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Old Testament Persons: Balaam

Num. xi. 16 159. Mesha. 458. Totipher, Gen. xxxix. 5; Laban. 460. Ahijah the Shilinite. 461. Jonathan and Ahimaaz Gen. xxx. 27 .2 Kings iii 4 ........... 1 Kings xi. 20. .2 Sam. xvii. 20 ........ 462 Twice. .. ...... 46.3. See. .............................. 464 See. .... 465. Ezeikel. 466. Balaam. Num. xxii; Caiaphas. 1 Kings ix. 2.

Deut. vii. 8.

Job xvi. 11.

Ezek. xxiv. 15.

John xi. 49. ... 467. By Balaam Num. xxxi. 15. 468. At the dedication of the Temple.... 1 Kings viii. 46; 2 Chron. vi. 36. 469. That of Ephraim..... .2 Sam. xvii. 17. 470. Adah and Zillah, the wives of Lamech, and his daughter Naamah. ... Gen. iv. 19. 471. The Wench, &c. 2 Sam. xvii. 17. ..... 472. Balaam....2 Pet. ii. 15: Num. xxxi. 8: Achan. Josh. vii. 20: Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. ; Ananias and Sapplura, Acts v.; Judas, Matt. xxvi. 15: Acts i. 18. .2 Kings xxi. 18. 474 (1) Isa viii. 20; (2) John v. 39; Acts xv. 11: (3) Thess. ii. 13: Heb. iv. 12. 473. See. ... 475. The children of Israel did burn incense to it, "there. fore, Hezekiah broke it in pieces"..2 Kings xviii 4. 476. In the wilderness of Pharan........ Num. xii. 16. 477. David, for numbering the people, made choice of a 2 Sam. xxiv. 13. 1 Kings ii. 36. 1 Kings xлi. 8.

Ezek. viii. 3 three day's pestilence 478 Shimei. ......... 479. Jezebel used Ahab's name........ 480. Ezekiel in his vision. 481. David. 482. Samson to Delilah. .1 Sam. xxi. 12. .Judges xvi. 6 483. Noah, Daniel and Job. 484. Yet now there is hope," &c Ezek. xiv. 14 484.

Ezra. x. 2. 485. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, Ex. iii. 6, 15, 16; Christ said, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Matt xxii. 32. 486. Speaking of their father; he died in his own sin....

Num. xxvii. 2 487. The mother of Sisera.

Judges v. 28. 488. Ahijah. King Jeroboam's wife. ... 1 Kings xiv. 1. 490. Jonah was sent to the heathen city of Nineveh.

Jonah. i. 491. Zachariah being stoned to death... Matt. xxiii. 35, 37. 492. Hagar and Ishmael..

Gen. xxi. 14, 17. 491. David 495. Adonibezek. 493. The birth of Samson to the wife of Manoah.. Judges xiii, ...

Judges i. 6 496. Joab of King David'sarmy....... .1. Chron. xxvii. 34. .2 Sam. xviii. 3. 497. Ahasuerus. The good service of Mordecai, Esther vi. 1, 3. 498. Nehemiah sent by Sanballat ........ Neh. vi. 5. 499. Elisha .2 Kings vii. 1. 500. Agag, King of the Amalekites, by Samuel, 1 Sam. xv. 33. 501. See.

Zechariah xii. 11: 2 Kings xxiii. 29; 502. See. ... 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. 503. Abraham's expedition against the kings of .Job. iv. 9. the East..

Gen. xiv. 504. Melchizedek, King of Salem, blessed Abraham as priest of "the most high God "...Gen. xiv. 18, 19.

Amos v. 25. 506. After Moses slew the Egyptian 505. Amos. ...

Ex. ii. 11, 15; Acts vii. 24, 29 507. For the Israelites the way through the Red Sea was a way of life, for the Egyptians it was a way of death.. 508. Ishmael. ...Ex. xiv. ....Gen. xxi. 17 509. The prophet Isaiah. 510 Joel...

Isa. vi .Joel i. 20 511 One of the children of the prophets, by Jehu the king, 2 Kings ix. 1, 11 512 IHe fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber, 2 Kings i 2 513. Moabites. Because Ahaziah worshipped Baal, 1 Kings xxii. 51, 53; 2 Kings i.: 514. Elijah's, in which "dogs should lick his blood" 1 Kings xxi. 19, 22, 24 515. Bigthan and Teresh. They were hanged on a tree Esther ii. 21 516. Athaliah, 2 Kings xi. 1; Esther........ Esther ii. 17 517. Jehoram (Elijah's prophecy).........2 Chron. xxi. 19. 518. Jehoshaphat, King of Judah. Encouraged by the Prophet Jahaziel....... .2 Chron. xx. 15. 519. Zechariah stoned to death because he reproved Joash 2 Chron. xxiv. 21. 520. Jehu. by one of the children of the prophets, King of Judah. 2 Kings xi. 2. 521. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and Mannasseh were the first to suffer, as from their position on the East of the Jordan they were exposed, while their country, being rich in pasture-land, would be very attractive to neighboring nations.....2 Kings x. 32, 33, .2 Chron.xxiv. 7. 522. Athaliah. 523. Jehoram 524. Dukes. ... .... .... .......... .2 Chron. xxi 20.

Gen. xxxvi. 15 525. Gehazi, servant of Elisha ..2 Kings v. 27 Job xlii. 14. 526. Jemima. Kezia, Kerenhappuck, daughters of Job, 527 Jonah when he refused to go as missionary to Nineveh. 528 Saul...

Jonah first and second chaps. 1 Sam. xiv. 52 529. Samuel. 5:30. Ahab appropriated Naboths. 531. Jehosaphat. .. 532. David by Shimei. 5:33. Abraham. ....... 1 Sam. xii. 2 1 Kings xxi. 7 1 Kings xxii. 30 531. Sarah, 127, Gen. xxiii. 1; Anna, 84 535. Samuel..... 5:36. His son Eleazer, and Moses. 2 Sam cvi. 5.

Gen. xvii 27 .. Luke ii. 36 1 Sam. vii. 15 Num. xx. 28. 537. When God ordered Samuel to go to Bethlehem and anoint David as King.. ...........1 Sam. xvi. 2. 538. Moses took the blood of a ram which had been offered up and put it on the tip of their right ears and upon the thumbs of their right hands and upon the great toes of their right feet..... Lev. viii. 23, 24. 539. Because he was first successful in the attack upon the ..1 Chron. xi. 6. 540. Because he had told King Artaxerxes that God would keep them from danger and therefore he was ashamed Jebusites. to ask the king for help 541. Isaiah to Hezekiah 512. Asa.. 543. Zedekiah. 544. Eleazar.. 545. Ammonites. 5-16. Jacob..... ... .......... 547., Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar.

Ezra viii. 22. .2 Kings xx. 7. 2 Chron. xvi. 12. .2 Kings xxv. 7 Num. xx. 26. .2 Sam xii. 31.

Gen. xxviii. 17. ..Job. ii. 11 548. Ebenezer. By Samuel after the victory of Israe over the Philistines. ...1 Sam. vii. 12. 549. The law of inheritance. Moses. Daughters of Zelophe had...

Num. xxvii. 1,11 Joshua xxiv. 12 550. The two kings of the Amorites ANSWERS TO

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