PROPHECIES RELATING TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Gen. 3. 15, "And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel;" see Gen. 3. 15, notes land m.

Gen. 12. 3, "In thee (Abram) shall all families of the earth be blessed," i.e. through Jesus Christ, who should become the Saviour of all who believe. In Gen. 18. 18 and 22. 18, this prophecy is repeated in almost similar words to Abraham..

In Gen. 26. 4, it is renewed to Isaac.

In Gen. 28. 14, it is confirmed to Jacob.

Gen. 17. 6, "And kings shall come of thee" (Abraham), receiving its fulfilment in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, "The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords."

In Gen. 35. 11 the same promise is renewed to Jacob.

Gen. 21. 12, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called," i.e. the posterity of Abraham should descend through Isaac-and not through Ishmael-to Jesus Christ.

Gen. 49. 8, "Judah, thou art he whom all thy brethren shall praise."

(Fulfilled in Christ, who was of the tribe of Judah, whom all the Christian world doth praise ;)

"Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies."

(Heb. 10. 13, "From henceforth expecting"-awaiting the time"till his (Jesus Christ's) enemies be made his footstool.")

"Thy father's children shall bow down before thee.'

(Fulfilled in Christ, Heb. 2. 9, 10, "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name : that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.")

Gen. 49. 10, "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh (Jesus Christ) come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be;" (see Gen. 49, note e).

TEXTS IN FULL REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES.

Heb. 1. 10, " And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands."

Jer. 5. 22,"Fear ye not me, saith the LORD, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?"

Heb. 1. 3, "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."

Acts 26. 18," To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sactified by faith that is in me."

2 Cor. 5. 2, 3, For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked."

2 Kings 2. 11, "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."

Matt. 15. 19, 20, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies these are the things which defile a man."

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Matt. 24. 37-39," But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so sball also the coming of the Son of Man be."

Isa. 54. 8, 9. "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee."

2 Chron. 20. 2, "Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.”

Heb. 7. 3, "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually."

Heb. 7. 17, "Thou (Jesus Christ) art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

Lev. 27. 30,"And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD."

Rom. 4. 16, "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all."

2 Sam. 12. 15, 16, " And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth."

James 2.23, "And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.'

TEXTS in full referred to in the NOTES-cont.

1 Sam. 3. 8, " And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the

child."

2 Chron. 3. 1, "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite."

1 Chron. 29. 24," And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of King David, submitted themselves unto (gave the hand under) Solomon the king."

1 Kings 13. 16, 17, " And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

"For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest."

John 4. 5, 6, "Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son
Joseph.

"Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.'

1 Chron. 5. 18, 19, "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half
the tribe of Manasseh
made war with the Hagarites,
with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab."
Josh. 24. 32, "And the bones of Joseph, which the children of
Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a
parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor,
the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it
became the inheritance of the children of Joseph."

1 Chron. 5. 1," Now the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel
(for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's
bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of
Israel and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birth-
right."

1 Sam. 22. 1," David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him."

Exod. 7. 11, "Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments."

Acts 7. 14, " Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls."

Heb. 11. 13, "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."

Josh. 19. 1," And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah."

Josh. 17. 18, "The mountains shall be thine; for it is a wood, and
thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoing of it shall be thine :
for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron
chariots, and though they be strong."

1 Chron. 12. 8, "And of the Gadites there separated themselves
unto David
men of might, and men of war, fit for the
battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were
like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the
mountains."