und and that I should drive you tum ii, 4. Because of the de of the whoredoms of Well-favoured harlot, the misof witchcrafts, that selleth through her whoredoms, nilles through her witch DIVINATION. tir, 4, 5, 15. And when they e out of the city, and far off, Joseph said unto Bevard, Up. follow after the and when thou dost overtake sy unto them, Wherefore re rewarded evil for good? this it in which my lord , and whereby indeed he hye have done evil in so And Joseph said unto What deed is this that ye e wot ye not that such a I can certainly divine. Ixxiv, 1. And when Balaam that it pleased the LORD to el, he went not, as at es, to seek for enchantbe set his face toward irness. il, 22. Balaam also, the or, the soothsayer, did ren of Israel slay with damong them that were them. rvi, 13. And Haman told is wife and all his friends ything that had befallen him. and his wise men and Zeresh unto him, If Mordecai be I seed of the Jews, before thou hast begun to fall, halt not prevail against but shalt surely fall before 1E, & Therefore thou hast enthy people the house of cause they be replenished the east, and are soothsayers the Philistines, and they themselves in the children Tangers. xvi, 13. Thou art wearied ultitude of thy counsels. the astrologers, the starthe monthly prognostica1 up and save thee from image that shall come upon ar, 22. At his right hand divination for Jerusalem, nt captains, to open the in the slaughter, to lift up *ce with shouting, to appoint g-rams against the gates, Cha a mount, and to build a 1,20. And in all matters of | wisdom and understanding, that me cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? And Saul sware to her by Dan. v,7, 15. The king cried aloud the LORD, saying, As the LORD to bringin the astrologers,the Chal-liveth, there shall no punishment deans, and the soothsayers. And happen to thee for this thing. the king spake, and said to the Then said the woman, Whom wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall I bring up unto thee? And shall read this writing, and show he said, Bring me up Samuel. the interpretation thereof, Andwhen the woman saw Samuel, shall be clothed with scarlet, and she cried with a loud voice: and have a chain of gold about his the woman spake to Saul, saying, neck, and shall be the third ruler Why hast thou deceived me? for in the kingdom. And now the thou art Saul. And the king said wise men, the astrologers, have unto her, Be not afraid: for what been brought in before me, that sawest thou? and the woman said they should read this writing, and unto Saul, I saw gods ascending make known unto me the interout of the earth. And he said pretation thereof: but they could unto her, What form is he of? not shew the interpretation of the And she said, An old man cometh thing. up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped bowed himself. And Samuel said with his face to the ground, and to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war Acts xvi, 16-18. And it came to NECROMANCY. 1 Sam. xxviii, 3-25. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city: and Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, hath a' familiar spirit at En-dor. Behold, there is a woman that And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee. And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no dreams: therefore I have called more, neither by prophets, nor by thee, that thou mayest make Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? And the LORD hath done to him as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day. Moreover, the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Phil known unto me what I shall do. istines. Then Saul fell straight- refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed. And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she lasted, and killed it, and took flour and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night. MAGIC AND SORCERY. Exod. vii, 11, 12, 21, 22. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments: For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river: and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said. Exod. viil, 7, 18, 19. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man and upon beast. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. Exod. 1x, 11. And the magicians could not stand before Moses be cause of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. Acts viii, 9-11. But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts xiii, 6, 8. And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Acts xix, 13-20. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. SUCH CONSULTATION ALL VANITY AND DELUSION. Num. xxiil, 23. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, wrought! What hath God Isa. xix, 3, 12. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. wise men? and let them tell thee Where are they? where are thy LORD of host hath purposed upon now, and let them know what the Egypt. Isa. xliv, 25. That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish. Isa. xlvii, 12, 14. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thon hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevall. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Daniel v, 8. Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. III. NAMES OF IDOLS ADRAMMELECH, ANAMME LECH, NIBHAZ, AND TARTAK. 2 Kings xvii, 31. And the Avil made Nibhaz and Tartak, and Sepharvites burnt their childr in fire to Adrammelech a Anammelech, the gods of Sephi vaim. ASHIMA, NERGAL, AND of Babylon made Succoth-bent 2 Kings xvii, 30. And the # and the men of Cuth made gal, and men of Hamath Ashima. ASHTAROTH. Judges il, 13. And they fors the LORD, and served Baali Ashtaroth. BAAL. Judges vi, 25. And it camt pass the same night, that LORD said unto him, Take father's young bullock, even second bullock of seven years and throw down the altar of 1 that thy father hath, and cut d the grove that is by it. BAAL-BERITH AND BAAL Judges viii, 83. And it can pass, as soon as Gideon was d that the children of Israel tur again, and went a whoring Baalim, and made Baal-be their god. BAAL-PEOR. Hosea ix, 10. I found Israel! grapes in the wilderness the fig-tree at her first times your fathers as the first-ripë separated themselves unto they went to Baal-peor, 1 shame; and their abominati were according as they loved. BAAL-ZEBUB, 2 Kings i, 