
5. A-pollos Acts xviii. 24.
6. D-amascus 2 Cor. xi. 32, 33
7. E-penetus Rom. xvi. 5.
8. L-ebbaeus Matt. x. 3.
9. P-hebe Rom. xvi. i. 2.
10. H-erodians Matt. xxii. 16.
11. I-talian Band Acts x. 1.
22. A-gabus Acts xxi. 10.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 5.— ELIMELECH.— Rt U 1. 2
1. E-liab 1 Sam. xvi. 6, 7.
2. L-aish Judges xviii. 29
3. I-ssachar Gen. xlix. 14.
4. M-achpelah Gen. xxiii. 17.
5. E-bed-melech Jer. xxxviii. 7—1 5.
6. L-ebanon Dent. iii. 25.
7. E-zion-geber 1 Kings xxii. 48.
8. C-yrus Isa. xliv. 28.
9. H-iel 1 Kings xvi. 34.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 6. — AHITHOPHEL. — 2
xvii. 1—23.
1 A-bijah 1 Kings xiv. 13.
2. H-uldah 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.
3. I-shmael Gen. xvi. 12.
4. T-imnath-heres Judges ii. 9
5. H aman Esther vi. 6 ; vii. 10.
6.0-rnan { * <^'™ 23 ;
7. P-i-Hahiroth Exod. xiv. 9, 28.
8. H-ebron 2 Sam. iii. 2, 3.
9. E-ben-ezer 1 Sam. vii. 1'"
10 t - -»mech. . . .Gen. v. 28. i
148 CURIOSITIES OF TEE BIBLE.
KEY TO BIBLB CHARACTERS, NO. 7. — OBADIAH.— 1 King*
xviii. 3.
1. O-rpah .......................... Ruth i. 14, 15
2. B-aalah, or Kirjath-jearim ........ '' Chr°n
3. A-mos .......................... Amos i. 1 ; vii . 14, 15.
4. P-aniel ........................ Daniel vi. 3; v. 29.
5. 1-shbi-benob .................... 2 Sain. xxi. 10, 17.
6. A-chsah ......................... Judges!. 12, 13.
7. Hiel J°26; * *****
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 8. — REBEKAH. — G
xxvii. 6—46.
1. Rrehoboam 1 Kings xii. 13, 19.
2. E-leazar Numb. iv. 16.
3. B-alaam Numb. xxxi. 8.
4. E-lijah 1 Kings xviii. 22 ; xix. 2,3
5. K-eilah 1 Sam. xxiii. v. 12.
6. A-i Josh. vii. 5.
7. Hiram 1 Kings ix. 27, 2f
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 9. — BARZILLAI. — 1
xvii. 27—29.
1. B-eersheba Gen. xxvi. 26—3!
2. A-bsolom 2 Sam. xv. 10.
8. R-echabites Jer. xxxv. 18, 19.
4. Z-elophehad Numb, xxvli. 7.
6. I-chabod 1 Sam. xiv. 3.
6. L-achish 2 Kings xiv. 19.
7. L-evites Deut. xviii. 1.
8. A-bner 2 Sam. iii. 30, 38.
0 T|vac Gen. xxii. 7, 8.
BIBLE CHARACTERS. 149
TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 10. — JEROBOAM. — 1 King!
xii. 26—33.
1. J-esse 1 Sain. xvii. 58.
2. E-uphrates Josh. i. 4.
3 Ramah 1 Sam. vii. 15—17.
4. O-thniel Judges iii. 9, 10.
5. B-atbsheba 1 Kings ii. 13.
6. O-g Numb. xxi. 33—35.
7 A-hio 2 Sam. vi. 3.
8. M-ordecai Esther be. 4.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 11. — GEHAZI. — 2 Kmg8
v. 25—27.
1. G-ilgal Josh iv. 20.
2. E-ndor 1 Sam. xxviii. 7, 9.
3. H-ur Exod. xvii. 12.
4. A-biathar 1 Sam. xxii. 20.
5. Z-arephath 1 Kings xvii. 9, 15, 16.
6. I-ndia Esther i 1.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 12. — CORNELIUS. — Acts X. 1, 2
1. C-laudius Lysias Acts xxii. 28; xxiii. 2<J
2. O-nesiphorus 2 Tim. i. 16, 17.
3. R-ome Acts xviii. 2.
4. N-ain Luke vii 11 — 15.
5. E-uroclydon Acts xxvii. 14.
6. L-aodiceans Rev. iii. 14 — 19.
7. I-llyricum Rom. xv. 19.
J, U-rbane Rom. xvi. 9.
9 . S-usanna Luke viii. 3.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 13. — EVIL-MERODACH.—
2 Kings xxv. 27.
1. E-xorcists Acts xix. 13.
2. V-eil Ruth iii. 15.
3. I-mage 1 Sam. xix. 18.
(. Loaves Lev. xxiii. 17.
150 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
5 M-urrain .................... . . .Exod. ix. 3.
(Gen. xxxvii. 28, Matt
7. R-ue ........ ................... Luke xi. 42.
8. O-nion .......................... Numb. xi. 5.
9. D-oeg .......................... 1 Sam. xxii. 9.
10. A-rgument ...................... Job. xxiii. 4.
11. C-oat ........................... Gen. xxxvii. 33.
12. H-usband ....................... Prov. xii. 4.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 14. — ISHMAEL, ABRAHAM.—
Genesis xxi. 16; xvi. 16
1. I-r-a ............................ 2 Sam. xx. 26.
2. S-egu-b ....................... 1 Kings xvi. 34.
3. H-amo-r ........................ Gen. xxxiii. 19
4. M-ar-a .......................... Ruth i. 20.
5. A-rauna-h .............. ......... 2 Sam. xxiv. 22.
6. E-thiopi-a ....................... Acts viii. 27.
7. L-ukewar-m ..................... Rev. iii. 16.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 15.
The earliest, the deepest, and the most lasting impressions the
mind receives are those which the mother imparts. The piety
of Isaac may in somft degree be traced to the faith and prayer-
fulness of Sarah (Heb. ix. 11; Gen. xvii. 15, 16; Gen. xxi. 6).
The eminence of Jacob was possibly to some extent to be
ascribed to the home influence and special affection of Beoekah
While Esau was much engaged in the chase, Jacob was under
the tuition of his mother. (Gen. xxv. 27, 28). Moses and
Aaron were examples of the holy influence the eminent piety of
their mother Jochebed had upon them (Exod. ii. 3; Heb. xi.
23). Though Samson is an affecting illustration of backsliding
from the ways of the Lord, yet his early devotednes* to the ser
vice of God was doubtlessly owing to the influence of his
mother, the prayerful and believing wife of Manoah (Judges
BIBLE CHARACTERS. 15]
xiii.) Samuel was born in the atmosphere of Hannah's devo
tion, and his childhood spent under her pious care (1 Sam. i.
27, 28). Other Old Testament worthies might be selected to
show the beneficial influence the maternal relation directly 01
indirectly exerts. The most remarkable proof in the New Tes
tament of the salutary influence of maternal piety is that oi
Eunice and Lois on the mind, character, and usefulness o!
Timothy (2 Tim. i. 5).
Maternal influence, so often used for good, possesses also
great power for mischief to the interests of those on whom it is
exercised. " As is the mother, so is the daughter." (Ezek.xvi.
44). The wickedness of Ahaziah is accounted for on this prin
ciple : " His mother Athaliah was his counsellor to do wickedly "
(2 Chron. xxii. 3). The inspired historian doea not leave on
record the fact of a YOUNG WOMAN committing such an atro
cious deed as to ask that a good and faithful man should be be
headed, without telling the reader she was instructed of Hero^as
her mother to do this thing (Matt. xiv. 6—8).
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 16.
Samson, though the strongest man, was so weak when trussing
in himself that he was twice ensnared by Philistine women«
His strength was not in his hair, but in the Lord; and while
his locks were unshorn he retained the outward sign of his de-
votedness to the Lord. When he parted with his locks he
resigned the last sign of his being a Nazarite, his apostasy was
complete, and he was the easy victim of his enemies (Judges
xvi. 17—20).
Goliath of Gath, the mighty Philistine giant, trusted in the
height of his form and the strength of his arm; but he fell be-
fore the sling and stone of the shepherd youth who assailed him
in the strength of the Lord, and not relying on his own skill
strength, or weapons (1 Sam. xvii. 40 — 45).
Hazael, the king of Syria, relying upon his own morat
strength, shrunk from the scenes of infamy which Elisha tha
prophet predicted he would enact. His self-confidence induc«o
152 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE
him to exclaim, " But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should
do this great thing?" (2 Kings viii. 13.) His subsequent his
tory shows that he exceeded in his doings the wickedness
which in his words he deprecated and deemed impossible.
