236. And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold, _a lad-der_ set upon the earth, and the top of it _reached to heaven_; and behold, _the angels of God ascending and descending_ on it. And behold, _the Lord stood above it,_ and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. Gen. xxviii. 12, 13. 237. 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_. 2 Kings ii. 11. 238. Now the Lord had prepared a _great fish_ (which Christ tells us in Matt. xii. 40, was _a whale_.) to swallow up Jonah. _And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights_. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God _out of the fish's belly_: and the Lord spake unto the fish, and _it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land._ Jonah i. 17, and ii. 1, 10. 239. And he found a new _jaw bone of an ass_, and put forth his hand and took it, and _and slew a thousand men therewith_. And Samson said, With the jaw bone of an ass have I slain a thousand men. Judges xv. 15, 16. 240. And it came to pass, when she (Delilah) pressed him (Samson) daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb; _If I be shaven then my strength will go from me,_ and I shall become weak, and like any other man. The story then proceeds to represent Delilah as betraying Samson into the hands of the Philistines, who shave off the hair from his head, and afterwards put out his eyes and imprison him. In course of time his hair begins to grow again, when his strength returns. The Philistines then take him to their temple that he may make sport for them, and Samson then says unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld while Samson made sport. _And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars, upon which the house stood_, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand and of the other with his left; and Samson said. Let me die with the Philistines, _and he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords_, and upon all the people that were therein; so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he slew in his life. Judges xvi. 16 to 30.