A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS

NOTES TO SECTION 11

[1] [Ezek. 21:20. 'Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.']

[2] [Ps. 91:4. 'He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.']

[3] [Gen. 18:1. 'And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.']

[4] [Num. 31:35. 'And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.']

[5] [Lev. 12:7. 'Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.'
Lev. 15:27. 'And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.']

[6] [Rit. ch. 42. 'I am the Great God betwixt the tamarisks; finished (is) Ans-Ra, or the Pied, at dawn.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]

[7] [Prov. 11:22. 'As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.']

[8] [Gesenius, A Hebrew Lexicon to the Books of the Old Testament. As in Ecc. 1:3. 'What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?']

[9] [Gen. 18:2. 'And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.']

[9a] [Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, bk. 3.10. 6. 'When a week of weeks has passed over after this sacrifice, (which weeks contain forty and nine days,) on the fiftieth day, which is Pentecost, but is called by the Hebrews Asartha, which signifies Pentecost, they bring to God a loaf, made of wheat flour, of two tenth deals, with leaven; and for sacrifices they bring two lambs; and when they have only presented them to God, they are made ready for supper for the priests; nor is it permitted to leave any thing of them till the day following. They also slay three bullocks for a burnt-offering, and two rams; and fourteen lambs, with two kids of the goats, for sins; nor is there anyone of the festivals but in it they offer burnt-offerings; they also allow themselves to rest on every one of them. Accordingly, the law prescribes in them all what kinds they are to sacrifice, and how they are to rest entirely, and must slay sacrifices, in order to feast upon them.' Whiston's tr.]

[10] [Denkmaler, vol. 4, p. 71, a.]

[11] [Job 18:13. 'It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.']

[12] [? 16:24, the LXX.]

[13] [15’d’. 41, 93.]

[13a] [Ibn Esra.]

[14] [Nah. 2:7. 'And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.']

[15] [Job 37:22. 'Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.']

[16] [Lev. 12:2. 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.']

[17] [Is. 30:29. 'Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.']

[18] [Cant. 3:4. 'It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.']

[19] [Prov. 20:27. 'The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.']

[20] [See the chasal, 2 Ch. 33:19, margin. 'His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.']

[21] [Ps. 68:31.'Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.']

[22] [Is. 30:15. 'For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.']

[23] [Ez. 12:15. 'Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.']

[24] [Is. 36:12 zuah in margin; compare sua, lIg. 'But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?']

[24a] [Is. 42:3. 'A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.']

[25] [Ex. 29:5. 'And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod.']

[26] [Is. 22:20. 'And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.']

[27] [Is. 11:1. 'And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.']

[28] [Ecc. 12:6. 'Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.']

[29] [1 Sam. 19:20. 'And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.']

[30] [Gen. 47:14. 'And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.']

[31] [Cant. 5:5. 'I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.'
Neh. 3:3. 'But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.'
Deut. 33:25. 'Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.']

[32] [Jer. 23:33. 'And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.']

[33] [Ps. 110:3. 'Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.']

[34] [1 Chron. 15:27. 'And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.']

[35] [2 Kings 17:31. 'And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.']

[36] [Job 29:4. 'As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle.']

[37] [Cant. 1:9. 'I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.']

[38] [1 Kings 12:30. 'And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.']

[39] [Is. 28:25. 'When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?']

[40] [Job 4:15. 'Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.']

[41] [1 Sam. 4:1-6. 'And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
    And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
    And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
    So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
    And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
    And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.']

[42] [Is. 55:4. 'Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.']

[43] [2 Chron. 20:26. 'And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.']

[44] [Is. 42:14. 'I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.']

[45] [Is. 3:17. 'Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.']

[46] [Ruth 2:16. 'And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.']

[47] [Jer. 2:22. 'For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.']

[48] [Gen. 40:2. 'And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.']

[49] [Jer. 25:34. 'Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.']