225. Then spake Joshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord delivered
up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight
of Israel, _Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon,_ and thou moon in the
valley of Ajalon. _And the sun stood still_, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this
written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of
heaven, and hastened not to go down about a whole day. Joshua x. 12, 13.
226. _The sun and moon stood still_ in their habitations; at the light
of thine arrows _they went_, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Habbakukiii. 11.
227. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, _and made the
sea dry land_, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel
went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the _waters were
a wall_ unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Exodus xiv.
21, 22. .
228. And Moses answered and said. But behold, they will not believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, the Lord hath not appeared
unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? and
he said, _A rod._ And he said, Cast it on the ground: _and it became a
serpent_; and Moses fled from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail: and he put forth his hand
and caught it, _and it became a rod in his hand._ Exodus iv. 1 to 4.
229. And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, stretch out thy rod,
and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all
the land of Egypt. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand
with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, _and it became lice in
man and in beast_: all the dust of the land became lice throughout all
the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to
bring forth lice, but they could not; so there were lice upon man and
upon beast. Exodus viii. 16 to 18.
230. Make thee an ark of gopher-wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the
fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of
it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit
shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in
the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make
it. And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven;
and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I
establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark; thou and thy
sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. And of every living
thing of all flesh, _two of every sort_ shalt thou bring into the ark,
to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female. Of fowls
after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping
thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto
thee to keep them alive. _And take thou unto thee of all food that is
eaten_, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for
thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, _so did he_. Gen. vi. 14 to 22.
231. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth;
and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under
the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail, and the _mountains_ were covered. Gen. vii. 17 to 20.
232. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and prayed
earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the
space of _three years and six months_. James v. 17.
233. And the Lord God formed man _of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life_; and man became _a living
soul_. Gen. ii. 7.
234. And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:
and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
And the _rib_ which the Lord God had taken from man, _made he a woman_,
and brought her unto the man. Gen. ii. 21, 2.
235. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and
fire from the Lord out of heaven: and he overthrew those cities, and all
the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew
upon the ground. But his (Lot's) wife _looked back from behind him_ and
she became a _pillar of salt_. Gen. xix. 24 to 26.
236. And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold, _a lad-der_ set upon the earth,
and the top of it _reached to heaven_; and behold, _the angels of God
ascending and descending_ on it. And behold, _the Lord stood above it,_
and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac;
the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.
237. And It came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that behold,
there appeared _a chariot of fire, and horses of fire_, and parted them
both asunder; and _Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven_. 2 Kings
ii. 11.
238. Now the Lord had prepared a _great fish_ (which Christ tells us in
Matt. xii. 40, was _a whale_.) to swallow up Jonah. _And Jonah was in
the belly of the fish three days and three nights_. Then Jonah prayed
unto the Lord his God _out of the fish's belly_: and the Lord spake unto
the fish, and _it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land._ Jonah i. 17, and
ii. 1, 10.
239. And he found a new _jaw bone of an ass_, and put forth his hand and
took it, and _and slew a thousand men therewith_. And Samson said, With
the jaw bone of an ass have I slain a thousand men. Judges xv. 15, 16.
240. And it came to pass, when she (Delilah) pressed him (Samson) daily
with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a
razor upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's
womb; _If I be shaven then my strength will go from me,_ and I shall
become weak, and like any other man. The story then proceeds to
represent Delilah as betraying Samson into the hands of the Philistines,
who shave off the hair from his head, and afterwards put out his eyes
and imprison him. In course of time his hair begins to grow again, when
his strength returns. The Philistines then take him to their temple that
he may make sport for them, and Samson then says unto the lad that held
him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the
house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men
and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there
were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld while
Samson made sport. _And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars, upon
which the house stood_, and on which it was borne up, of the one with
his right hand and of the other with his left; and Samson said. Let me
die with the Philistines, _and he bowed himself with all his might;
and the house fell upon the lords_, and upon all the people that were
therein; so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they
which he slew in his life. Judges xvi. 16 to 30.
241. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, _fell down
bound in the midst of the fiery burning furnace_. Then Nebuchadnezzar
came near to the mouth of the fiery burning furnace, and spake and said,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come
forth and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth
of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and
the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men _upon
whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed,
neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on
them_. Daniel iii. 23, 26, 27.
242. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into
the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom
thou servest continually he will deliver thee. Then the king arose Very
early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when
he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and
the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God,
is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the
lions. Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. _My God
hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths that they have not
hurt me_: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also
before thee. O king, have I done no hurt, Daniel vi. 16, 19, 20, 21,
22.
243. And God saw the light that it was good; and God _divided_ the
_light_ from the _darkness_, Gen. i. 4.
244. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God
set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth.
Gen. i. 16, 17.
245. And there shall be _upon every high mountain, and upon every high
hill, rivers and streams of waters_, in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall. Moreover, _the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun_, and the light of the sun shall be _seven-fold_, as
the light of seven days' in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach
of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isaiah xxx. 25,
26.
246. Again the Devil taketh him (Christ) up into an exceeding high
mountain, _and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory
of them_, Matt. iv. 8.
247. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit
of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full
of _bones_. And caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there
were very many in the open valley; and lo, _they were very dry_. And he
said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord
God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and
say unto them, O _ye dry bones hear the word of the Lord_. Thus saith
the Lord God unto these bones, Behold _I will cause breath to enter into
you and ye shall live_. And I will lay sinews upon you, and bring up
flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you; and ye
shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as
I was commanded; and as I prophesied there was a noise, _and behold
a shaking, and the bones came together bone to his bone_. And, when I
beheld, lo, _the sinews and the flesh came up upon them_; and the skin
covered them above; but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto
me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, _and say to the wind_,
Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe
upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded
me, _and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon
their feet_, an exceeding great army. Ezek. xxxvii. 1 to 10.
248. And it came to pass, as _they were burying a man_, that behold,
they spied a band of men, and they cast the man into the sepulchre of
Elisha: and when the man was let down, _and touched the bones of Elisha,
he revived, and stood up on his feet_. 2 Kings xiii. 21.
249. Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in the which _all that
are in the graves shall hear his voice_. John v. 28.
250. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, (for
the _trumpet_ shall sound) and the _dead shall be raised incorruptible_,
and we shall be changed. 1 Corinth xv. 52.
251. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven _with a shout_, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in
Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain, shall be
_caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air_;
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessa. iv. 16, 17.
252. And I saw the _dead_, small and great, stand before God; and the
books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of
life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which
were in it, _and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in
them_; and they were judged every man according to their works. And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death. Rev. xx. 12, 13, 14.
253. For I am he that _liveth and was dead;_ and behold I am alive for
ever more. Amen; _and have the keys of hell and of death_. Rev, i. 18..
254. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping; and as she wept
she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre. _And seeth two angels
in white, sitting_ the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain. _And they say unto her_, Woman, why weepest
thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and
I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, _and saw Jesus standing_, and knew not that it was
Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?
she, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou hast
borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him
away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary, she turned herself, and said unto him,
Rabboni, which is to say Master. John xx, 11 to 16.
255. But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them
when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore saith unto him, We have
seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands
the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. _And after eight
days_ again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them; _then came
Jesus: (the door being shut) and stood in the midst,_ and said; Peace be
unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, _and behold
my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side_; and be
not faithless but believing. John xx. 24 to 27.
356. Jesus saith unto them, _Come and dine_. And none of his disciples
durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus then
_cometh and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise_. This now
was the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, _after
that he was risen from the dead_. John xxi. 12 to 14.
257. And when he had spoken these things while they beheld, _he was
taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight_. And while they
looked steadily toward heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by
them in white apparel: Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye
gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Acts i. 9 to 11.
258. _Then the Spirit took me up_, and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.
_So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away_, and I went in bitterness,
in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
Ezek. iii. 12, 14.
259. And he put forth the form of an hand, _and took me by a lock of
mine head, and the Spirit lift me up between earth and heaven_, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner
gate, that looketh toward the north, where was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. Ezek. viii. 3.
260. And Habbakuk said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I know
where the den is. _Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown,
and bare him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemence of his
spirit, set him in Babylon over the den_. And Habbakuk cried, saying,
O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God hath sent thee. Bel and the
Dragon, xxxv. 6, 7.
261. Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,
(which is the sect of the Sadducees) and were filled with indignation.
And laid their hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
But the _angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors_, and
brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the
people, all the words of this life. Acts v. 17 to 20.
262. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven, and came _and rolled bach the stone from the
door_ and sat upon it. Matt, xxviii. 2.
263. And _the angel of the Lord_ came again the second time, _and
touched him_, and said, Arise and eat, because thy journey is too great
for thee. 1 Kings xix. 7.
264. Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of his staff _that
wass in his hand_, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
there _rose up fire out of the rock_, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
Judges vi. 21.
265. Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, My son, see
that the man have _his wages_, which went with thee, and thou must give
him more, So he called _the angel_, and he said unto him, _Take half of
all that ye have brought, and go away in safety_. Tobit xii, 1, 5.
266. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came
unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of _an angel of
God, very terrible_; but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he
me his name. Judges xiii. 6.
267. Whose throne is inestimable, whose glory may not be comprehended,
_before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling_, 2 Esdras viii.
21.