king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine arm holes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremial remained in the court of the prison. Jer. xxxix, 13, 14. So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's princes: Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. Jer. lii, 31-33. And it came to pass, in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, And spake kindly unto 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 continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. Acts xii, 7, 11, 15-17. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly, And his chains fell off from his hands. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel. But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, But he, they were astonished. beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and | And the chief captain answered, went into another place. With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free-born. Then straightway they departed from him which should Heb. xiii, 23. Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. SCOURGING. if the wicked man be worthy to Deut. xxv, 2, 3. And it shall be, be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should reem vile unto thee. Matth. x, 17. But beware of men for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. Acts xxii, 19. And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee. 2 Cor. xi, 24, 25. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, cnce was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep. PRIVILEGE OF A ROMAN CITIZEN. Acts xvi, 35-40. And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themAnd selves and fetch us out. the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they And they came were Romans. and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. have examined him; and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. RETALIATION. Lev. xxiv, 19. 20. And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour. as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man so shall it be done to him again. (See under ASSAULT, Page 337.) FINE. Exod. xxi, 30. If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS Lev. xxiv, 14. Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp: and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. John vill, 7. So, when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. Acts vii, 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. THE SWORD. 2 Sam. i, 15. And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. 2 Sam. iv, 10. When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to have brought good tidings.) I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings. 1 Kings ii, 25, 46. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. So Benalah Acts xxii, 25--29. And as they the king commanded bound him with thongs, Paul said the son of Jehoiada; which went unto the centurion that stood by, out, and fell upon him, that he died: and the kingdom was estabIs it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncon-lished in the hand of Solomon. demned? When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. Ps. cvi, 29-31. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions; and the plague brake in upon them. Then stood up Phinehias,and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. And that was counted unto bim for righteousness unto all genera- fore the king, Behold also the tions for evermore. POSTHUMOUS DISGRACE. Haman. gallows, fifty cubits high, which Deut. xxi, 22, 23. And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is Esther ix, 13, 14. Then said Esaccursed of God;) that thy land bether. If it please the king, let it be not defiled, which the LORD thy granted to the Jews which are God giveth thee for an inherit in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, Josh. x, 26, 27. And afterward and let Haman's ten sons be Joshua smote them, and slew hanged upon the gallows. And them, and hanged them on five the king commanded it so to be trees: and they were hanging up-done: and the decree was given at on the trees until the evening. Shushan; and they hanged HaAnd it came to pass, at the time man's ten sons. of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and ance. cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day. Gal. ili, 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. MODES AMONG OTHER HANGING. 2 Sam. xxi, 8, 9. But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul. whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley-harvest. Esther v, 14. Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecal may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. Esther vil, 9, 10. And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains said be BURNING ALIVE IN A FURNACE. Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and I see four men loose, walking in ple, nation, and language, which EXPOSURE TO WILD BEASTS. Dan. vi, 16, 17. 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. 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. CUTTING ASUnder. and said to the Chaldeans, The Dan. ii, 5. The king answered 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. Luke xil, 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Heb. xi, 37. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. I. JUDGES OF ISRAEL. Judges ill, 9, 11, 15, 31. And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of MAGISTRATES. bulon. And after him Abdon the served other gods, so do they also unto thee. Now therefore hearken unto their voice: how beit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. And Samuel unto the people that asked of him told all the words of the LORD a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: And be will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, 1 Sam. vil, 15-17. And Samuel them to h's servants. even the best of them, and give And he Gera, a Benjamite, a man left judged Israel all the days of his will take the tenth of your seed, hauded: and by him the children life. And he went from year to and of your vineyards, and give to of Israel sent a present unto Eglon Year in circuit to Bethel, and Gil- his officers, and to his servants. the king of Moab. And after him gal, and Mizpeh, and judged And he will take your men-ser was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also delivered Israel. Judges iv, 4. And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. Judges viii, 28... And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. Judges X. 1-5. And after Abimelech, there arose to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar: and he dwelt in Shamir, in mount Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass-colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. Judges xil, 7-14. And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel; And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons: and he judged Israel seven years. Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem. And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel: and he judged Israel ten years. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon, in the country of Ze 1 Sam. iv, 18...... And he [Eli] had judged Israel forty years. Israel in all those places. And his unto the LORD. vants, and your maid-servants, and work. He will take the tenth of your asses, and put them to his your goodliest young men, and your sheep, and ye shall be his 1 Sam. viii, 1, 2. And it came to servants. And ye shall cry out in pass, when Samuel was old, that that day because of your king he made his sons judges over which ye shall have chosen you; Israel. Now the name of his first-and the LORD will not hear you in born was Joel, and the name of his second Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba. Acts xili, 20. And after that he gave unto them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. II. GOD REJECTED AS KING BY THE NATION. that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. 1 Sam. viii 4-11, 14-22. Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to 1 Sam. x, 17-19. And Samuel Samuel unto Ramah, And said called the people together unto unto him, Behold, thou art old, the LORD to Mizpeh; And said and thy sons walk not in thy unto the children of Israel, Thus ways: now make us a king to judge saith the LORD God of Israel, I us like all the nations. But the brought up Israel out of Egypt, thing displeased Samuel, when and delivered you out of the hand they said, Give us a king to judge of the Egyptians, and out of the us. And Samuel prayed unto the hand of all kingdoms, and of them LORD. And the LORD said unto that oppressed you: And ye bave Samuel, Hearken unto the voice this day rejected your God, who of the people in all that they say himself saved you out of all your unto thee: for they have not re-adversities and your tribulations; jected thee, but they have rejected and ye have said unto him. Nay, me, that I should not reign over but set a king over us. Now therethem. According to all the works fore present yourselves before which they have done since the the LORD by your tribes, and by day that I brought them up out of your thousands. Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and 1 Sam. xii, 12, 13, 16, 18-20. And when ye saw that Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: (ye have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. Jer. xii, 21. What wilt thou say, when he shall punish thee? (for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee;) shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? Hos. viii, 4. 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. THE PEOPLE IN THE 1 Sam. ix, 15-17. Now the LORD POWER OF THE ARMY AND had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, To-morrow, about this time, I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel. And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, 1 Sam. x, 21, 22. When he had AND OTHERS. thine asses, that were lost three 1 Sam. ix, 20, 21. And as for them; for they are found. And days ago, set not thy mind on on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house? And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the sinaliest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me? 1 Sam. xi, 14, 15. Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the Behold, he hath hid himself among ple went to Gilgal; and there they kingdom there. And all the peothe stuff. 1 Sam. xvl, 1--3. And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it, he will thou shalt do: and thou shalt kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD. And call Jesse to the sacHos. xiii, 10, 11. I will be thyrifice, and I will show thee what king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Matth. xx, 25-27. 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 ser vant. 1 Kings x1, 37-40. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel. And it shall be, if made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD: and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 1 Sam. xii, 1. And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. your hands be strengthened, and 2 Sam. ii, 7. Therefore now let be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead,and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them. 2 Sam. iii, 9-12, 17-20. So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; To 1 Kings ii, 15. And he [Adoniah] translate the kingdom from the said, Thou knowest that the king-house of Saul, and to set up the dom was mine, and that all Israel throne of David over Israel, and set their faces on me, that I over Judah, from Dan even to should reign: howbeit the king- Beer-sheba. And he could not dom is turned about, and is be- answer Abner a word again; become my brother's; for it was his cause he feared him. And Abner from the LORD. sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee. And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you: Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin. So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him; and David KINGS SOMETIMES CHOSEN thou wilt hearken unto all that I BY GOD. Deut.xvii, 14, 15. When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, anu shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother. command thee, and wilt walk in made Abner, and the men that throne of David my father, and 2 Sam. v, 1, 2. Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, Saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast be that leddest out and broughtest in Israel; and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. 1 Kings xii, 1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. Acts xili, 21. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. people whom I have not known shall serve me. As soon as they 1 Kings ix. 4, 5. And if thou wilt hear of me, they shall obey me walk before me,as David thy father the strangers shall submit themwalked, in integrity of heart, selves unto me. The strangers and in uprightness, to do accord shall fade away, and be afraid out ing to all that I have command- of their close places. Great deed thee, and wilt keep my statutes liverance giveth he to his king, and my judgments; Then I will and sheweth mercy to his ADestablish the throne of thy king-ointed, to David, and to his seed dom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. 1 Chron. xi, 10. These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened Notwithstanding in thy days I 1 Kings xi, 12, 13. 32, 34-36. themselves with him in his king-will not do it for David thy father's dom, and with all Israel, to make sake: but I will rend it out of the him king, according to the word hand of thy son. Howbeit I will of the LORD concerning Israel. not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen. (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) How. beit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's kept my commandments and my sake, whom I chose, because he statutes; But I will take the king; will give it unto thee, even the dom out of his son's hand, and ten tribes. And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. DAVID. over all Israel. David the son of Jesse reigned 1 Chron. xxix, 26-28. Thus And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead. Acts xiii, 22. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will, 1 Kings xv 4. Nevertheless, for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem. 2 Kings viii, 19. Yet the LORD David his servant's sake, as he would not destroy Judah for promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children. COVENANT MADE WITH DAVID. 2 Sam. v, 12. 1 Chron, xxviii, 7. Moreover, I And David per-will establish bis kingdom for ceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and ever, if he be constant to do my that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. for evermore. Ps. lxxviii, 70-72. He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: From Jacob his people, and Israel his young he brought him to feed following the ewes great with inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Ps. lxxxix, 3, 4, 19-22, 29, 38, 39. I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I people. I have found David my hand shall be established; mine servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: With whom my arm also shall strengthen him. him; nor the son of wickedness The enemy shall not exact upon have exalted one chosen out of the make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. afflict him. His seed also will I Pз. cxxxii, 11, 12, 17, 18. The will keep my covenant and my commandments, and my judg-bud: I have ordained a lamp for 2 Sam. vi, 12. 13. And it was 2 Chron. vii, 17. And as for thee. told king David, if thou wilt walk before me, as saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of according to all that I have comDavid thy father walked, and do Obed-edom, and all that pertain-manded thee, and shalt observe eth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. And it was so, that, when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 1 Kings ii, 24. Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the my statutes and my judgments. 2 Chron. xxi, 7. Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him, and to his sons for ever. Ps. xviii, 43-45, 50. Thon hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: al ISH-BOSHETH. 2 Sam. ii, 8-10. But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought himover to Mahanaim; And he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Eph raim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years: but the house of Judah followed David. |