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that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

2 Kings xviil, 4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Chron. xiil, 8. And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the

sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

Neh. ix, 18. Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations.

Ps. cvi, 19, 20. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the golden image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Ezek. viii, 7-10. And he brought me to the door of the court; and, when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and, when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

Hosea viii, 5. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them; how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Hosea x, 5, 6. The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Eph; raim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own

counsel.

Acts vil, 41. And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

Rom. 1, 21-23. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds, and

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SCENES AND MODES OF
IDOLATROUS WORSHIP.
I-GROVES AND HIGH PLACES.
Deut. xvi, 21. Thou shalt not
plant thee a grove of any trees

near unto the altar of the LORD
thy God, which thou shalt make
thee.

1 Kings iii, 2,8. Only the people
there was no house built unto the
sacrificed in high places, because
name of the LORD, until those
days. And Solomon loved the
LORD, walking in the statutes of
David his father: only he sacri-
ficed and burnt incense in high
places.

1 Kings xiv, 22, 23. And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every geen tree.

1 Kings xvi, 33. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

2 Kings xil, 3. But the high
places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.

they departed not from the sins
2 Kings xiii, 6. Nevertheless
of the house of Jeroboam, who
made Israel sin, but
therein: and there remained the
walked
grove also in Samaria.)

2 Kings xiv, 4. Howbeit the
high places were not taken away;
as yet the people did sacrifice and
burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings xv, 35. Howbeit the
high places were not removed:
the people sacrificed and burnt
incense still in the high places.
He built the higher gate of the
house of the LORD.

and burnt incense in the high
2 Kings xvi, 4. And he sacrificed
places, and on the hills, and under
every green tree.

2 Kings xvii, 9-11. And the chil-
dren of Israel did secretly those
things that were not right against
the LORD their God, and they
built them high places in all their
cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city. And
they set them up images and
groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
there they burnt incense in all
the high places, as did the heathen
whom the LORD carried away be-
fore them; and wrought wicked
things to provoke the LORD to
anger.

And

2 Kings xxl, 7. And he set a graven image of the grove that he bad made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever.

And be

2 Kings xxiil, 6-8.
brought out the grove from the
salem, unto the brook Kidron,
house of the LORD, without Jeru
and stamped it small to powder.
and burnt it at the brook Kidron,
and cast the powder thereof upon
the graves of the children of the
people. And he brake down the
by the house of the LORD, where
houses of the sodomites, that teere
the women wove hangings for
the grove. And he brought all
the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and defiled the high places
where the priests had burnt in-
cense, from Geba to Beer-sheba
and brake down the high places
of the gates that were in the en-
tering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city, which pers
on a man's left hand at the gate
of the city.

away the altars of the strange
2 Chron. xiv, 3, 5. For he took
gods, and the high places, and
brake down the images, and cut
down the groves. Also he took
away ont of all the cities of Judah
the high places and the images
him.
and the kingdom was quiet before

2 Chron. xvii, 8. And his heart LORD: moreover, he took away was lifted up in the ways of the the high places and groves out of Judah.

there are good things found in
2 Chron. xix, 3. Nevertheless
thee, in that thou hast taken away
the groves out of the land, ani
hast prepared thine heart to seek
God.

high places were not taken away,
2 Chron. xx, 33. Howbelt the
for as yet the people had not pre-
of their fathers.
pared their hearts unto the God

2 Chron. xxi. 11. Moreover, be made high places in the mour tains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

2 Chron. xxiv, 18. And they left the house of the LORD God of and idols: and wrath came upan their fathers, and served groves Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2 Chron. xxvill, 4. He sacrifond also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hille, and under every green tree.

Isa. xvi, 8. And he shall not

the altars, the work of his neither shall respect that his fingers have made, be groves or the images. IXVI, 7. But if thou say to trust in the LORD our not be whose high and whose altars Hezekiah ken away, and said to ind to Jerusalem, Ye shall > before this altar?

vil, 2. Whilst their chilemember their altars and Tuves by the green trees e high hills.

heir sons

xix, 5. They have built e high places of Baal, to with fire for fferings unto Baal, which nanded not, nor spake it, came it into my mind.

vi, 13. Then shall ye hat I am the LORD, when Jain mer shall be among

about their idola round apon every high hill, in all ps of the mountains, and every green tree, and unTery thick oak, the place they did offer sweet savour eir idols.

