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nor did her good disposition and good conduct go unrewarded ; 

 those camels shortly after bore her into the Land of Promise, to be- 

 come the wife of Abraham's son, and one in the line of mothers 

 from whom He should descend, in whom all the families of the 

 earth are blessed. Gen. xxiv. 19 64. 



9. The camel is prohibited for food as unclean, Lev. xi. 14. Deut. 

 xiv. 7. 



10. Camels are prophetically and figuratively mentioned in the 

 Old Testament. Isaiah (xxi. 7,) predicts the march of Cyrus's 

 army to the conquest and destruction of Babylon in the time of Bel- 

 shazzar. Isaiah (xxx. 6,) alludes to the folly and presumption of 

 the Israelites, or Jews, or both, who in the time of their trouble car- 

 ried treasures on camels into Egypt, to purchase the assistance of 

 that people, and acknowledged not the Lord their God, who alone 

 could save and deliver them. Isa. Ix. 6, is part of a most sublime 

 prediction, figurative of the purity and enlargement of the church 

 in the reign of the Messiah, when different nations shall with alacri- 

 ty and zeal dedicate themselves and their substance to the service 

 of God. 



Jer. xlix. 29, 39, predicts the confusion and ruin that should be- 

 fal Kedar and Hazor, enemies of Israel, upon God whom God 

 would bring his judgments by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of 

 Babylon. The fulfilment of this prediction took place during the 

 captivity of the Jews, and would tend greatly to encourage their 

 hopes that the promises of their deliverance and return should also 

 in due time be accomplished. Very similar is the prediction, Ezek. 

 xxv. 5, that Kabbah, the chief city of Ammon, should be taken as 

 a stable for camels by the Chaldeans. 



