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BEFORE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.

Matth. xxiv, 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

OTHER ALLUSIONS.

Isa. xxiv, 19, 20. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Isa. xxix, 6. Thon shalt be visited of the LOPD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

Jer. iv, 24. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

Haggai ii, 6. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet ouce, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Rev. viii, 5. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Rev. xvi, 18. And there were voices, and thunders, and light nings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

MOUNTAINS.

PECULIAR EPITHETS. Gen. xlix, 26. The blessings of

Isa. xlix, 11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Hab. lil, 6. He stood, and mea

sured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

SUMMIT OF HILL, THE SCENE OF RETIREMENT, OBSERVATION, AND OFTEN

OF IDOLATROUS WORSHIP.

Exod. xvii, 9, 10. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the hill.

Num. xiv, 44. But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top: nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

Judges ix, 7. And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and cried,

and said unto them, Hearken unto

me, ye men of Shechem, that God

may hearken unto you.

1 Sam. xxvi, 13. Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off, a great space being between them.

2 Sam. ii, 25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

1 Kings xiv, 23. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green

tree.

1 Kings xviii, 42. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink; and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the

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Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high

hill, and under every green tree, thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Jer. iii, 6. The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Jer. xvil, 2. Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Ezek. vi, 13. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

Ezek. xvil, 22. Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it upon an high hill.

Ezek. xx, 28. For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink-offerings.

Ezek. xl, 2. In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

Amos ix, 3. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence. . . . .

Matth. iv, 8. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.

PECULIAR SACREDNESS ATTACHED TO ONE OF

THEM.

Ps. ii, 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.

Ps. iii, 4. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Ps. XV, 1. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

Ps. xliii. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Ps. xlviii, 1. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain

of his holiness.

Ps. lxxxvii, 1. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Ps. xcix, 9. Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill: for the LORD our God is holy.

Isa. xi, 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Isa. Ivi, 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer......

Isa. Ivil, 13. When thou criest,

them, and there will I require | son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

Ezek. xxviii, 14. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Dan. ix, 16, 20. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God.

Dan. xi, 45. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Joel ii, 1, Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand.

Joel iii, 17. So shall ye know

AMANA.

Cant. iv, 8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana......

AM MAH.

2 Sam. ii, 24. Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah, by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

ARARAT.

Gen. viii, 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

BASHAN.

as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, Ps. lxviii, 15. The hill of God is

as the hill of Bashan.

Nah. i, 4..... Bashan languishof Lebanon languisheth. eth, and Carmel, and the flower

BETHEL,

1 Sam. xiii, 2. Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Beth-el. .....

let thy companies deliver thee: that I am the LORD your God Saul in Michmash and in mount

but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

dwelling in Zion, my holy moun

tain: then shall Jerusalein be

holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Zeph. iii, 11. In that day shalt Isa. lxv, 11. But ye are they thou not be ashamed for all thy that forsake the LORD, that forget doings, wherein thou hast transmy holy mountain, that prepare a gressed against me: for then I table for that troop, and that fur-will take away out of the midst nish the drink-offering unto that of thee them that rejoice in thy

number.

Isa. Ixvi, 20. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean Vessel into the house of the LORD. Jer. xxxi, 23. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity, The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Ezek. xx, 40. For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept

pride; and thou shalt no more be haughty because mountain.

of my holy

HILLS AND MOUNTAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ABARIM.

Num. xxvii, 12, And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given

unto the children of Israel.

Num. xxxiii, 47, 48. And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.

BETHER.

Çant. ii, 17. . . . Be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether

CARMEL.

send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

1 Kings xviii, 19. Now therefore

2 Kings ii, 25. And he went from thence to mount Carmel; and from thence he returned to Samaria.

2 Kings iv, 25. So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw

her afar off, that he said to Gelazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.

Cant. vii, 5. Thy head upon thee is like Carmel.

EBAL.

Deut. xi, 29. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land Judges xii, 15. And Abdon the whither thou goest to possess it

AMALEK.

that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Deut. xxvii, 13. And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali,

Josh. viii, 30, 33. Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal. And all

Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark, and on that side, before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger as he that was born among them: half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

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Judges xvii, 1. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges xviii, 13. And they passed thence unto mount Ephirain, and came unto the house of Micah.

Judges xix, 1. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there on the side of mount Ephraim, was a certain Levite sojourning who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

1 Sam. i, 1. Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.

1 Kings iv, 8. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim.

(and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

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Jer. xxxi, 39. And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

GERIZIM.

Deut. xxvii, 12. These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

GILBOA.

1 Sam. xxxi, 1. Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

1 Chron. X, 1, 8. Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, fallen in mount Gilboa. that they found Saul and his sons

GILEAD.

Gen. xxxi, 21. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

HACHILAH.

way: but David abode in the wilderness; and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

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1 Kings v, 14. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

Ps. xxix, 6. IIe maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Jer. xviii, 14. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

MARS-HILL.

1 Sam. xxiii, 19. Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeahi, saying, Doth not David hide him- Acts xvii, 22. Then Paul stood self with us in strong holds in the in the midst of Mars-hill, aud wood, in the hill of Hachilab, said, Ye men of Athens, I perafflic-which is on the south of Jeshi-ceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

Jer. iv, 15. For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth tion from mount Ephraim.

Jer. xxxi, 6. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

Jer. 1, 19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation,

mon.

1 Sam. xxvi, 1, 3. And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the

MIZAR.

Ps. xlii, 6. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

MOREH. Judges vii, 1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

MORIAH.

Gen. xxii, 2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriali; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

2 Chron. ii, 1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the thrashing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

MOUNT OF THE AMORITES.

Deut. i, 20. And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

MOUNT IN ZIPH.

1 Sam. xxiii, 14. And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph....

NEBO.

Deut. xxxiv, 1. And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.

OLIVES.

Matth. xxi, 1. And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples.

Matth. xxvi, 30. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Luke xix, 37, And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had

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Gen. xiv, 6. And the Horites in

their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

Gen. xxxvi, 8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir. Esau is Edom.

Deut. ii, 1, 5. Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days. Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

2 Chron. xx, 10, 22, 23. And now, behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not; And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, and they were smitten. which were come against Judah; For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir utterly to slay and

destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

Ezek. xxxv, 2, 3, 7. Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir and prophesy against it, And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that returneth.

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to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Jer. iii, 14. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jer. xiv, 19. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thon Smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Jer. li, 35. The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

MOUNT OF BEATITUDES. Matth. v, 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him.

MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURA

TION.

Mark ix, 2. And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

AGAR.

Gal. iv, 24, 25. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

MOUNTAIN OF MYRRH. Çant. iv, 6. Uutil the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

VALLEY S.
ACHOR.

Josh. vii, 24. And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Isa. lxv, 10. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to

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2 Kings xxiii, 10. And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Moloch.

2 Chron. xxviii, 3. Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the whom the LORD had cast out beabominations of the heathen, fore the children of Israel.

2 Chron. xxxiii, 6. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. . . . .

Jer. vii, 31. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of inhom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; neither came it into my heart. which I commanded them not,

Jer. xix, 2. And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the

words that I shall tell thee.

Jer. xxxii, 35. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Iinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech. . . . . . .

JEHOSHAPHAT.

Joel iii, 2, 12, 14. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

JERICHO.

Deut. xxxiv, 3. And the south,

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