Livi, 23, 24. And it came after all thy wickedness, e unto thee! saith the D) That thou hast also to thee an eminent place, ist made thee an high place ry street.

ea 1, 8. The high places

Aven, the sin of Israel, e destroyed: the thorn and istle shall come up on their and they shall say to the tains, Cover us: and to the

Fall on us.

nt v, 14. And I will pluck y groves out of the midst of 10 will I destroy thy cities. under EARTH, Page 182.)

'EMPLES AND ALTARS. Uges ix, 27. And they went to the fields, and gathered the vineyards, and trode , and made merry, and into the house of their god, id eat and drink, and cursed alech.

ings xvi, 32. And he reared altar for Baal in the house hal, which he had built in

ria.

tings x, 21. And Jehu sent igh all Israel: and all the Sippers of Baal came, so that was not a man left that came And

they came into the of Baal, and the house of was fall from one end to

ther.

2 Kings xxiil, 15. Moreover, of his peace-offerings, upon the the altar that was at Beth-el, and altar. And he brought also the the high place which Jeroboam brasen altar, which was before the son of Nebat, who made Israel the LORD, from the forefront of to sin, had made, both that altar the house, from between the altar and the high place he brake and the house of the LORD, and down, and burnt the high place, put it on the north side of the and stamped it small to powder, altar. and burnt the grove.

1 Chron. x, 9, 10. And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

Isa. xxvil, 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images

shall not stand up.

Jer. xi, 13. For according to the
number of thy cities were thy
gods, O Judah; and according to
the number of the streets of
even
Jerusalem have ye set up altars
to that shameful thing,
altars to burn incense unto Baal.

Because

Hosea viii, 11, 14.
Ephraim hath made many altars
to sin, altars shall be unto him to
sin. For Israel hath forgotten
his Maker, and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced
cities: but I will send a fire upon
his cities, and it shall devour the
palaces thereof.

Amos ii, 13, 14. Hear ye, and
testify in the house of Jacob, saith
the Lord Gop, the God of hosts;
That in the day that I shall visit
the transgressions of Israel upon
him, I will also visit the altars of
Beth-el; and the horns of the
altars shall be cut off, and fall to
the ground.

DESECRATION OF GOD'S TEMPLE. And king 2 Kings xvi, 10-14. Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from And when the king Damascus. was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king And he burnt approached to the altar, and offered thereon. his burnt-offering and his meatoffering, and poured his drinkoffering, and sprinkled the blood 269

2 Kings xxi, 4. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, in Jerusalem will I put my name.

2 Kings xxiii, 12. And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made, in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down and brake them down from thence, and

cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2 Chron. Xxx, 14. And they arose,
and took away the altars that

altars for incense took they away,
and cast them into the brook
Kidron.

were in Jerusalem, and all the

2 Chron. xxxiii, 4. 7. Also he built altars in the house of the In Jerusalem shall my name be LORD, whereof the LORD had said, for ever. And he set a carved image (the idol which he had made) in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever.

Jer. vii, 30. For the children of saith the LORD: they have set their Judah have done evil in my sight, abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute

it.

Jer. xxxil, 34. But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to deflle it.

Ezek. v, 11. Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GoD, Surely. because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable ations, therefore will I also diminthings, and with all thine abomin ish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

Ezek. vill, 5, 6. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abocommitteth here, that I should go minations that the house of Israel far off from my sanctuary? But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

3-IDOLATROUS OFFICEBEARERS AND THEIR

VESTMENTS.

Judges viil, 27. And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophral; and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

Judges xvii, 5. And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges xviii, 18-21. And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it

better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, and the cattle, and the carriage before them.

1 Kings xii, 31. And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people. which were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings xil, 33, 34. After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

1 Kings xviii, 20, 22. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

1 Kings xxii, 10. And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

2 Kings x, 22. And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

2 Kings xvi, 15, 16. And king

Ahaz commanded Urijah the
priest, saying, Upon the great
altar burn the morning burnt-
offering, and the evening meat-
offering, and the king's burnt-
sacrifice, and his meat-offering,
with the burnt-offering of all
the people of the land, and
drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon
their meat offering, and their
it all the blood of the burnt-offer-
ing, and all the blood of the sacri-
fice: and the brasen altar shall be
for me to enquire by. Thus did
Urijah the priest, according to all
that king Ahaz commanded.

