Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
The two species of Camel, and the mode of distinguishing them--Value of the Camel in the East--Camels mentioned as elements of wealth--Uses of the Camel--The Jews forbidden to eat its flesh--The milk of the Camel--Thirst-enduring capability--The internal reservoir--The hump, a...
The two species of Camel, and the mode of distinguishing them--Value of the Camel in the East--Camels mentioned as elements of wealth--Uses of the Camel--The Jews forbidden to e...
2. CHAPTER II.The Camel and its master--Occasional fury of the animal--A boy killed by a Camel--Another instance of an infuriated Camel--Theory respecting the Arab and his Camel--Apparent stu...
3. CHAPTER I.Impossibility of distinguishing the different species of fishes--The fishermen Apostles--Fish used for food--The miracle of the loaves and Fishes--The Fish broiled on the coals-...
4. CHAPTER II.Various modes of capturing Fish--The hook and line--Military use of the hook--Putting a hook in the jaws--The fishing spear--Different kinds of net--The casting-net--Prevalence...
5. xiii. 21, where the prophet foretells that on the site of BabylonThe reason for this reticence is simple enough. No monkey was indigenous to Palestine when the various writers of the Bible lived, and all their knowledge of such animals must h...
6. chapter iii. 2, St. Paul writes, "Beware of dogs, beware of evilworkers." And in the Revelation, chapter xxii. 14, these words occur: "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in...
7. xxx. 29-31: "There be three things which go well, yea, four are comelyin going: a lion, which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; a greyhound; an he-goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up." But the word "Gre...
8. iii. 3: "Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges areIndividually, the Wolf is rather a timid animal. It will avoid a man rather than meet him. It prefers to steal upon its prey and take it unawares, rather than to seize it openly...
9. xlix. 27: "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shalldevour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." Or the passage in Ezekiel xxii. 27: "Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood....
10. xxvi. 14, we find one of the special uses to which the badgers' skinswere to be put, namely, to make the outer covering or roof of the tabernacle. Another use for the badgers' skins was to form an outer covering for the ark, table of shewbread, a...
11. xxiv. David and his miscellaneous band of warriors, some six hundredin number, were driven out of the cities by the fear of Saul, and were obliged to pass their time in the wilderness, living in the "strong holds" (xxiii. 14, 19), which we find...
12. iii. 9: "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the feast offering afire offering unto the Eternal; the fat thereof, and the whole fat tail shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is up...
13. xxxii. 13, 14) we find this passage, "He made him to suck honey out ofThere is, however, a little uncertainty about the word which is translated as butter, and as this word is only used in a very few passages, we will refer briefly to them. The fi...
14. cxlvii. 16, "He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the hoarfrostlike ashes." Also Isa. i. 18, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." In the prophet Daniel the...
15. xxii. 33, 34: "God is my strength and power: and He maketh my wayNearly four hundred years afterwards we find Habakkuk using precisely the same image, evidently quoting David's Psalm of Thanksgiving:--"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will j...
16. CHAPTER I.The two species of Camel, and the mode of distinguishing them--Value of the Camel in the East--Camels mentioned as elements of wealth--Uses of the Camel--The Jews forbidden to e...
17. xlii. 12); that the Midianites and Amalekites possessed "camelswithout number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude" (Judg. vii. 12); and that the Reubenites, when making war against the Hagarites, took from them fifty thousand camels--...
18. CHAPTER II.The Camel and its master--Occasional fury of the animal--A boy killed by a Camel--Another instance of an infuriated Camel--Theory respecting the Arab and his Camel--Apparent stu...
19. xlvii. 3: "At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stronghorses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands." See also Joel ii. 4, 5: "T...
20. xiv. 6): "And the wild asses did stand in the high places, theysnuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass." There is another allusion to it in Hosea viii. 9: "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild as...
21. xxii. 39: "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, andthe ivory house which he made, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" The "ivory house" could not, of course, be built wholly of ivory, and...
22. xxxix. 29, has already been quoted, and another, and equally forcibleone, is to be found in the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that...
23. xiv. Now the words which are here translated as Owl are totallydifferent words in the Hebrew, so that if we leave them untranslated, the passages will run as follow: "And the Bath-haya'anah, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk...
24. xiv. 4), no bird might be offered in sacrifice unless it belonged toIt was in consequence of the poverty of the family that the Virgin Mary brought two young pigeons when she came to present her new-born Son in the Temple. For those who were abl...
25. xvii. 11: "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; sohe that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." The marginal reading of this passage gives the sense in a s...
26. xvii. When Elijah had excited the anger of Ahab by prophesying threeyears of drought, he was divinely ordered to take refuge by the brook Cherith, one of the tributaries of the Jordan. "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I...
27. xxxiv. 10, 11: "From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none"But the cormorant [Pelican in margin] and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and...
28. xlix. 17, and forms part of the prophecy of Jacob respecting hisPutting aside the deeper meaning of this prophecy, there is here an evident allusion to the habits of the CERASTES, or HORNED VIPER, a species of venomous serpent, which is plen...
29. CHAPTER II.Various modes of capturing Fish--The hook and line--Military use of the hook--Putting a hook in the jaws--The fishing spear--Different kinds of net--The casting-net--Prevalence...
30. xcvii. 5: "The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at"And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place." (i. 3, 4.)
31. ix. 5: "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, butthat they should be tormented five months, and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." Also ver. 10 of the same chapter: "And they had tails lik...
32. viii. 14: "So are the paths of all that forget God; and thehypocrite's hope shall perish. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose hope shall be a spider's web" (or house). In both instances reference is made to the fragility of the Spide...