Footnote 105: From these the prophets often deduced lessons of warning for the impenitent. Thus Jeremiah says, “If in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan?” Jer. xii. 5. Footnote 106: Joshua iv.; v. Footnote 107: Ibid. xviii. 1. Footnote 108: 1 Sam. x. 8. Footnote 109: Ibid. xi. 15. Footnote 110: 2 Sam. xix. 15. Footnote 111: See the various references to Gilgal in the Books of the Kings. Footnote 112: Hosea iv. 15; ix. 15; xii. 11. Amos iv. 4; v. 5. Footnote 113: Heb. iii. 12. Footnote 114: Deut. xxxiv. 3; Judges i. 16; iii. 13. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. Footnote 115: Joshua vi. 26. After the lapse of five centuries the curse was fulfilled, 1 Kings xvi. 34. Footnote 116: Num. xxxii. 1. Deut. xxxii. 14. Ps. xxii. 12. Ezek. xxxix. 18. Zech. xi. 2. Footnote 117: Num. xxii-xxiv. Footnote 118: Deut. xxxiv. 7. Footnote 119: Ibid. verses 1-3. Footnote 120: Deut. xxxiv. 5, 6. Footnote 121: It is significant that these are the tribes to whom possessions had already been allotted east of the Jordan (Num. xxxii. 20-28). The selection was probably made either to prove their fidelity, or because they were free from encumbrances, their families and possessions being left in their newly-acquired territory. Footnote 122: Exod. xiv. 21. Footnote 123: Joshua iii. 16. In the great earthquake of 1837 this did happen to many of the rivers of Northern Syria. Footnote 124: Joshua vi. Heb. xi. 30, 31. Matt. i. 5. An interesting article on Rahab in Smith’s ‘Bible Dictionary’ suggests reasons for believing that Salmon, who became her husband, was one of the spies whose lives she saved, and who, with herself, became an ancestor of our Lord. Footnote 125: Joshua vii.; viii. Footnote 126: 2 Kings ii. 1-11. Luke ix. 30, 31. Footnote 127: 2 Kings ii. 12-14. Footnote 128: Ibid. 19-22. Footnote 129: 2 Kings ii. 22. Footnote 130: Matt. xix. 1, 2. Mark x. 1. Footnote 131: Luke xviii. 35-43; xix. 1-28. Footnote 132: 1 Kings xvii. 1-7. Footnote 133: Joshua vii. Footnote 134: See, however, an interesting note by the late Dr. Deutsch in Dixon’s ‘Holy Land,’ in which it is maintained that Bethany meant not, as is commonly supposed, “the house of dates” but “the house of poverty.” He fails, however, to take note of the fact that as we have a Mount of Olives, a house of figs (Bethphage), and a house of bread (Bethlehem), so we might naturally have a house of dates in the same locality. Footnote 135: John xi. 25. Footnote 136: Luke xix. 42. Footnote 137: Luke xxii. 39. Footnote 138: 2 Sam. xv. 30. Footnote 139: