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 SCENES AND MODES OF near unto the altar of the LORD 1 Kings iii, 2,8. Only the people 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 they departed not from the sins 2 Kings xiv, 4. Howbeit the 2 Kings xv, 35. Howbeit the and burnt incense in the high 2 Kings xvii, 9-11. And the chil- 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. away the altars of the strange 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 high places were not taken away, 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 Because Hosea viii, 11, 14. Amos ii, 13, 14. Hear ye, and 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, altars for incense took they away, 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 2 Kings xvii, 32. So they feared cast out the priests of the LORD, and have made you priests after Ezek. xvi, 18. And tookest thy 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 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 Num. XXV, Judges x, 6. And the children 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 2 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, 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 Baal. Isa. lvii, 6. Among the smooth 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 IDOLS. 271 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 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. hast taken thy sons and thy 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 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 Ezek. xx, 31. For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your had slain their children to their Micah vi, 7. Will the LORD be 8-CONSULTATION OF IDOLS. and removed them out of his 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 uuto Molech. Ezek. xvi, 20, 21. Moreover, thou FORMS. WITCHCRAFT. suffer a witch to live. 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 |