Nebuchadnezzar, trusting in himself and in his vast resources
in the spirit of self-vaunting, walked in his palace, and said
" Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house oi
the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of
my majesty ? " (Dan. iv. 30.) While he was yet boastfully
speaking, even in the same hour, he is deprived of his reason,
and sent to herd with the beasts of the field. And afterwards
he acknowledges his sin, adores the righteousness of God, and
leaves on record his testimony, " I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and
extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth,
and his wa'ys judgment : and those that walk in pride he is able
to abase" (Dan. iv. 47). The original document containing
this testimony Sir Henry Rawlinson has discovered and brought
to this country.
Peter the apostle trusted to himself when he said to his Lord,
"Though all should be offended, yet will not I" (Mark xiv.
29) ; and, " Lord, I am ready to go with thee both into prison
and to death " (Luke xxii. 33). He failed, and he denied the
heavenly Master to whom he had expressed the strongest at
tachment
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 17.
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, recklessly entered on the
gervice of the Lord, and " offered strange fire before the Lord,
which he commanded them not. And there went out fire frono
the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord ''
(Lev. x. 1. 2).
Miriam treated her brother Moses irreverently, and spake
against him, and she was smitten with leprosy, and she was shut
out of the camp seven days (Numb. xii. 1 — 8; 10, 14, 15).
Koran, Datnan, and Abiram formed a conspiracy, and treated
Moses with irreverence, and attempted to take upon themselves
BIBLE CHARACTERS. 15S
to oflei incense. The earth swallowed up some, and " fire from
the Lord consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered
incense " (Numb. xvi. 31—35).
Uzzah irreverently put forth his hand and touched the ark
when the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error,
and there he died by the ark of God (2 Sam. vi. 6).
Euty onus, a young man attending the preaching of Paul, fell
into a deep sleep. He sunk down with sleep, and " fell down
from the third loft, and was taken up dead " (Acts xx. 9).
These are some of the solemn warnings against indifference
and irreverence towards holy things and persons; and there ar«
others which may be searched out.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 18.
Enoch walked with God in the exercises of devotion, and he
had the testimony that he pleased God, and was translated, that
he should not see death (Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5).
Isaac was eminent for his solitary meditation and devotional
spirit, and God blessed him, and gave him the desire of his
heart (Gen. xxiv. 63, 67).
Jacob lived in the habit of prayer, so that his very dreams
were of heaven and God ; see the account of the vision of Bethel.
But the highest honor on his devotion was reserved for the more
extraordinary scene at Peniel, when his name was changed from
Jacob to that of Israel, as a memorial that he had power with
God " (Gen. xxxii. 28).
God put honor on the devotion of Elijah, when he stayed the
clouds that they rained not upon the earth for the space of six
months, and when he miraculously fed him during that period.
Again, in answer to the prayer of Elijah, God caused rain to
fall and abundance to appear on the earth (James v. 17. 18).
Hezekiah in his trouble prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord
honored him by granting his request, and saying unto him, " 1
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears : behold I will add
onto thy days fifteen years " (Tsa. xxxviii. 5V
154 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
Daniel maintained his habit of devotion, though death was the
sentence which he incurred by calling upon his God. The Lord
honored him by shutting the mouths of the lions, to which he
had been cast to be devoured (Dan. vi. 27).
The disciples in the upper room at Jerusalem, continuing in
devotion for ten days, were honored with the gifts and graces
af the Holy Spirit, and endowed with miraculous power (Acts
i, 14; ii 4)
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 19.
We might answer this question by quoting the greater part of
the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. In addition
to the worthies there named, we may notice — the shepherds,
who showed their faith in the message of the angel by imme
diately leaving their flocks and going to Bethlehem to see the
young child. Simeon and Anna, watching in the temple, by
faith waited for " the consolation of Israel." The Syrophenician
woman, whose faith sustained her importunity amidst dis
couragements, until the boon she sought for her daughter was
granted. The woman who touched the hem of Christ's gar
ment and was healed. Many others of this class may be cited;
but the most striking illustration of the power of faith is the
dying thief, who addressed Christ as "Lord," though in the
depth of his humiliation; whose faith saw him entering "para
dise," though dying in the greatest ignominy; and who begged
an interest in his remembrance as the richest blessing, though
he appeared in the extreme of destitution. He realized a living
Saviour, though that Saviour was in the agonies of death.
KEY TO BIBLE CHARACTERS, NO. 20.
Isaac is the most remarkable instance of early consecration
to God in his voluntary concurrence with the purpose of his
father who bound him on the altar to offer him up as a living
sacrifice. He was abundantly blessed in his wife Rebekah, in
khe renewal of the Abrahamic covenant, and in his prosperity
in the land of Gerar.
BIBLE CHARACTERS. 155
Moses was a child of faith and prayer, and displayed re
markable decision in his youthful days ; so that while he was
educated by Egyptian tutors in every department of science, he
resisted the idolatrous influences, and adhered most firmly to
the religion of his pious mother. He was honored of God by
being chosen to lead the tribes of Israel, and was favored with
more intimate communion with God than any other of the
Lord'? servants.
Samuel was born in an atmosphere of piety, and when but a
child was called of God to the prophetic office. He was blessed
and honored of God to the end of his days on earth. He an
ointed Saul and David, the first and second kings Qf Israel,
and was the medium of communication between God and his
people.
David " was but a youth " when he gave himself to the Lord,
and he was raised to fehe throne of Israel.
Josiali, though only a child of eight years when he ascended
the throne, yet continued during thirty-one years to reign and
to do that which was right in the sight of the Lord (2 Kings
xxii. 1, 2).
Jeremiah, though we have no definite data by which we can
t«;ll his age when called to be a prophet, yet he must have been
very young to justify him in saying, " Ah, Lord God I behold, I
cannot speak, for I am a child." He was for many years
favored with Divine manifestations, and blessed with holy
courage in the performance of his arduous work.
Timothy, from his childhood, was a possessor of eminent
piety, and was honored of God as a faithful preacher of the
gospel and a recipient of two epistles, which have been docu
ments of .'eference to the church of Christ in general, and to
young ministers in particular.
These and many others illustrate the truth recorded by
Samuel, "Them that honor me I will honor; and they thai
despise me shall be lightly esteemed " (1 Sam. ii. 30).
WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.
Abhorring that which is evil Rom. xii. 9
Abstaining from all appearance of evil 1 Thess. v. 22
Always abounding in the work of the Lord ... 1 Cor. xv. 58.
Always confident . .- 2 Cor. v. 6.
Approving things that are excellent Phil. i. 10.
Asking and receiving 1 Jno. iii. 22.
Avenging not themselves Rom. xii. 19.
Avoiding profane and vain babblings 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Awaking to righteousness 1 Cor. xv. 34.
Bearing one another's burdens Gal. vi. 2.
Believing to the saving of the soul Heb. x. 30.
Bewaring of covetousness I^u. xii. 15.
Blameless and harmless, the Sons of God Phil. ii. 15.
Blessing them which persecute us Rom. xii. 14
Boldly saying the Lord is my helper He xiii. 6.
Bringing forth fruit unto God Rom. vii. 4.
Calling upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. .1 Cor. i. 2.
Careful for nothing ™!- **• &
Careful [only] to maintain good works Tit. iii *.
Casting all our care upon Him 1 Pe. v. 7.
Circumcised without hands Col. ii. 11
Cleansed from all filthiness 1 Cor. vii. 1,
Cleansed with the blood of Christ from all sin . . .1 Jno. i. 9
Note. The Key or answers are numbered separately, which account* foi
'he lapse in paging
444 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
Cleaving to that which is good Rom. xii. 9
Clothed with humility 1 Pe. v. 5
Coming continually unto Christ 1 Pe. ii. 4
Considering Christ Jesus Heb. iii. 1.
Content with such things as we have. ... Heb. xiii. 5
Continuing constant in prayer Rom. xii. 12.
Crucified by the cross unto the world Gal. vi. 14-
Dead to sin Rom. vi. 2
Dead to the law Rom . vii. 4.
Declaring plainly that we seek a country Heb. xi. 14.
Delivered from the power of darkness Col. i. 1?
Denying self, or the old nature Mat. xvi. 14.
Discerning both good and evil Heb. v. 14.
Distributing to the necessity of saints Rom. xii 13.
Dwelling in love and in God 1 Jno. iv. 16.
Earnestly contending for the faith . Jude 3.
Earnestly desiring our house from heaven 2 Cor. v. 2.
Edifying one another 1 Thes. v. 11.
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit Eph. iv. 3-
Enduring hardness 2 Tim. ii. 3-
Entering with boldness into the holiest Heb. x. 19.
Espoused to one husband 2 Cor. xi. 2.
Excelling to the edifying of the Church 1 Cor. xiv. 12.
Exhorting one another as the day approaches Heb. x. 25.
Faithful stewards 1 Cor. iv. 2.
Fearing God , 1 Pe. ii. 17.
Fervent in spirit ... .Rom. xii. 11.
Fervently loving one another with a pure heart. . .1 Pe i. 22.
Filled with all the fulness of God . Eph. iii. 19.
Filled with the Spirit Eph. v. 18.
Filled with the fruits of righteousness Phil. i. 11.
Following peace with all men, and holiness Heb. xii. 14
Following the steps of Jesus 1 Pe. ii. 21.
Forbearing one another in love Eph. iv. 2-
Forgiving one another Col. iii. 13.
Fruitful in every good work Col. i. 10.
Gentle unto all men .. 2 Tim H 21
WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE. 445
Glorifying God in body and in spirit 1 Cor. vi. 20.
Given to hospitality Rom. xii 13
Giving diligence to make our calling and elec
tion sure 2 Pe. i. 20.
Giving thanks always for all things ... Eph. v. 20
Giving not grudgingly, or of necessity 2 Cor. a. 7
Grieving not the Holy Spirit of God Eph, ir 30
Growing in grace and knowledge of Christ 2 Pe. iii. 18
Happy in bearing reproach for Christ 1 Pe. iv. 14.
Hastening the coming of the day of God 2 Pe. iii. 12
Having promise of the life that now is and that
to come 1 Tim. iv. 8.
Holding fast that which is good 1 Thes. v. 21.
Holding fast the form of sound words 2 Tim. i. 12.
Holding fast the faithful word Tit. i. 9.
Holy in all manner of conversation 1 Pe. i. 15.
Hoping to the end 1 Pe. i. 1 3
Humbling self under the mighty hand of God. . . .1 Pe. v. 6.
Hungering and thirsting after righteousness Mat. v. (J.
Illuminated Heb. 1. 32.
Increasing in the knowledge of God Col. i. 10.
Inheriting all things Rev. xxi. 7.
Instant in season, out < i season 2 Tim. iv. 2.
Joined unto the Lord 1 Cor. vi. 17.
Joying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .Rom. v. 11.
Judging one another no more Rom. xiv. 13.
Keeping the commandments of Christ Jno. xiv. 21.
Keeping that which is committed to our trust. .1 Tim. vi. 20.
Keeping ourselves unspotted from the world . . . .James i. 27.
Keeping ourselves from id<yls 1 Jno. v. 21.
Keeping ourselves in the love of God Jude xxi.
Kind one to another, tenderhearted Eph. iv. 32.
Kindly affectioned one to another Rom. xii. 10.
Knit together in love Col. ii. 2.
Knowing that we have eternal life 1 Jno. v. 13.
Laboring to enter into that rest Heb. iv. 11,
Laying aside all malice and all guile 1 Pe. ii. 1
446 CURIOSITIES OF THE B1BL&.
Laying up for ourselves treasures in Heaven Mat vi. 20
Led by the Spirit of God. ... Rom. viii. 14
Letting no corrupt communication proceed out
of the mouth Eph. iv. 26
Like minded, having the same love Phil. ii. 2.
Living henceforth not unto ourselves, but unto
Him 2 Cor. v. 15.
Looking not at the things which are seen 2 Cor. iv. 18.
Looking for the Saviour PhiL iii. 20.
Looking for that blessed hope Tit ii. 13.
Looking for Him that shall appear Heb. ix. 28.
Looking off unto Jesus Heb. xii. 2.
Loving God because He first loved us 1 Jno. iv. 19.
Loving Christ whom we have not seen 1 Pe. i. 8.
Loving one another, and thus showing that we
are His Jno. xiii. 35.
Made meet to be partakers of the saints' inher
itance Col. i. 12-
Meek, and inheriting the earth Mat v. 5.
Merciful, and obtaining mercy Mat. v. 7.
Mindful of the words recorded in the Scriptures. .2 Pe. iii. 2.
Mortifying our members which are on the earth . . Col. iii. 5.
Not pleasing ourselves ROTO. xv. 1.
Not resisting evil Mat v. 39.
Not taking anxious thought about our life Mat- vi. 25.
Not judging, that we be not judged Mat- vii.l.
Not fearing them which kill the body Mat. x- 28.
Not of the world Jno. xvii. 1-6
Not conformed to this world Rom xii 2
Not wise in our own conceits . . . \ Rom. xii. 16
Not our own 1 Cor. vi. 19
Not children in understanding 1 Cor. xiv. 20 ,
Not unequally yoked together with unbelievers . .2 Cor. vi. 14
Not entangled again with the law GaL v. 1.
Not weary in well doing . Gal. vi. 9
Not sleeping, as do others J JThes. v. 6
Not self -willed, not soon angry Tit i. 7
WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE. 447
Mot forsaking the assembling of ourselves to
gether Heb. x. 2o.
Not despising the chastening of the Lord Heb. xii. 5
Not carried about with diverse and strange doc
trines Heb. xiii. 9.
Not rendering evil for evil 1 Pe. iii. 9
Now past all condemnation Rom. viii. I.
Now made nigh by the blood of Christ Eph. ii. 13.
Now the Sons of God 1 Jno. iii. 2.
Obedient children 1 Pe. i. 14.
Occupying till Christ comes Lu. xix. 13.
Ordained unto eternal life Acts. xiii. 48
Overcoming by the blood of the Lamb Rev. xii. 11.
Passed from death unto life Jno. v. 24
Patient in tribulation Rom. xii. 12.
Patient toward all men 1 Thes. v. 14
Patiently waiting for Christ 2 Thes. iii. 5
Peacemakers Mat. v. 9
Perfectly joined together in the same mind 1 Cor. i. 10.
Pitiful arrd courteous 1 Pe. iii. 8.
Praying without ceasing 1 Thes. v. 1.
Praying always in the spirit, for all saints Eph. vi. 18.
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord ...... Eph. v. 10.
Purchased with blood Acts xx. 28.
Purifying ourselves even as He is pure 1 Jno. v. 3.
Putting away all bitterness and wrath Eph. iv. 31.
Putting on the new man Eph. iv. 24.
Putting on the whole armour of God Eph. vi. 11.
Putting on love above all these things CoL HI 14
Quenching not the spirit 1 Thes. v. 19.
Reaching forth unto those things that are before. .Phil. iii. 13.
Ready to every good work Tit. iii. 1.
Receiving a kingdom Heb. xii. 28.
Receiving the promise of the Spirit Gal. iii. 14.
Reckoning ourselves dead unto sin Rom. vi 11.
Redeeming the time Eph. v. 15.
Refraining the tongue from evil 1 Pet. iii. 10
448 CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
Rejoicing in the Lord always Phil. iy. 4
Returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of our
Souls 1 Tet. ii 25.
Running with patience the race set before us. . . Heb. xii. 1.
Sanctified through the offering of Christ Heb x. 10
Saved by grace through faith Eph ii . 9
Sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise Epfc i. 13.
Searching the Scriptures Jno. v 30
Seeking not our own, but the welfare of others. . 1 Cor. x. 24.
Separated from the world 2 Cor. vi. 17.
Serving one another by love. GaL v. 13.
Sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. .Phil. i. 10.
Sounding out the word of the Lord 1 Thes. i. 8.
Speaking the truth in love Eph. iv. 55.
Speaking not evil one of another James iv. 11.
Stablished in the faith CoL ii. 7.
Striving together for the faith of the gospel Phil. i. 27.
Taking heed to an evil heart of unbelief Heb. iii. 12.
Taught of God to love one another 1 Thes. iv. 9.
Teaching and admonishing one another CoL iii. 16.
Thankful CoL iii. 15.
Thinking no evil 1 Cor. xiii. 5.
Transformed by the renewing of the mind Rom. xii. 2.
Trusting in the living God 1 Tim. iv. 10.
Using this world as not abusing it 1 Cor. vii. 31
Victorious through faith 1 Jno. v. 4.
Vigilant against our adversary the devil 1 Pe. v. &
Waiting for the Son of God from heaven 1 Thes. i. 10.
Walking in the light, as He is in the light 1 Jnc. i. 7
Wanting nothing James i. 4.
Watching and standing fast in the faith 1 Cor. xvi. 13.
Weeping with them that weep Rom. xii. 15.
Wise unto that wliich is good Rom. xvi. 19
Working out our own salvation . . Phil. ii. 12.
Worshipping God by the Spirit . Phil. iii. 3
Yielding ourselves unto God. Rom. vi. 13,
Zealous of good works ».... Tit. ii. 14.
CURIOUS FACTS. 449
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE.
These curious facts about the Bible were ascertained, it ia
stated, by a convict sentenced to a long term of solitary con
finement : The Bible contains 3,586,489 letters, 773,692 words,
31,173 verses, 1,189 chapters, and 66 books. The word and
xxmrs 46,277 times. The word Lord occurs 1,855 times. Tha
word reverend occurs but once, which is in the 9th verse of the
11 1th Psalm. The middle verse is the 8th verse of the 118th
Psalm. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all
the letters of the alphabet except the letter J. The finest chap
ter to read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The
19th chapter of 2 Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike.
The longest verse is the 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther.
The shortest verse is the 35th of the llth chapter of St. John.
The 8th, 15th, 21st, and 31st verses of the 107th Psalm are alike,
Each verse of the 136th Psalm ends alike. There are no wordi
3T names of more than six syllables.
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
'TO
THE BIBLE,
PERIOD I.
/ROM THE CREATION TO THE DELUGE, CONTAINING 1,656
Y EARS*
A.M.
I
B.C.
4004
The creation of the world
« *
Fall of our first parents, Adam and Eve, from holi
ness and happiness, by disobeying God. Promise
" i
2
4OO2
«
3
4001
" i'l'
129
3875
Abel murdered by his brother Cain .
130
6??
3874
3382
Seth born, his father, Adam, being 130 years old . . .
Enoch born
687
3317
Methuselah born
i( 5-l°i i9»
93°
3074
Adam dies, aged 930 years
" I'***'
087
3017
Enoch translated, aged 365 years
" f'L
1042
2962
11 ,.Q
1056
2948
Noah born
( 5.8.
1536
2468
The Deluge threatened, and Noah commissioned )
to preach repentance during 120 years }
5:28,29.
( 6:3-22.
< i Pet. 3:20.
1656
2348
Methuselah dies, aged 969 years
(2 Pet. 2:5.
In the same year Noah enters into the ark, being
600 years old
" 7:6, 7-
PERIOD II.
FROM THE DELUGE TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM, CONTAINING
427 YEARS.
A.M. I B.C. !
1657 2347 Noah, with his family, leaves the ark after the
deluge, and offering sacrifices, he receives the
covenant of safety^ of which the rainbow was
the token
1770 2234 Babel built
1770 2234 The confusion of languages, and dispersion of man
kind
1771 2233 Nimrod lays the first foundation of the Babylonian
or Assyrian monarchy
1816 2188 Mizraim lays the foundation of the Egyptian mon
archy
»oo6 | 1998 Noah dies, aged 950 years
***** 1^996 Abram or Abraham born ,
Genesis 8: 18, 20.
" 9:8, 17-
10: 8--i i.
10: 13.
9:29.
i 1 : 26.
450
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.
461
PERIOD III.
FROM THE CALL OF ABRAHAM TO THE EXODUS OF ISRAEL
FROM EGYPT, 430 YEARS.
A.M. B. C. I
2068 1936 Abram called from Chaldean idolatry, at 60 years of
age Genesis 1 1 : 3 1»
2083 192 1 Abram's second call to Canaan " 12: 1-4.
2091 | 1913 Abram's victory over the kings, and rescue of Lot. . " 14:1-24.
2094 I 1910 Ishmael born, Abram being 86 years old " 16.
2107 , 1997 God's covenant with Abram, changing his name to
Abraham; circumcision instituted — Lot delivered,
and Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim de
stroyed by fire on account of their abominations. .
2108 1896 Isaac born, Abraham being 100 years old
( " 22.
2133 ' 1871 Abraham offers Isaac as a burnt sacrifice to God. . ] Heb. 11:17-19.
( Jas. 2:21.
ai45 1859 Sarah, Abraham wife, dies, aged 127 years Genesis 23: i.
2148 1856 Isaac marries Rebecca I " 24.
2168 1836 Jacob and Esau born, Isaac being 60 years old ; " 25:26.
2183 1821 Abraham dies, aged 175 vears | " 25:7,8.
2245 '759 Jacob goes to his uncle Laban in Syria, and marries I
his daughters, Leah and Rachel " 28.
2258 1746 Joseph born, Jacob being 90 years old* | " 30:23,24.
2265 1739 Jacob returns to Canaan j " 31; 32.
2275 1729 Joseph sold as a slave by his brethren " 37.
2288 1716 He explains Pharaoh's dreams, and H made gov
ernor of Egypt " 41.
2*98 1706 Joseph's brethren settle in Egypt " 43544.
3315 j 1689 Jacob foretells the advent of Messiah, and dies in
Egypt, aged 147 years " 49.
2368 ! 1636 Joseph dies, aged 1 10 years j " 50: 26.
2430 i 1574 Aaron born Exod. 6:20; 7:^
2433 j 1571 Moses born " 2:1-10.
2473 j 1531 i Moses flees into Midian , " 2:11-13.
2513 I 1491 I Moses commissioned by God to deliver Israel i " 3:2.
PERIOD IV.
FROM THE EXODUS OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT TO THE BUILD
ING OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, 487 YEARS.
A.M. B. C.
3513 1491
2514 1490
2552 I 1452
2553 MS*
1561 i 1443
2849 ' 1 1 55
2888 1116
2909 1095
3919 1085
3941 1063
3949 1055
3936 ! 1048
Miraculous passage of the Red sea by the Israelites Exod. 14: 15.
The law delivered on Sinai " 19-40.
Miriam, sister of Moses, dies, aged 130 years Num. 20: i.
Aaron dies, aged 123 years i ' 20: 28, 29.
Moses dies, aged 120 years, Joshua being ordained
his successor Deut. 34.
The Israelites pass the river Jordan, the manna
ceases, and Jericho taken Josh. 1-6.
Joshua dies, aged 1 10 years
Samuel born ....................................
Eli, the high-priest, dies. Ark of God taken by the
Philistines ....................................
Saul anointed king of Israel ......................
David bom .....................................
David anointed to be king, and slays Goliath ......
Saul is defeated in battle, and in despair kills him
self. David acknowledged king by Judah .......
Ishbosheth, king of Israel, assassinated, and the
whole kingdom united under David .............
24.
i Sam. i: 19.
16:13.
17:4,9.
3,
452
CURIOSITIES. OF THE BIBLE.
PERIOD IV.— CONTINUED.
A.M.
*957
B. C. ;
1047
Jerusalem taken from the Jebusites by David, and
•969
1035
j
1034 [
i
David commits adultery with Bathsheba, and con
trives the death of her husband Uriah
David brought to repentance for his sin by Nathan
the prophet, sent to him by the LORD
* ii.
" 12
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Absalom rebels against his father, and is slain by
Joab
•989
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David causes Solomon to be proclaimed king, de-
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David dies, aged 70 years
3000
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Solomon's temple finished, after seven years build-
" 6;
7-
PERIOD V.
FROM THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE TO THE DE
STRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND CAPTIVITY OF THE
JEWS IN BABYLON, 412 YEARS.
B. C. ICINGS OF JUDAH BEGAN
TO REIGN.
KINGS OF ISRAEL BEGAN
TO REIGN.
PROPHETS.
9$g Abijah, or Abijam
Nadab (954) .
Baasha
H r 3 •'
Elah
Jehu
Zimri.
giS "
Ahab
it
Aha?iah
Elisha, 896-838.
Jaiiaziel
u
Tehu
878 Joash, or Jehoahaz
gc7 , *<
JCllU .
825 "
7&t "
Zechariah
Joel 810-660
//* !
Pekahiah
Isaiah 810-608.
Pekah.
Micah 7 «; 8-600.
<(
Odld
Hoshea
726 Hezekiah
(Caotivitv 72 1)
u
Zephaniah, 640-609.
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Jeremiah, 6zS-5S6
c«
Habakkuk, 612-598.
Daniel, 606—534.
H
™ 1 Zedekiah.
jtS Babylonian captivity ....
Obadiah, 588-^83-
FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY NEBUCHAD
NEZZAR, TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, 588 YEARS.
588 ,
533
536
534
5*9
5'5
464
457
445
423
235
332
323
320
277
z66
161
152
142
135
107
88
63
HISTORICAL EVENTS
:: |
43*^420.
Destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans,
captivity of the Jews.
Babyl«u taken by Cyrus EtekW,
Proclamation of Cyrus ; Zerubbabel and Joshua.
Foundation of the temple.
Artaxerxes (Cainbyses) forbids the work.
