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	Nave's—Herbs

Herbs, &c

Called the green herbs—2Ki 19:26

GOD

• Created
• —Ge 1:11,12; 2:5
• Causes to grow
• —Job 38:27; Ps 104:14

Each kind of, contains its own seed—Ge 1:11,12

Given as food to man—Ge 1:28,29; 9:3

FOUND IN

• The fields
• —Jer 12:4
• The mountains
• —Pr 27:25
• The marshes
• —Job 8:11
• The deserts
• —Job 24:5; Jer 17:6

Cultivated in gardens—De 11:10; 1Ki 21:2

Cultivated for food—Pr 15:17; Heb 6:7

Require rain dew—De 32:2; Job 38:26,27

Mode of watering, alluded to—De 11:10

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Aloe
• —So 4:14
• Anise
• —Mt 23:23
• Barley
• —Ex 9:31; 2Sa 14:30
• Beans
• —2Sa 17:28
• Bulrushes
• —Ex 2:3; Isa 58:5
• Calamus
• —So 4:14
• Cummin
• —Isa 28:27; Mt 23:23
• Cucumber
• —Nu 11:5; Isa 1:8
• Fitches
• —Isa 28:25,27
• Flag
• —Ex 2:3; Job 8:11
• Flax
• —Ex 9:31
• Garlic
• —Nu 11:5
• Gourds
• —2Ki 4:39
• Grass
• —Nu 22:4
• Heath
• —Jer 17:6; 48:6
• Hyssop
• —Ex 12:22; 1Ki 4:33
• Leeks
• —Nu 11:5
• Lentiles
• —Ge 25:34
• Mandrakes
• —Ge 30:14; So 7:13
• Mallows
• —Job 30:4
• Millet
• —Eze 4:9
• Melon
• —Nu 11:5
• Mint
• —Mt 23:23
• Myrrh
• —So 4:14
• Onions
• —Nu 11:5
• Reeds
• —Job 40:21; Isa 19:6
• Rushes
• —Job 8:11
• Rye
• —Ex 9:32
• Saffron
• —So 4:14
• Spikenard
• —So 4:14
• Tares or Darnel
• —Mt 13:30
• Wheat
• —Ex 9:32; Jer 12:13

Bitter, used at passover—Ex 12:8; Nu 9:11

Poisonous, not fit for man's use—2Ki 4:39,40

DESTROYED BY

• Hail and lightning
• —Ex 9:22-25
• Locusts, &c
• —Ex 10:12,15; Ps 105:34,35
• Drought
• —Isa 42:15
• Tithable among the Jews
• —Lu 11:42

Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints—Ro 14:2

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the wicked
• —2Ki 19:26; Ps 37:2
• (Dew on,) of grace given to saints
• —Isa 18:4