Jer. xvi, 16. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill,

and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezek. xlvii, 10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Amos iv, 2. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with

fishhooks.

Hab. i, 14-17. And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay

the nations?

Matth. iv, 18-20. And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galileo, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets and followed

him.

Matth. xiii, 47-50. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matth.xvii, 27. Notwithstanding, lest, we should offend them, go

thou to the sea, and cast an hook, I
and take up the fish that first
cometh up; and when thou hast
opened his mouth, thou shalt find
a piece of money: that take, and
give unto them for me and thee.

tude of fishes. And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

USED AS FOOD.

Num. xi, 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.

Luke xxiv, 42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

Marki, 16-20. Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers And straightway they of men. forsook their nets, and followed him. And when he had gone a John xxl, 9, 10, 12, 13. As soon little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his then as they were come to land, brother, who also were in the ship they saw a fire of coals there, and mending their nets. And straight-fish laid thereon, and way he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

Luke v, 2-11. And saw two
ships standing by the lake: but
the fishermen were gone out of
them, and were washing their
nets. And he entered into one of
the ships, which was Simon's, and

prayed him that he would thrust
out a little from the land. And
he sat down, and taught the peo-
ple out of the ship. Now when he
had left speaking, he said unto
Simon, Launch out into the deep,
and let down your nets for a
draught. And Simon answering
said unto him, Master, we have
toiled all the night, and have taken
nothing; nevertheless at thy word
I will let down the net. And
when they had this done, they in-
closed a great multitude of fishes:
and their net brake. And they
beckoned unto their partners,
which were in the other ship, that
they should come and help them.
And they came, and filled both
the ships, so that they began to
sink. When Simon Peter saw it,
he fell down at Jesus' knees, say
ing, Depart from me; for I am a
sinful man, O Lord. For he was
astonished, and all that were with
him, at the draught of the fishes
which they had taken: And so
was also James, and John, the
sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. And Jesus
said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men.
And when they had brought their
ships to land, they forsook all, and
followed him.

bread.

Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the 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.

FISHGATE.

2 Chr. xxxiii, 14. Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Neh. iii, 3. But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

Neh. xii, 39. And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

Zeph. 1, 10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

REPTILES.

Gen. vil, 8,21. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that John xxi, 3, 6, 8. Simon Peter creepeth upon the earth, And all saith unto them. I go a fishing. flesh died that moved upon the They say unto him, We also go earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, with thee. They went forth, and and of beasts, and of every creepentered into a ship immediately; ing thing that creepeth upon the and that night they caught noth-earth, and every man: And he said unto them, Gen. viii, 17. 19. Bring forth with ing. Cast the net on the right side of thee every living thing that is the ship, and ye shall find. They with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, cast therefore, and now they were and of cattle, and of every creepnot able to draw it for the multi-ing thing that creepeth upon the

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Ezek, viii, 10. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon

the wall round about.

DRAGON.

Deut. xxxii, 33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

P3. xliv. 19. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the

Jaws, and I will cause the fish of
thy rivers to stick unto thy scales,
and I will bring thee up out of the
midst of thy rivers, and all the
fish of thy rivers shall stick unto
thy scales. And I will leave thee
thrown into the wilderness, thee
and all the fish of thy rivers: thou
shalt fall upon the open fields;
thou shalt not be brought together,
nor gathered: I have given thee
for meat to the beasts of the field
and to the fowls of the heaven.

Jonah iv, 7. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

and no man; a reproach of men, Ps. xxii. 6. But I am a worm, and despised of the people.

Isa. xli, 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Micah vii, 17. . . . They shall move out of their holes like worms

Mal. i, 3. And I hated Esau, and forth, and look upon the carcases Isa. Ixvi, 24. And they shall go laid his mountains and his heritage of the men that have transgressed waste for the dragons of the wilagainst me: for their worm shall derness. not die, neither shall their fire be Rev. xii, 3, 4. And there appear-quenched; and they shall be an ed another wonder in heaven; and abhorring unto all flesh. behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to P. xci, 13. Thou shalt tread up-devour her child as soon as it was on the lion and adder: the young born. lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

shadow of death.

Ps. lxxiv, 13. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Isa. xiii. 22. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isa. xxxv, 7.*** In the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and

rushes.

Isa. 11, 9. Awake, awake, put on

thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Jer. ix, 11. And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jer. x, 22. Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jer. xlix, 33. And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jer. l. 37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

FROGS.

Exod. viii, 2. And if thou refuse to let them go behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.

P3. lxxviii, 45. *** And frogs, which destroyed them.

