X. 12.

The scriptures are for correction: by their powerful influence, they prick a man to the heart, and make him amend of his evil courses, 2 Tim. iii. 16.

CHAWS; jaws, Ezek. xxix. 4. and xxxviii. 4.

|| army of the revolters was routed: such as escaped the slaughter fled to the mountains, possibly these on the north-east, which afterwards fell to the lot of the Reubenites. Chedor laomer and his allies, after ravagig the country and carrying off a number of captives, and a great booty, directed their march northward, intending to return home by the southeast of Syria. But, informed that Lot his nephew, and family, were among the captives, Abraham, with

CHEBAR; a river in Chaldea, where Ezekiel saw sundry of his visions, chap. i. iii. x. It is thought to have been cut between the Euphrates and the Tigris; or rather, it is that river which had its rise near the head of the Tigris, and run through Me-an handful of servants, and a few Casopotamia, to the south-west, and fell into the Euphrates a little south from Carchemish.

CHECK; hindrance. I have heard the check of my reproach: I have heard enough of reproach to discourage me to say any more, Job xx. 3. CHECKER-WORK; that in which the images of flowers, sprigs, leaves, and fruits, are curiously wrought together, 1 Kings vii. 17.

CHEDORLAOMER, king of Elam, about A. M. 2078, subdued the kingdoms of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar. After they had served him twelve years, they rebelled. In the 14th, he resolved to reduce them. Assisted by Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, and Tidal king of Gojim, or nations, he marched against them. To deprive them of all possible aid, he first attacked the neighbouring powers; marching southward on the east of them, he smote the Rephaims, near the source of the river Arnon, and pillaged Ashtaroth-karnaim; he routed the Zuzims at Ham, the Emims in Shaveh-kirjathaim, and the Horites in mount Seir. Having proceeded on the south side, till he came to Elparan, he returned, and directed his course to the north-east. In his way, he ravaged the country of the Amalekites, and smote the Amorites who dwelt about Hazazontamar. At last, he attacked the allied troops of the revolted kingdoms. The field of battle was full of slime-pits: the

naanitish allies, pursued the conquerors, overtook them at Dan, and routed them then pursued them to Hobah, a little to the north of Damascus, and retook their captives and booty. Shuckford would have Chedorlaomer to be the Assyrian Ninyas; and Bedford would have him a deputy of Zameis, king of Assyria; but to me their reasoning does not appear conclusive, Gen. xiv.

The CHEEK, in the human face, is the special residence of comeliness and blushing. And to smite on the cheek, or pull off its hair, implied at once cruelty and contempt, 1 Kings xxii. 24. Mic. v. 1 Isa. 1. 6. Christ's cheeks, like a bed of spices, denote the delightful and soul-refreshing comeliness of his person, his humiliation, and the manifestation of his spiritual presence, Song v. 13. Might not the saints, feeding by faith on his beauty and compassion, be signified by the priests having the cheeks and the maw of the peace-offering? Deut. xviii. 3. Are not the church's cheeks comely with rows of jewels; her outward appearance and form decked with divine truths and ordinances? Are not the cheeks of particular saints, their holy and humble conversation, adorned with the gifts of the Holy Ghost? Song i. 10.

Wicked men

being likened to ravenous beasts, the smiting them on the cheek-bone, and breaking their teeth, imports the depriving them, by fearful judgments, of their power to hurt others, Psal. iii. 7.

CHEER; to make joyful, Deut. xxiv. 5. Good cheer, signifies, (1.) Great joy, Matth. xiv. 27. (2.) Good meat, such as is got of sacrifices, Prov. xvii. † 1.

CHERUB, CHERUBIM. Angels are so called, because they often appeared as young men, mighty in power and knowledge, Psal. xviii. 10. Cherubims, or angels, with an ap-CHEMARIM, the black ones, are pearance of a flaming sword, were by some thought the images of Cha-placed at the east or entrance of the mar, Isis, or the moon; perhaps ra-garden of Eden, after Adam's expulther the priests that were worship-sion, to hinder his return: or God pers of the fire are meant, whose dwelt in the cherubims with a flamclothes, and often their faces, were ing sword, Gen. iii. 24. The cheblack. Or, why might not the Cherubims, or winged figures, that comarim be the agents that officiated as vered the sacred ark in the holy of priests in the burning of children to hoiies, and these painted on the walls, Moloch Our version, Zeph. i. 4. or hangings of the sanctuary, who distinguishes them from the priests; seem each to have had the four faces but the priests there mentioned, might of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle, be apostate ones of the seed of Aaron, might represent angels and ministers, or the priests of some other idol. It who, with great activity, wisdom, is certain, that in 2 Kings xxiii. 5. boldness, patience, and knowledge, and Hosea x. 5. the word plainly || view and admire the work of our remeans idolatrous priests.

CHEMOSH. See BAAL-PEOR. CHERETHIM, CHERETHITES; (1.) The Philistines, or a particular tribe of them. See CAPHTOR. Zeph. ii. 5. Ezek. xxv. 16. (2.) David's life-guard were called Cherethites and Pelethites; either because they were partly composed of such Philistines as had joined him; or rather, because they had for a time, dwelt among that people, and might have their arms and order copied from such particular bands of their troops, 1 Chron. xviii. 17.

