Chapter XXXVII: Appendix (1)

=NOTE 1.= PAGE 92.—Though not only the justice of God, but even his faithfulness to his gracious promise demanded this, the tender loving-kindness of Jehovah appears in such expressions as these: “It repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him”—literally, “it pained into his heart.” The one term, of course, explains the other. When we read that God repented, it is only our human way of speaking, for, as Calvin says, “nothing happens by accident or that has not been foreseen.” It brings before our minds “the sorrow of divine love over the sins of man,” in the words of Calvin, “that when the terrible sins of men offend God, it is not otherwise than as if his heart had been wounded by extreme sorrow.”—_Dr. Edersheim._

=NOTE 2.= PAGE 125.—Adam lived till Methuselah was 243 years old. Methuselah lived till Shem, the son of Noah, had reached the age of 98 years. Shem must have had 150 years to live after the birth of Abraham, and 50 years after the birth of Isaac. Abraham lived till Jacob and Esau were 15 years old, Isaac till they were 120. Thus we see how directly the knowledge of all that God had taught Adam could be communicated to his descendants; Adam imparting it to Methuselah, Methuselah to Shem, Shem to Abraham and Isaac, and these patriarchs to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.

=NOTE 3.= PAGE 253.—This miracle had a meaning which Moses could not mistake. The serpent was probably the basilisk or Uræus, the Cobra.... This was the symbol of royal and divine power on the diadem of every Pharaoh. It was a poisonous snake, as is shown by the flight of Moses, and by most passages in which the same word occurs, nahash, derived from hissing. This snake never attacks without first inflating its neck, and then hissing; on the monuments it is always represented with its neck enormously swollen. The conversion of the rod was not merely a portent, it was a sign, at once a pledge and representation of victory over the king and gods of Egypt.—_Speaker’s Commentary._

=NOTE 4.= PAGE 258.—In the command for Israel’s release, the Lord said to Pharaoh, “Israel is my son, even my first-born.... Let my son go, that he may serve me.” Ex. 4:22, 23. The psalmist tells us why God delivered Israel from Egypt: “He brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness; and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labor of the people; that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.” Ps. 105:43-45. Here we learn that the Hebrews could not serve God in Egypt.

In Deut. 5:14, 15, we find special emphasis given to that portion of the fourth commandment which requires the man-servant and the maid-servant to rest, and the Israelite was told to remember that he had been a servant in the land of Egypt. The Lord said, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.” In Ex. 5:5 we learn that Moses and Aaron made the people “_rest_ from their burdens.”

From these facts we may conclude that the Sabbath was one of the things in which they could not serve the Lord in Egypt; and when Moses and Aaron came with the message of God (Ex. 4:29-31), they attempted a reform, which only increased the oppression. The Israelites were delivered that they might observe the statutes of the Lord, including the fourth commandment, and this placed upon them an additional obligation to keep the Sabbath strictly, as well as to keep all the commandments. Thus in Deut. 24:17, 18, the fact of their deliverance from Egypt is cited as placing them under special obligation to show kindness to the widow and the fatherless: “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge; but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.”

=NOTE 5.= PAGE 272.—That the plagues were designed to destroy the confidence of the Egyptians in the power and protection of their idols, is clearly shown in the following extracts from the “Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation”:—

“The first miracle, while it authenticated the mission of Moses, destroyed the serpents, which among the Egyptians were objects of worship; thus evincing, in the outset, that their gods could neither help the people nor save themselves.

“The second miracle was directed against the river Nile, another object which they regarded with religious reverence. This river they held sacred, as the Hindoos do the Ganges; and even the fish in its waters they revered as objects of worship. They drank the water with reverence and delight, and supposed that a divine efficacy dwelt in its waves to heal diseases of the body. The water of this their cherished object of idolatrous homage was transmuted to blood; and its finny idols became a mass of putridity.

“The third miracle was directed to the accomplishment of the same end,—the destruction of faith in the river as an object of worship. The waters of the Nile were caused to send forth legions of frogs, which infested the whole land, and became a nuisance and a torment to the people. Thus their idol, by the power of the true God, was polluted, and turned into a source of pollution to its worshipers.

“By the fourth miracle of a series constantly increasing in power and severity, lice came upon man and beast throughout the land. ‘Now, if it be remembered,’ says Gleig, ‘that no one could approach the altars of Egypt upon whom so impure an insect harbored; and that the priests, to guard against the slightest risk of contamination, wore only linen garments, and shaved their heads and bodies every day,[1200] the severity of this miracle as a judgment upon Egyptian idolatry may be imagined. Whilst it lasted, no act of worship could be performed, and so keenly was this felt that the very magicians exclaimed, ‘This is the finger of God.’

“The fifth miracle was designed to destroy the trust of the people in Beelzebub, or the Fly-god, who was reverenced as their protector from visitations of swarms of ravenous flies, which infested the land generally about the time of the dog-days, and removed only, as they supposed, at the will of this idol. The miracle now wrought by Moses evinced the impotence of Beelzebub, and caused the people to look elsewhere for relief from the fearful visitation under which they were suffering.

“The sixth miracle, which destroyed the cattle, excepting those of the Israelites, was aimed at the destruction of the entire system of brute worship. This system, degrading and bestial as it was, had become a monster of many heads in Egypt. They had their sacred bull, and ram, and heifer, and goat, and many others, all of which were destroyed by the agency of the God of Moses. Thus, by one act of power, Jehovah manifested his own supremacy, and destroyed the very existence of their brute idols.

“Of the peculiar fitness of the sixth plague (the seventh miracle), says the writer before quoted, the reader will receive a better impression, when he is reminded that in Egypt there were several altars upon which human sacrifices were occasionally offered, when they desired to propitiate Typhon, or the Evil Principle. These victims being burned alive, their ashes were gathered together by the officiating priests, and thrown up into the air, in order that evil might be averted from every place to which an atom of the ashes was wafted. By the direction of Jehovah, Moses took a handful of ashes from the furnace (which, very probably, the Egyptians at this time had frequently used to turn aside the plagues with which they were smitten), and he cast it into the air, as they were accustomed to do; and instead of averting evil, boils and blains fell upon all the people of the land. Neither king, nor priest, nor people escaped. Thus the bloody rites of Typhon became a curse to the idolaters, the supremacy of Jehovah was affirmed, and the deliverance of the Israelites insisted upon.