Ps. cv. 30. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

Mark ix, 44. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

SERPENT.

Gen. iii. 1. Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Exod. iv, 3. And he said, Cast it on the ground, and it became a unclean spirits like frogs come out serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

Rev. xvi, 13. And I saw three

of the mouth of the dragon, and
out of the mouth of the beast, and

Num. xxi, 6-9. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the peo

out of the mouth of the false pro-ple, and they bit the people; and

phet.

much people of Israel died. Moses, and said, We have sinned, Therefore the people came to for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Ezek. xxix, 3-5. Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Gop; Behold I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that Job xxiv, 20. The womb shall lieth in the midst of his rivers, forget him; the worm shall feed which hath said, My river is mine sweetly on him; he shall be no own, and I have made it for my-more remembered; an 1 wickedness self. But I will put hooks in thy shall be broken as a tree.

2 Kings xvill, 4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

Prov. xxiii, 31, 32. Look not thou upon the wine.

the last it biteth like a serpent, bring them up out of that land unto it was like wafers made with

and stingeth like an adder.

Isa. lix, 5. They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

1 Sam. xiv, 27, 29, 43. But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his Then eyes were enlightened. said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a Then Saul little of this honey. said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and lo, I must die.

Prov. xxiv, 13, 14. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then

there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Prov. xxv, 16, 27. Hast thou found honey? cat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Prov. xxvii, 7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is

sweet.

Cant. v, 1. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Isa. vii, 15, 22. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give that he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

Matth. iii, 4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Luke xxiv, 42. And they gave
him a piece of a broiled fish, and
of an honey-comb.

ALLUSIONS TO ITS SWEETNESS.
Ps. xix, 10. More to be desired
are they than gold, yea, than much
fine gold: sweeter also than honey
and the honeycomb.

Ps. cxix, 103. How sweet are
thy words unto my taste! yea,
sweeter than honey to my mouth.

Prov. v, 3. For the lips of a

strange woman drop as an honey-
comb, and her mouth is smoother
than oil.

Prov. xvi, 24. Pleasant words
are as an honeycomb, sweet to
the soul, and health to the bones.

Çant. iv, 11. Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Ezek. iii. 3. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with did I eat it; and it was in my this roll that I give thee. Then mouth as honey for sweetness.

Rev. x,9, 10. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth little book out of the angel's hand, sweet as honey. And I took the mouth sweet as honey: and as and ate it up; and it was in my soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

CATERPILLAR AND LOCUST.

Ps. lxxviii, 46. He gave also their increase unto the cater

piller, and their labour unto the

locust.

P3. cv, 34. He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number.

Isa. xxxiii, 4. And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the catterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

the locusts. Thou hast multiplied
thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the cankerworm spoileth,
and fleeth away.

FLEA.

1 Sam. xxiv, 14. After whom is the king of Israel.come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?

1 Sam. xxvi, 20. Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the moun

tains.

FLY.

Exod. viii, 21, 22. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of lies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians And I will sever in and also the ground whereon shall be full of swarms of flies, that day the land of Goshen, in they are. which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

Ps. lxxviii, 45. He sent divers

sorts of flies among, which de

voured them.

Ps. cv, 31. He spake, and there in all their coasts. came divers sorts of flies, and lice

Eccles. x, 1. Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so reputation for wisdom and hondoth a little folly him that is in

Jer. li, 14, 27. The LORD of hosts our.

hath sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill thee with men,
as with caterpillers; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
Cause the horses to come
up as the rough caterpillers.
CANKER-WORM, AND
PALMER-WORM.

THEIR VORACITY.

Joel i, 4. That which the pal-
hath left hath the
merworm

locust eaten; and that which the
locust hath left hath the canker-
worm eaten; and that which the
cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpiller eaten.

Joel ii, 25. And I will restore to
you the years that the locust hath
eaten, the cankerworm, and the
caterpiller, and the palmerworm,
my great army which I sent
among you.

Nahum iii, 15, 16. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as

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Isa. vii, 18, 19. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is .And they in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, . shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valley, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

GNAT.

Matth. xxiii, 24. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

GRASSHOPPER.

Thus hath the Amos vii, 1. Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Num. xvi, 15. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass Job iv, 19. . . . Which are crush- from them, neither have I hurt ed before the moth?

Job xiii, 28. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is motheaten.

Ps. xxxix, 11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely eyery man is vanity. Selah.

Isa, 1, 9. Behold, the Lord Gop will help me; who is he that shall

the dust of the land, that it may condemn me? lo, they all shall angel of the LORD, she fell down