it, when the sun went down, and was dark, behold a smoking sace, and a burning lamp that sed between those pieces. xxviii, 11. And he lighted n a certain place, and tarried e all night, because the sun set; and he took of the stones at place, and put them for his 5, and lay down in that e to sleep. 4.1, 4. From the wilderness this Lebanon, even unto the river, the river Euphrates, be land of the Hittites, and the great sea toward the ; down of the sun, shall be coast. dges xiv, 18. And the men of city said unto him on the thday, before the sun went 1. What is sweeter than 3...... Sam. iii, 35. And when all People came to cause David meat while it was yet day, sware, saying, So do God to ad more also, if I taste bread, ight else, till the sun be down. 9. She that hath born languisheth: she hath given echost; her sun is gone We it was yet day; she been ashamed and confound viii, 9. And it shall come that day, saith the Lord that I will cause the sun to wn at noon, and I will darken arth in the clear day. LIGHT. 11, 4, 5. And God saw the that it was good: and God ed the light from the darkAnd God called the light and the darkness he called And the evening and the ng were the first day. xxiv, 13. They are of those rebel against the light; they not the ways thereof, nor In the paths thereof. xxxvii, 15. Dost thou know God disposed them, and 4 the light of his cloud to xxxviii, 19-21. Where is the there light dwelleth? and as arkness, where is the place f, That thou shouldest take he bound thereof, and that shouldest know the paths to use thereof? Knowest thou canse thou wast then born? use the number of thy days Jer. xxxi, 35. Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his namo. Luke xi, 34-36. The light of the body is the eye: therefore, when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having full of light, as when the bright no part dark, the whole shall be shining of a candle doth give thee light. Jer. xiii, 16. Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. John ix, 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. John xi, 9. Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. MONTHS. NISAN OR ABIB. Neh. i, 1. The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace. TEBETH. Esther i, 16. So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus, into his house - royal, in the tenth month, (which is the month Tebeth,) in the seventh year of his reign. SEBAT. Zech. 1, 7. Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying. ADAR. Esther iil, 7. In the first month, (that is, the month Nisan,) in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerns, Neh. ii, 1. And it came to pass they cast Pur, that is, the lot, be fore Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. STARS. Gen. xv, 5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Judges v, 20. They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Neh. iv, 21. So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. Job ill, 9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark. .... HEAVENLY BODIES AS HEAVENLY BODIES Isa. xxiv, 23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. Isa. li, 6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Isa. Ix, 19, 20. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither light unto thee: but the LORD shall for brightness shall the moon give be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Jer. x, 2. Thus saith the LORD, Ezek. xxxii, 7, 8. And when I Joel ii, 10. The earth shall quake shall be dark, and the stars shall Joel ii, 15. The sun and the Jude 13. Raging waves of the Mark xiii, 24, 25. But in those sea, foaming out their own shame; days, after that tribulation, the wandering stars, to whom is re- sun shall be darkened, and the served the blackness of darkness moon shall not give her light, And for ever. the stars of heaven shall fall, and Rev. il, 28. And I will give him the powers that are in heaven the morning star. shall be shaken. Job xv, 30. He shall not depar out of darkness: the flame shal dry up his branches, and by th breath of his mouth shall be g away. Job xxxvi, 20. Desire not night, when people are cut off their place. Ps. civ, 20. Thou makest dark ness, and it is night...... Prov. vii, 9. In the twilight,! the evening, in the black and dar night. Isa. viii, 22. And they shall loo and darkness, dimness of anguis unto the earth; and behold trou and they shall be driven to dar ness. Isa. xvi, 3. Take counsel, es cute judgment; make thy shader as the night in the midst of t noon-day; hide the outcasts wray not him that wandereth. Isa. xxi, 12. The watchma said, The morning cometh, an also the night: if ye will engely enquire ye, return, come. Jer. iv, 23. I beheld the earth and, lo, it was without form a void; and the heavens, and the had no light. brought me into darkness, but në Lam. 1, 2. He hath led me að into light. maketh the seven stars and Ori Amos v, 8, 18, 20. Seek him tha and turneth the shadow of deali into the morning, and maketh t day dark with night..... We the LORD to what end is it unto you that desire the day @ you? the day of the LORD is dark ness, and not light. Shall not thị day of the LORD be darkness, ani not light? even very dark, and a brightness in it? Micah ill, 6. Therefore nigh shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall b dark unto you, that ye shall no divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. John xi, 10. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, l cause there is no light in him. Rom. xiii, 12 The night is ar idges vii, 19. So Gideon, and hundred men that were with came unto the outside of the in the beginning of the ile watch...... cxx, 148. Mine eyes prevent sight-watches, that I might tate in thy word. xiv, 25. And in the fourth of the night Jesus went them, walking on the sea. xxiv, 43. But know this, If the goodman of the house known in what watch the fwould come, he would have ded, and would not have ered his house to be broken up. xiii, 35. Watch ye therefor ye know not when the Er of the house cometh, at er at midnight, or at the crowing, or in the morning. be xii, 38. And if he shall in the second watch, or come third watch, and find them essed are those servants. III. E THIRD HEAVENS. ings vili, 27. But will God 1 dwell on the earth? Bethe heaven, and the heaven Ivens, cannot contain thee; auch less this house that I builded! kron. ii, 6. But who is able id him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? Ps. lxviii, 33. To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice. Ps. cxlviii, 4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. THE SCENE OF GOD'S GLORY, AND THE ABODE OF CHRIST, ANGELS, AND SAINTS. was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. John i, 51. And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. John ill, 31. He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. Acts ili, 21. Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the month of all his holy prophets since the world began. Acts vii, 56. And said, Behold, see the heavens opened, and the Son of men standing on the right hand of God. 2 Kings il, 1. And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirl-I wind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. Ps. ii, 4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. Ps. vili, 1. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Gal. 1, 8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. family in heaven and earth is Eph. iil, 15. Of whom the whole named. Ps. lxxiil, 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee?..... Colos. 1, 5. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, heavens: he hath done whatso-word of the truth of the gospel. P3. cxv, 3. But our God is in the whereof ye heard before in the ever he hath pleased. Ps. cxxiii, 1. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Ps. cxxxix, 8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. . . . . entered into the Holy places made with hands, which are the figures now to appear in the presence of of the true; but into heaven itself, Heb. ix, 24. For Christ is not God for us. Matth. v, 12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your sion of me in my bonds, and took Heb. x, 34. For ye had compasreward in heaven: for so perse-joyfully the spoiling of your goods, cuted they the prophets which knowing in yourselves that ye were before you. Matth. vi, 10. ... Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Matth. xviii, 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Mark xvi, 19. So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he 265 have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 1 Peter 1, 4. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. FOR OTHER PROPERTIES OF HEAVEN, (See under MAN.) IDOLATRY. - IDOL S. 1, OBJECTS OF IDOLATRY. 1.-THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES. 2 Kings xxi, 3, 5. For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. Jer. vii, 17, 18. Seest thou not lem? The children gather wood, ..... Jer. xix, 13. And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all have burned incense unto all the the houses upon whose roofs they host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods, certainly do whatsoever thing Jer. xliv, 17-19. But we will goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drinkofferings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burnt incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our men. 2 Kings xxiii, 5, 11. And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense un-to to Baal,to the sun,and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burnt the charlots of the sun with fire. 2 Chron. xxxiii, 3, 5. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah bis father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. Job xxxi, 26, 28. If I beheld the Bun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have denied the God that is above. and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham. and gave them up to worship the Acts vil, 42. Then God turned. host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wil derness. 2.-IMAGES OR IDOLS. Deut. ix, 12. And the LORD saki unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy peopl which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted thems aside out of the way which I com selves; they are quickly turned manded them; they have made them a molten image. had restored the eleven hundred Judges xvii, 3, 4. And when he shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly ded cated the silver unto the Lon a graven image, and a molte from my hand for my son, to make image: now therefore I will re store it unto thee. Yet he restored the money unto his mother, and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them ta the founder, who made thereof a graven image, and a molten image and they were in the house of Micah. Isa. xl, 19, 20. The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold. and casteth silver chairs He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot: he seeketh B him a cunning workman to pre pare a graven image, that shall not be moved. Ezek. viii, 15, 16. Then said he unto that smootheth with the bammer him that smote the anvil, saying, he fastened it with nails, that it It is ready for the sodering, and should not be moved. Zeph. 1, 4, 5. I will also stretch out inine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the rem- Isa. xliv, 12-14. The smith with nant of Baal from this place, and the tongs both worketh in the the name of the Chemarims with coals, and fashioneth it with bam the priests; And them that wor-mers, and worketh it with the ship the host of heaven upon the strength of his arms: yea, he is house-tops; and them that worship hungry, and his strength faileth be drinketh no water, and is faint. The carpenter stretcheth out his rale, he marketh it out with a line, be teth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the base. He beweth him down Cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. is. xlvi, 6. They lavish gold t of the bag, and weigh silver the balance, and hire a goldwaith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worSp. which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. 3. MEN AND SPIRITS. Lev. xvii, 7. And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. Job v. 1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? Jer. x, 3, 4. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (the Work of the hands of the workan) with the axe: They deck A with silver and with gold; they coming in, Cornelius met him, Ps. cvl, 37. Yea, they sacrificed unto devils. their sons and their daughters ften it with nails and with hammers, that it inove not. Ezek. vil, 20. As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in tasty, but they made the images of their abominations and of their able things therein: thereAre have I set it far from them. Bii, 1. Nebuchadnezzar the made an image of gold, height was threescore raits, and the breadth thereof acobite: he set it up in the plain Dura, in the province of Baby Bax, 1. Israel is an empty Pie, be bringeth forth fruit unto self: according to the multifade of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodof his land they have made Fadly images. Acts vi, 40. Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for for this Moses, which brought out of the land of Egypt, we Bet not what is become of him. Acts xvii, 29. Forasmuch then we are the offspring of God, ought not to think that the Gdead is like unto gold, or siver, or stone, graven by art and ma's device. Acts x, 25, 26. And as Peter was and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. But Peter took also am a man. him up, saying, Stand up; I myself the people saw what Paul had Acts xiv, 11-16, 18. And when done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, the likeness of men. The gods are come down to us in And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these Vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: Who in times past suffered nations to walk in their own ways. And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. Acts xix, 23-27. And the same Col. ii, 18. Let no man beguile te there arose no small stir you of your reward in a voluntary beat that way. For a certain humility and worshipping of annamed Demetrius, a silver-gels, intruding into those things smith, which made silver shrines which he hath not seen, vainly for Diana, brought no small gain puffed up by his fleshly mind. nto the craftsmen; Whom he alled together with the worken of like occupation, and said, , ye know that by this craft We have our wealth. Moreover, Je see and hear, that not alone at Ephes, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods Rev. ix, 20. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk. Rev. xix, 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev. xxii, 8, 9. And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. 4. BEASTS. Exod. xxxii, 1-4, 31, 34, 35. And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become them, Break off the golden earof him. And Aaron said unto rings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. brake off the golden ear-rings And all the people which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee. Behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. Deut. ix, 16. And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 1 Kings xil, 29, 30. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. |