“The ninth miracle was directed against the worship of Serapis, whose peculiar office was supposed to be to protect the country from locusts. At periods these destructive insects came in clouds upon the land, and, like an overshadowing curse, they blighted the fruits of the field and the verdure of the forest. At the command of Moses these terrible insects came, and they retired only at his bidding. Thus was the impotence of Serapis made manifest, and the idolaters taught the folly of trusting in any other protection than that of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

“The eighth and tenth miracles were directed against the worship of Isis and Osiris, to whom and the river Nile they awarded the first place[1201] in the long catalogue of their idolatry. These idols were originally the representatives of the sun and moon; they were believed to control the light and the elements; and their worship prevailed in some form among all the early nations. The miracles directed against the worship of Isis and Osiris must have made a deep impression on the minds both of the Israelites and the Egyptians. In a country where rain seldom falls, where the atmosphere is always calm, and the light of the heavenly bodies always continued, what was the horror pervading all minds during the elemental war described in the Hebrew record; during the long period of three days and three nights, while the gloom of thick darkness settled, like the outspread pall of death, over the whole land! Jehovah of hosts summoned Nature to proclaim him the true God; the God of Israel asserted his supremacy, and exerted his power to degrade the idols, destroy idolatry, and liberate the descendants of Abraham from the land of their bondage.

“The Almighty having thus revealed himself as the true God by miraculous agency, and pursued those measures, in the exercise of his power, which were directly adapted to destroy the various forms of idolatry which existed in Egypt, the eleventh and last miracle was a judgment, in order to manifest to all minds that Jehovah was the God who executes judgment in the earth.”

=NOTE 6.= PAGE 282.—In Gen. 15:13 we read that the Lord said to Abraham, “Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.” Ex. 12:40 says, “The sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.” But Paul in Gal. 3:15-17 says that from the making of the covenant with Abraham to the giving of the law at Sinai was four hundred and thirty years.

From these scriptures, then, we are not to understand that the Israelites were in Egypt four hundred years. The actual time spent in Egypt could have been only about two hundred and fifteen years. The Bible says that “the _sojourning_ of the children of Israel” was four hundred and thirty years. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the ancestors of the Israelites, were sojourners in Canaan. The period of four hundred and thirty years dates from the promise given to Abraham when he was commanded to leave Ur of the Chaldees. The four hundred years of Gen. 15:13 dates from a later period. Notice that the period of four hundred years is not only a time of sojourning, but of _affliction_. This, according to the Scriptures, must be reckoned from thirty years later, about the time when Ishmael, “he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him [Isaac] that was born after the Spirit.” Gal. 4:29.

=NOTE 7.= PAGE 316.—The golden calf was a representation of the sacred bull called Apis, which the Egyptians worshiped, and with which the Israelites had necessarily become very familiar during their long sojourn in Egypt. Concerning this god Apis and what it signified, we find the following:—

“Apis, the bull worshiped by the ancient Egyptians, who regarded it as a symbol of Osiris, the god of the Nile, the husband of Isis, and the great divinity of Egypt.”—_Chambers’s Encyclopedia._

The “Encyclopedia Britannica” (art. “Apis”), referring to the Greek writers and the hieroglyphic inscriptions, says: “According to this view the Apis was the incarnation of Osiris manifested in the shape of a bull.”

Since Apis was regarded as the visible manifestation of Osiris, we must learn what Osiris stood for, in order to understand the calf-worship of the Israelites. Again we quote from the “Encyclopedia Britannica”:—

“All the mysteries of the Egyptians, and their whole doctrine of the future state, attach themselves to this worship [of Osiris]. Osiris was identified with the sun.... Sun-worship was the primitive form of Egyptian religion, perhaps even pre-Egyptian.”

“It was to Osiris that the prayers and offerings for the dead were made, and all sepulchral inscriptions, except those of the oldest period, are directly addressed to him.” “The bull Apis, who bears in Egyptian the same name as the Nile, Hapi, was worshiped at Memphis.... Apis was considered to be the living emblem of Osiris, and was thus connected with the sun and the Nile.”

From these extracts it appears that the worship which the Israelites paid to the golden calf was really the Egyptian form of sun-worship,—that form of idolatry which has always stood foremost as the antagonist of the true worship of God. It is indeed significant that just at the time when God manifested himself to the Israelites in a peculiar manner, and made known to them his Sabbath, they should have fallen back into the old sun-worship, whose chief festival day—the first day of the week—has always contended for supremacy with the day specially distinctive of the worship of the true God.

The Israelites, in their adoration of the golden calf, _professed_ to be worshiping God. Thus Aaron, when inaugurating the worship of the idol, proclaimed, “To-morrow is a feast unto Jehovah.” They proposed to worship God, as the Egyptians worshiped Osiris, under the semblance of the image. But God could not accept the service. Though offered in his name, the sun-god, and not Jehovah, was the real object of their adoration.

The worship of Apis was accompanied with the grossest licentiousness, and the Scripture record indicates that the calf-worship by the Israelites was attended with all the license usual in heathen worship. We read: “They rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.” Ex. 32:6. The Hebrew word rendered “to play” signifies playing with leaping, singing, and dancing. This dancing, especially among the Egyptians, was sensual and indecent. The word rendered “corrupted” in the next verse, where it is said, “Thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves,” is the same that is used in Gen. 6:11, 12, where we read that the earth was corrupt, “for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” This explains the terrible anger of the Lord, and why he desired to consume the people at once.

=NOTE 8.= PAGE 329.—The ten commandments were the “covenant” to which the Lord referred, when in proposing a covenant with Israel, he said, “If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep _my_ covenant,” etc. Ex. 19:5. The ten commandments were termed God’s covenant, before the covenant was made with Israel. They were _not an agreement_ made, but something which God _commanded them to perform_. Thus the ten commandments—God’s covenant—became the _basis_ of the covenant made between him and Israel. The ten commandments in all their details, are “all these words,” _concerning which_, the covenant was made. See Ex. 24:8.

=NOTE 9.= PAGE 354.—When a sin-offering was presented for a priest or for the whole congregation, the blood was carried into the holy place, and sprinkled before the vail, and placed upon the horns of the golden altar. The fat was consumed upon the altar of burnt-offering in the court, but the body of the victim was burned without the camp. See Lev. 4:1-21.

When, however, the offering was for a ruler or for one of the people, the blood was not taken into the holy place, but the flesh was to be eaten by the priest, as the Lord directed Moses: “The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.” Lev. 6:26, Rev. Ver. See also Lev. 4:22-35.

=NOTE 10.= PAGE 366.—That the one who spoke the law, who called Moses into the mount and talked with him, was our Lord Jesus Christ, is evident from the following considerations:—

Christ is the one through whom God has at all times revealed himself to man. “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, _by whom are all things_, and we by him.” 1 Cor. 8:6. “This is he [Moses] that was in the church in the wilderness, with the Angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the lively oracles to give unto us.” Acts 7:38. This Angel was the Angel of God’s presence (Isa. 63:9), the Angel in whom was the name of the great Jehovah (Ex. 23:20-23). The expression can refer to no other than the Son of God.