Favorable decree of Ahasuerus (Darius Hystaspes.) Hami, 320-518.
Esther made queen Zechariah, 52
The second temple finished.
Haman's plot frustrated.
Xerxes, king of Persia.
Artaxerxes Longimanus.
Ezra sent to govern Jerusalem.
Nehemiah sent as governor.
Darius Nothus
Alexander the Great invades Persia, and establishes
the Macedonian or Grecian empire.
Jaddus high-priest.
Alexander dies.
Ptolem;cus Lagus surprises Jerusalem.
Septuagint version made by order of Ptolemaeus
Philadelphus.
Antiochus Epiphanes takes Jerusalem.
His persecution.
Judas Maccabeus governor.
Jonathan governor.
He becomes high-priest.
Simon: treaty with the Romans and Lacedemo
nians.
John Hyrcanus.
Judas (Aristobulus) high-priest and king.
Anna the prophetess born.
Jerusalem taken by Pompey, and Judea m/ide a
Roman province.
Herod made king.
Augustus Caesar emperor of Rome.
The poet Virgil dies.
Herod begins to rebuilt the temple.
John the Baptist born.
Christ born, 4 years before the era known as A. D.
PERIOD VII.
FROM THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE END OF THE
FIRST CENTURY.
A. D.
Nativity of Jesus Christ, four years before A. D. i . . .
Luke 2:1-16.
' 2:4 i-$a
8
" 3: i.
22
Pilate sent from Rome as governor of Judea
Matt. 3:1.
25
' 3= i-
26
29
J^ns Christ crucified, and rose from the dead
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
PERIOD VII.— CONTINUED.
A.D.
36 Saul converted Acts 9 ; 13:9.
38 Conversion of the Geatiles " IO.
44 James beheaded by Herod : Peter liberated by an angel .. " 12:1-19.
63 Paul sent a prisoner to Rome " 26:28.
65 The Jewish war begins.
66 Paul suffers martyrdom at Rome by order of Nero a Tim. 4:6, 7.
67 The Roman general raises the siege of Jerusalem, by which
an opportunity is afforded for the Christians to retire to
Pella beyond Jordan, as admonished by Christ Matt. 24:16-20,
70 Jerusalem besieged and taken by Titus Vespasian, accord
ing to the predictions of Christ; when 1,100,000 Jews
perished, by famine, sword, fire, and crucifixion ; besides
97,000 who were sold as slaves, and vast multitudes who
perished in other parts of Judea Luke 19: 41-44.
71 Jerusalem and its temple razed to their foundations Matt. 24:2.
95 John banished to the isle of Patmos, by Domitian Rev. i :g.
96 John writes the Revelation.
97 John liberated from exile, and writes his gospel.
gp^John.the last .surviving apostle, dies, about 100 years old.
PROMINENT EVENTS
•
(Ecclesiastical
FROM THIS DEATH OF JOHN TO THF FALL OF THE WEBTKRK
A.D. 101 to 476.
101. Death of Clement Bishop of Rome.
108. Death rf Ignatius Bishop of Antioch, by wild boasts.
107. Syme<rn, Bishop of Jerusalem crucified.
119. Fourth general Persecution under Adrian.
186. 680,000 Jews destroyed by Romans.
136 Adrian builds ^Elia Capitaluia on the right of Jerusalem
147. Justin Martyr writes his first apology for Christianity.
182. The Council of Pergamos, the first on record.
167. Persecution of the Christians at Smyrna.
174. Polycarp and Pionices martyred.
17T. Persecution at Lyons and Vienne. Bishop Pothlnui martyred.
186. Death of Origen, the eminent Commentator.
189. The Saracens first appear defeat the Romans.
194. The Scriptures translated Into Syriac.
196. The Scriptures translated unto Latin.
196. Tertullian writes his Apology for Christianity.
197. Fifth General Persecution under Severus.
J02. Severus issues an Edict prohibiting Christian* from dlueminatina ttxto
doctrines.
203. Death of Irenjeus, Bishop of Lyons.
204. Origen, expounder of the Scriptures at Alexandria.
218. Death of Clement of Alexandria.
238. Sixth general persecution, under Maximinus.
242. Churches first used by Christians.
249. Seventh general persecution, under Decius.
269. Eight general persecution under Valerian.
267. Martyrdom of Cyprian and Sixtus II, Bishop of Rome.
260. Temple of Diana at Ephesus burnt.
270. Birth of Eusebius, Bishop of Cfesarea.
272. The ninth general persecution, under Aurelian.
286. The North men attack the Roman Empire In the West and the Pe
In the East.
302. The tenth persecution, under Diocletian.
306. Constantino Emperor, in the West ; Liolnus in the Ea«t.
312. Constantino the Great embraces Christianity.
321. Constantino commands the Observance of Sunday on all hi* iub1*ot»
326. Council of Nice condemns Arianism.
335. Death of Constantino the Great.
361. Julian the Apostate becomes Emperor.
386. Jerome translates the Hebrew Scripture In Latin.
397. Death of Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan.
407. Death of Chrysostom. Patriarch of Constantinople.
410. Rome sacked and burned by Alarie. King of the Vinigotb*.
415. Cyril becomes Bishop of Alexandria.
430. Death of Augustine.
461. Leo, the great Pope of Rome, claim* to be vloar of Christ.
4T6. Extinction of the Western Empire by Goths.
476. The sacking of Rome by Odoacor wa« the great event w
VMrtd1* or Dark a?e*.
465
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BY WHJM. SUBJECTS. RKOO*D*IX
Abraham's Servant. Success in his mission Gen. 24.
Jacob Protection against Esau J»-
Moses Forgiveness for 1 dolatrous Israel Ex. 32.
Moses For the Divine presence.......... •"•
Moses For Miriam when smitten with Leprosy. Num. 12.
Moses.'.'.' To enter Canaan r15l'iS*
Sampson To be avenged on his Enemies uu< ,it>.
Hannah Fora man child ...ISam. *.
David Prayer and Thanksgiving after Nathans
message imflli
Solomon Dedication of the temple Kings 8
Hezekiah Protection against Sennacuenu ^ «•
" When dangerously ill SO-
jabez For Divine blessing .•••! Onron. 4.
tsa . ...When going to battle with Zerah the 2
Ethiopian .
B.
Jehoshaphat For protection against invading armies "
Hezekiah For the unprepared for keeping the pass- ^ ^ ^
Ezra . . .Confession of the peoples sin Ezra. 9.
Nehe'miah ... ... -For the remnant in Captivity .K9U. 1.
* For protection against Saiiballat and
Tobiah )'
Levitea . • .Confession of Gods good and their sina. . .
iWr . . -For moderation in his desires f™7-29,,*
HSekiah:: See above (2 Kings 19. 20.)
Jeremiah In a great famine.... *«; *«•
Daniels For restoration of Jerusalem Dan. 9.
Habakkuk For revival of Gods work «e ft. s.
[MTde I^ayer The motiel Prayer ,. -2'
Jesue Under suffering in Gethaemane
JegUB . . . .Suspension of Divine consolation ZT.
Lords' Prayer St. Lukes account •• «J
Publicans " For Divine mercy J^-
Jesus See above (Matt. 26.).... g-
Thief To be remembered by Jesus »•
.Imploring his Fathers aid John. 13.
. For himself , his apostles and all believers ' IT.
. .... On choosing an apoatle •*?*'>
Primitive Chnroh.. For support under persecution
457
THE MIRACLES RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Miraclw
Where wrought. Recorded in.
Aaron's rod changed .................... Egypt.
Waters made blood ..................... Egypt
Frogs produced ....................... Egypt
Life .................................... Egypt
Flies .................................... Egypt
Murrain ................................ Egypt
Boils ................................... Egypt
Thunder, etc ............................ Egypt
Locusts ................................ Egypt
Darkness ............................... Egypt
Death of the first-born .................. Egypt
R«d Sea ................................. Egypt ............
waters sweetened .............. Marah ............
. . . Exod. Til. 10-12.
20-25.
viii. 6-14.
16-18.
20-24.
x. 3-6.
8-11.
22-28.
x. 15-19.
21-23.
xii. 29. 36
xiv. 21-31.
xv. 23-25.
xvi. 14-35.
xvii. 5-7.
Warah's
Manna sent ............................. In wilderness ....
Water from the rock Rephidim ......... Rephidim
Aaron's rod budded ................... Kadesh ......... Num. xvii. 1, etc.
Nadab and Abihu consumed ........... Sinai ............. Lev. x. 1. 2.
The burning of Taberah ................ Taberah ......... Num. xi 1-2.
Earthquake and fire .................... xvi. 31-36.
Water flowing from the rock ........... Desert of Zin ____ xx. 7-11.
Serpent, healing the Israelites .......... Desert of Zin ____ xxi. 8, 9.
Balaam's ass speaking .................. Pethor ........... xxii. 21-38
The river Jordan di vided ____ ........ River Jordan ____ Josh. iii. 14-1».
Wall? of Jericho fall down ............. Jericho ......... vi. 6-20.
Sun and moon stand still ............... Gibeon ........... x. 12-14.
Water flowing from the rock ......... En-hakkore ...... Judg. xv. 19.
Philistines slain before the ark ........ Ashded .......... 1 Sam v. 1-12.
Men of Beth-shemesh smitten .......... Beth-shemesh ... vi. 19.
Thunder destroys Philistines ......... Ebenezer .....
Thunder and rain in harvest ........... Gilgal ........
Sound in the mulberry trees ............ Rephaim ......
Uzzah struck dead ...................... Perez-uzzah . .
Jeroboam's band withered ............. Beth-el .......
Widow of Zarepath's meal .............. Zarepath ......
Widow's son raised .................... Zarepath ......
Sacrifice consumed ..................... Mount Carmel
Rain obtained ........................... Land of Israel
Ahaziah's captains consumed ........... Near Samaria.
River Jordan divided ................... River Jordan .
Waters of Jericho healed ............... Jericho .........
Water for Jehoshaphat's army ......... Land of Moab. .
The widow's oil multiplied .............
Shunanmiit o's son raised ............... Shunem .........
The deadly pottage cured ............... Gilgal .......... ,
Hundred men fed with twenty loaves. Gilgal ........... ,
Naaman cured of his leprosy .......... Samaria .........
Leprosy inflicted on Gehazi ............ Samaria .........
Uon swims ................... ......... River Jordan ____
King of Syria's army smitten ........... Dotham ..........
Elisha's bones revive the dead ........
Sennacherib's army destroyed .......... Jerusalem .......
Sun goeth back ..................... Jerusalem .......
Uzziah struck with leprosy ............. Jerusalem ....... 2 Ch. xxvi.
Shadrach, Meshach, etc., delivered ..... Babylon ......... Dan. iii, 19-27.
Daniel in the den of lions .............. Babylon... . vi. 16-23.
Jonah in the whale's belly ............. Jonah ii. 1-10.
458
vii. 10-12.
xii. 18.
..2Sam. v. 23-25.
vi. 7.
.1 Kings xiii. 4, 6.
xvii. 14-16.
17-24.
xviii. 30-38.
41-45,
.2 Kings i. 10-12.
ii. 7, 8, 14,
21,22
iii. 16-20.
iv. 2-7.
35-41.
42-44.
v. 10-14
20-27.
vi. 5-7.
18-20.
xlii. 21.
xix. 35.
xx. 9-11.
THIS MIRACLES OF CrTKIST.
A B • A • O I r> I> OBBOM OLOOI C A L OBDBK.
Miracle*. Places- Reference*.
Turn* water into wine Cana John 11. 1-11.
Cures the nobleman's son of Capernaum " IT. 4«>-M.
Causes a miraculous draught of iishe«..Sea < f Galilee... .Lake T. 1-11.
Cnres a demoniac Capernaum .... Mark 1. 23-'«$.
Heals Peter's wife's mother of a fever. " 80,31.
Heals a leper " 4045.
Heals the centurion's servant " Matt. Till. ,V 18,
Raises the widow's son Naln Luke rli. 11 IT.
Calms the tempest Sea of Galilee.... Matt. vlil. &ft.
Cures tht« demoniacs of Gadara (iadara 28-34.
Cures a man of t'ae palsy Capernaum Ix. 1-8.
Restores to life tie daughter of Jalrus. " 18,19.2*?*
Cures a woman diseased with a flux of
blood « Luke vill. 43-4*.
Restores to sight two blind men " Matt. ix. 27-31.
Heals one possessed with a dumb spirit " 32,33.
Cures an infirm man at Bethesda Jerusalem John r. 1-8.
Cures a man with withered hand Judea Matt. xil. 10-18.
Cures a demoniac Capernaum 22, 28.
Feeds miraculously five Thousand Decapolis xiv.; XT. 21.
Heals the woman of Caiman's daughter.Near Tyre xv. 22-2K.
Heals a man who was dumb and deaf. . . Decapolis Mark vii. 31-37.
Feeds miraculously four thousand '• Matt. xv. 32-39.
Gives sight to a blind man Bethsaida Mark xiii. 22-M.
Cures a boy possessed of a devil Tabor Matt. xvii. 14-21.
Restores to sight a man born blind Jerusalem John ix.
Heals a woman under an infirmity eigh
teen years Galilee Luke xiil. 11 -17.
Cures a dropsy " xiv. l-«.
Cleanses ten lepers Samaria xvil. 11- 19.
Raises Lazarus from the dead Bethany John xl.
Restores to sight two blind men Tericho Matt. xx. 30-34.
Blasts the fig-tree Olivet xxi. lg-22.
Heals the ear of Mulch us Gethsemane Luke xxil. 50, 51.
Causes the miraculous draught of fishesSea of Galilee John xxi. 1-14.
THE MIRACLES RECORDED IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES,
Miracles. Where wrought. Recorded In.
Peter heals a lame man Jerusalem
Ananias and Sapphira struck dead Jerusalem Acts lii. 1-11.
Apostles perform many wonders Jerusalem v. 1-10
Peter and John communicate the Holy
Ghost Samaria v. 12-16-
Peter healeth Eneas of a palsy Lydda viii. 14-17.
-raiseth Tabitha or Dorcas, to life ...Joppa ix. 33. 34.
-de Ivered out ot prison by an angel. . Jerusalem ix. 37-41.
Sod smites Herod, so that he dies Jerusalem xll. 7-17.
Klymas. the sorcerer, smitten with xii. 21-23.
blindness Paphos xiii. 7-11.
l»aul Converted RoadtoDamascut ix. 1-9.
—heals a cripple Lystra xiv. 8-10.
—casts out a spirit of divination Pliillippi xvi. 17-1*
- and Silas's prison doors opened by
an earthquake Phlllippi XT!. 25, 27.
— communicates the Holy Ghost Corinth xix. 1-7.
—heals multitudes Corinth xix. 11, 12.
—restores Kutychus to life Troas xx. 9-12,
-•hakes off the viper Melita xxTiii. 3-7.
heals the father of Publius, and
Melita xxviii. 7-41.
459
PAHABLES RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAlffENT
Parables.
Spoken at
Record ^1 in.
OF BALAAM.— Concerning the Moabites
and Israelites Mount Pisgah. . .Num. xxiii. 24
JOTIIAM.— Trees making a king Mount Gerizim. Judg. Lx. 7 15.
SAMSON.— Strong bringing forth sweet-
ness. . . . TImnath Judg. xiv. 14.
NATHAN.— Poor man's ewe lamb Jerusalem 2 Sam. xii l-l
WOMAN OF TEKOAH.— Two brothers
fH^riMVrrnrgEN-pHorHiT.-^WipedJeniSalem 2 *>">• *"• > •
, BH^r^O OF isaiELi-itt •ti1V8NeSr SMMrla" "»"»»«•» «•
tie and cedar Jerusalem 2 Kings xir. 9
ISAIAH.— Vineyard yielding wild grapes Jerusalem Isa v 1-6
EZEKIEL.— Lions' whelps Babylon
The boiling pot Babylon. ....".!!. 'Ezek xix 2-9
The gn-at eagles and the Ezek. xxiv. 3-S.
vln« Babylon Ezek. xvii. 3-10.
THE PARABLES OF JESUS.
ARRANGED IV CHBOKOLOGICAL OBDZK.
Parables.
Places.
PARABLK OF THE
Sower Capernaum.
Tares "
Seed springing up imperfectly... .
Grain of mustard-seed
Leaven
Found treasure
Precious pearl
Net
Two debtors
Unmerciful servant
Samaritan Near Jericho.
Rich fool Galilee.
Servants who waited for their Lord '
Barren fig-tree
Lost sheep
Lost piece of money
Prodigal son
Dishonost steward
Rich man and Lazarus..
Unjust judge Paraea.
Pharisee and Publican
Laborers in the vineyard
Pounds .Jericho.
Two sons Jerusalem
Vineyard "
Marriage feast "
The virgins "
Talents "
Sheep and the goat* "
460
Reference*.
Matt. xiii. 1-23.
24-30-36-4^-
Mark Iv. 26-29.
Matt. xii. 31, 32.
xiii. 33.
44.
45, 46.
47-50.
Luke vii. 36-50.
