Psa. 13.1. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2. How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3. Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. v. 4.

Psa. 14.7. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!

Psa. 16.1. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Psa. 17.1. Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Psa. 17.7. Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. 8. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9. From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. 13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword. v. 2,14.

Psa. 22.1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 11. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 19. Be not thou far from me, O Lord: Ô my strength, haste thee to help me. 20. Deliver my soul from the sword: my darling from the power of the dog. 21. Save me from the lion's mouth. Psa. 38.21,22.

Psa. 25.2. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 16. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 17. The troubles of my heart are enlarged: 0 bring thou me out of my distresses. 18. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19. Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psa. 27.11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

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Psa. 28.1. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psa. 30.9. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

Psa. 31.1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

Psa. 31.2. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 3. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Psa. 31.9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 14. But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. 15. My times are in thy hand : deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 17. Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee.

Psa. 35.1. Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Psa. 35.17. Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 19. Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psa. 35.22. This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. 23. Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. 25. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psa. 38.1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Psa. 38.9. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 16. Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth.

Psa. 39.10. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 12. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psa. 40.13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. 17. I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Psa. 70.5.

Psa. 42.9. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psa. 43.1. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2. For thou art the God of my strength why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy.

Psa. 44.4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Psa. 44.24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26. Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Psa. 54.1. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. 2. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3. For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul.

Psa. 55.1. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 2. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3. Because of the voice of the enemy.

Psa. 56.1. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Psa. 57.1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. 2. I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

Psa. 59.1. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 4. Awake to help me, and behold.

Psa. 60.1. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 2. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3. Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. 11. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Psa. 108.12.

Psa. 61.1. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. 2. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psa. 64.1. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity.

Psa. 69.1. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

Psa. 69.13. As for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15. Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psa 69.17. Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it deliver me because of mine enemies. 19. Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 29. I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Psa 70.1. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

Psa. 70.2. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul. v. 3-5.

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Psa. 71.1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save 4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

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Psa. 71.9. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. 12. O God, be not far from me: my God, make haste for my help.

Psa. 74.1. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 3. Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations, even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psa. 74.10. O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. 19. O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 21. Olet not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23. Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. v. 1-23.

Psa. 77.1. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. 7. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

Psa. 79.1. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 5. How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Psa. 79.8. O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Psa. 79.11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die. v. 1-11.

Psa. 80.1. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

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Psa. 80.3. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5. Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 14. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine. v. 1-16.

Psa. 83.1. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and theythat hate thec have lifted up the head. v.3-5.

Psa. 85.5. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6. Wilt thou not revive us again : that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

Psa. 86.1. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me for I am poor and needy. 2. Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Psa. 86.16. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. 17. Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Psa. 88.9. Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 13. Unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 14. Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? v. 10-12.

Psa. 89.46. How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 47. Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? 49. Lord, where are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Psa. 89.50. Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51. Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. v. 39-51.

Psa. 90.15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Psa. 94.1. O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. 2. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. v. 3-5.

Psa. 102.2. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 24. O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days.

Psa. 106.47. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name.

Psa. 108.6. That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me. Psa. 109.1. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2. For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me. 21. But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Psa. 109.26. Help me, O Lord my God: 0 save me according to thy mercy: 27. That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it. 28. Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. Psa. 120.2.

Psa. 116.4. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Psa. 119.22. Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 39. Turn

away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

Psa. 119.41. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word. 42. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

Psa. 119.82. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 84. How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that perse

cute me?

Psa. 119.107. I am afflicted very much : quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word. 121. Leave me not to mine oppressors. 122. Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 123. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Psa. 119.134. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. 153. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Psa. 119.170. Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word. 173. Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

Psa. 123.3. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. Psa. 126.4. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south. Psa. 130.1. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. 2. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Psa, 140.4. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Psa. 140.6. I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. 8. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves.

Psa. 141.8. Mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9. Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Psa. 142.1. With my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. 2. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

Psa. 142.5. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. 6. Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.

Psa. 143.7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

8. Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Psa. 143.9. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 11. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. v. 12. Psa. 144.5-11.

Isa. 33.2. O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Isa. 38.14. Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Isa. 51.9. Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.

Isa. 63.15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. 17. Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Isa. 64.1. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy pre

sence.

Isa. 64.9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Jer. 10.24. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Jer. 14.8. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way faring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9. Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

Jer. 14.19. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou 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! 20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 21. Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. Jer. 32.16-25.

Jer. 15.15. O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer. 17.17. Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed.

Jer. 18.19. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. Jer. 20.7,8.

distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Lam. 2.18. Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Lam. 5.1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. Lam. c. 1-5.

Dan. 6.10. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Joel 1.19. O Lord, to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Hab. 1.12. Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Hab. 3.2. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

Mat. 8.25. His disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. Mat. 14.30. He was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. Luk. 23.46. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Act. 4.29. Now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 30. By stretching forth thine hand to heal.

Act. 7.59. Lord Jesus receive my spirit. 2 Cor. 12.8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. See PRAYER, INTERCESSORY.

AFFLICTION, RESIGNATION IN. RESIGNATION.

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UNIVERSAL. Gen. 3.16. sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. 17. Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Job 5.7. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 9.22. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Job 14.1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psa. 90.10. If by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.

Luk. 13.2. Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3. I tell you,

1 Pet. 59. The same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

(Compare PERSECUTION with AFFLICTION.) AGABUS prophesies a famine, Act. 11.28, and Paul's apprehension at Jerusalem, Act. 21.10.

AGAG, king of Amalek, defeated by Saul and slain by Samuel, 1 Sam. 15.8,33. See Num. 24.7.

AGATE, a precious stone, Isa. 54.12. Eze. 27.16. Set in the high-priest's breastplate, Ex. 28.19.

AGED, THE. See OLD AGE.

AGRICULTURE, practised by Adam, Gen. 2.15. Gen. 3.19,23. Cain, Gen. 4.2. Noah, Gen. 9.20. Elisha, 1 Kin. 19.19. David, 1 Chr. 27.26-31. Uzziah, 2 Chr. 26.10. Solomon, Ecc. 2.4-6.

Operations of. Digging, Isa. 5.6. Isa. 7.25. Luk. 13.8. Luk. 16.3. Gathering out stones, Isa. 5.2. Manuring, Isa. 25.10. Mat. 13.30. Luk. 14,34,35. Weeding, Mat. 13.28. Ingrafting, Rom. 11.17-24. See BARNS, FENCES, HARROW, IRRIGATION, MILLS, MOWING, PLOUGHING, PRUNING, REAPING, SHEPHERDS, SOWING, THRESHING, VINEYARDS. Implements, &c. See AXE, CART, FAN, FLAIL, FORK, GOAD, HARROW, MATTOCK, PLOUGH, PRUNING-HOOK, SHOVEL, SICKLE, SIEVE.

Animals used in. See Ass, BULLOCK, HEIFER, HORSE. Compare Gen. 42.27. Deu. 11.15. 1Kin. 18.5. Jer. 50.11. Isa.15.6. 11.7.

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Punishment for injuring crops, Ex. 22.6. Deu. 23.25. Strangers allowed to eat corn and fruit, but not to carry it away, Deu. 23.24,25. See Mat. 12.1. Mixed seeds not to be used, Deu. 22.9. Ploughing with an ox and an ass forbidden, Deu. 22.10.

Fruit of trees not to be eaten for 3 years, offered to God the 4th year, eaten by the owner from the 5th year, Lev. 19.23-25.

Planters of vineyards exempted from military service until they had eaten of the fruit, Deu. 20.6. See FIRST-FRUITS, GLEANINGS, LANDMARKS, TITHES.

AGRIPPA, son of Herod III., and king of Chalcis, Galilee, and Perea; Paul pleads before him, Act. 25. Act. 26. Impressed by Paul's discourse, Act. 26.28.

