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Curiosities of the Bible: Judah
The king of Judah who broke the brazen serpent in pieces The tribe to which Joshua belonged.
The man to whom Michal was given when Saul took he from David.
A mother who taught her son deceit.
The governor of Ahab's house.
The king of Judah who was struck with leprosy.
A mother in Israel.
The initials of these names or words form a statement show ing us God's estimation of a sin the world thinks lightly of. SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 108.
Three prophets' names suggest, Whose minor rank their words attest, With brevity expressed.
The first his vision told Of Nineveh, renowned of old, To wrath and vengeance sold.
With long foretokened gloom, The second published Esau's doom, Whom Joseph should consume.
In Jotham's days the third, To Salem brought Jehovah's word, And all Samaria heard.
Divide each several name, And the first syllables proclaim, A widowed matron's fame.
From Bethlehem's fertile plain, She did a pilgrim's toil sustain, Then flourished there again.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 109.
A people who wept through unbelief in God's power to deliver A place where came destroying fire:
Another name for prophet. 'The name of one to whom a certain leader said, "Thou may est be to us instead of eyes."
A l andsome but rebellious young man.
One who heard the gospel by a river-side.
An Evangelist who travelled with the Apostle St. Paul. A place where lived one who forgot all care when listening to words of Jesus.
A valley around which Paul and his army gathered for battle. What is better than rubies?
The name of one who saw wonderful visions by a river-side. A son of Jacob and Leah.
The father of Noah.
Who journeyed far, carrying gifts to an infant ? 'The youth who nearly perished when cast out into the wilder ness.
A mountain of Palestine.
Another mountain where God gave the Law to Moses.
The city of a woman who sold " purple."
One of the sons of Eli.
An ancient river whose name means "good and abounding A woman who tended sheep.
A patriarch who was deceived by his own son.
One afflicted through life for deceit and lying, A king who watched a sun-dial with great anxiety.
A city over which Hiram once reigned.
A man of Bethlehem, Judah, who went to sojourn in Moab in times of famine.
A prophet who proclaimed the doom of Edom.
A sacred emblem worn by Aaron.
A word of gladness in the song of the redeemed. 1 The initials of these words give a truth known to those who place their trust in Christian righteousness.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 110.
Name the awful mystery worn By the priest on holy morn.
Who delighted in the Lord When she proved how true his word?
Whose whole family was blest When he took the ark in rest?
By what river dreamed the seer Scenes of many a distant year?
On what sea though lacking rest, Jesus walked, God manifest?
Where the deadly angel stayed?
Who a mighty man betrayed?
Whom did Peter doom to death?
Name the son of righteous Seth?
Seek the town his cousin built?
Who the blood of thousands spilt?
Who through Peter lived once more?
With the poor she lived before?
Name the land of Reuel's well!
And the vale where Giant fell?
A truth lies here that we must prove Like the poor outcast-may it be in love SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 111 The people to whom Joseph was sold.
Jesse's second son.
The mother of Asa.
The place where the wise woman lived who interceded with David for Absalom.
The prophet whose writings contain these words, "The just shall live by his faith."
The counsellor who forsook David for Absalom.
The city where Lydia lived.
One of Saul's sons " who reigned for two dire years over Israel."
The place to which Abiathiar was banished by Solomon. The prophet whose words the Angel Gabriel quoted in hi interview with Jacharias.
The initials of the above words give the Divine name as declared in the words from heaven. SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 112.
Where first did David seek his promised crown?
Who won his wife by capturing a town?
Where fled a man before his brother's threat?
Who in a desert land three monarchs met?
Who seeking Canaan died upon the way?
Who killed his master that in sickness lay?
Name where an exiled king in sorrow trod, Whose son in cunning service wrought from God?
What prince was slain at noon upon his bed ?
Say at whose threshing floor a priest fell dead.
Where first did Israel eat of Canaan's corn?
What son to Boaz was in gladness born?
Who sought to turn Paul's teaching into scorn?
Learn with the Psalmist, from whose words we borrow To serve the Lord and trust him for the morrow.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 113.
An Edomite who was an adversary to Solomon.
The birthplace of Apollos.
The city which St. Paul said he "must see."
The plain where the golden image was set up.
The valley where David slew Goliath.
Jeroboam's successor.
B The prophet that was honored by being left out of Adon ijah's counsels.
The prophet who forbade the children of Israel to make slaves of their brethren.
St. Paul's secretary when he wrote to the Romans.
A word which is typical of dominion.
The sixth son of Jesse.
The man whom David killed with the sword of the children. of Ammon.
The place where Amalek first fought with Israel Manasseh's mother.
The word which signifies " be opened."
The woman given to Joseph to wife.
The woman commended in the New Testament, both for faith and works.
The Ephesian in whose school St. Paul disputed.
The people who carried off Job's oxen and asses.
Now take the initials, and you have my whole.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 114. 1. What prophet, sent by God's own voice, Forced on a king a dreadful choice? 2. The place by Jacob Bethel named- For evil afterwards so famed. 3. A righteous man who feared the Lord, And saved his prophets from the sword. 4. A king of Syria, Judah's bane, And by Tiglath-Pileser slain. 5. How oft did Jephthah's friends bemoan, The vow that made his daughter lone? 6. A place where Jephthah's dwelt, And Pharaoh's powerful sway was felt. 7. A house that God profusely blest, Because his ark in it did rest. 8. What city did King Asa found, When he razed Ramah to the ground? 9. A house by Paul beloved, whose head, As far as we can tell, was dead. 10. A nurse who after death was laid, Beneath a mighty oak-tree's shade.
In these initials you may find What's due to God from all mankind.
The initials of the above names (or words) form a caution given to the Jewish nation by David and repeated by St. Paul. SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 115.