8 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



formations, to the present surface of tlie eartli — the land 

 we live in. 



In like manner in history, sacred, profane, and modern, 

 the horse is to be found omnipresent, sharing in tlie con- 

 quests, in the defeats, in the prosperity, in the adver- 

 sity, in the joys, in the sorrows, in the occupations, and 

 in the amusements of man. 



In Genesis xlvii. 17, Moses records that the Egyptians 

 (1729 years before Christ), at a time when the famine 

 was sore in the land of Canaan, gave to Joseph their 

 horses in exchange for bread. 



Two hundred and thirty-eight years afterwards (1491 

 B.C.), six hundred chosen chariots for nobles and generals, 

 all the war chariots of Egypt armed with iron to break 

 the enemy's battalions, the horsemen^ and all the host of 

 Pharaoh, in their pursuit of the children of Israel, were 

 overthrown in the midst of the Eed Sea, so tliat there 

 remained not so much as one of them — (Exodus, chap. 

 xiv.) 



" Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the 

 Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he has 

 triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into 

 the sea." — Exodus, chap. xv. 



The Canaanites whom Joshua engaged at the waters 

 of Merom had cavalry ^ and a multitude of chariots drawn 

 by horses. Sisera, general of Jabin, King of Hazor, had 

 900 chariots of iron. Judah could not get possession of 