2 Kings xvii, 32. So they feared
the LORD, and made unto them-
selves of the lowest of them
priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses
of the high places.

cast out the priests of the LORD,
2 Chron. xiii, 9. Have ye not
the sons of Aaron, and the Levites,

and have made you priests after
lands? so that whosoever cometh
the manner of the nations of other
bullock and seven rams, the same
to consecrate himself with a young
may be a priest of them that are
no gods.

Ezek. xvi, 18. And tookest thy
broidered garments, and cover-
edst them: and thou hast set mine
oil and mine incense before them.

4.-EELIGIOUS WORSHIP

PAID TO IDOLS.

god hath delivered Samson enemy into our hand. And y the people saw him, they pr their god; for they said, On hath delivered into our hand enemy, and the destroyer of country, which slew many o

1 Kings xi, 33. Because worshipped Ashtoreth the go they have forsaken me, and of the Zidonians, Chemosh god of the Moabites, and Mi the god of the children of Am and have not walked in my to do that which is right in eyes, and to keep my statutes my judgments, as did Davi father.

said unto the prophets of
1 Kings xviii, 25, 26. And F
Choose you one bullock for!
selves, and dress it first; fo
under. And they took the bu
are many; and call on the 1
of your gods, but put no
which was given them, and
of Baal from morning even
dressed it, and called on the 1
But there was no voice, nor
noon, saying, O Baal, heal
that answered. And they le
upon the altar which was ma

1 Kings xx, 10. And Ben-b sent unto him, and said, gods do so unto me, and also, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all people that follow me.

2 Kings xvil, 12. For they said unto them, Ye shall n ed idols, whereof the LoED this thing,

Exod. xxxii, 7, 8. And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go, get thee
down; for thy people, which thou
broughtest out of the land of
Isa. 11, 8. Their land also is
Egypt, have corrupted themselves: of idols; they worship the wo
They have turned aside quickly their own hands, that which
out of the way which I command-own fingers have made.
ed them: they have made them a
molten calf, and have worshipped
it, and have sacrificed thereunto,
and said, These be thy gods, 0
Israel, which have brought thee
out of the land of Egypt.

Num. XXV,
2, 3. And they called
the people unto the sacrifices of
their gods: and the people did eat,
and bowed down to their gods.
And Israel joined himself unto
Baal-peor: and the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Israel.

Judges x, 6. And the children
of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the LORD, and served
Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the
gods of Syria, and the gods of
Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and
the gods of the children of Am-
mon, and the gods of the Philis-
tines, and forsook the LORD, and
served not him.

Judges xvi, 23, 24. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our

Jer. v, 7. How shall I pa thee for this? thy children forsaken me, and sworn by that are no gods: when I had them to the full, they then mitted adultery, and assem themselves by troops in the

lots' houses.

Then the pri

Daniel iil, 2-7, 13-15. 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king ser gather together the princes governors, and the captains, judges, the treasurers, the c rulers of the provinces, to sellors, the sheriffs, and all to the dedication of the in which Nebuchadnezzar the had set up. the governors, and captains judges, the treasurers, the c sellors, the sheriffs, and all rulers of the provinces, 1 gathered together unto the cation of the image that Nebuc nezzar the king had set up: they stood before the image Nebuchadnezzar had set up. T an herald cried aloud, To yo is commanded, O people, nati

