8—6036. **Long Captivity.** The Assyrian Captivity, which carried away the ten tribes.
9—6038. **Whose Sword.** The sword of Joshua, the conqueror of Canaan.
10—6042. **Kishon's Brook.** It was at the Brook Kishon that Elijah slew the Priests of Baal.
11—6045. **Named Ere Born.** Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon, who restored the captive Jews, was named by Isaiah more than a century before his birth. (Isaiah, 45:1.)
12—6049. **Long Sealed Canopy.** The Heavens at the opening of the Last Dispensation.
13—6055. **The Kingdom's Keys.** The Melchisedek Priesthood. Elijah "holds the keys of the authority to administer in all the ordinances of the Priesthood." (History of the Church, Vol. 4, p. 211; D. and C. 2.)
14—6063. **Abrahamic Keys.** Elias, in the Kirtland Temple, "committed the keys of the Gospel of Abraham." (D. and C. 110:12.)
15—6067. **How Tell the Sum?** This stanza associates Columbus, Jefferson and Washington, impersonally, with others previously mentioned, as agents of Elias.
16—6083. **Jacob Upon Esau's Heel.** Genesis, 25:26.
17—7001. **Chaldean Dream.** The nations represented by the image seen in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, are to pass, like the dream itself, which the king was unable to recall.