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The Story of Daniel the Prophet by Stephen N. Haskell Page 296— for the entire book are found on this page. ** NOTE: —This book is printed with an outside margin where there are many passages of Scripture that will direct the mind of the reader to those portions of the Bible which give light upon The Story of Daniel the Prophet. There is a “Margin link” with a number at the bottom of every page which goes to the margin references for that page. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? Dan. 10:20. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. Dan. 10:14. Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. Dan. 8:16, 17. Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. Dan. 8:19. Matt. 24:3, 15. Luke 21:20. Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. 2Tim. 2:7. 1Cor. 10:15. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan. 12:4. Margin 14 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Dan. 12:9, 10, 13. Dan. 8:26. 1John 2:27. Rev. 2:29. 1. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. Dan. 1:1, 2. Lam. 4:12. 2Kings 23:36. 2Kings 24:5. 2Chron. 36:5-7. Deut. 32:8. Acts 13:47, 48. Margin 15 Isa. 42:6, 7. Isa. 49:6. 1Sam. 10:5-12; 19:23, 24. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites: and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. 2Chron. 17:7-12. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget my children. Hosea 4:6-10. Isa. 5:13. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die. Then Hezekiah prayed and wept sore. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, I have heard thy prayer: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. Isa. 38:1-5. 2Kings 20:1-6. At that time Merodach-baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things: there was nothing in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. Isa. 39:1, 2. Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, shall be carried to Babylon; and thy sons shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Isa. 39:6, 7. 2Chron. 32:24-26. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isa. 28:10. Margin 16 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isa. 48:18. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 2Kings 21:1-3. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Prov. 20:11. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:42, 49, 52. 2Chron. 33:1-10. The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Prov. 29:15-17. Gen. 18:19. 2Peter 3:3, 4. Jer. 1:2, 3. Margin 17 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord. Jer. 3:20. Deut. 28:49-52. Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandeth what they say. Jer. 5:15. And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah. Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away. And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might. 2Kings 23:21-25. 2Kings 22:19, 20. Jer. 18:7, 8. 2Kings 24:6, 7. Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. 2Kings 23:31-37. Margin 18 Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; and also for the innocent blood that he shed. 2Kings 24:1-4. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. 2Kings 24:8, 9, 17. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor. 2Kings 24:10-16. Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison: and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; and changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 2Kings 25:27-30. 2Kings 24:17-20. And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. Jer. 38:17-28. Margin 19 Jer. 38:19. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shall write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Deut. 6:3-9, 20. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. 2Tim. 1:5. Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, and that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken. Lev. 10:9-11. Prov. 23:19-22. Deut. 21:20, 21. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation: my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Ex. 15:1-21. Margin 20 Judges 5:1-31. Ps. 137:1-4. 1Sam. 2:1-10. Psalm 105. 1John 2:13, 14. 2Kings 5:2-4. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. Prov. 23:24, 25. 3. And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; 4. Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. 5. And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. 6. Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Dan. 1:3-6. Prov. 23:1-3. 7. Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Michael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego. Dan. 1:7. Margin 21 1Tim. 6:20, 21. 8. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9. Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. Dan. 1:8-9. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. 20:1. 10. And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king. 11. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Dan. 1:10, 11. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Ps. 37:5, 6. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine: they that go to seek mixed wine. Prov. 23:29-32. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Prov. 31:4, 5. Isa. 5:11. My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. Prov. 6:20-23. Margin 22 12. Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. 13. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. 14. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. Dan. 1:12-14. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. Prov. 4:10-12. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death. Prov. 16:14. Corn shall make the young men cheerful. Zech. 9:17. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isa. 55:2. 15. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat. 16. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. Dan. 1:15, 16. Margin 23 Ps. 42:11. Isa. 58:8. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3John 1:2. Dan. 10:3. Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. Eze. 14:20. Eze. 14:14-20. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Luke 21:34. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Eze. 16:49. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2:16, 17. Gen. 3:17. Margin 24 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Matt. 4:1-4. Prov. 16:32. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1Cor. 9:25. Variety of food at one meal in Bible times. Gen. 18:6-8. Gen. 19:3. Gen. 25:34. Ruth 2:14. 1Sam. 30:11, 12. 1Kings 17:13-16. 1Kings 19:5, 6. 2Kings 4:42-44. Matt. 14:18-20. John 21:9, 12. 17. As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. Dan. 1:17. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. Prov. 2:1-5. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 1John 2:20, 27. Margin 25 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. John 16:13. 18. Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19. And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. 20. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. Dan. 1:18-20. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it. Prov. 16:22. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: to deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things. Prov. 2:10-12. Prov. 13:15. Luke 16:10. 1Sam. 2:30. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth forever. Ps. 111:10. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Job 28:28. Margin 26 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. Ps. 119:98-101. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl. 12:13. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. 22:6. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many. Dan. 11:33. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Prov. 22:29. Margin 27 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. 1Peter 3:15. 21. And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus. Dan. 1:21. That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Isa. 44:28. Isa. 45:1, 2. 1. And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Dan. 2:1. Dan. 1:1. Dan. 2:37, 38. Jer. 27:6-11. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Gen. 10:8-10, margin. Gen. 11:9. Isa. 14:12-14. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. 11:1-9. Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. Isa. 23:13. Jer. 50:28. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 1:6, 7. Job 2:1, 2. 2Chron. 18:18. Margin 29 And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. 1Kings 22:18-23. Rev. 22:1, 2. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. Isa. 14:3-7. Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. Jer. 51:25. Isa. 13:19. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. Dan. 1:17-20. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Isa. 47:10. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. Isa. 47:13, 14. Margin 30 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1Cor. 1:19-25. Yea: have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? Matt. 21:16. 2. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live forever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. Dan. 2:2-4. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. Job 33:13-17. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God I how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Rom. 11:33. 5. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. Margin 31 6. But if ye show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. 7. They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it. 8. The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9. But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof. Dan. 2:5-9. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 1Cor. 2:14, 15. 10. The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. 12. For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13. And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. 14. Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: Margin 32 15. He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 16. Then Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation. Dan. 2:10-16. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence. Prov. 3:25, 26. 17. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. his companions: 18. That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Dan. 2:17, 18. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1Tim. 4:12. 19. Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: 21. And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 22. He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. 23. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter. Dan. 2:19-23. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant. Ps. 25:12-14. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. Ps. 23:1. Margin 33 24. Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation. 25. Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. Dan. 2:24, 25. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: he made him Lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: to bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. Ps. 105:17-22. Ps. 119:98-100. 26. The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? 27. Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded can not the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the king; 28. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; 29. As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. 30. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. 31. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. Margin 34 32. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. 33. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 36. This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. 37. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. 39. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. Dan. 2:26-39. Isa. 47:1, 2, 13. Isa. 47:13. Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord. Jer. 50:14. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. Jer. 9:23, 24. Margin 35 And all nations shall serve him. and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. Jer. 27:7. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. Dan. 8:21, 22. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from CÊsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. Luke 1:2, 3. Dan. 2:44. That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Isa. 14:4. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. Isa. 60:17. 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. 21:27. 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. Dan. 2:40. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. Rev. 17:3. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Rev. 17:2. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. Hosea 2:5. Margin 36 Ps. 2:8, 9. 41. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. 44. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. 46. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him. 47. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. Dan. 2:41-47. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Isa. 60:3-5. Deut. 28:12, 13. Deut. 15:6. Margin 37 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6. Isa. 5:13. Prov. 2:10, 11. 48. Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. 49. Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king. Dan. 2:48, 49. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Num. 14:21. Hab. 2:14. Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: but if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand. Jer. 38:17, 18. Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. Isa. 21:9. Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. Jer. 51:6. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Rev. 14:8. Margin 38 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Jer. 51:7. Rev. 17:4. That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold hath ceased! Isa. 14:4, margin. And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. Rev. 18:16, 17. Gen. 12:1. Joshua 24:2, 3. Deut. 6:6, 7. Ps. 105:22. Rev. 18:1-4. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Deut. 14:1-3. Lev. 11:44. 1Peter 2:9. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? Deut. 4:5-8. Gal. 3:28. For many are called, but few are chosen. Matt. 22:14. 1. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3. Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4. Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5. That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: 6. And whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Dan. 3:1-6. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. Luke 10:27. Margin 40 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and mammon. Matt. 6:24. For whosoever exalteth himself, shall be abased. Luke 14:11. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Rom. 13:1. 7. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Dan. 3:7. Ps. 33:13-15. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning. Rom. 15:4. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work. Titus 3:1. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ex. 20:4-5. John 4:24. Margin 41 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. Deut. 4:14-19. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Prov. 5:22. Rom. 6:23. For the love of Christ constraineth us: because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead. 2Cor. 5:14. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev. 22:17. 8. Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9. They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. Dan. 3:8, 9. Margin 42 10. Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11. And whoso falleth not down and worshipeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 12. There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee; they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Dan. 3:10-12. The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. Isa. 3:13. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke 21:14, 15. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Prov. 23:11. 13. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14. Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 15. Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? Dan. 3:13-15. Margin 43 16. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. Dan. 3:16, 17. Isa. 43:10. Matt. 10:32. Matt. 16:26. 1Kings 18:21. 2Chron. 20:20. 18. But if not, be it known unto thee. O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 19. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach. Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Rom. 12:19. 22. Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Dan. 3:18-22. Margin 44 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth: yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. Rom. 14:4. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Prov. 24:16. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. Ps. 37:24. Ps. 76:10. 23. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Dan. 3:23. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Isa. 43:2. 1John 5:4. Mark 11:24 24. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Dan. 3:24, 25. Ps. 18:48. Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 2Cor. 3:2, 3. Margin 45 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2Cor. 5:20. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. Matt. 12:34, 35. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Ps. 34:7. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. Prov. 22:11. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. 5:16. 26. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. 27. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. 28. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Dan. 3:26-28. Margin 46 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. And it shall turn to you for a testimony. Luke 21:12, 13. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. Ps. 145:11-14. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1Peter 2:12. Prov. 21:1. 29. Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. Dan. 3:29. When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Prov. 16:7. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2Cor. 13:8. Margin 47 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Rom. 10:18. Ps. 19:3, 4. 30. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon. Dan. 3:30. Trust in the Lord, and do good: so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Ps. 37:3. Show thy marvelous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Ps. 17:7. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Ps. 46:10. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Isa. 26:4. 1Tim. 6:6. Gen. 22:1-14. Num. 20:8-12. 1Kings 18:30-40. Dan. 6:10-23. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. 2Chron. 16:9. Jer. 32:19. Isa. 59:1. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. Ps. 34:15. I will make a man more precious than fine gold: even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Isa. 13:12. James 5:17. Margin 48 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Eccl. 9:10. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning. Rom. 15:4. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Isa. 57:15. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Prov. 4:20-22. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Prov. 3:7, 8. Gal. 5:22, 23. Prov. 23:20, 21. 1Tim. 4:2. And shall begin to eat and drink with the drunken: the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. Matt. 24:49-51. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand. Rev. 14:9. Margin 49 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev. 13:14-17. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. Rom. 14:4. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. For he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Heb. 11:25. 26. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. 22:6. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. Dan. 12:1. 1. Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 2. I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. 3. How great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. Dan. 4:1-3. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1Cor. 10:11. Dan. 2:44, 45. 2Peter 1:11. Eze. 30:10, 11. Jer. 50:23. Eze. 31:12. Eze. 30:25. And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: yet had he no wages, nor his army. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. Eze. 29:17-21. Margin 51 Eze. 30:9-11. The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Eze. 31:1-8. 4. I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: 5. I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6. Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. 7. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. 8. But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying, Dan. 4:4-8. Margin 52 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord: and what wisdom is in them? Jer. 8:9. 9. O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. Dan. 4:9. Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Isa. 46:1, 2. For they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Isa. 37:19. 10. Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. 11. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: 12. The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. Dan. 4:10-12. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James 3:15. Margin 53 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree that groweth in his own soil. Ps. 37:35, margin.. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Rom. 11:18. 13. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven; 14. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: 15. Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: 16. Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. 17. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. 18. This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. 19. Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. Dan. 4:13-19. Margin 54 20. The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth: 21. Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: 22. It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. 23. And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him. Dan. 4:20-23. Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, do unto her. Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. Jer. 50:15, 16, 29. Gal. 6:7. For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind Hosea 8:7. Margin 55 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isa. 13:11. Jer. 51:7. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Rev. 18:3. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. Gal. 3:9-11. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Eccl. 1:9, 10. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Eccl. 3:15. Dan. 1:20. Dan. 2:27, 19. Dan. 3:18. Margin 56 Dan. 4:6-9. Dan. 5:8, 13, 14. Dan. 6:1-3. Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; which some professing have erred concerning the faith. 1Tim. 6:20, 21. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1John 2:16. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. Jer. 51:9. Gen. 2:17. Dan. 2:38. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground. Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job 14:7-9. 2Cor. 11:3. 24. This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: 25. That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Margin 57 26. And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. Dan. 4:24-26. Dan. 11:13, margin. Isa. 1:16-20. Isa. 58:7-11. Matt. 23:12. Luke 16:31. Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face; and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; and I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb. Eze. 14:4-8. 27. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. 28. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. Dan. 4:27, 28. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Isa. 14:13, 14. 29. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30. The king spake, and said, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty ? 31. While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee. 32. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Dan. 4:29-32. Margin 58 Ps. 37:35, 36. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. 12:4-11. Blessed is the man whom thou chasteneth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law; that thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. Ps. 94:12, 13. 33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. Dan. 4:33. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Isa. 42:8. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. 1Peter 5:6. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 1Cor. 1:28-30. Col. 2:3. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Gal. 6:14. Margin 59 34. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 36. At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness returned unto me; and my counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. 37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4:34-37. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Deut. 32:8. Ps. 75:4-7. Acts 17:26, 27. Matt. 22:18-22. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Rom. 13:1-7. 1Sam. 2:9. 1Sam. 14:6. But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Acts 10:34, 35. And upon her forehead was a name written. MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Rev. 17:5. Hab. 1:5-13. Isa. 10:1-16. Ps. 33:15-17. Behold, all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Eze. 18:4. Margin 61 For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:23. Dan. 4:17. Yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God. Eze. 29:18-20. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job. 12:10. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Isa. 5:4. Isa. 14:4-6. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Jer. 51:9. Jer. 18:7, 8. Eze. 33:11, 14-16. Isa. 13:1-15. Amos 3:7. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will show them his covenant. Ps. 25:14. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1Cor. 10:11. Margin 62 Eccl. 1:9. Jer. 51:63, 64. Rev. 18:21. And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous: I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. Gen. 18:20, 21. Gen. 19:14. Dan. 10:20. Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider. Jer. 51:20-23. Dan. 4:36, 37. Jer. 28:14. And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand Jer. 27:5-8. Dan. 2:47. Dan. 3:28. Dan. 4:37. Jer. 39:11-14. Jer. 44:30. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. Ps. 119:67. Margin 63 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. Heb. 5:8. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Ps. 119:71. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 50:38. Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. Hosea 4:17. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison: and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; and changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. 2Kings 25:27-30. Jer. 52:31-34. Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. Matt. 5:7. Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. Dan. 2:48. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. Jer. 27:7. Margin 64 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had taken. Dan. 5:2, margin. Dan. 5:1. In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. Dan. 8:1. Jer. 51:60-64. Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had showed me. Eze. 11:24, 25. Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense. Jer. 51:6. After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands. Rev. 7:9. Rev. 18:4. Ex. 1:8. Lam. 4:6, 18, 19. Jer. 29:4-7. Jer. 25:11, 12. Jer. 29:10. 2Chron. 36:21. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God. Eze. 20:12, 16, 20. Margin 65 Her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Lam. 1:7. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Lam. 1:2-6. Ps. 137:1-6. Jer. 50:17. Their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers. Jer. 50:7. Dan. 9:16. Jer. 2:3. For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. Jer. 30:3-9. Their Redeemer is strong: the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause. Jer. 50:33, 34. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . . This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jer. 23:5, 6. He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Isa. 13:6-22. Isa. 21:9. Jer. 51:8, 6, 35, 47. Dan. 2:36. Margin 66 Dan. 4:24. Dan. 7:1. Eze. 27:1, 2. Eze. 29:2, 3. Eze. 25:2, 3. Jer. 25:15-28. Isa. 44:28. Isa. 45:1, 2. Isa. 14:13. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Isa. 21:2. Jer. 51:11, 28. Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. Jer. 48:11, 12. 2Kings 5:2-4. Dan. 2:49. And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land: a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. Jer. 51:46. Jer. 50:8. Jer. 51:6. Matt. 24:15-20. Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Jer. 51:50. Jer. 51:44. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. Jer. 51:46. Margin 67 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord. Jer. 51:24. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. 2Peter 3:3. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. Jer. 50:43. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. Jer. 51:29. Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. Ps. 90:5. 1. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. Isa. 21:4, 5. 2Chron. 36:7. 4. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Dan. 5:1-4. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Ezra 1:11. A thousand chargers of silver. Ezra 1:9. And look that thou make them after their pattern, which thou wast caused to see in the mount. Ex. 25:40, margin. Ex. 31:2-7. Ex. 25:9, 40. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple. Jer. 50:28. Jer. 50:24-28. Jer. 51:11. Margin 69 5. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6. Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Isa. 21:3-5. 7. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 8. Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. 9. Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. Dan. 5:5-9. Isa. 45:1-3. Jer. 51:53. Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Ps. 127:1. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. Zech. 2:9. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. Ps. 75:4-7. We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 1Cor. 4:9. Margin 70 Gen. 7:7-9. The Lord hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Jer. 50:25. Jer. 51:2. Isa. 13:1-5. Isa. 45:1-4. Isa. 43:1-3. Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, . . . prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. Jer. 51:27, 28. That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers. Isa. 44:27. A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up. Jer. 50:38. 10. Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live forever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11. There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; 12. Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation. 13. Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? Dan. 5:10-13. Margin 71 Gen. 17:5. Gen. 32:28. John 1:42. Acts 4:36. 14. I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 15. And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing: 16. And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. 17. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. 18. O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor: 19. And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 20. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21. And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. Dan. 5:14-21. Margin 72 For in him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17:28. 22. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; Ps. 139:14. 23. But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: Job 31:6. 24. Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. Ps. 62:9. 1Sam. 2:3. 25. And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Prov. 6:2, 11. 27. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Dan. 5:22-27. Margin 73 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? . . . When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; . . . none of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right: he shall surely live. Eze. 33:10-16. They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2Thess. 2:10. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. Luke 7:47. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Rom. 5:20. 1John 1:9. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Ps. 32:5. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Prov. 28:13. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. 18:7-10. Margin 74 Zech. 4:11, 12. 28. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 29. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. Dan. 5:28, 29. A sword is upon the Chaldeans saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; at the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. Jer. 50:35-46. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. Jer. 51:30-33. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord. A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: . . . thus saith the Lord of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. Jer. 51:53-58. Jer. 51:57. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. Jer. 51:40. Margin 75 Jer. 51:41. I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord. Jer. 50:24. 30. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Dan. 5:30, 31. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. Isa. 26:12. Isa. 45:1-3. That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Isa. 44:28. Dan. 8:2. Jer. 49:39. Isa. 21:2. Margin 76 I will dry up thy rivers. Isa. 44:27. Isa. 45:1, 2. Jer. 50:38. Jer. 51:36. The Lord God of heaven . . . hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem. Ezra 1:1-5. Ps. 119:105. Rom. 13:11. For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad. Mark 4:22. Ps. 139:1-16. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matt. 12:36, 37. Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. He pursued them, and passed. Isa. 41:1-5. Jer. 51:6. Rev. 18:4. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Dan. 5:31. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver. . . . And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee. Dan. 2:32-39. Gen. 10:2. 1Chron. 1:5. 2Kings 18:11. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 2Kings 17:6. Isa. 45:1-13. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Rom. 1:19, 20, 25. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 2Kings 12:2. Margin 78 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. Deut. 12:2. Isa. 45:7. For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. Jer. 50:9. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Jer. 51:11. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. Isa. 13:1-5. 1. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 2. And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. Dan. 6:1, 2. Prov. 15:22. In multitude of counselors there is safety. Prov. 24:6. In the multitude of people is the king’s honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. Prov. 14:28. Eccl. 8:2-4. 3. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Dan. 6:3. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,because he delighted in me. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. Ps. 18:19, 20. Margin 79 When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Prov. 16:7. I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam. Dan. 8:2. The king’s favor is toward a wise servant. Prov. 14:35. A man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Prov. 17:17. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Prov. 22:29. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Ps. 1:1-3. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col. 1:17. Prov. 23:17-19. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord. Rom. 12:11. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. James 4:11-16. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33. Gen. 39:7-14. Ps. 68:13. Margin 80 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Eccl. 9:12 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. Dan. 6:2. The king by judgment established the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. Prov. 29:4. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. Deut. 16:19. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchman and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Micah 7:2-4. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Eccl. 1:10. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Isa. 1:23. Micah 3:11. 1Sam. 8:1-5. Margin 81 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness. Jer. 6:13. There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. Eccl. 5:13. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Eccl. 4:1. James. 5:1-5. Eccl. 1:9, 10, 15. Isa. 8:9-12. Jer. 10:2, 3. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. Prov. 4:14, 15. The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. Ps. 37:12. Prov. 22:4. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Amos 5:10, 12. 1Kings 22:8. Isa. 29:21. 4. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Dan. 6:4. Rom. 2:21. Prov. 24:15-24. 2Thess. 1:6. Margin 82 5. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Dan. 6:5. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Zech. 2:8. 6. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live forever. 7. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Prov. 24:5. 9. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. Dan. 6:6-9. For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. Deut. 32:9. I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. Isa. 45:5. Margin 83 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear: even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isa. 46:4. Job 5:26. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Ps. 37:37. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. Ps. 37:31. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Prov. 4:22. 10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house: and, his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. Dan. 6:10. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. Ps. 55:6, 7. 2Chron. 6:36-39. And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made: and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. Acts 16:13. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20. 1Cor. 2:14. And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. Luke 6:12. Margin 84 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. Matt. 14:23. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph. 3:16-19. Job. 37:16. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1Cor. 10:13. Be filled with the Spirit. Eph. 5:18. Eph. 2:22. 11. Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12. Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree: Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 13. Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. Dan. 6:11-13. Prov. 6:17-19. Prov. 1:11. Jer. 5:26. 14. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Margin 85 15. Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. Dan. 6:14, 15. And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. Jer. 38:19, 20. Isa. 37:35, 36. 16. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. 17. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. Dan. 6:16, 17. Ps. 57:1-5. Matt. 27:63-66. Acts. 2:24. Daniel at this time was about eighty-five years of age. Mark 1:13. Margin 86 Gen. 1:28. Gen. 2:19, 20. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. Job. 5:22-27. And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground. Hos. 2:18. Isa. 11:6-9. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Ps. 34:7. 18. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. 19. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 20. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? 21. Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever. 22. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Ps. 31:23. Ps. 7:15, 16. 23. Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. Dan. 6:18-23. Margin 87 24. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. Dan. 6:24. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Jas. 1:12. 25. Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 26. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. 27. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. Dan. 6:25-28. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2Tim. 3:13. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. Hos. 13:14. Isa. 26:19. John 10:10. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency. Isa. 13:19. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth. Dan. 10:21. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Prov. 8:14-16. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand). Matt. 24:15. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Dan. 2:28. Dan. 2:31-35. Dan. 7:9-14. Margin 89 God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Eccl. 3:17. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deut. 29:29. 1. In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. Dan. 7:1. Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. Prov. 13:6. And look that thou make them after their pattern. which thou wast caused to see. Ex. 25:40, margin. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. Ex. 34:29-33. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1Cor. 2:9, 10. Hos. 12:10. 2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Dan. 7:2. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Zech. 7:14. Margin 90 Jer. 25:32, 33. Isa. 8:7. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. Rev. 17:15. Dan. 7:17, 23. 3. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Dan. 7:3. Thou art this head of gold. Dan. 2:38. Dan. 2:32, 38. 4. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. Dan. 7:4. Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof. Isa. 23:13. Hab. 1:6-10. I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand; thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. Isa. 47:6. What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. Job 39:18. For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Isa. 47:10. Margin 91 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill; though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. Jer. 49:16. Job 39:27. Rom. 14:23. Heb. 12:2. The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women; they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars are broken. Jer. 51:30. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. Isa. 47:9. Hab. 1:11. Dan. 5:1-4. For it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 50:38. They clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Dan. 2:29-31. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver: and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. Isa. 13:17, 18. 5. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. Dan. 7:5. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. Dan. 8:20. Margin 92 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media. Isa. 21:5. 6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. Dan. 7:6. And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. Dan. 11:2-4. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between the eyes is the first king. Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. Dan. 8:21, 22. For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Luke 11:10. 7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. Margin 93 8. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots; and, behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. Dan. 7:7, 8. Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth. Dan. 4:23. Rom. 11:18. 9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. Dan. 7:9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Gal. 5:8. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job 14:7-9. 10. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. 11. I beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 12. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. 13. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. Dan. 7:10-13. Margin 94 Dan. 2:40-42. 14. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Rev. 8:7-13. Luke 2:1-4. 15. I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16. I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. Dan. 7:14-16. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: the same came, therefore, to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. John 12:20, 21. Acts 4:26, 27. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. Matt. 27:62-66. Matt. 27:24-26. Acts 12:1-3. 17. These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 18. But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. 19. Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass: which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet. Dan. 7:17-19. Margin 95 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. Job 12:23. 20. And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. 21. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22. Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. Job 12:19. 24. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. Dan. 7:20-24. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex. 20:3. 25. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 26. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. Dan. 7:25, 26. Margin 96 Acts 28:16, 30. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. Rom. 16:19. Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom. 1:8. There shall be false teachers among you. who privily shall bring in damnable heresies. 2Peter 2:1-3. 2Thess. 2:5-7. I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. Rev. 17:3. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. Rev. 17:6. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 2Chron. 36:17-19. Margin 97 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. Prov. 28:15. The same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them: until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Dan. 7:21, 22. Rev. 11:2, 3. Eze. 4:6. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time. no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Matt. 24:21, 22. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. Dan. 7:9, 10. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true: but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Heb. 9:24. Margin 98 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. Heb. 9:23. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job 16:21. Thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth. Ps. 99:1. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Ps. 103:19-21. And their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Eze. 1:16. And his brightness was as the light; he had bright beams out of his side, and there was the hiding of his power. Hab. 3:4, margin. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Col. 1:17, R. V., margin. Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? Job 37:16. Job 28:24-27. Isa. 40:12-17. Matt. 10:29. Acts 17:28. Margin 99 Matt. 5:14. I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5. Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13:8. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16. Ps. 57:11. Isa. 49:16. And one shall say unto him. What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Zech. 13:6. Eph. 3:9, 10. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Dan. 7:14. Eze. 28:14. Job 37:19-23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. Isa. 24:23. Margin 100 Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. Rev. 3:8. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. Dan. 7:13. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Rev. 14:6, 7. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Dan. 8:14. I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Eccl. 3:17. Righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne. Ps. 97:2, margin. He reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. Acts 24:24. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Rev. 3:5. Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Ps. 104:4. Margin 101 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Heb. 1:14. Ps. 34:7. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Rev. 20:12. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. 1Cor. 4:5. Thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. Jer. 2:22. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Heb. 4:13. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee. Ps. 139:7-12. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matt. 23:28. Counting one by one, to find out the account. Eccl. 7:27. Luke 21:36. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1John 1:7. There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. Rev. 4:3. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1John 1:9. Margin 102 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. Rev. 22:11. My witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. Job 16:19. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matt. 12:36, 37. Heb. 3:7, 8. I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. Dan. 7:11. 2Thess. 2:4. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Heb. 7:25. He shall offend, imputing this his power unto his god. Hab. 1:11. Dan. 7:11. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Rev. 19:20. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out which was not in hands: which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Dan. 2:34, margin. Margin 103 27. 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, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Dan. 7:27. If by any means I may advance into the out-resurrection, that from among the dead. Phil. 3:11. Young’s trans. Rev. 20:4, 6. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1John 3:8. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2:14. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. Rev. 22:3. 28. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. Dan. 7:28. 1. In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. Dan. 8:1. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. Dan. 7:28. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Cor. 2:14. 2. And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. Dan. 8:2. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord. Jer. 49:39. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Isa. 13:17. A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Isa. 21:1-3. Margin 105 3. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns; and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. Dan. 8:3. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. Dan. 7:5. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him. Isa. 45:1-5. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. Dan. 8:20. 4. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. Dan. 8:4. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces). Esther 1:1. Dan. 6:1. When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days. Esther 1:4. Margin 106 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. Dan. 11:3. 5. And as I was considering, behold, a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6. And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. Dan. 8:5, 6. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. Dan. 8:21. And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. Dan. 11:2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses. Nahum 3:2, 3. Put not your trust in princes. Ps. 146:3. Isa. 17:12, 13. 7. And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. Dan. 8:7. Margin 107 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6:30. For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Gen. 15:16. And he did very abominably in following idols, . . . as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 1Kings 21:26. And now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. . . . There is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. . . . Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. Dan. 10:20, 21. Dan. 11:1. Thon art my battle-ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations. Jer. 51:20. Deut. 30:19, 20. Prov. 3:13, 18. And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. Dan. 8:6. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Acts 15:18. He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. Job 12:17-19. Margin 108 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl. Dan. 7:6. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. Job 15:21. When he was strong, the great horn was broken. Dan. 8:8. He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. Job 12:21. Ps. 107:40. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Prov. 16:32. Dan. 4:17. Ps. 75:6, 7. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich; he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 1Sam. 2:7. 1Sam. 2:9. Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power. 2Chron. 14:11. 1Sam. 14:6. Ps. 33:16-18. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. Ps. 44:6. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Ps. 20:7. Job 12:23-25. Isa. 26:15. Isa. 9:3. Margin 109 The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. Dan. 4:17-25. Dan. 2:21. Dan. 5:21. 8. Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. Dan. 8:8. Dan. 11:4. Now that being broken, whereas, four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. Dan. 8:22. 9. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which w axed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Dan. 8:9, 10. Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet. Dan. 7:19. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Ex. 34:7. 2Thess. 2:4. John 3:16. Margin 110 O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Acts 13:10. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. Dan. 8:24. The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. Rev. 13:2. John 3:7, margin. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Eph. 2:2. Which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet. Dan. 7:19. And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. Dan. 8:23-25. 11. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. Dan. 8:11. Margin 111 For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Zech. 2:8. For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. 32:9-12. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33. Acts 3:13-16. Acts 4:26, 27. Acts 7:52. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. Gen. 3:15. Rev. 12:9, 12. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and by peace shall destroy many. Dan. 8:25. Matt. 7:15. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:30. Zech. 3:6, 7. And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2Tim. 3:15. 2Tim. 1:5. Acts 15:20, 28, 29. Margin 112 Acts 21:25. Rev. 2:14. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; and through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1Cor. 8:9-13. 1Cor. 10:19, 20. Rom. 1:8. Col. 1:6. Gen. 3:1. Eph. 4:14. Rom. 16:17, 18. 1Cor. 1:11. Phil. 1:15, 16. Titus 3:9. Mark 10:35-37. Isa. 8:12. James 5:1-6. 12. And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. Dan. 8:12. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Acts 20:29, 30. 2Thess. 2:4-7. 13. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14. And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shalt the sanctuary be cleansed. Dan. 8:13, 14. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host. . . . It cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. Dan. 8:11, 12. Margin 113 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them. Dan. 8:21. Dan. 7:25. Dan. 7:7, 8. Dan. 8:23-25. And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. Dan. 8:27. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not. for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Dan. 9:19. The judgment was set, and the books were opened. Dan. 7:9, 10. 1Peter 4:17. I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. Dan. 7:11. Rev. 14:6. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out, which was not in hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Dan. 2:34, margin. The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Dan. 2:35. Which things the angels desire to look into. 1Peter 1:12. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Heb. 1:14. How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? Dan. 12:6. Rev. 5:13. Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? Job 24:1. Job 15:20. Margin 114 Ps. 25:14. Dan. 8:13, 14. 15. And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. John 7:17. 16. And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17. So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. 18. Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19. And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. 20. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22. Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. 23. And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. Dan. 8:15-24. Margin 115 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 1Cor. 14:1. 1Cor. 12:28, 29. And he gave some, apostles: and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers. Eph. 4:11. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matt. 5:8. I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God: and am sent to speak unto thee, and to show thee these glad tidings. Luke 1:19. There is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. Dan. 10:21. Isa. 14:12-14. Luke 1:26, 27. Luke 2:13, 14. There shall come a Star out of Jacob. Num. 24:17. When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. Matt. 2:9. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Matt. 4:11. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. Luke 22:43. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. Matt. 28:4. Matt. 28:2. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here; behold the place where they laid him. Mark 16:6. Why seek ye the living among the dead? Luke 24:5. Margin 116 Acts 1:9-11. 25. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. 26. And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. Dan. 8:25, 26. Rev. 19:10. Rev. 22:8, 9. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John. Rev. 1:1. 27. And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. Dan. 8:27. John 8:44. Deut. 13:1-3. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matt. 24:24. Acts 16:16. Acts 13:6-10. Rev. 16:13, 14. And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2Cor. 11:14. 2Chron. 20:20. Num. 12:6. I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. Dan. 8:2. Margin 117 And I saw him come close unto the ram and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. Dan. 8:7. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? Dan. 12:5, 6. Dan. 8:16. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. Ps. 110:7. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Isa. 59:2. Eph. 2:13, 14. The vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true. Dan. 8:26. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Dan. 5:27, 28. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. Dan. 5:30, 31. And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. Dan. 6:2. 1. In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2. In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. 9:1, 2. Margin 119 For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Jer. 29:10. Jer. 25:11, 12. 2Chron. 36:21. 3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6. Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants or Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. 8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers because we have sinned against thee. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. Dan. 9:3-9. Ezra 8:21-23. Neh. 2:19. Margin 120 10. Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Gen. 19:12-16. 11. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. Zech. 7:11. 12. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. 13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. 14. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. 15. And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. 17. Now therefore. O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. Margin 121 18. O my God, incline thine ear and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. Dan. 9:10-18. Isa. 53:4. 1Peter 2:24. 2Cor. 3:18. 2Cor. 5:20. Isa. 60:2. John 10:11-17. Isa. 65:5. 19. O Lord, hear; O Lord forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Dan. 9:19. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. 51:17. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. Job 22:21. Gen. 18:17-19. Heb. 11:6. Ps. 103:20. 20. And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21. Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer. even the man Gabriel. whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. Dan. 9:20, 21. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Isa. 45:19. Margin 122 22. And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. 23. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Dan. 9:22, 23. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev. 3:20. Them that honor me I will honor. 1Sam. 2:30. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. Ps. 91:14. Thou art a man of desires, therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Dan. 9:23, margin. I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Job 23:12. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Ps. 42:1. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Job 1:8. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Dan. 9:24. Margin 123 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. Ex. 40:9. Mark 1:15. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Acts 13:46. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1Peter 4:17. 25. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times. 26. And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. 9:25, 26. Margin 124 Heb. 2:3. Search the scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 5:39. That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Isa. 44:28. 2Chron. 36:23. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. Isa. 45:13. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. Ezra 1:3. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem. Isa. 66:20. Isa. 49:6. Isa. 52:2. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Ps. 105:37. Margin 125 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. Ex. 15:8. Joshua 3:9-17. Ex. 16:14-31. Ex. 15:8-14. Ezra 2:64-67. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan. 10:13. Ezra 1:7-11. And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals. to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. Ezra 3:10, 11. Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. Ezra 4:1-24. Ezra 5:1, 2. Haggai, 1st and 2nd chapters. Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Haggai 1:4. Margin 126 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. Haggai 2:18, 19. Ezra 5:1-17. Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. And there was found . . . a roll, and therein was a record thus written: In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded. Ezra 6:1-3. Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place. Ezra 6:7. Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel. . . . I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. . . . And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem, and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem: that thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God. The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem. And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house. And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily. . . . Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them. And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Ezra 7:11-26. Margin 127 Neh. 2:1-3. Neh. 2:5-8. Neh. 4:16-21. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundreth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Neh. 5:1-13. Neh. 5:14, 15. Neh. 9:28. Margin 128 Some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards. Neh. 5:5-8. Zech. 8:9-11. Haggai 2:15-19. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32. And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was lightened with his glory. Rev. 18:1. Dan. 9:25. We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the anointed. John 1:41, margin. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38. Luke 3:21, 22. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him. Mark 1:10. Margin 129 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from CÊsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) Luke 2:1, 2. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Micah 5:2. Mal. 3:1. Mal. 4:5, 6. Luke 3:1-3. Matt. 3:5, 13. John 1:31-34. Matt. 3:17. Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples: and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. John 1:35-37. Mark 1:15. Luke 19:41-45. John 1:11. Matt. 24:15. Dan. 7:9, 10. Dan. 8:14. Rev. 1:7. Rev. 14:6-12. Luke 21:35. Margin 130 After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; . . . in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. Dan. 9:26, 27. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Luke 4:18, 19. 27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Dan. 9:27. Matt. 26:2. Luke 22:1-18. Acts 3:14, 15. Matt. 27:50, 51. Heb. 9:7. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Matt. 23:38. Acts 2:22, 23. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things. Heb. 10:1. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. 2:17. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Luke 24:47. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? Heb. 2:3. Margin 131 Acts 2:41. Acts 6:11-13. Acts 7:59, 60. Acts 8:1-4. The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, . . . and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. 9:26. Ezra 7:11-26. Mark 1:10, margin. Acts 8:1-4. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs. Gen. 1:14. Thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. Eze. 4:6. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years. Num. 14:34. Dan. 8:14. Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Rev. 14:6, 7. Margin 132 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 2Peter 1:20. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. Jer. 15:16. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth. Rev. 10:1, 2. Rev. 14:6, 7. 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 sweet as honey. Rev. 10:9. Heb. 10:32-36. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament. Rev. 11:19. There are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount. Heb. 8:1-5. Margin 133 Dan. 7:9, 10. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Rev. 22:12. Dan. 11:1-45. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Rom. 13:11, 12. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth. Ps. 102:19. The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven. Ps. 11:4. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. Dan. 7:9, 10 R. V. And the temple of God was opened in heaven. Rev. 11:19. And look that thou make them after their pattern, which thou wast caused to see in the mount. Ex. 25:40, margin. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount. Heb. 8:3-5. Heb. 9:8, 9, 11, 23, 24. Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. Matt. 26:2. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Matt. 23:38. Margin 135 Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. Matt. 27:51. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1Tim. 2:5, 6. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1John 1:7. The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing. Heb. 9:8, 9. Heb. 9:24. Heb. 6:19, 20. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? 1Cor. 6:19, 20. Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. John 2:19-21. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Ps. 80:1. God hath made man upright. Eccl. 7:29. Rom. 6:6-8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13:8. Margin 136 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. 3:15. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Rev. 2:7. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Rev. 22:1, 2. Eze. 47:1. Zech. 14:8. And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces. Lev. 9:24. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice. 1Kings 18:38. Judges 6:21. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. Gen. 4:3, 4. Margin 137 Heb. 11:4. He placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Gen. 3:24. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Gen. 4:5. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Lev. 17:11. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1Cor. 10:11. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent; and there he builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. 12:8. And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God. Gen. 35:3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. 49:3, 4. Behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it. Gen. 28:10-13. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, and he made him a coat of many colors. Gen. 37:3. And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood. Gen. 37:31. Margin 138 How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? he hearkened not unto her. Gen. 39:9. And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. Ex. 25:8, 9. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. Ex. 24:16-18. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Cor. 2:14. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices. Heb. 9:9. And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office. Ex. 28:40, 41. Margin 139 And the scripture, forseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. Gal. 3:8. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 5:45-47. The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. Matt. 27:21, 22. Lev. 4:27-35. Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin, . . . then they shall confess their sin, which they have done. Num. 5:6, 7. And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth. Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 1Sam. 1:12, 13. And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation. Lev. 4:5. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; which had the golden censor, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about the gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we can not now speak particularly. Heb. 9:1-6. Margin 140 Ex. 29:42, 43. Bake twelve cakes; and thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord, and thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row. Lev. 24:5-7. Cause the lamp to burn always. Ex. 27:20, 21. And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold. Ex. 26:29. Ex. 26:31, 32. And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. Ex. 30:7, 8. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that, is to say, not of this building: neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Heb. 9:11, 12. Heb. 9:9. And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. Lev. 4:26. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. Lev. 4:7, 18, 25, 30. Gen. 3:17. Margin 141 Lev. 4:8-10. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of the peace offerings: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor unto the Lord. Lev. 4:31. But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. Ps. 37:20. Gal. 1:4. Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 2Cor. 2:14-16. Lev. 7:30. Lev. 4:27-31. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Phil. 4:13. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man: that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith: that ye being rooted and ground in love. Eph. 3:16, 17. John 6:63. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb. 4:12. Margin 142 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Matt. 12:43-45. Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place. seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I Commanded. Lev. 10:16-18. Lev. 6:30. 1Pet. 2:24. Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. Eph. 5:2. Another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censor; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it to the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. Rev. 8:3, 4, margin. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment. John 12:3. Matt. 26:13. Ex. 30:7, 8. Jer. 10:25. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. Luke 1:9, 10. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. which are the seven Spirits of God. Rev. 4:5. Isa. 11:2, 3. Ex. 35:31-35. Zech. 4:10. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:9. Margin 143 Prov. 4:18. Ex. 25:8-10. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. Deut. 10:1-5. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. Rom. 2:12, 13. Being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Rom. 3:21. Rev. 3:5. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Rev. 20:9, 15. Take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. Lev. 6:10, 11. Without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out. Lev. 4:12. Ps. 37:9, 10. Mal. 4:1-3. Obadiah 1:16. Prov. 11:31. Margin 144 Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. Eze. 28:18. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deut. 11:19. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Isa. 51:3. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1Cor. 3:17. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped. Ex. 12:26, 27. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying. What mean these stones? then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. Joshua 4:21, 22. Margin 145 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: as for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water; and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. Lev. 14:4-7. For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Jer. 9:21. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Rev. 21:1. Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Gen. 3:17. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; therefore hath the curse devoured the earth. Isa. 24:5, 6. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. 1Kings 4:33. Isa. 35:1, 2. And there shall be no more curse. Rev. 22:3. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. 1:18. Which he hath purchased with his own blood. Acts. 20:28. Margin 146 Until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Eph. 1:14. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Luke 22:44. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. John 19:34. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. John 19:29. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23:39-43. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1Peter 2:24. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:26, 27. Behold the Lamb of God, which beareth away the sin of the world. John 1:29, margin. Margin 147 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Luke 24:44. These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Rev. 7:14. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. 1Cor. 5:7. These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. . . . Then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. Lev. 23:4-11. 1Cor. 15:4, 20, 23. Lev. 23:27. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount. Heb. 8:5. And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Dan. 8:14. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but 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, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex. 20:8-11. Margin 148 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words. Isa. 58:13. Ps. 119:59, 60. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. James 2:12. Rev. 14:8-12. Rev. 11:1. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Lev. 25:9. Margin 149 This is that which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe. Ex. 16:23. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Lev. 23:31, 32. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Isa. 58:3. Lev. 23:29. And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die. And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts. Isa. 22:12-14. Lev. 16:11-14. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat. Lev. 16:8. I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Deut. 32:4. Margin 150 Lev. 16:2. Lev. 16:13. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward. Lev. 16:14. Thou shalt see greater abominations than these. . . . About five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east. Eze. 8:15, 16. And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about. . . . And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not. Ex. 28:33-35. Lev. 16:20. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Eph. 2:14-16. And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. Lev. 16:21. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. Lev. 16:22. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:8. Margin 151 Unto two thousand three hundred days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Dan. 8:14. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people. Heb. 9:7. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament. Rev. 11:18, 19. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. Heb. 9:23. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come. from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3:19-21. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. Rev. 22:11. And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit. and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Rev. 20:1-3. Margin 152 Rev. 20:10. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Mal. 4:3. 2Sam. 22:43. Now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. Micah 7:10. Ps. 7:16. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. Jer. 50:20. Jer. 31:34. Isa. 65:17. Nahum 1:9. He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Heb. 7:25. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Heb. 4:14-16. Lev. 23:29, 30. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:23. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Luke 21:34. Margin 153 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, and in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Rev. 14:3-5. Rom. 12:1, 2. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. Ps. 92:12-14. Daniel must have been about ninety years of age at this time. Dan. 6:4-22. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Dan. 6:3. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Ezra 1:1, 2. Margin 155 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. Isa. 26:10. Eze. 23:14-16. Lam. 4:1, 2. Thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Dan. 9:23. 1. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. 2. In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. 3. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Dan. 10:1-3. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly: so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1Cor. 9:26, 27. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 2Cor. 4:16. 4. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel. Dan. 10:4. Margin 156 5. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 6. His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. Rev. 1:15-18. 7. And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. 8. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Dan. 10:5-8. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1Peter 1:7. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:4. Ps. 32:8. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying. This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Isa. 30:21. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. Ps. 89:15. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered; others said, An angel spake to him. John 12:20, 28-30. Margin 157 9. Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. Dan. 10:9. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. Gen. 18:27. Ps. 8:3-5. 10. And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands, 11. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Dan. 10:10, 11. Mark 1:31. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue cut of him, and healed them all. Luke 6:19. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matt. 8:2, 3. I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God. Luke 1:19. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:17, 18. Ps. 91:7. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2Tim. 1:10. John 10:10. 12. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. Margin 158 13. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan. 10:12, 13. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Heb. 1:14. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Prov. 8:15, 16. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isa. 40:31. Isa. 65:24. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Isa. 64:4. 14. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. 15. And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. Dan. 10:14, 15. Margin 159 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. Ps. 51:15. 16. And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. 17. For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. Dan. 10:16, 17. Num. 24:15, 16. The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. Eze. 1:1. Rev. 4:1. How that he was caught up into paradise. 2Cor. 12:4. 18. Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19. And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. 20. Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. Dan. 10:18-21. Margin 160 Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Esther record events connected with the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. Dan. 10:1. Dan. 2:31-35. Dan. 7:1-8. Dan. 8:1-8. Thy word is truth. John 17:17. For the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1Sam. 2:3. Ps. 105:13, 14. O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Jer. 46:19, 20. Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. Prov. 20:28. Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Egypt in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. Ps. 89:9-11, margin. Margin 162 Jer. 10:7. Dan. 9:1, 2. B. C. 538. Dan. 5:30, 31. 1. Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. Dan. 11:1. Dan. 6:23. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. Dan. 6:28. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. Dan. 6:18. If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8:31. Dan. 10:20. Dan. 8:7. There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Ps. 33:16-19. Dan. 10:1. Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. Ezra 1:1-6. Margin 163 Isa. 5:3, 4. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Isa. 1:2-4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. Hos. 1:4-8. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. Prov. 1:24, 25. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Isa. 1:25. How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. Jer. 5:7. For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God. Jer. 3:24, 25. And they that be teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. Dan. 12:3, margin. Margin 164 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things what-so-ever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matt. 28:19, 20. John 3:2. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: to bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. Ps. 105:17-22. The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Prov. 29:15. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off. Ezra 3:12, 13. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan. 10:13. Margin 165 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assur, which brought us up hither. But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. Ezra 4:1-6. Esther 3:6, 13-15. And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me. And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom was paid unto them. Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me. Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. Ezra 4:7, 18-24. Margin 166 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them. Ezra. 5:1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put into a bag with holes. Haggai 1:1-6. An evil man seeketh only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. Prov. 17:11. Margin 167 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace. Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands. Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls? We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them. And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up. . . . But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. . . . Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. Ezra 5:7-17. Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written; in the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; . . . now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence: let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place. Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered. Ezra 6:1-12. The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Prov. 21:1. Jer. 51:6, 9, 10. Margin 168 Luke 24:25. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: for I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; after the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Zech. 2:2-8. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. Zech. 2:9-12. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Isa. 49:15. Margin 169 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. Ps. 48:2, 3. Zech. 8:3. Zech. 9:9. Haggai 2:7-9. Luke 12:28-30. Matt. 21:12-16. Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. Haggai 2:15-19. Luke 6:38. Prov. 11:24, 25. Deut. 11:13, 14. Lev. 26:3-12. James 5:8. Ps. 72:6. Prov. 16:15. Zech. 10:1. Hosea 10:12. Zech. 12:8. Deut. 32:2. Amos 4:7, 8. Job 29:23. Isa. 44:3-6. Joel 2:23. And the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. . . . And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. Zech. 14:4-9. Margin 170 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and hade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. . . . So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. Luke 14:16-24. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Rev. 21:7. 2. And now I will show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. Dan. 11:2. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? Eccl. 5:10, 11. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. Prov. 10:2. From page 170. * —On the question of which Persian king was the Ahasuerus of the book of Esther there is a difference of opinion, some calling Xerxes that king, others thinking that Cambyses was the king in question. But H. Prideaux, D. D., presents an argument which seems quite conclusive, that the king who is called Ahasuerus in the book of Esther was Artaxerxes Longimanus, whose seventh year was 457 B. C. The favor shown by Ahasuerus to the Jews would accord well with the kindness manifested by Longimanus, who issued the decree to Ezra for the restoring and building of Jerusalem (Ezra 7:12, 13). This would seem to make it very consistent to suppose that the Ahasuerus of Esther 1:1 was this Artaxerxes Longimanus. Margin 171 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces). Esther 1:1. That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace. Esther 1:2. In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days. Esther 1:3, 4. And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace. Esther 1:5. Dan. 5:1, 2. Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble. Esther 1:6. And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king. Esther 1:7. Esther 1:9-22. Margin 172 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Eccl. 8:4. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. Esther 2:17. Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it. Esther 2:10. Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Esther 2:5. And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful. Esther 2:7. Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him. Esther 2:20. She required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her. Esther 2:15. In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name. And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king. Esther 2:21-23. And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. Esther 3:2. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Zech. 7:11. Margin 173 Acts 7:23-30. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. Ps. 95:10. Heb. 3:17. (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) Deut. 1:2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered. And when the tempter came to him. Matt. 4:1-11. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. . . . And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. . . . Every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of King Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring. . . . Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded. Esther 3:1-12. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. 12:6. Judges 4:8, 9. Isa. 3:12. Gal. 3:28. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. Ps. 144:12. Eccl. 12:1. Margin 174 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month. . . . The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day. The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed. Esther 3:13-15. Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; . . . and in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning. Esther 4:1-3. Esther 4:1-17. Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people. Esther 4:8. Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. Esther 4:15, 16. Margin 175 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. Esther 5:1. In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name. Esther 2:21-25. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified. Esther 7:10. Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey, upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace. Esther 8:9-14. The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people. Esther 9:2. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev. 13:16, 17. Margin 176 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Eccl. 3:15. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. Micah 2:2, 3. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. Isa. 5:8. Ezra 7:11-26. Rev. 15:2, 3. This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him. Ezra 7:6. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Dan. 6:14. Margin 177 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women. Ezra 2:64, 65. Now when these things were done, the princes came to me saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. Ezra 9:1, 2. Neh. 13:23, 24. Neh. 2:1-6. Neh. 4:13-21. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. Neh. 13:10-13. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath. Neh. 13:15-20. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. Micah 7:18, 19. 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. Margin 178 When I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. Dan. 10:20. Dan. 5:26. Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them. Jer. 46:15. They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. Jer. 46:17. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God. 2Peter 3:12. And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. Dan. 11:14. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Hab. 2:2, 3. Isa. 8:1. Isa. 30:8. Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Prov. 30:5. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. Prov. 2:1-5. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isa. 45:22. Margin 180 For the prophecy came not in old time [margin; at any time] by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2Peter 1:21. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Dan. 12:4. For thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Dan. 12:13. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Rev. 17:5. Rev. 18:2. Eze. 23:17. Jer. 51:44-45. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. Rev. 18:3. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. Isa. 57:9. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan. 10:13. And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. Esther 3:13. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Isa. 1:4. Margin 181 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorcerers, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood. Isa. 57:3, 4. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord. Lam. 2:9. The history of God’s people during this period is given in the two books of Maccabees in the Apocrapha, and marginal references will be made in some instances from the Apocrapha. Gen. 10:2, 4. Isa. 65:19. Heb. 9:9. Heb. 10:1. At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah. Isa. 39:1, 2. And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem. 2Chron. 9:1. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17. Margin 182 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name. Jer. 10:14-16. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts. Rom. 1:21-30. Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely socalled: which some professing have erred concerning the faith. 1Tim. 6:20, 21. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith. 1Tim. 1:4. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Ps. 77:18. He watereth the hills from his chambers. Ps. 104:17. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts 14:11-13. 2Kings 4:8, 9. 1Sam. 7:15, 16. 2Kings 22:14. Margin 183 Judges 4:4-9. Lev. 23:1-44. Ex. 12:3-10. Lev. 23:39-43. Deut. 16:16. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1Cor. 9:24-27. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1Tim. 4:8. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? . . . But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? . . . Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Matt. 15:2, 3, 6. Eze. 43:8. 1Tim. 6:20. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Col. 2:8. Margin 184 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. Matt. 23:3. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2:17. Gen. 3:1-7. Jer. 51:34. Esther 3:13. Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathen: whereupon they build a place of exercises at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen: and made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief. 1Maccabees 1:13-15. Israel’s departure from the Lord during the period of Greek influence was so great that they were not intrusted with the spirit of prophecy as aforetime. Dan. 10:20. Dan. 11:3. Vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. Col. 2:18. Gen. 49:5, 6. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. Isa. 45:5. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Prov. 20:11. Margin 185 Therefore the he goat waxed very great. Dan. 8:8. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wing of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. Dan. 7:6. A leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces. Jer. 5:6. A leopard by the way will I observe them. Hosea 13:7. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jer. 13:23. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. 2:12, 13. And as I was considering, behold, a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and none touched him in the earth. And the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. Dan. 8:5, margin. And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. Dan. 2:39. Margin 186 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken. Dan. 8:8. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Prov. 25:28. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. 20:1. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Isa. 60:3. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword; from men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou tillest with thy hid treasure. Ps. 17:13, 14. And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron, thy brother for glory and for beauty. Ex. 28:2. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Isa. 49:23. Dan. 2:31-39. Dan. 8:3-8. Dan. 8:20, 21. Margin 187 Dan. 11:2-4. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. Job. 34:24. Dan. 4:32. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev. 3:20. Acts 14:11-13. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. 1John 3:1, 2. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Rom. 1:25. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Eccl. 3:18-20. He that is of the earth is earthly. John 3:31. 3. And a mighty king shall stand up. that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. Dan. 11:3. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15. 2Cor. 4:4. Eph. 2:2, 3. Phil. 2:5. Matt. 12:30. If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36. Margin 188 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2Cor. 11:3. Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth. Amos 9:8. 4. And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. Dan. 11:4. Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. Dan. 8:8. 5. And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. Dan. 11:5. Hab. 2:5-7. Margin 189 He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. Job 12:17-19. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. Job 41:34. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, he suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes. Ps. 105:13, 14. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away. Ps. 48:3-5. And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. Dan. 2:39. 1Maccabees 1:28. 1Maccabees 1:39-46. Margin 190 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him. Jer. 46:24, 25. He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private: for he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto. But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason, the brother of Onias labored underhand to be high priest, promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents: beside this, he promised to assign a hundred and fifty more, if he might have license to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians. Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule, he forthwith brought his own nation to the Greekish fashion. . . . For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat. Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth; not setting by the honors of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all. By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things. 2Maccabees 4:5-16. Margin 191 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Eze. 7:26. Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God: and to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympus: the coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people: for the temple was filled with riot and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were not lawful. 2Maccabees 6:1-4. Thou shalt call his name John. Luke 1:13, 15, 63. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel. Luke 1:80. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. Matt. 3:1. And the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. John 7:15, 16. Margin 192 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space. Acts 5:34. I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. Acts 22:3. Ex. 14:13. Even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Rom. 1:20-22. But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel. So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places. Phil. 1:12, 13. 2Cor. 10:4, 5. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Isa. 49:6. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Acts 17:21. Margin 193 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1Cor. 1:22-25. Dan. 11:6-13. And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. Dan. 11:5. Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south; and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Dan. 8:9. 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? 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. Hab. 1:13-15. Rev. 9:1-21. Margin 194 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 8:11. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. . . . Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job. 37:9, 22. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. Rev. 19:19. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Rev. 16:16. 6. And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power of the arm: neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. Dan. 11:6. They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with miry clay. Dan. 2:43. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Matt. 19:9. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. 3:33. Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Song of Sol. 8:6. Margin 195 7. But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail. 8. And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. Dan. 11:7, 8. Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no Saviour beside me. Hosea 13:4. 9. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. Prov. 27:4. Amos 3:9, 10. 10. But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress. 11. And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. 12. And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it. Dan. 11:9-12. Margin 196 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isa. 5:20. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. Isa. 31:3. Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Jer. 51:17, 18. 2Chron. 26:16-23. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: that walk to go down into Egypt, . . . therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. Isa. 30:1-3. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord! Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. Isa. 31:1, 2. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them. Deut. 28:13. Margin 197 Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place’s sake, but the place for the people’s sake. 2Maccabees 5:19. Deut. 28:11, 12. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all nations round about. And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. 1Kings 4:29-34. 2Tim, 4:3, 4. 13. For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches. Dan. 11:13. And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. Dan. 11:14. Margin 198 Jer. 46:17. Dan. 5:27. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2Tim. 4:3, 4. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. Dan. 7:12. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Isa. 30:8-10. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2Cor. 10:5. And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2Tim. 3:15-17. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1Cor. 14:8. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Heb. 4:1. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word. Luke 10:39. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Heb. 11:3. Margin 199 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb. 11:6. Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Rom. 14:23. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Gal. 5:1. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17. 14. And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. Dan. 11:14. Mal. 3:5. Prov. 11:21. The perverseness of trangressors shall destroy them. Prov. 11:3. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Prov. 1:30, 31. Dan. 11:14. It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. 12:6. Dan. 2:40-43. Dan. 7:7, 19. Margin 201 Dan. 7:25. Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet. Dan. 7:19. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east and toward the pleasant land. . . . And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. . . . And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes. Dan. 8:9, 23-25. Jer. 51:34, 35. And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of robbers shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. Dan. 11:14, margin. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Rom. 15:4. For it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 50:38. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. Eze. 23:14-18. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATONS OF THE EARTH. Rev. 17:5. Margin 202 Dan. 6:12. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan. 10:13. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. Acts 17:26. The Greeks seek after wisdom. 1Cor. 1:22. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Acts 17:16-21. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. Rev. 13:2. Jer. 50:38. Jer. 50:2. Dan. 6:8. Esther 3:8-15. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Matt. 24:22. The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established forever. Prov. 29:14. Margin 203 Rome like other nations had a history, long before its connection with the people of God, at which time it is noticed in prophecy. Babylon dates from the tower of Babel which Nimrod and others built. “Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet should carry her afar off to sojourn.” Isa. 23:7. Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Prov. 14:34. The way of man is froward and strange. Prov. 21:8. Rom. 11:14, margin. Rev. 13:2. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. Dan. 2:40. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. Dan. 4:17. Ps. 22:27, 28. Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Eze. 28:12. Ps. 100:5. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2Cor. 13:8. Margin 204 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom. Dan. 2:44. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him. . . . These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Rev. 19:20. Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Eccl. 8:4. The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said Barabbas. Matt. 27:21. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. Prov. 10:15. But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? James 2:6. The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. 22:7. Acts 21:39. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Rev. 17:18. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. John 14:30. Margin 205 15. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. Dan. 11:15. Which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Dan. 8:9. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. Prov. 30:14. Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. Isa. 46:8-11. Hab. 1:8. Javan, Tubal, and Meshach, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. Eze. 27:13. Through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand. Dan. 8:25. Margin 206 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. Eccl. 8:9. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare: so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Eccl. 9:12. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Rom. 13:6, 7. Matt. 17:24-27. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child. Eccl. 10:16. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. Micah 6:13. Which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Dan. 8:9. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Prov. 29:2. If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. Eccl. 5:8. Margin 207 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas: and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Isa. 17:12, 13. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Ps. 62:11. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope. Isa. 5:18. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Eccl. 5:10. His sons turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 1Sam. 8:3. They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him. Ps. 49:6, 7. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. Eccl. 5:9. Margin 208 It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Dan. 2:40. He hath sent me to heal the broken hearted. Luke 4:18. Acts 22:25-29. Acts 23:27. Acts 16:37, 38. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Gen. 32:28. The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. Rev. 13:2. Now these be the last words of David. . . . The anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said. 2Sam. 23:1. 1Cor. 8:5. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Rom. 1:25. Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table. 1Kings 18:19. Margin 209 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Acts 21:37. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. Prov. 17:2. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Luke 23:38. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Matt. 13:30. Gen. 2:17. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov. 16:25. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. Deut. 8:2. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. Eccl. 3:14. When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only. Job 34:29. Margin 210 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2Cor. 3:17. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister: and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. Matt. 20:25-27. I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth. Dan. 10:21. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. . . . The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. Prov. 4:17-19. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12. Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Isa. 8:9. 16. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. Dan. 11:16. The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Dan. 9:26. Margin 211 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto CÊsar, or not? . . . Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he said unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, CÊsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto CÊsar the things which are CÊsar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. Matt. 22:17-21. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Isa. 49:6. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Acts 13:47. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? Deut. 4:7, 8. Acts 17:24, 25. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer. 2:13. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Prov. 18:5. Margin 212 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 1Sam. 15:20-33. 17. He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. Dan. 11:17. As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. Prov. 11:22. Prov. 7:4, 5. Eccl. 7:26. Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt. Eze. 23:27. Eze. 29:3, 6, 7. 2Kings 18:21. Matt. 2:15. 18. After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. 19. Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. Dan. 11:18, 19. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. Acts 22:28. Margin 213 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Eccl. 8:8. So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heaven be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job 14:12. Isa. 7:14-16. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Micah 7:2-4. Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Dan. 5:27. 1Sam. 8:19, 20. Margin 214 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. Dan. 11:20. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from CÊsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. . . . And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. Luke 2:1-9. Micah 5:2. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:10-14. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. Matt. 2:1, 2, 10, 11. Margin 215 Gen. 28:12, 19. Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. Hosea 12:4. Gen. 28:22. Gen. 35:8. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai. Gen. 13:3. 1Sam. 16:4-13. 2Sam. 23:14-17. If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:37. Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. Gen. 28:16. 20. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. Dan. 11:20. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Prov. 8:10. The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory, above the heavens. Ps. 113:4. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isa. 9:6. Margin 216 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. Isa. 45:4. 21. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Dan. 11:21. He was taken from prison and from judgment. Isa. 53:8. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Luke 24:21. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? Acts 1:6. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2Cor. 4:4. Dan. 3:4-6. Esther 3:6, 12-14. Col. 2:8. 1Tim. 6:20. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. Col. 2:17-24. Luke 2:25, 38. Matt. 3:5, 6. Margin 217 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria. Matt. 4:23, 24. 22. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overthrown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. Dan. 11:22. Gen. 9:16. Heb. 13:20, 21. Acts 4:26, 27. Acts 2:24. John 12:20-29. Matt. 27:38. Matt. 27:32. Matt. 27:54. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2Cor. 4:6. I am the way, the truth, and the life. John 14:6. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2:14. 1John 3:5. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. . . . And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. 1Kings 22:19-23. The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Rev. 12:10. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. Rev. 12:13. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev. 12:12. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Acts 2:8-11. Margin 219 The hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven. Col. 1:6, 23. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word. Acts 8:4. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom. 1:8. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Col. 3:11. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:20, 21. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. 1:27. Gal. 2:20. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind. and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Rom. 7:18-25. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Rom. 8:7. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Heb. 12:1. Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 15:26. 2Cor. 11:25-28. I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Jer. 3:14. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Col. 1:13. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. Acts 15:28, 29. Margin 220 Col. 4:9, 10. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. Deut. 4:15-19. Ex. 20:3, 5. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do. Matt. 6:7. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled: and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13. Acts 28:2-6. Acts 5:17-26. John 1:11. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. . . . How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? John 5:42-44. The whole world lieth in wickedness. 1John 5:19. For we have not a high priest which can not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Heb. 4:15. And the devil taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. Luke 4:5, 6. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. John 6:15. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. John 14:30. Margin 221 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matt. 28:19, 20. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. Rev. 12:15. Dan. 3:25. Dan. 6:22. Luke 24:5, 6. There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2Peter 2:1. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: eat and drink, saith he to thee: but his heart is not with thee. Prov. 23:7. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Rev. 2:14. I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words; and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. 3John 9, 10. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. Hosea 5:5. And many shall follow their pernicious ways: by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2Peter 2:2, 3. Margin 222 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. Lam. 4:12. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 1Tim. 3:16. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders: insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matt. 24:24. That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph. 3:19. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Rev. 17:18. I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. . . . And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Rev. 17:3, 6. God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Acts 10:34, 35. In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot. Isa. 18:7. Eze. 34:6. Ps. 119:165. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1John 3:4. Margin 223 Ps. 1:1-3. Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev. 14:12. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isa. 48:18. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. James 4:17. Jer. 17:24, 25. Jer. 51:9. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Eze. 22:26. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. Rev. 22:14. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matt. 24:21. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Rev. 2:4. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hosea 14:1, 2. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1Pet. 1:7. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. 3:15. Margin 224 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Matt. 24:12. Rev.6:2. So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all CÊsar’s court, and in all other places. Phil. 1:13, margin. Phil. 4:22. For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. . . . My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him. Hosea 9:15, 17. Wickedness shall be broken as a tree. Job 24:20. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Job 4:8, 9. Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Prov. 11:14. They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. Hosea 9:9. For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Amos 3:10. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Hosea 8:4. Margin 225 23. And after the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. 24. He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. Dan. 11:23, 24. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Eze. 22:27. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Acts 20:29. And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! Rev. 18:16. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt. 7:21. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. Hosea 13:1. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Eph. 6:17. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Isa. 42:8. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt. 7:15. Margin 226 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about. Hosea 7:2. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, . . . for I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. Amos 5:7, 12, 13. How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. 1Kings 18:21. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Hosea 8:12. But they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. Hosea 9:10. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. Hosea 10:2. No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and mammon. Matt. 6:24. And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Isa. 47:6-9. So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Zech. 1:14, 15. Margin 227 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity Matt. 23:27, 28. Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Matt. 7:8, 9. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Mark 15:9. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matt. 5:18, 19. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. Hosea 8:3. I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. . . . And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Rev. 17:3, 18. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Prov. 4:19. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. Hosea 13:15. The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. Rev. 13:2. O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles. . . . The borders are in the midst of the seas. Eze. 27:2, 4. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him. Dan. 11:45. Yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds even for a time. Dan. 11:24. Margin 228 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. Eze. 13:10-12. I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Rev. 18:7. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. Hosea 4:12. Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God. Hosea 9:1. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1Peter 5:8. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev. 12:12. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7. Margin 229 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Amos 3:3. Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. Zeph. 3:4. For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. Mal. 2:7, 8. Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up. Jer. 18:15. The shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock. Eze. 34:8. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed. Eze. 43:8. Jer. 23:28-32. Rom. 11:33-36. Isa. 40:28-31. Psa. 147:5. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; and ye are my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God. Eze. 34:18-21, 31. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls. Eze. 22:25. Margin 230 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Eze. 22:27. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. Micah 3:10, 11. Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked. Amos 2:4. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. Mal. 2:11. Dan. 7:7. 25. And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. 26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain. Margin 231 27. And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. Dan. 11:25-27. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. Obadiah 10. But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets. Acts 24:14. An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor. Prov. 11:9. O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses: from their children have ye taken away my glory forever. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. Micah 2:7-11. How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. Jer. 2:23-25. Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom. Amos 9:8. Margin 232 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. Hosea 9:1. Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. Hosea. 4:17. 28. Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. 29. At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter. Dan. 11:28, 29. The ark was not among these holy vessels, for at the time of the Babylonian captivity, “the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God. And when Jeremy came thither, he found a hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door. And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it. Which when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy. Then shall the Lord show them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was showed under Moses, and as when Solomon desired that the place might be honorably sanctified.” 2Maccabees 2:4-8. Margin 233 30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. Dan. 11:30. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. Obadiah 3, 4. 31. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. Dan. 11:31. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Hosea 7:8. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer. 2:11-13. Margin 234 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry. Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. Micah 3:5-7. Ezra 7:11-26. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. Dan. 11:31. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, to set up the abomination, etc., that astonisheth, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Dan. 12:11, margin. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped: so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2Thess. 2:3-7. Rev. 13:2. Isa. 44:27, 28. Isa. 45:1-5. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. Eze. 7:11. Margin 236 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. Prov. 11:24. 2Thess. 2:4. Dan. 8:25. A well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Sol. Song 4:15. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? Jer. 18:4. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet: and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. Eze. 34:18, 19. Isa. 29:13-15. Lam. 4:12. Ps. 119:142. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator. Rom. 1:25. Ex. 20:8-11. Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ex. 31:13. Eze. 20:19, 20. Rom. 7:7. For thou hast said in thine heart. I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Isa. 14:13. 2Thess. 2:8. Margin 237 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1Tim. 2:5. Not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:9. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people. Isa. 60:2. Hosea 6:9. In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood. Eze. 22:9. Rev. 13:7, 8. Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Micah 3:2, 3. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matt. 6:23. Dan. 7:25. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened. there should no flesh he saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Matt. 24:21, 22. 32. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Dan. 11:32. Margin 238 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. 1Kings 19:9, 10, 18. The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. Prov. 15:31. We ought to obey God rather than men. Acts 5:29. 33. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Dan. 11:33. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Ps. 115:16. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of has mouth. Rev. 12:16. And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing; fear not, but let your hands be strong. Zech. 8:13. 34. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. Dan. 11:34, 35. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power: and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. Ex. 9:16. Margin 239 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. Ps. 76:10. A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a lather, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests. that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Mal. 1:6. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. Isa. 12:4. Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Ps. 9:11, 12. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Matt. 24:21, 22. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Isa. 58:1. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord: and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Jer. 23:29. And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2Tim. 3:15, 16. Margin 240 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Ps. 119:98-100. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes. Deut. 4:5-7. Deut. 28:13. Eph. 6:17. Zech. 4:6. Jer. 1:19. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Prov. 4:18. I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. Isa. 48:6. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. Isa. 49:7. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Isa. 1:3. And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined, shall be done. Dan. 11:36. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Isa. 1:21-23. Margin 241 37. Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. 38. But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. 39. Thus shall he do in the most strongholds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and Increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. Dan. 11:37-39. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. Ps. 53:1. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. Ex. 5:2. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 1Thess. 2:13. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. Amos 8:8. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves: they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. Zeph. 3:1-4. Margin 242 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. Ps. 7:16, 17. Casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2Cor. 10:5, margin. Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? Mal. 3:13-15. Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Eze. 20:24. What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. Neh. 13:17, 18. Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. Eze. 22:8. 1Tim. 4:1-3. In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. Eze. 22:12-14. Margin 243 James 1:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. Eze. 21:24. Jer. 25:29-33. Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. . . . When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Ps. 83:9-17. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. Ps. 47:8, 9. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Ps. 49:11-13. Deut. 28:53-57. Job 30:3-8. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord. Deut. 29:24, 25. Margin 244 He ruleth by his power forever: his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Ps. 59:7. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. Isa. 13:4, 5. Isa. 8:7. I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so: but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria. Isa. 10:6-10. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down the thickest of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. Isa. 10:33, 34. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. Isa. 31:3. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains. Isa. 22:5. So are the paths of all that forget God: and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish. Job 8:13. Margin 245 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. 2Chron. 25:2. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Rev. 13:3, 10. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Isa. 59:6-8. Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Isa. 14:29. And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. Dan. 11:40. Margin 246 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it: and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defensed cities into ruinous heaps. Isa. 37:26. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. Rev. 9:2, 3. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof: and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Isa. 19:3, 4. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Isa. 17:13. Will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. Eze. 26:3. She is broken that was the gates of the people. Eze. 26:2. Set thee up waymarks, make thee heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest. Jer. 31:21. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Isa. 54:2, 3. Margin 247 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: what then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Phil. 1:16-19. 41. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. Dan. 11:41, 42. Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession. Deut. 2:6, 9. Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us. Isa. 8:9, 10. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. Isa. 42:13. 43. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. 44. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go north with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. Dan. 11:43-45. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. Behold, he breaketh down, and it can not be built again: he shutteth up a man, and here can be no opening. Job 12:13, 14. Margin 248 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Rev. 16:12-16. Rev. 7:1-3. Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. Eze. 9:1-6. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:28. Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Heb. 3:15. Margin 249 Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? Matt. 16:3. Seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Heb. 7:25. Dan. 10:11-19. Dan. 2:31-45. Dan. 7:1-27. Dan. 8:1-27. Dan. 9:24-27. Dan. 11:1-45. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Dan. 2:28. Dan. 10:14. Dan. 12:13. Dan. 8:17. Dan. 11:35. Dan. 12:4, 9. Dan. 8:19. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. Rev. 14:13. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision. . . . And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel. Dan. 10:1, 4. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7. Margin 251 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deut. 29:29. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. . . . And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Eph. 5:8, 11. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. Mal. 4:2. The great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Rev. 11:8. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Eph. 4:17-19. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. Rev. 11:12. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. Dan. 11:45. And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves. Zech. 4:12. Margin 252 I, even I only, am left: and they seek my life, to take it away. . . . Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. 1Kings 19:14, 18. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning. Hosea 6:3. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. Isa. 59:2. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Prov. 4:18. Dan. 8:14. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament. Rev. 11:19. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Jer. 31:3. The Ancient of Days did sit. . . . The judgment was set, and the books were opened. Dan. 7:9, 10. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Rev. 3:5. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Isa. 49:16. He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. Isa. 61:10. Margin 253 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them. 1Thess. 5:3. And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Eze. 9:4. 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. Jer. 16:16. Rev. 7:1-3. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. Matt. 13:41. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. Dan. 12:1. Rev. 22:11. Prov. 1:24-28. Gen. 22:1, 2. Gen. 32:24-30. For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. Jer. 30:5-7. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land shall mourn, every family apart. . . . All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. Zech. 12:11-14. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized. Matt. 20:22, 23. Margin 254 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. Eze. 7:16. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Rev. 14:4. Amos 8:11, 12. Rev. 16:17, 21. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Ps. 91:9-11. Rev. 16:18, 20. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city and appeared unto many. Matt. 27:52, 53. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led a multitude of captives, and gave gifts unto men. Eph. 4:8, margin. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1Cor. 15:20, 23. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Dan. 12:2. Zech. 12:10. Matt. 26:64. Rev. 1:7. Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Rev. 14:13. Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. 2Thess. 2:8. Margin 255 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. . . . And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev. 19:13, 16. Isa. 63:1-6. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Rev. 19:14. His righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen. Ps. 98:2. All thy commandments are righteousness. Ps. 119:172. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. Gen. 9:16. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. Heb. 13:20, 21. And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. Eze. 1:26, 28. Ps. 19:1-7. And he brought him forth abroad, and said. Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Gen. 15:5. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Cor. 2:14. Gen. 22:17. Margin 256 As the host of heaven can not be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. Jer. 33:22. Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and art come to worship him. Matt. 2:2. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. Rev. 6:14. All the foundations of the earth are out of course. Ps. 82:5. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 1Thess. 4:16. John 5:28, 29. Hosea 13:14. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. Phil. 3:21. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1Thess. 4:17. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matt. 24:30, 31. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:2, 3. Margin 257 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. Ps. 24:7-10. Rev. 14:1. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Rev. 15:2. Rev. 13:8. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Rev. 15:3. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. John 17:21. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. Rev. 14:3. They shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. Zech. 9:16. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Isa. 62:3. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels. Mal. 3:17. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. Rev. 14:4. Zech. 3:7. Eze. 28:16. Margin 258 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Rev. 6:11. After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands. Rev. 7:9, 10. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Isa. 53:11. Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God hath given me. Heb. 2:12, 13. And his brightness was as the light; he had bright beams out of his side, and there was the hiding of his power. Hab. 3:4. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. Dan. 12:3. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Prov. 11:30. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Heb. 11:3. And he is before all things, and by him all things hold together. Col. 1:17, R. V., margin. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Ps. 32:8. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. Job 28:10. Margin 259 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Eph. 5:23. And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon. Deut. 33:14. Gen. 18:19. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Eph. 6:1. As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 2Cor. 1:14. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 1Peter 2:9. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. 1Thess. 2:19, 20. Never man spake like this man. John 7:46. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Rev. 15:2. Dan. 10:4. Margin 260 Even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. Dan. 11:35. He shall . . . wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Dan. 7:25. Rev. 11:3. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. Rev. 12:16. The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk: they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. Nahum 2:3-6. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion. Thy God reigneth! Isa. 52:7. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Matt. 24:14. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. Isa. 32:20. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Eccl. 7:29. Margin 261 Jehovah’s voice causeth the oaks to wither, and denudeth the trees of the woods. Surely through this his universal temple everything speaks of his glory. Ps. 20:9, Spurrell’s trans. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Ps. 119:130. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. Eccl. 10:20. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Rom. 10:14, 15. Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons and thy sons’ sons. Deut. 4:9. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isa. 5:13. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Eph. 6:4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan. 12:4. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Dan. 1:8. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. . . . Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:34, 36. Margin 262 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev. 14:12. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Mal. 4:6. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Lev. 20:23. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. 5:16. I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Matt. 28:20. 5. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to end of these wonders? Dan. 12:5, 6. Which things the angels desired to look into. 1Peter 1:12. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Dan. 12:7. Margin 263 And there came two angels to Sodom at even. . . . And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters: the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. Gen. 19:1, 16. And I heard, but I understood not: then said 1, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? Dan. 12:8. 1Thess. 5:4, 5. Gen. 32:24-31. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Dan. 12:9. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. Ps. 34:15. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. Ps. 90:16. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. Hab. 3:2. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? Eze. 34:18. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day: and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord. Isa. 58:13, 14. Margin 264 He shall speak words against the Most High, and wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and half a time. Dan. 7:25 R.V. The temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament. Rev. 11:19. I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Rev. 14:6. 10. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days, Dan. 12:10-12. He hath blessed; and I can not reverse it. Num. 23:20. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Dan. 12:10. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I can not; for it is sealed: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Isa. 29:11, 12. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2Tim. 4:7, 8. Margin 265 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. Job 5:26. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Dan. 12:13. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blemish. Eph. 5:27. |