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d languages, That at what time hear the sound of the cornet, barp, suckbut, psaltery, mer, and all kinds of musick, All down and worship the den image that Nebuchadbear the king hath set up. And falleth not down and worpeth, shall the same hour be into the midst of a burning furnace. Therefore at that when all the people heard 1 Kings xii, 32, 33. And Jero. sound of the cornet, flute, boam ordained a feast in the sackbut, psaltery, and all eight month, on the fifteenth day of musick, all the people, of the month, like unto the feast ations, and the languages, that is in Judah; and he offered da and worshipped the image that Nebuchad-upon the altar, (so did he in Beth-el,) sacrificing unto r the king had set up. Then calves that he had made: and he inezzar, in his rage and placed in Beth-el the priests of the mmanded to bring Shadhigh places which he had made. Meshach, and Abed-nego. So he offered upon the altar they brought these men which he had made in Beth-el the the king. Nebuchadnezzar fifteenth day of the eighth month, and said unto them, Is it even in the month which he had O Shadrach, Meshach, and devised of his own heart; and ego, do not ye serve my ordained a feast unto the chilnor worship the golden dren of Israel: and he offered upon which I have set up? Now, the altar, and burnt inceuse. be ready, that at what time

I saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the LORD.

Exod. xxxiv, 15. Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice.

the sound of the cornet, rp, sackbut, psaltery, and r, and all kinds of musick, down and worship the which I have made, well: Je worship not, ye shall be same hour into the midst ing fiery furnace; and that God that shall deliver ef my hands?

4 They drank wine, and the gods of gold, and of of brass, of iron, of wood,

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viii, 2. And now they sin ad more, and have made olten images of their silver, ls according to their own anding, all of it the work craftsmen: they say of Let the men that sacrifice

calves.

vil, 14. They that swear sin of Samaria, and say, ed. O Dan, liveth; and, The of Beer-sheba liveth; even all fall, and never rise up

11. Then shall his mind and he shall pass over, Lis deod, imputing this anto his god.

xix, 28. 37. And when they Dhese sayings, they were Wrath, and cried out, sayBat is Diana of the Ephebrought For ye have which are * these men, robbers of churches, nor

them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. xx, 28. For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presenting: there also they made their ed the provocation of their offersweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

Hosea il, 8, 13. For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her thepared for Baal. And I will visit silver and gold, which they preupon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them, and she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

And Jehu
2 Kings x, 18-20.
gathered all the people together,
and said unto them, Ahab served
Baal a little, but Jehu shall serve
him much. Now therefore call
unto me all the prophets of Baal,
all his servants, and all his priests;
let none be wanting: for I have a
great sacrifice to do to Baal; who-
Soever shall be wanting, he shall
But Jehu did it in
not live.
subtilty, to the intent that he
might destroy the worshippers of
And Jehu said, Proclaim a
solemn assembly for Baal. And
they proclaimed it.

Baal.

Isa. lvii, 6. Among the smooth
stones of the stream is thy por-
tion; they, they are thy lot: even to
thou hast offered
them hast thou poured a drink-
offering,
meat-offering. Should I receive
comfort in these?

a

Isa. lxv, 3. A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick.

Jer. xlviii, 35. Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD. him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

Ezek. viii, 11. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his sphemers of your goddess. hand; and a thick cloud of incense

CRIFICES OFFERED TO

went up.

Ezek. xvi, 19. My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed xxxii, 5. And when Aaron' thee, thou hast even set it before

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Hosea iv, 19. The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hosea xi, 2. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and Hosea xii, 11. Is there iniquity burnt incense to graven images. in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

1 Cor. viii, 7, 10. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols.

7.-HUMAN SACRIFICES OFFERED TO IDOLS. Lev. xviii, 21. And thou shalt to Molech, not let any of thy seed pass through the fire neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Lev. xx, 2-5. Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall of the land shall stone him with surely be put to death: the people against that man, and will cut stones. And I will set my face him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanc

tuary, and to profane my holy
And if the people of the
name.
land do any wise hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of
his seed unto Molech, and kill

him not; Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

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hast taken thy sons and thy
daughters whom thou hast born
unto me, and these hast thou sa-
crificed unto them to be devoured.
Is this of thy whoredoms a small
matter. That thou hast slain my

Elijah had spoken: and Jehor reigned in his stead, in the secu year of Jehoram the son of hoshaphat king of Judah; beca he had no son.

2 Kings iii, 26. And when the children, and delivered them to CONSULTATION IN VARIO

king of Moab saw that the battle
was too sore for him, he took
with him seven hundred men
break
that drew swords, to
through even unto the king of
Edom: but they could not.

2 Kings ill, 27. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned

to their own land.

2 Kings xvi, 3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from be

fore the children of Israel.