CHERISH; to give one cordials, warmth, ease, and comfort, 1 Thess. ii. 7. Christ cherisheth his church; he quiets their conscience with the application of his blood; he warms their heart with the shedding abroad of his love, and encourages them by his power and promise, Eph. v. 29.

demption, and are employed in ministering to the church and people of God, Exod. xxv. 18. and xxvi. 1. The cherubims that attended the wheels, or mingled with the palmtrees, in Ezekiel's visions, may denote either angels or ministers as subservient to the operations of providence, and joined with, and ministering to, the saints, Ezek. i. 10. and xli. 18. God's riding on cherubims, imports his majestic use of angels, in the dispensations of providence, Psal. xviii. 10. His dwelling between the cherubims, imports his peculiar presence in the Jewish holy of holies; and chiefly his peculiar satisfaction and pleasure in our Mediator; and his law magnifying righteousness; and his readiness to be found of such as seek him, in him, Psalm lxxx. 1. The king of Tyre is called a covering cherub: he afforded his subjects an agreeable and glorious protection, while his fine apparel made him shine as an angel, or glitter as the golden cherubims over the ark, Ezek. xxviii. 14.*

CHERITH; the river of which Elijah drank, while he was nourished by ravens, 1 Kings xvii. 3, 4. It is thought to have run from the east into Jordan, a little to the southward of Bethshan; but Bochart will have it to be the same as the river Kanah; and Bunting will have it to run east- Something may be learned, says Witward to the Jordan between Bethelsius, concerning the form of the cherubims, and Ai. which covered the mercy-seat from Eze

CHESALON, is thought to be the medicine. Its huit is a kind of nut same as Jearim, Josh. xv. 10. useful for food. Jacob's peeled rods for marking the embryos of the cat

CHESNUT-TREE, is of the beech kind. There are four sorts of it.-tie, were partly o chesnut, Gen. xxx. 37, 39. The Assyrian king and his empire are likend to a chesnut-tree for their glory, power, and influence, Ezek. xxxi. 8.†

That which is most regarded, is a beautiful and tall tree, with a thick shade. Its leaves are formed in shape of a spear head, and their points like the teeth of a saw, and are good for

CHEZIB. See ACHZIB.

kiel x. 14. where, speaking of the cheru-place, there is no reason to doubt but that bims, the prophet says, Every one had four the holy angels were signified by these fifaces: the first fuce was the face of a che-gures. The cherubims were of gold, to rub, and the second face was the face of u denote the excelency, purity, and perpeman, and the third the face of a lion, and tuity of the hdy angels. Farther, the the fourth the face of an eagle. It is clear, mercy-seat was an eminent type of Jesus that, under the name of faces the prophet Christ, our propitiation; and the cheruhere describes some visible form or appear- bims being afited to it, may signify the ance like that of a man, a lion, or an eagle. constancy with which the angels are enWhat then are we to understand by the gaged in the service of Christ, John i. 52. face of a cherub? This Ezekiel himself They indeed fave no need of a propitiation, seems to determine. For, when he enu- being withou: sin; but it is by the propimerates in chap. i. 10. the same faces of the tiation of Christ, that they, who were alsame living creatures, instead of the face ways faithful to God, are now reconciled of the cherub, he puts the face of an ox. to us, and we to them; so that we are beWhat other reason can be assigned for E-come of the same heavenly society with zekiel's giving the name of an ox to a che-them, Heb. i 22. The cherubims in rub, but that the cherubims had been usually represented under that figure? This opinion is favoured by the etymology of the name. For the word charab, whence the name cherubim is derived, in the Chaldaic, Syriac, and Arabic languages, signifies to plow, in which work oxen were chiefly employed by the ancients. It appears, then, that the figure of the cherubims in the ark, and afterwards in the temple, was that of living creatures having the appear-are ance of a lion and a man, but chiefly that of an ox; and likewise furnished with two The chemat belongs to the monœcia at least, if not with more, great wings.- class of plants, a genus of the polyandria This is all that the scripture suggests upon order: This tree sometimes grows to an this subject. As to the tradition of the immense size: the largest known is the modern Jews, that the cherubims had the celebrated one on Mount Etna. This tree, form of boys or young men, it has no solid says Dr. Hoel, is 160 feet in circumfer reason to support it. The modesty of Jo-ence, but quite hollow within: which howsephus in speaking of the form of the cheever affects no; its vendure; for the ches rubims is commendable: They were, says nut-tree, like the willow, depends upon its he, winged animals, of a form, which God bark for subsistence, and by age looses its had exhibited to Moses, but which was unlike internal parts. As the cavity of this enorthe form of any winged creatures that had mous mass is very considerable, the peoever been seen by men. And in another ple have built an house in it, where they place, What was their form no one can ex-have an oven for drying nuts, almonds, press or conceive. Antiquit. book iii. chap. b. book viii. chap. 2.

But it is of little avail to us to know what was the particular form of these cherubims in the tabernacle and the temple: it is far more necessary and profitable to enquire what the wisdom of God designed to teach us by these emblems. And, in the first

the most hoy place were represented as in a bending sture, looking towards the mercy-seat: signifying the intense desire and application with which the angels enquire into the mysteries of our redemption by Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. i. 12. The two cherubims looked to one another and at the same tine to the mercy-seat; so in true Christians, the exercises of faith in Jesus Christ and of love to one another inseparable.

chesnuts &c. of which they make conserves. They frequently supply themselves with wood from the tree which encircles their house, so that it seems likely in a short time to go to ruin through the ingratitude and thoughtlessness of its inhabitants. The ruts of this tree make a delicious coffee, and wholesome bread.

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