Again: Christ is called the Word of God. John 1:1-3. He is so called because God gave his revelations to man in all ages through Christ. It was his Spirit that inspired the prophets. 1 Peter 1:10, 11. He was revealed to them as the Angel of Jehovah, the Captain of the Lord’s host, Michael the archangel.

=NOTE 11.= PAGE 603.—The question has been raised, and is now much agitated, If a theocracy was good in the time of Israel, why would not a theocratical form of government be equally good for this time? The answer is easy:—

A theocracy is a government which derives its power immediately from God. The government of Israel was a true theocracy. That was really a government of God. At the burning bush, God commissioned Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. By signs and wonders and mighty miracles multiplied, God delivered Israel from Egypt, and led them through the wilderness, and finally into the promised land. There he ruled them by judges “until Samuel the prophet,” to whom, when he was a child, God spoke, and by whom he made known his will. In the days of Samuel, the people asked that they might have a king. This was allowed, and God chose Saul, and Samuel anointed him king of Israel. Saul failed to do the will of God; and as he rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord rejected him from being king, and sent Samuel to anoint David king of Israel; and David’s throne God established forevermore. When Solomon succeeded to the kingdom in the place of David his father, the record is: “Then Solomon sat on the _throne of the Lord_ as king instead of David his father.” 1 Chron. 29:23. David’s throne was the throne of the Lord, and Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king over the earthly kingdom of God. The succession to the throne descended in David’s line to Zedekiah, who was made subject to the king of Babylon, and who entered into a solemn covenant before God that he would loyally render allegiance to the king of Babylon. But Zedekiah broke his covenant; and then God said to him:—

“Thou profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it him.” Eze. 21:25-27; see chap. 17:1-21.

The kingdom was then subject to Babylon. When Babylon fell, and Medo-Persia succeeded, it was overturned the first time. When Medo-Persia fell, and was succeeded by Grecia, it was overturned the second time. When the Greek empire gave way to Rome, it was overturned the third time. And then says the word, “It shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.” Who is he whose right it is?—“Thou ... shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David; and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.” Luke 1:31-33. And while he was here as “that prophet,” a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, the night in which he was betrayed he himself declared, “My kingdom is not of this world.” Thus the throne of the Lord has been removed from this world, and will “be no more, until he come whose right it is,” and then it will be given him. And _that time_ is the end of this world, and the beginning of “the world to come.”

To the twelve apostles the Saviour said, “I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Luke 22:29, 30. From Matthew’s account of Christ’s promise to the twelve we learn when it will be fulfilled: “In the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matt. 19:28. In the parable of the talents, Christ represents himself under the figure of a nobleman who “went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.” Luke 19:12. And he himself has told us when he will sit upon the throne of his glory: “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, _then_ shall he sit upon the throne of his glory; and before him shall be gathered all nations.” Matt. 25:31, 32.

To this time the Revelator looks forward when he says, “The kingdoms of this world _are become_ the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.” Rev. 11:15. The context clearly shows when this will take place: “The nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth.” Verse 18. It is at the time of the final Judgment, the reward of the righteous, and the punishment of the wicked, that the kingdom of Christ will be set up. When all who oppose the sovereignty of Christ have been destroyed, the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.

Then Christ will reign, “King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Rev. 19:16. “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High.” And “the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.” Dan. 7:27, 18.

Until that time the kingdom of Christ cannot be established on the earth. His kingdom is not of this world. His followers are to account themselves “strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” Paul says, “Our citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Heb. 11:13; Phil. 3:20, Rev. Ver.

Since the kingdom of Israel passed away, God has never delegated authority to any man or body of men to execute his laws as such. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Rom. 12:19. Civil governments have to do with the relations of man with man; but they have nothing whatever to do with the duties that grow out of man’s relation to God.

Except the kingdom of Israel, no government has ever existed on the earth, in which God by inspired men directed the affairs of State. Whenever men have endeavored to form such a government as that of Israel, they have, of necessity, taken it upon themselves to interpret and enforce the law of God. They have assumed the right to control the conscience, and thus have usurped the prerogative of God.

In the former dispensation, while sins against God were visited with temporal penalties, the judgments executed were not only by divine sanction, but under his direct control, and by his command. Sorcerers were to be put to death. Idolaters were to be slain. Profanity and sacrilege were punished with death. And whole nations of idolaters were to be exterminated. But the infliction of these penalties was directed by Him who reads the hearts of men, who knows the measure of their guilt, and who deals with his creatures in wisdom and mercy. When men, with human frailties and passions, undertake to do this work, it needs no argument to show that the door is opened to unrestrained injustice and cruelty. The most inhuman crimes will be perpetrated, and all in the sacred name of Christ.

From the laws of Israel, which punished offenses against God, arguments have been drawn to prove the duty of punishing similar sins in this age. All persecutors have employed them to justify their deeds. The principle that God has delegated to human authority the right to control the conscience, is the very foundation of religious tyranny and persecution. But all who reason thus lose sight of the fact that we are now living in a different dispensation, under conditions wholly different from those of Israel; that the kingdom of Israel was a type of the kingdom of Christ, which will not be set up until his second coming; and that the duties which pertain to man’s relation to God are not to be regulated or enforced by human authority.

=NOTE 12.= PAGE 608.—Concerning the identity of the Ramah of Samuel with the Ramah of Benjamin, Dr. Edersheim says: “These two points seem established: Saul’s residence was at Gibeah, and he first met Samuel in Ramah. But if so, it seems impossible, in view of 1 Samuel 10:2, to identify the Ramah of Samuel with the Ramah of Benjamin, or to regard it as the modern _Neby Samuel_, four miles northwest of Jerusalem.”

Footnote 1200:

Every third day, according to Herodotus.

Footnote 1201:

Against the worship of the Nile two miracles were directed, and two
likewise against Isis and Osiris, because they were supposed to be the
supreme gods. Many placed the Nile first, as they said it had power to
water Egypt independently of the action of the elements.

Index of Scripture References

GENESIS
1:26, 27, 44
1:31, 47
2:1-3, 47
2:4, 112
2:8, 46
2:17, 60
2:18, 20, 46
2:24, 46
3, 54
3:4, 96
3:4, 5, 685
3:15, 65
3:19, 478
4:4, 71
4:6, 7, 74
4:9-12, 77
4:16, 62
4:25, 26, 80
5:1, 3, 80
6:2, 81
6:5, 79
6:5, 7, 11, 91
6:7, 92
7:1, 117
7:1, 9, 98
7:11, 104
8:13, 105
8:21, 22, 106
9:2, 3, 107
9:6, 516
9:11-16, 106
9:25-27, 117
11:5, 123
11:8, 120
11:31, 127
12:1, 126
12:3, 125
12:5, 127
12:7, 128
12:18, 19, 130
13:1-9, 132
13:10, 156
13:10-13, 133
14:17-24, 136
14:19, 20, 157
14:20, 525
15:1-5, 136
15:7-18, 137
15:13, 14, 282
15:16, 434
15:18, 716
16:6-13, 145
16:12, 174
17:1, 370
17:1-16, 137
17:7, 370
17:18-20, 146
18:17-33, 139
18:19, 140, 575
19, 158
19:17, 166
21:12, 151
22:2, 148
22:5-8, 152
22:11-18, 152
22:18, 370
24, 172
25:32, 34, 179
26:5, 140, 154, 363, 370
27:3, 4, 179
27:33, 181
28:13-15, 184
28:16-22, 187
28:22, 188, 525
29:1, R. V., 188
29:20, 189
30:25-27, 30, 43, 192
31, 193
31:15, 189
31:38-40, 190
32, 195
32:28, 198
33:4, 198
33:18-20, R. V., 204
34, 204
35, 205
35:5, 499
35:27, 207
36:7, 207
37, 209
39, 214
40, 219
41, 220
41:54-56, 224
42 to 50, 224
46:34, 232
48:7, 206
49:5-7, 205

EXODUS
1, 241
2:1-10, 241
2:14, 247
2:23-25, 251
3, 252
4:1-26, 252
4:14, 320
4:21, 268
4:22, 23, 273
4:27-31, 257
5 to 10, 257
11:4-8, 274
12:1-28, 274
12:5, 352
12:27, 279
12:29-33, 280
12:34-39, 281
12:40, 41, 51, 282
12:46, 277
13:17-22, 282
14:5-9, 283
14:10-22, 284
14:23, 24, 287
15:1-16, R. V., 288
15:25, 291
15:26, 292
16:3, 292
16:8-10, 14, 15, 18, 31, 295
16:23, 25, 26, 296
16:35, 297
17:1-7, 297
17:14, 299
17:16, 300
18:13-26, 301
19, 303
19:5, 6, 371
20:2-17, 305
20:8-11, 111
20:10, 525
20:19-21, 310
21:14, 516
21:17, 408
22:23, 24, 31, 311
23:9, 20-22, 311
23:10, 11, 531
23:14-16, 537
23:20, 21, 419
23:24, 369
23:24, 25, 543
23:27-33, 544
24, 312
24:7, 372
25:2, 343
25:8, 313, 343
25:22, 62
25:30, 354
26:1, 347
28:2, 350
28:29, 351
29:43, 45, 314
30:12-16, 526
31:13, 14, 17, 313
32, 316
32:15, 16, 314
33, 327
34, 329
34:6, 7, 628
34:7, 469
34:24, 537
35:21, 22, 344
35:23-28, R. V., 344
36:6, 344
39:43, 349
40:34, 349

LEVITICUS
10:3, 6, 7, 361
10:9-11, 362
10:17, 355
16:16, 19, 21, 22, 355
18:5, 372
19:9, 10, 531
19:18, 136, 305, 373
19:31, 689
19:33, 34, 507
20:6, 685
23:40, 42, 43, 540
24:15, 16, 408
25:5, 21, 22, 531
25:9, 10, 533
25:23, 534
25:35-37, 532
26:4-17, 535
27:30, 32, 525

NUMBERS
2:2, 17, 375
3:13, 277
4:15, 705
7:9, 705
8:16, 277
10:33, 35, 36, 376
11, 379
11:8, 295
11:31, R. V., 382
12, 383
12:1, R. V., 383
12:3, 251
12:8, 396
13:17-33, 387
14, 387
14:41-43, 394
15:15, 507
15:35, 409
16, 398
17, 403
18:15, 16, 277
18:21, 530
20:1, 410
20:1-13, 414
20:14-20, 422
20:22-29, 425
20:29, 427
21:5, 428
21:7-9, 429
22 to 24, 438
23:21, 23, 457
24:17, 475
25, 454
25:1-3, 684
26:64, 65, 456
27:16-23, 462
31, 456
33:55, 544
35:11, 12, 515
35:30, 31, 33, 516

DEUTERONOMY
1:15, 374
1:16, 17, 381
1:41, 392
1:45, 394
2, 433
2:3-6, 414
2:4, 5, 423
2:7, 14, 15, 406
3:1-11, 435
3:2, 436
3:24-27, 462
3:26, 419
4:5, 6, 464
4:6, 605
4:7, 8, 10, 20, 465
4:23-26, 466
4:32-35, 463
6:4, 5, 305, 373
6:7-9, 20-25, 468
6:10-12, 466
7:2, 492
7:7-9, 464
7:9, 118
8:2, 3, 5, 407
8:7, 8, 128
8:7-9, 465
8:15, 429
8:18, 525
9:1, 487
9:10, 314
9:20, 323
10:6, 427
11:10-12, 465
11:18-21, 503
11:19, 504
11:22-25, 544, 716
12:8-28, 634
14:23, 29, 530
15:6-9, 11, 533
15:13, 14, 532
16:11-14, 530
18:12, 689
18:15, 480
20:5-8, 549
20:16, 492
23:7, 8, 375
23:15, 16, 532
24:14, 15, 532
24:19-22, 531
25:17-19, 300
25:19, 628
26:5, 8-11, 527
26:12, 530
27:26, 372
28, 466
29:29, 113
30:19, 20, 467
31:10-13, 503
31:23, 470
32:4, 43
32:10, 407
32:11, 12, 469
32:15, 413
32:49, 50, 470
33:2, 3, 305
33:13-16, 475
33:26-29, R. V., 471
34:1, 471
34:5, 6, 477
34:10-12, 478

JOSHUA
1 to 4, 482
2:11, 369
4:12, 13, 518
5:3, 9, 10, 485
5:9-12, 486
5:13-15, 488
6 and 7, 488
8:30-35, 499
9 and 10, 505
10:6, 507
10:40-43, 510
11, 510
14:6-15, 511
15:14, 513
17:14-18, 513
18:1-10, 514
19:49, 50, 515
22, 518
23 and 24, 521
24:2, 125

JUDGES
1:28, 543
2:12, 545
6 to 8, 545
6:5, R. V., 546
7:12, R. V., 550
8:18, 546
10:10-16, 557
13, 560
14 to 16, 562

1 SAMUEL
1, 570
2:1-11, 570
2:12-36, 576
2:17, 609
2:30, 529
3 to 7, 581
8 to 12, 604
9:2, 608
10:8, 617
12:13, 636
13, 618
13:5, 617
13:14, 636
13:22, 616
14, 623
15, 627
15:11, 29, 630
16, 637
16:18, 644
17, 645
17:34, 35, R. V., 644
18 to 22, 649
22:20-23, 660
23 to 27, 660
25:29-31, R. V., 667
26:15, 16, 699
28 and 31, 675
28:6, 683
29 and 30, 691
30:8, R. V., 693

2 SAMUEL
1:2-16, 695
1:19-27, R. V., 696
2 to 4, 697
5:1-5, 697
5:10, 702
5:17-25, 704
6, 705
7, 711
8:15, 719
9, 713
10, 714
11 and 12, 719
11:27, 723
12:5, 6, 721
12:11, 12, 739
13 to 19, 727
18:3, 4, R. V., 743
23:1-5, R. V., 754
23:13-17, 736
24:14, 25, 748

1 KINGS
1, 749
2:1-4, 753

2 KINGS
12:4, 5 526

1 CHRONICLES
2:7 495
10:13, 14, 683
14:16, 17, 704
19:6, 7, 13, 715
21, 747
21:26, 748
22:8-10, 712
28 and 29, 750

2 CHRONICLES
24:4-13, 526

NEHEMIAH
9:6, 115
9:13, 365
9:19-21, 407
10:32, 33, 526

JOB
9:5, 328
11:7-9, 116
14:2, 754
28:28, 222
37:16, 51
38:7, 47, 65
38:11, 97, 694
38:22, 23, 509

PSALMS
2:4, 739
3:1-8, 742
8:6-8, 45
9:5, 6, 341
9:15, 456
11:1-5, 661
15:4, 506
17:5, 452
18:46-50, R. V., 716
19:1, 116
19:1, 2, 48
19:14, 413
20:7, 716
23:2, 413
24:3, 506
24:7-10, 708
25:9, 384
25:14, 139, 329
27:5, 110
32:1-4, R. V., 724
32:5-7, 725
33:6, 9, 44, 112
33:10, 11, 13, 14, 124
33:16, 17, 716
34:7, 537
34:12-14, 600
36:8, 9, 413
37:11, 170
37:18, 26, 118
37:29, 67
37:37, 237
40:8, 372
40:17, 351
44:4-7, 716
48:1, 2, 539
48:2, 731
50:3, 4, 339
50:5, 6, 341
50:10, 525
50:23, 289
51:1-14, 16, 17, 725
51:7, 277
51:10, 460
56:3, 692
61:2, 413
62:7, 413
66:18, 329
67:5, 290
68:8, 340
71:3, 413
72:4-8, R. V., 755
72:17, 755
73:8, 124
73:26, 413
77:17-20, R. V., 287
78:15, 16, 298
78:18-21, 379
78:24, 25, 297
78:32-35, 37-39, 410
78:52, 58, 60, 61, 545
80:1, 62
81:11, 12, 441
85:10, 349
89:3-29, 755
89:13-18, R. V., 33
89:14, 34
89:31-33, 738
91:1, 4, 16, 167
91:9, 10, 14, 110
92:12, 450
94:14, 15, 21, 23, 456
94:22, 413
96:6, 34
97:2, R. V., 43
103:1, 2, 294
103:17, 18, 754
104:5, 44
104:20, 21, 27, 28, 115
105:14, 15, 131
105:18, R. V., 218
105:21, 22, 222
105:39, 282
105:41, 411
105:43-45, 334
106:16, 320
106:19, 20, 317
106:28, 684
106:33, 420
106:34-38, 40, 544
106:37, 38, 686
111:7, 8, 342
111:9, 307
112:6, 481
113:3, 342
115:1, 289
115:8, 91
116:12, 187
116:18, 19, 539
118:19, 539
119:9, 11, 460
119:89, 342, 365
119:104, 172, 596
121:1, 2, 538
121:2-8, 664
122:1-6, R. V., 538
122:7, 539
125:1, 2 R. V., 538
132:14, 732
133:1, 658
141:5, 667
144:5, 6, 109
144:15, 117
145:9, 443
145:17, 39
145:18, 125
146:2, 290
146:4, 685
147:8, 115
147:16, 115
148:8, 509

PROVERBS
1:24-31, 33, 558
1:30-32, 739
2:18, 19, 461
3:17, 600
4:22, 600
4:23, 460
5:3, 4, 8-11, 461
7:26, 457
8:22-30, 34
9:10, 596, 651, 739
9:18, 461
11:24, 528
12:10, 442
12:22, 506
14:12, 361, 634, 720
15:27, 168
15:33, 553
18:4, 413
19:23, 600
23:4, 168
23:7, 460
27:4, 385
28:9, 584

ECCLESIASTES
3:14, 754
8:11, 124
9:5, 6, 685
9:18, 118

CANTICLES
2:11-13, R. V., 538

ISAIAH
2:20, 21, 341
4:5, 6, 283
4:6, 191
5:20-24, 360
8:19, 684
8:19, 20, 687
9:6, 34, 755
12:3, 412
13:7, 8, 11, 13, 340
13:9, 167
14:13, 14, 35
24:20, 340
26:4, 413
26:9, 10, 332
26:21, 339
27:5, 726
28:21, 628
32:2, 413
35:1, 2, 5-10, 542
35:6, 413
37:16, 62
40:8, 754
40:12, 302
40:26, 115
41:17, 413
44:3, 413
45:18, 67
48:21, 411
51:7, 338
51:7, 12, 22, 341
53:4, 5, 411
54:9, 10, 107
54:10, 342, 657
55:1, 413
55:7, 726
58:13, 307
61:11, 342
63:9, 407
64:1-3, 109

JEREMIAH
2:6, 377
2:13, 413
7:12, 14, 515
10:10-12, 14-16, 336
10:13, 115
13:20, 192
17:9, 688
17:12, 34
25:30, 340
29:11, 129
30:5-7, 201
30:6, 340
31:33, 34, 372
50:25, 509

LAMENTATIONS
3:37, 360

EZEKIEL
1:11, 348
1:28, 107
16:49, 50, 156
20:11, 372
20:13-24, 410
28:12-15, 17, 35
31:8, 450
33:11, 628
34:16, 22, 28, 191

DANIEL
7:10, 357
7:18, 342
7:27, 170

HOSEA
4:17, 165, 405
12:4, 197
13:11, 605

JOEL
3:16, 340, 341

AMOS
3:3, 85, 174

OBADIAH
16, 541

MICAH
4:8, 67
5:2, 34
6:4, 382
7:8, 9, 738

NAHUM
1:3, 628
1:3-6, 109

HABAKKUK
2:3, 170
3:11-13, 508

HAGGAI
1, 527
2:8, 525
2:16-19, 528

ZECHARIAH
3:2, 168
6:13, 63
13:1, 413
14:7, 237
14:9, 342

MALACHI
3:2, 339
3:7, 165
3:8, 497
3:10, 529
3:11, 527
3:18, 341
4:1, 341

MATTHEW
4:16, 476
5:8, 87
5:9, 667
5:14-16, 370
5:17, 18, 365
5:18, 469
6:24, 167, 496
7:2, 625
7:21, 207
10:8, 528
10:26, 721
11:28, 29, 294
12:32, 405
15:9, 166
16:27, 339
18:16, 516
23:38, 475
24:38, 39, 101
25:41, 469

MARK
14:38, 689

LUKE
1:32, 33, 755
2:14, 65
3:38, 45
7:48, 754
10:27, 305
12:15, 496
12:20, 668
12:48, 528
16:29, 31, 367
17:26, 30, 104
17:28, 30, 166
18:7, 8, 203
18:8, 103
21:20, 21, 34-36, 166
23:34, 140

JOHN
1:1, 2, 34
1:14, 278
1:51, 184
3:14, 15, 431
3:15, 475
3:16, 63
3:20, 74
3:36, 207
4:14, 204, 413
5:17, 114
5:39, R. V., 367
6:37, 431
6:48-51, 297, 354
6:53, 54, 63, 277
7:17, 384
7:37-39, 412
8:29, 372
8:39, 154
8:44, 337
8:56, R. V., 154
10:5, 11-14, 191
12:31, 32, 69
15:18, 559
17:20, 520
19:36, 277

ACTS
2:19, 109
4:12, 73, 431
6:15, 329
7:5, 169
7:22, 245
7:25, 246
7:44, 357
17:25, 525
17:28, 115
20:28, 29, 192

ROMANS
1:20, 116
1:21, 28, 82
3:31, 373
4:3, 137
4:11, 138, 140
4:13, 170
5:1, 373
6:23, 341, 741
7:12, 123, 365
8:1, 34, 517
8:3, 330
8:3, 4, 373
8:18, 127
8:22, 443, 542
8:32, 154
12:1, 352
12:10, 133
13:1, 719

1 CORINTHIANS
2:9, 602
3:9, 595
3:17, 362, 461
4:5, 386
5:7, 277
5:7, 8, 278
6:19, 20, 362
10:1, 2, 282
10:4, 411
10:11, 12, 457
10:20, 686
10:31, 362
11:1, 719
15:32, 182
15:51, 52, 89

2 CORINTHIANS
4:4, 67, 442
4:17, 127, 476
5:19, 64, 366
5:20, 580
6:14, 17, 18, 175
6:15, 16, 563
6:17, 458
8:13-15, 295
9:6, 8, 528
9:7, 529

GALATIANS
3:7, 153
3:8, 154
3:8, 16, 370
3:16, 169
3:29, 170
5:21, 461
6:7, 268

EPHESIANS
1:14, 67
3:20, 554
5:3, 496
5:29, 46
6:2, 308
6:12, 717

PHILIPPIANS
2:4, 133
4:8, 460

COLOSSIANS
1:16, 34
2:14, 365
3:3, 450
3:5, 496

1 THESSALONIANS
4:16-18, 89
5:3, 104

2 THESSALONIANS
1:7, 8, 340
2:9, 686

1 TIMOTHY
4:1, 103, 686
5:19, 386
6:9, 168

2 TIMOTHY
1:5, 592
3:1, 103
3:12, 608
3:15, 592

HEBREWS
1:3, 45
1:3, 8, 34
1:14, 65
2:9, 65
2:18, 64
2:10, 18, 480
3:5, 6, 480
3:12, 294
4:3, 115
4:13, 721
6:6, 580
6:18, 371, 517
8:2, 356
8:5, 352, 356
9:9, 23, 356
9:19, 20, 312
9:21, 23, 357
9:23, 24, 343
9:24, 357, 367
9:28, 411
10:26, 27, 405, 517
11:1, 8, 126
11:4, 72
11:5, 6, 88
11:7, 95
11:9, R. V., 126
11:9, 10, 13, 16, 170
11:13, 16, 81
11:19, 152
11:23, 243
11:24-26, 246
11:29, 290
11:30, 493
11:33, 34, 513
12:11, 238
12:16, 17, 181
12:21, 304
12:26, 340
13:2, 138
13:4, 46
13:8, 630

JAMES
1:5, 248
1:5, 7, 384
1:17, 373, 630
2:17, 154
2:17, 22, 73
2:21-23, 153
2:23, 140
3:16, 385
4:4, 459
4:11, 386
5:16, 663

1 PETER
1:4, 170
1:5, 460
1:8, 341
1:10, 11, 367
1:12, 155
1:13-15, R. V., 460
1:19, 352
2:9, 362, 607
3:8, 9, 520
5:2, 3, 191
5:4, 192
5:7, 294

2 PETER
2:1, 2, 686
2:10, 11, 386
2:15, 439
2:16, 442
2:19, 67
3:3, 4, 103
3:5-7, 101
3:8, 170
3:10, 104

1 JOHN
2:4, 73
2:15, 459
2:22, 23, 686
3:2, 64
3:12, 74
3:13, 559
3:15, 308
5:3, 154
5:4, 513

JUDE
9, 479
11, 81
14, 15, 86, 393

REVELATION
2:4, 5, 165
2:7, 62
2:17, 297
4:2, 3, 107
4:5, 356
5:11, 36
5:13, 541
6:14, 340
6:15-17, 341
8:3, 356
11:19, 356
12:9, 431
12:9, 11, 77
12:10, 12, 689
13:8, 63
14:3, 89
14:8, 124
15:2, 3, 289
15:3, 79
16:17, 21, 509
16:18, 20, 21, 110
17:18, 167
18:2, 124
18:4, 167
19:10, 367
20:12, 357
20:14, 461
21:1, 62
22:3, 67
22:11, 201
22:14, 62, 208
22:17, 413

GENERAL INDEX

Aaron, associate of Moses, 254, 313, 425.
character of, 316, 320, 383, 384.
responsible for apostasy, 317, 323.
priesthood of, 350, 403, 426, 579.
mistakes of, 317, 360, 382, 426.
good deeds of, 425, 426.
death of, 426, 427.

Aarons, still in the church, 317.

Abel, life of, 71-79.
pleads with Cain, 71, 72, 74.
why Cain was angry with, 74.

Abiathar, flees to David, 660.
counsels David, 693.
joins conspiracy against Solomon, 749.
priesthood taken from, 749.

Abib, first month of Jewish year, 537.

Abigail, piety of, 667.
pleads for Nabal, 666.
marriage of, to David, 668.

Abigail, sister of David, 742.

Abihu, see Nadab.

Abimelech, accepted as king of Israel, 556.
murders Gideon’s legitimate sons, 557.

Abinadab, ark in house of, 589, 704.

Abiram, see Korah.

Abishai, begs to kill Shimei, 737.
commander in David’s army, 742.

Abner, character of, 698, 700.
reproached by David, 671, 698.
crowns Ishbosheth king of Israel, 698.
deserts him for David, 699.
killed by Joab, 699.
David mourns for, 700.

