Jer 41:8

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Slay.

Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Prov 13:8; Matt 6:25; Matt 16:26; Mark 8:36; Mark 8:37; Phil 3:7-9

treasures.

These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels.

The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.