Drought predicted by Elijah, 1 Kin. 17. He meets Elijah, the miracle on Carmel, and abundant rain, 1 Kin. 18. Tells Jezebel of Elijah slaying Baal's prophets, 1 Kin. 19.1. Attacked by Benhadad, defeats him twice according to predictions of a prophet, 1 Kin. 20.1-30.

Rebuked for releasing Benhadad, 1 Kin. 20.31-43. Takes Naboth's vineyard, is rebuked by Elijah, his repentance defers the threatened judgments, 1 Kin. 21. League with Jehoshaphat against Syria, imprisons Micaiah, encouraged by false prophets, disguises himself, is slain at Ramoth-gilead, 1 Kin. 22. 2 Chr. 18.

Jericho rebuilt in his reign, 1 Kin. 16.34. Prophecies against him and his posterity, 1 Kin. 20.42. 1 Kin. 21.19-24. 1 Kin. 22.19-28. 2 Kin. 9.8,25,26. His sons murdered, 2 Kin. 10.1-8.

AHAB, a false prophet; Jeremiah predicts his death, Jer. 29.21,22.

AHASUERUS, king of Persia; his treatment of Vashti, Esther, Mordecai, Haman, and the Jews, Book of Esther.

AHAVA, a river in Babylonia, where Ezra gathered the Jews and proclaimed a fast before returning to Judea, Ezr. 8.15,21,31.

AHAZ, eleventh king of Judah, son and successor of Jotham, 2 Kin. 15.38. 2 Kin. 16.1. 1 Chr. 3.13. Attacked by Pekah and Rezin, his son slain, captives taken by Pekah, but afterwards restored, towns taken by Rezin, 2 Kin. 2 Chr. 28.5-15. Isa. 7.1. 16.5,6.

Refuses to ask a sign of Isaiah, Isa. 7.11,12. Subsidizes Tiglath for aiding him against Rezin, 2 Kin. 16.7-9,17,18. 2 Chr. 28.16-21. Invasion by Edomites and Philistines, 2 Chr. 28. 17-19. Idolatry of, 2 Kin. 16.2-4. 2 Chr. 28. 1-4,19,22-25.

Sets up a pagan altar, destroys the sacred vessels, &c., and closes the Temple, 2 Kin. 16.10-18. 2 Chr. 28. 24. 2 Chr. 29.3,7,19. Sundial of, 2 Kin. 20.11. Isa. 38.8.

Upper chamber of, with idolatrous altars, 2 Kin. 23.12. Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah proMic. phesied in his reign, Isa. 1.1. Hos. 1.1.

1.1.

Death of, 2 Kin. 16.20. 2 Chr. 28.27. Isa. 6.1. Prophecy against him, Isa. 7.13-25. Against his invaders, Isa. 7.3-9,16.

AHAZIAH, sixth king of Judah, son and successor of Jehoram, 2 Kin. 8.25. 1 Chr. 3.11. Called Azariah, 2 Chr. 22.6, and Jehoahaz, 2 Chr. 21.17. 2 Chr. 25.23. Evil influence of his mother Athaliah, 2 Chr. 22.2-5. 2 Kin. 8.26, 27.

Allied

AHAB, seventh king of Israel, son and successor of Omri, 1 Kin. 16.29. His wickedness, worship of Baal, &c., 1 Kin. 16.30-33. 1 Kin. 18.18,19. 1 Kin. 21.25,26. 2 Kin. 3.2. 2Chr. 21.6. 2Chr. 22.2-4. Mic. 6.16. Marries Jezebel, a Zidonian; her evil influence, 1 Kin. 16.31. 1 Kin. 21.

eighth king of Israel, son and successor of Ahab, 1 Kin. 22.40,51. Joins Jehoshaphat in making ships for Tarshish, which were wrecked at Ezion-geber, 1 Kin. 22.49. 2 Chr. 20.35-37.