Matt, xviii. 23-35-
Luke x. 25-3"
xii. 16-21.
xii. 35-48.
xiii. 6-9.
xv. 3-7.
8-10-
11-32.
xri.1-11.
xviii. 1
9-14.
Matt. xx. 1-10
Luke xix. 12-2 .
Matt. xxi. 28-31
3X-46.
xxii. 1-14.
xxv. 1-1*,
14-30
.TM
THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS.
ABKAHOBD IF OBBOVOL««ICAI. «
Discourses. Place*.
Conversation with Nicodemus .......... Jerusalem. . . . John 111. 1-£1.
Conversation wiih woman of Samaria Svchar ... ........ IT. 1-42.
Discourse in the Synagogue of NazarethNazareth ........ Luke iv. 16-81.
Sermon upon the mount ................ ......... MWfc v., TU.
x.
Instruction to the Apostles.... ....... Galilee
Denunciations against Chora/in, etc. . . ...........
Job, ,.
............ M.U.,H.,-8
Reputation of his working miracles by
the agency of Beelzebub ............ Capernaum ......
Discourse on the bread of life ..........
Discourse about internal purity ........ ...... MM*. XT. l-m
Discourse against giving or taking off
ence, and concerning forgiveness ^
Discourse^fhe'feast of Vabernacies'. V.Jerusalem ....... John vii.
Discourse on occasion of woman taken
in adultery ....................... vlll.; i. IL
Discourse concerning the sheep ........ .......
Denunciations against the Scrips and
Pharisees ........................... Tariea ........... Luke xi. 20- 36
Discourse concerning humility an^ , 7 tl
prudence .................. ......... Galilee ..........
Directions how to attain heaven ...... Pariea . .......... Matt. xix. 16-30
Discourse concerning his sufferings ..... Jerusalem ....... xx. n-is.
Denunciation acainst the Pharisees....
Prediction of the destruction of Jeru-
rhe^n^latory'dlsoourse.' ".".'.'.'.'.."I'.. ....... John xv.: xvU.
Discourse as he went to Gethsemane..
Discourse to the disciples before bi« ,
461
TABLES
OF
WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MONEY,
MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
i. JEWISH WEIGHTS, REDUCED TO ENGLISH TROY WEIGHT.
The gerah, one-twentieth of a shekel °?" Pe"' g''
The bekah, half a shekel ° ° I2
The shekel \ 5 °
The maneh, 60 shekels '.".'.".'.!'.'.'.'."
The talent, 50 manehs, or 3,000 shekels . . . .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .'.'.'.'.' I2J 0 °
a. SCRIPTURE MEASURES OF LENGTH, REDUCED TO ENGLISH
MEASURE.
A digit ..... . Eng.feet. inches.
4 = APalm ................. "".'.'.
24= 6= 3 = Acubit ........................................ , 888
96= 24 = 6= 2 = Afathom ...................... .... ' * „
144= 36= 12= 6 = 1.5 « Ezekiel's reed .................. ...'!io 11328
192= 48= 16= 8= 2= 1.3 — An Arabian pole ............. 14 7!I04
1920 = 480 = 160 = 80 = 20 = 13.3 = 10 = A measuring line ....... 145 II>04
3. THE LONG SCRIPTURE MEASURES.
.^T' T IS,
400 *: A stadium or furlong o 145 4.6
aoeo ==« 5 = A sabbath-day's journey o 739 3.
4000 am 10 = i =. An eastern mile x 403 ^
12000— 30= 6 =• 3 =x A paraaang 4 I53 Jt
^6000 » 240 = 43 - 24 J 8 « A day* 3 jottrney 33 I?2 +
NOTB.— <5 feet 1 pace ; 1,088 paw* - 1 mil*.
462
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
469
4. SCRIPTURE MEASURES OF CAPACITY TOR LIQUIDS, RK-
DUCED TO ENGLISH WINE MEASURE.
O.L pint*
•A- capK « o.6ij
1.3 =- A log o 0.835
53= 4 = A cab o
16 *m 12 =a 3 = A hin i
32 = 24 »c 6 = 2 = A seah i
96 » 72= 18 = 6= 3 =m A bath, ephah, or firkin 7 y»
960 »« 720 «= 180 « 60 »= 20 » 10 *= A kor, choros, or homer 75
5. SCRIPTURE MEASURES OF CAPACITY FOR THINGS DRY,
REDUCED TO ENGLISH CORN MEASURE.
Bu«h. ).kn. g»l. pi in»
JL gachal o o. 14
20 = A cab o 2.832
36 = 1.8 = An omer or gomer • 5.1
120= 6 = 3.3 = A seah o i.
360= 18 = 10 = 3 = An ephah a 3.
1800 = 90 = 50 =15= 5 = A letech 4 o.
3600 = 180 =» loo *= 30 a= 10 = A homer or kor I i.
6. JEWISH MONEY, REDUCED TO THE ENGLISH AND AMER
ICAN STANDARDS.
«. & * I ctt.
A gerah o • 1.3687 o 02.5
10 »= A bekah o i 1.6875 • 25-<x>
20= 2 — A shekel o 2 3.375 o 50.18;
1200= 120=3 50 = A maneh, or mina Hebr. 5 14 0.75 25 09.35
60000 = 6000 =3 3000 a= 60 = A talent 342 3 9- '$°5 02-5
A solidus aureus, or sextula, was worth o 12 0.5 2 64.09
A siclus aureus, or gold shekel, was worth ... i 16 6. 8 03.
A talent of gold was worth 5475 ° °- *43°9 °°-
In the preceding table, silver is valued at 5*. and gold at ^4 per ounce.
7. ROMAN MONEY, MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
REDUCED TO THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STANDARIX
* far. $ ot..
Amite o o-75 ° °°-34S
A farthing, abouv o 1.50 o 00.687
A penny, or denarius
A pound, or mina * o. 13 75-
NAMES AND TITLES
APPLIED TO OUR
CUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST,
IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
THE following Names or Titles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, are to be found in the Scriptures of the Old and New
Testament :
Adam, ICor. 15:45.
Advocate, 1 John 2: 1.
Almighty, Rev. 1:8.
Alpha and Omega, Rev. 1:8.
Amen, Rev 8: 14-
Angcl of the Lord, Gen. 18: 7-41.
Anointed, Psalm 2: 2
Apostle, Heb. 3: 1.
Arm of the Lord, Isa. 51: 9, 10.
Author of Eternal Salvation, Heb. 5: 9.
Author of Faith, Heb. 12 2.
Beginning and End, Rev. 22. 13.
Beginning of Creation of God, Rev. 3: 14.
Beloved, Matt. 12: 18.
Beloved Son, Matt. 3: 17; Luke 3 22.
Blessed and only Potentate, 1 Tim. 6: 15.
Branch, Zech. 6: 12.
Branch of Righteousness, Jer. 83. 15.
Bread, John 6: 41.
Bread from Heaven, John 6: 51.
Bread of God, John 6. 33.
Bread of Life, John 6; 35.
Bright and Morning Star, Rev. 22: 16.
Brightness of Father's Glory, Heb. 1 : 3.
Captain of Salvation, Heb. 2: 10.
Carpenter, Mark 6: 3.
Carpenter's Son, Matt 13: 55.
Chief Corner-Stone, 1 Peter 2- 6.
Chiefest among Ten Thousand.Song 5 10.
Child, Isa, 9: 6.
Child Jesus, Luke 2: 27, 43.
Chosen of God, 1 Peter 2:4,
CUrist, John 0:61*
Christ, a King. Luke 23:2.
Christ Jesus, Heb. 3: 1.
Christ Jesus our Lord, 1 Tim. 1:12.
Christ of God, Luke 9 : 20.
Christ, the Chosen of God, Luke 23- 35.
Christ the Lord, Luke 2: 11.
Christ, the Son of God, Acts 9: 20.
Christ. Son of the Blessed, Mark 14: 61.
Commander, Isa 55:4.
Consolation of Israel, Luke 2. 25.
Corner Stone Isa. 28: 16.
Counsellor, Isa 9:6.
Covenant, Isa, 42:6.
David, their King, Jer. 30:9.
Day -Spring Luke 1 : 78.
Deliverer. Rom. 11:26.
Desire of All Nations, Hag. 2: 6.
Door, John 10: 9.
Door of the Sheep, John 10: 7.
Elect, Isa. 42: 1,
Emmanuel, Matt. 1:23.
Ensign, Tsa. 11: 10.
Everlasting Father, Isa. 9; 6.
Faithful, and True, Rev. 19; 11.
Faithful Witness. Rev. 1:5.
Faithful and True Witness, Re>-. S; 14.