2 Kings xvii, 17, 18. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in

the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,

2 Chron. xxviii, 3. Moreover he [Ahaz] burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

cause them to pass through the
fire for them.

Ezek. xx, 31. For when ye offer

your gifts, when ye make your
sons to pass through the fire, ye
pollute yourselves with all your
idols, even unto this day: and shall
I be enquired of by you, O house
of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord
GOD, I will not be enquired of by
you.

had slain their children to their
Ezek. xxiii, 39. For when they
idols, then they came the same
day into my sanctuary to profane
it; and, lo, thus have they done in
the midst of mine house.

Micah vi, 7. Will the LORD be
pleased with thousands of rams,
or with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my first-born for
my transgression, the fruit of my
body for the sin of my soul.

8-CONSULTATION OF IDOLS.
2 Kings i, 2-6, 16, 17. And Aha-
ziah fell down through a lattice in
his upper chamber that was in
Samaria, and was sick and he
sent messengers, and said unto
them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub
the god of Ekron whether I shall
recover of this disease. But the

and removed them out of his
sight; there was none left but the
tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings xxi, 6. And he [Manas-angel of the LORD said to Elijah
seh] made his son to pass through the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet
the fire, and observed times, and the messengers of the king of
used enchantments, and dealt with Samaria, and say unto them, Is it
familiar spirits and wizards: he not because there is not a God in
wrought much wickedness in the Israel, that ye go to enquire of
sight of the LORD, to provoke him Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
to anger.
Now therefore thus saith the
LORD, Thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art
gone up, but shalt surely die. And
Elijah departed. And when the
messengers turned back unto him,
he said unto them, Why are ye
now turned back? And they said
unto him, There came a man up
to meet us, and said unto us, Go,
turn again unto the king that sent
you, and say unto him, Thus saith
the LORD, Is it not because there is
not a God in Israel, that thou
sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub
the god of Ekron? therefore thou
your-bed on which thou art gone up,
shalt not come down from that
but shalt surely die. And he said
Forasmuch as thou hast sent mes-
unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
sengers to enquire of Baal-zebub |
the god of Ekron, is it not because
there is no God in Israel to enquire
of his word? therefore thou shalt
not come down off that bed on
which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. So he died, according
to the word of the LORD which

Ps. cvl, 37, 38. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Isa. Ivil, 5. Enflaming selves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in The valleys under the cliffs of the

rocks.

Jer. xxxii, 85. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire

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Ezek. xvi, 20, 21. Moreover, thou

FORMS.

WITCHCRAFT.

suffer a witch to live.
Exod. xxii, 18. Thou shalt

Lev. xix, 26, 31. Ye shall not any thing with the blood; neit shall ye use enchantment, nor serve times. Regard not th that have familiar spirits, neit seek after wizards, to be defi by them: I am the LORD your G

Lev. xx, 27. A man also, woman, that hath a famillar sp or that is a wizard, shall surely put to death: they shall st them with stones; their bi shall be upon them.

Deut. xviii, 10-12. There s not be found among you any that maketh his son or his dat ter to pass through the fire that useth divination, or an server of times, or an enchar or a witch, Or a charmer, consulter with familiar spirit a wizard, or a necromancer. all that do these things ar

abomination unto the LORD: because of these abominations

LORD thy God doth drive ti out from before thee.

2 Kings ix, 22. And it cam pass, when Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? he answered, What peace, sol as the whoredoms of thy mo Jezebel and her witchcrafts so many?

2 Chron. xxxiii, 6. He [Manas observed times, and used ench ments, and used witchcraft. dealt with a familiar spirit, with wizards....

shall say unto you, Seek Isa. vili, 19. And when them that have familiar spi and unto wizards that peep that mutter, should not a pe seek unto their God? for the b to the dead?

Isa. xxix, 4. And thou shall brought down, and shalt & out of the ground, and thy sp shall be low out of the dust thy voice shall be, as of one hath a familiar spirit, out of ground, and thy speech s whisper out of the dust.

Jer. xxvll, 9, 10. There hearken not ye to your proj nor to your diviners, nor to! dreamers, nor to your enchan nor to your sorcerers, w! speak unto you, saying, Ye not serve the king of Baty For they prophesy a lien you, to remove you far from y

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