Abram, name changed to Abraham, 138.

Abraham, call of, 125, 126, 363, 368, 523.
promise to, 125, 133, 137, 140, 146, 153, 169, 170, 232, 370, 522.
promise of land fulfilled to, 716.
covenant with, heard by other worlds, 155.
character of, 125-134, 138, 140, 157.
wealth of, 127, 132, 147.
influence of, 128, 142, 147, 158, 368.
honored by God, 138, 140;
by nations, 133, 134, 147, 368.
gospel given to, 125, 154, 366.
household of, 141, 142.
perplexed over promise of son, 136.
proposes to adopt Eliezer, 136.
marries Hagar, 145.
lack of faith in, 130, 145, 147, 174.
accused by Satan before Heaven, 155.
commanded to sacrifice Isaac, 147, 148.
trial of, more severe than Adam’s, 155.
the friend of God, 128, 140, 153.
contrasted with Lot, 168.
rescues Lot from Elamites, 135.
fate of Sodom revealed to, 139.
vision of oppression in Egypt, 137, 281.
tithes paid by, 136, 525.
journeys of:
Ur, Haran, Shechem, 127;
Bethel, 128, 132;
Egypt, 129;
Hebron, 133;
Beer-sheba, 147, 173.

Absalom, character of, 729.
Amnon slain by; flight of, 727.
returns to Jerusalem, 729.
rebellion of, 727-745.
slain by Joab, 744.
David’s grief for, 744.
grave an everlasting reproach to, 744.

Acacia, 347, 348, 453, 483.

Acceptance with God, how determined, 638.

Accounts in heaven, see Books.

Accusations, false, how to meet, 520.

Achan, sin of, 494-498, 613.
confession wrung from, 498.
lessons in history of, 496.

Achish, David seeks refuge with, 656, 672.
invites David to war against Israel, 674, 690.
dismisses David from army, 691.

Achor, valley of, 495.

Actions, influence of, 158.

Adam, physical appearance of, 45.
created in God’s image, 44, 60.
sons of, in _his_ image, 80.
in open communion with God, 50, 184.
intellectual power of, 50, 51.
history of man revealed to, 67.
law of God understood by, 363.
gospel given to, 366.
dominion given to, 45, 50, 59, 66;
lost by, 60, 69, 331;
restored to, 65, 66, 69.
not deceived by serpent, 56.
blames Eve for fall, 57, 58.
pleads for penalty not to fall on Christ, 66.
test of, a light one, 60, 61.
reproached for suffering and sin, 82.
remorse of, 82.
nine generations taught by, 82, 363.

Adam and Eve, character of, 49.
occupation of, 47.
students under God’s tuition, 50, 83.
warned of Satan’s plots, 52, 53.
blame God for fall, 58.
sentence passed upon, 58, 59.
probation of, 66.

Adonijah, rebellion of, 749.

Adoni-zedek, 507.

Adullam, cave of, 657, 736.

Adultery, spiritual, 306.
practiced in name of religion, 337.
see Licentiousness.

Advent, see First; Second.

Adversary, Satan the, 40.

Affability, 134.

Afflicted, the, triumphing over, 736.

Affliction, lessons in, 129, 218.

Agag, guilt of, 632.
taken alive by Saul, 629.
hewed in pieces by Samuel, 632.

Agriculture as an occupation, 50, 81, 593.

Ahimelech, priest at Nob, 656, 659.

Ahithophel, grandfather of Bathsheba, 735.
joins Absalom’s rebellion, 731, 735.
vile counsel of, 739.
counsels pursuit of David, 739, 740.
counsel rejected; commits suicide, 741.

Ai, spies sent to, 493.
attacked without God’s counsel, 493.
taken with God’s help, 499, 613.

Air, change in temperature of, after fall, 57.

Alarm, cause for, in religious world, 166.

Aliens in Israel, protection of, 311.

Allegiance to God, unswerving required, 134.
strong inducements to, 49.

Alliance of Abraham with Amorites, 134.

Alms-giving, see Poor.

Altar, of incense, description of, 348.
of perpetual intercession, 353.
of continual atonement, 353.
beside Jordan, a witness, 518.

Altars of Abraham, 128;
Jacob, 204.
remembered by Canaanites, 128.
of Balaam, 444, 448, 449.

Amalek, fate of, foretold, 299, 627.

Amalekite boasts of having slain Saul, 695.

Amalekites, character and sins of, 299, 300.
defy power of God, 300, 629.
burn Ziklag, 693, 694.
see Israelites, battles of.

Amasa, commander of Absalom’s forces, 742.

Ambassador, sacred office of, 386, 714.

Ambition, see Lucifer; Korah; Absalom.

Ammonites, descendants of Lot, 168, 433.
not to be dispossessed, 433.
Israel subdued by, 557;
delivered from, 558.
Saul delivers Gibeonites from, 613.
misinterpret courtesy of David, 714.
made tributary to Israel, 715.
see Israelites, battles of.

Amnon, crime of, 727.
why God allowed Absalom to kill, 728.

Amorites, possessions of, 433.
why destroyed, 435, 523.

Amusements, how to test, 707.
among antediluvians, 103.
in last days, 558.
Satan allures into sin by, 458.
tendency of many popular, 459.

Anakims, seen by spies, 388.
driven out by Caleb, 513, 697.

Anarchy, cause of, 536.
permeating all nations, 102.

Angel appears to Abraham, 137, 139;
Hagar, 145;
Lot, 158;
Moses, 252;
Balaam, 439;
Joshua, 487;
Gideon, 546;
Manoah, 560;
David, 748.
in cloudy pillar, 311, 366, 419.
wrestles with Jacob, 197.

Angels, probation of, 41, 53.
plead with Lucifer, 36, 40.
joy of, at creation, 44.
man visited by, in Eden, 50, 53.
as God’s ministers, 34, 36, 50, 65, 67.
desire to comprehend redemption, 155.
offer to die for man, 64, 66.
work of, in heavenly sanctuary, 347.
to minister to Christ on earth, 65.
guard tree of life, 60.
guide animals to ark, 98.
witness sacrifice of Isaac, 155.
Jacob sees, in dream, 184.
accompany Jacob, 195.
watch Joseph under trial, 217.
watch the infant Moses, 243.
Moses under protection of, 256;
buried by, 478.
fight beside Jonathan, 623.
how driven from homes, 169.
entertaining unawares, 138, 158.
protection of, in time of trouble, 256.

Angels, evil, end of probation of, 41.
seduced by Lucifer, 331.
messengers of Satan, 685.

Animal life, Adam familiar with, 51.
food, see Flesh.

Animals, named by Adam, 46, 51.
peace among, in Eden, 50.
as sacrificial offerings, 354.
in rebellion after fall, 59.
suffer because of sin, 443.
angels record cruelty to, 443.

Antediluvians, early development of, 83.
wonderful attainments of, 82-84.
stature of, 90, 112.
modern scholars inferior to, 83.
sins of, 90, 91, 99, 103.
nature worshiped by, 91.
relics of, 112.
destroyed by flood, 104.

Antichrist, Spiritualism as, 686.

Apostasy, of Lucifer, 37, 331, 336.
after flood, 118.
at Sinai, 315-330, 335.
punishment for, 324, 325.
Satan’s purpose in inciting, 335.
whole universe witness, 335.
at the Jordan, 453-461.
in Canaan, 545, 557.
in last days, 166, 167.

Appetite, control of, 378, 562.
indulgence of, 60, 68, 101, 182.
perverted, 306, 378.

Approbation, love of, 650.
See Flattery.

Arad, battle with, 428.

Ar, given to descendants of Lot, 433.

Arguments, Satan uses to perplex, 41.

Ark of bulrushes, Moses in, 243.

Ark of Noah, 92.

Ark of testimony, description of, 348.
position of, in march, 375.
always attended by angels, 589.
only priests allowed to touch, 705.
captured by Philistines, 583-588.
irreverence for, at Beth-shemesh, 589.
removal of, a spiritual blessing, 711.
worshiped by Israelites, 584.
when not a defense, 584.
tables of law in, 348, 349, 500, 503.
history of: at Sinai, 349;
Jordan, 483, 484;
Jericho, 488;
Ebal and Gerizim, 500;
Gilgal, 510, 514;
Shiloh, 514;
Shechem, 523;
Ashdod, Gath, Ekron, 586;
in open field, 586, 589;
Beth-shemesh, 588;
Kirjath-jearim, 589, 591;
Saul brings to camp, 622;
Nob, 656, 659;
Jerusalem, 704, 706;
Obed-edom, 705;
carried to David, but sent back, 732.

Ark of testimony in heaven, 356.

Arnon, Israelites cross, 435.

Art, flood of light on, 113.
in Sodom, 156.

Asahel, slain by Abner, 699.

Ascension, work of Christ after, 357.

Ashes, significance of sprinkling, 267.

Ashtaroth, Jericho seat of worship of, 487.
Saul’s armor put in temple of, 682.
worshiped by Israelites, 588.

Askelon, Samson slays thirty men of, 564.

Aspirations of youth, 602.

Assemblies, yearly, purpose of, 540.

Associates, influence of, 167-169, 204, 568.
evil, as instructors of youth, 595.

Association, Christian, neglect of, 541.

Atheism, at Babel, 119.
the result of Sabbath-breaking, 336.

Atonement, ceremonies of, 352, 355-358, 533.
no salvation independent of, 73.
only Christ could make, 63, 66.
the final, 357, 358.

Authority of God supreme, 35, 331, 621.
of God over Israel, 303, 603, 605.
parental, 141, 337, 577, 578.
pastoral, 578.

Automaton, man not a mere, 49, 331.

Avarice, terrible power of, 440, 497.

Baal, worship of, 449, 453.
Israelites worship, 454-461, 518, 684.
Gideon destroys altar of, 547.

Babel, tower of, 117-124.
a dwelling-place, 119.
furnishings of, 119.
dispersion after, 120.
-builders, why defeated, 123.

Babylon, call to come out of, 167.
fit term for last-day churches, 124.

Backsliding, see Apostasy; Murmurings.

Balaam, an apostate prophet, 439, 448, 452.
sent for, to curse Israel, 438.
under divine control, 443, 448, 449.
future revealed to, 447, 450.
prophecy of, 451.
diabolical scheme of, 451, 454.
how slain, 451, 456.
compared to Judas, 452.

Balak, king of Moab, 438.

Bashan, lesson in conquest of, 433-437.

Bathsheba, wife of David, 718, 720.

Battles, proclamation before, 548.
see Israelites; Saul; David.

Beasts, in Eden, 50.
daily dependent upon God, 115.
Noah in fear of, 107.
fear of man put upon, 107.
first born of, slain in plague, 273.
see Animals.

Beelzebub, 405.

Beer-sheba, Abraham dwelling at, 147, 173.

Beggars, none among God’s people, 531.

Bela, same as Zoar, 161.

Belief in a lie cannot save, 55, 404, 635.

Benevolence, how fostered, 534.
see Poor.

Benjamin, birth of, 206.
in Egypt, 227-231.

Benjamite, Saul a, 608, 609, 611, 612.

Bethel, 128, 132, 187, 205.

Bethlehem, David born in, 637.
Jesus born in, 637.
water brought to David from, 736.

Beth-peor, Israel’s sin at, 454-457, 684.

Beth-shan, 682.

Beth-shemesh, ark returned to, 588.
men of, slain for looking in ark, 589.

Bethuel, father of Rebekah, 173.

Bible, a communication from God to men, 504.
evidence of truth of, 238.
no contradictions in, 114.
impartiality of, 238, 717.
denial of, 166.
men to have settled belief in, 114.
as an educating power, 596.
duty to study, 460, 596.
how to awaken interest in, 504.
history in, 596;
to be taught, 504.
science not a test of, 114.
undermining faith in, 166.
see Word of God.

Bigotry of Israelites, 370.

Birthright, importance of, 177.
how bartered, 182.
privileges of, 177.
see Esau; Jacob; Joseph.

Blasphemy, law against, 408, 409.
Egyptian stoned for, 408.

Blessing, how God speaks in, 470.
how to obtain, 203, 535.
in defeat, 633.
in paying tithes, 527.

Blessings and curses, 466, 499-504.

Blindness, spiritual, 392, 405, 442, 444, 635.

Blood on the door-posts, 274.
Israelites forbidden to eat, 624.
in tabernacle services, 354-356.
significance of offering, 356.
no remission without, 71.
of Christ, 357;
merits of, 277.

Body, effect of intoxicants on, 362.

Boils, plague of, 267.

Bondage in Egypt, cause of, 363.
deliverance from, 281, 406.

Book, address of Samuel recorded in, 611.
covenant of Sinai written in, 312.
of laws placed in side of ark, 466.

Book of life, whose names written in, 326.
Moses asks to be blotted out of, 326.

Books, none before flood, 83.

Books of record in heaven, 203.
dead to be judged by, 357.
filling up account in, 165.
when sins are blotted from, 358.

Booths during Feast of Tabernacles, 540.

Booty, why Abraham refused to take, 136.

Borrowing, from Egyptians, 281.
Hebrews to lend, not borrow, 533.

Bread, unleavened, 278.
of life, Jesus the, 297.

Breastplate, description of, 351.

Brethren, censuring, 420,
See Censure.

Bribery in last days, 102.

Bribes, by whom offered, 604, 659.