Finisher of Faith. Heb. 12: 2.
First and Last. Rev. 22: 13. 1: 17.
First Begotten, Heb. 1: 6.
First Begotten of the dead. Rev. 1 5,
First-born among brethren, Rom 8:29.
First-born fro'" *be dead, Col.l: J8.
First born of every creature, Col. 1 : 14,
TITLES OF CHRIST.
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First Frnits, 1 Cor. 15: 20.
Forerunner, Heb. 6: 20.
Fonndation, 1 Cor. 8: 11.
Fountain opened, Zech. 13: 1.
Friend of Sinners, Matt. 11: 19.
Gift of God, John 4: 10.
Clory of Israel, Luke 2: 32
God blessed for ever, Rom. 9: 5.
God manifest in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3: 16.
God of Israel, the Saviour, Isa. 45: 15.
God of the whole earth, Isa. 64: 5.
God our Saviour, 1 Tim. 2; 3.
God's dear Son, Col. 1: 13.
God with us, Matt. 1: 23.
Good Master. Matt 19: 16.
Governor, Matt. 2: 6.
Great Shepherd of the Sheep, Heb.13: 20.
Head of every man, 1 Cor. 11:3.
Head of the Church, Col. 1: 18.
Head of the Oorner, Matt. 21: 42.
Heir of all things, Heb. 1:1,2.
High Priest. Heb. 3: 1.
High Priest of good things to come,
Heb. 9: 11.
Holy Child Jesus, Acts 4: 30.
Holy One, Psa. 16: 10.
Holy One of God, Mark 1; 24.
Holy One of Israel, Isa. 41: 14; 54: 5.
Holy Thing, Luke 1:35.
Hope, Our, 1 Tim. 1:1.
Horn of Salvation, Luke 1: 69.
I AM, John 8: 58.
Image, express, of God's person, Heb.
1:3.
linage of God, 2 Cor. 4: 4.
Immanuel, Isa. 7: 14.
Jesus, Matt. 1:21.
Jesus Christ, Matt. 1:1.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Tit. 3: 6.
Jesus of Nazareth, Mark 1: 24.
Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews
John 19: 19.
Jesus, the King of the Jews, Matt. 27:37
Jesus, the Son of God, Heb. 4; 14.
Jesus, the Son of Joseph, John 6: 42.
Judge, Acts 10: 42.
Just, Acts 3: 14.
Just Man, Matt. 27:19.
Just One, Acts 7: 52.
Just Person, Matt 27: 24.
King, Luke 19: 38.
King of Glory, Psa. 24: 7-10.
King of Israel, J ohn 1 : 49.
King of kings, 1 Tim. 6: 15.
King of the Jews, Matt -: 2,
King of Zion, Matt 21: 5.
King over all the earth, Zech. 14: 9.
Lamb, Rev. 5: 8.
Lamb of God, John 1 : 29, 36.
Lamb that was slain. Rer. 5: 12.
arter, Isa. 55: 4.
ife, John 14:6.
Life, Our, Col. 3: 4.
ight. Everlasting, Tsa. 60: 20.
i!_'lit of the world, John 8: 12.
ight to the Gentiles, Isa. 42: 6.
ight. True, John*: 9.
ion of the tribe of Judah, Rev. 3: ».
aving Bread, John 6: 51.
.ivin- Stone, 1 Pet. 2:4.
Lord, Matt. 22:43.
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 P«- 1:"
Lord Christ, Col. 3:24.
.l from Heaven, 1 Cor. \6 ^
jord Jesus. Acts 7: 59.
Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thess. 3: 6.
Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Tit 1: 4.
Lord of All, Acts 10:36.
of Glory, Jas. 2: 1.
Lord of Hosts. Isa. 44:6.
Lord of Lords. Rev. 19: 16,
Lord, Mighty in Battle. Psa. 24: 8.
Lord of the dead and living, Rom. 14:9.
Lord of the Sabbath, Mark 2: 28.
Lord over All, Rom. 10: 12.
Cord's Christ, Luke 2: 26.
Lord, Strong and Mighty, Psa. 24: 8.
x»rd, The, our Righteousness, Jer. 2S.A
Lord, your Holy One, Isa. 43: 15.
L,ord, your Redeemer. Isa. 43: 14.
Man, Mark 15: 39.
Man Christ Jesus, 1 Tim. 2: 5.
Man of Sorrows, Isa. 53: 3.
Master, Matt. 23: 10.
Mediator, 1 Tim. 2:5.
Mediator of the New Covenant. Heb
12:24.
Messenger of the Covenant, Mai. 3: 1.
Messiah, the Prince, Dan. 9: 25.
Messias, John 1 : 41.
Mighty God, Isa. 9:6.
Mighty One of Israel, Isa. 30: 2».
Mighty One of Jacob, Isa. 49: 26.
Mighty to save, Isa. 63: 1.
Morning Star. Rev. 22: 16.
Most Holy, Dan. 9:24.
Most Mighty. Psa. 45:3.
Nazarene, Matt. 2:23.
Offspring of David, Rev. 22: 16.
Only-Begotten of the Father, Johu 1: 14
Only -Begotten Son, John 1: 18.
Passover, 1 Cor. 5: 7.
Plant of Renown, Ezek. 34: 29.
Potentate (only), 1 Tim. 6: 15.
Power of God, 1 Cor. 1: 24.
Precious Corner-Stone, Isa. 28: 16.
Priest, Heb. 7: 17.
Prince, Acts 5: 31.
Prince of Life, Acts 3- 15
CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.
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Prlnoe of Pcnoo, Isa. 9: 6.
frince of the kings of the Earth, Rer
Prophet, John 6. 14.
Propitiation, I John 2: 2.
Rabbi, John 1 49.
Rabboni, John 20 16.
Redeemer, Job 19: 25.
Redemption. 1 Cor. 1-30.
Resurrection, John 11 . 25.
Righteous Branch, Jer. 23: 5.
Righteous Judge, 2 Tim. 4:8.
Righteous Servant, Isa. 53: 11.
Righteousness, 1 Cor. 1 . 30.
Rock, 1 Cor. 10. 4.
Rock of Offence, 1 Pet. 2: a
Root of David, Rev. 5. 5.
Root of Jesse, Rom. 15: 12.
Rose of Sharon, Sol. Song 2: L
Ruler in Israel, Micah 5: 2.
Sanctiflcation, 1 Cor. 1:30.
Saviour, Luke 2. 11.
Saviour of the body, Eph. 5: 23.
Saviour of the world, 1 John 4: 14.
Sceptre, Numb. 24:17.
Second man, 1 Cor. 15: 47.
Seed of David, 2 Tim. 2: 8.
Seed of the woman, Gen. 3: 15.
Servant, Matt. 12: 18.
Servant of Rulers. Isa. 49: 7.
Shepherd and Bishop of Souls, 1 Peter
2:25.
Shepherd, Chief, 1 Pet. 5; 4.
Shepherd, Good, John 10: 11.
Shepherd, Great, Heb. 13:20.
Shepherd of Israel, Psa. 80: 1.
Shiloh, Gen. 49: 10.
Son Jesus Christ, 1 John 3: 23.
Son of David, Matt. 21: 9.
•ou^f Q«d, Bev. 2:18.
Son of Joseph, Luke 3: 23.
Son of man, John 3: 13.
Son of Mary, Mark 6: 3.
Son of the Blessed, Mark 14: 61.
Son of the Father, 2 John 1: 3.
Son of the Highest, Luke 1: 32.
Son of the Living God, Matt. 16: 18.
Son of the Most Higli God, Mark 5: 7.
Stone, Matt. 21:42.
Stone of Stumbling, 1 Pet. 2: 8.
Sun of Righteousness, Mai. 4: 2.
Sure Foundation, Isa. 28: 16.
Surety of a better testament, Heb. 7: 2*
Teacher, John 3: 2.
The Beloved, Eph. 1:6.
The Man, John 19: 5.
The Only Wise God, our Saviour, Jude
25.
Tried Stone, Isa. 28: 16.
True, Rev 19: 11.
True God, 1 John 5: 20.
True Vine, John 15: 1.
Truth, John 14:6.
Unspeakable Gift, 2 Cor. 9: 15.
Very Christ, Acts 9: 22.
Vine, John 15: 5.
Way, John 14 6.
Which is, which was, which is to coim^
Rev. 1:4.
Wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1: 24.
Wisdom, Our, 1 Cor. 1:30.
Witness to the People, John 18: 37.
Wonderful, Isa. 9: 6.
Word, John 1 : 1.
Word of God, Rev. 19: 13.
Word of Life, 1 John 1: 1.
Young Child, Matt. 2:8. 13,
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