16. And he said him, Thus saith the LORD, Fot much as thou hast sent messin to enquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron, is it not because th is no God in Israel to enquire his word? BEL. Jer. 11, 44. And I will pum Bel in Babylon; and I will to forth out of his mouth that wi he hath swallowed up: and the tions shall not flow together more unto him; yea, the wail Babylon shall fall. BERITH. an of the tower of Shechem | Nebo stoopeth; their idols were that, they entered into an upon the beasts, and upon the of the house of the god cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. x1,7. Then did Solomon in high place for Chemosh, omination of Moab, in the at is before Jerusalem, and Bolech, the abomination of the n of Ammon. MERODACH. NISROCH. LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the 2 Kings xix, 37. And it came to likeness of any winged fowl that pass, as he was worshipping in the flieth in the air, The likeness house of Nisroch his god, that Adof any thing that creepeth on the rammelech and Sharezer his sons ground, the likeness of any fish smote him with the sword; and that is in the waters beneath the they escaped into the laud of Ar-earth: Take heed unto yourselves, menia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. UNKNOWN GOD. Acts xvii, 23. For as I passed by, and behield your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. IV. SIN AND GUILT OF lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. Deut. xi, 16, 17. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Deut. xxix, 18. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. 2-IDOLS AND IDOLATROUS CUSTOMS OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. Exod. xxxiv, 13, 16. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Num. xxxiii, 51, 52. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan. Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all pluck down all their high places. their molten images, and quite Deut. vii, 3, 4, 5, 25, 26. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy Deut. iv, 15-18, 23. Take ye thee suddenly. But thus shall therefore good heed unto your-ye deal with them; ye shall destroy selves, (for ye saw no manner of their altars, and break down their alvi, 1. Bel Loweth down, similitude on the day that the images, and cut down their groves, 12 Babylon is Bel is confounded, Meroa broken in pieces; her idols confounded, her images are ken in pieces. NEBO. 1.-DISTINCT AND ORIGINAL CAUTION. and burn their graven images with fire. The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing. Deut. xil, 2-4, 29-31. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye sball possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. Ánd ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How | bow down to their gods, nor serve, which brought thee out them, nor do after their works; land of Egypt, from the ! but thou shalt utterly overthrow bondage. And all Isr them, and quite break down their hear, and fear, and sha images. more any such wickednes is among you. If thou sh say in one of thy cities, w LORD thy God hath given dwell there, saying, Certe the children of Belial, i out from among you, a withdrawn the inhabi their city, saying, Let us serve other gods, which not known; Then shalt quire, and make search, diligently; and, behold, truth, and the thing cer such abomination is Exod. xxxiv, 17. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Lev. xix, 4. Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. Lev. xxvi, 1. Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear up you a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. Deut. v, 8, 9. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Deut. xvi, 22. Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hateth. V. among you; Thou shal smite the inhabitants of with the edge of the s stroying it utterly, and a with the edge of the swo therein, and the cattle Deut. xvil, 2-5. If found among you, with thy gates which the 1 God giveth thee, man that hath wrought wich the sight of the LORD th transgressing his cover and worshipped them, hath gone and served o sun, or moon, or any of of heaven, which I have manded; And it be told thou hast heard of it did these nations serve their gods? PENALTY OF IDOLATRY. quired diligently, and, even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. Deut. xiil, 17, 18. And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the flerceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. Amos v, 5. But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 3.-IDOLS NOT TO BE MADE NOR WORSHIPPED. Exod. xx, 23. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. Exod. xxili, 24. Thou shalt not 1.-DEATH. Exod. xxii, 20. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. be true, and the thing that such abomination i in Israel: Then shalt t forth that man or tha which have committed ed thing unto thy that man or that we shalt stone them wit till they die. turn away, so that thot Deut. xxx, 17, 18. But if! hear, but shalt be dra and worship other gods, them; I denounce unto day, that ye shall sur and that ye shall no your days upon the lar passest over Jorda possess it. Deut. xiii, 5-15. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. . . . . . If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secret-thou ly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, 1 Kings xiv, 9, 10. done evil above all before thee: for thos and made thee other molten images, to provi anger, and hast cast thy back; Therefore, will bring evil upon the Jeroboam, and will et Jeroboam him that piss. the wall, and him that and left in Israel, and away the remnant of th Jeroboam, as a man tak dung, till it be all gone. 1 Kings xix, 1, 2 A told Jezebel all that F done, and withal how he the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger jah, saying, So let the gods se, and more also, if I make thy life as the life of one of by to-morrow about this 11. 12. But ye are they forsake the LORD, that forget holy mountain, that prepare able for that troop, and that ish the drink-offering unto number. Therefore will I aber you to the sword, and ye all bow down to the slaughbecause when I called, ye did wer; when I spake, ye did her, but did evil before eyes, and did choose that I delighted not. INSTANCES. hd. xxxii, 26-28. Then Moses in the gate of the camp, and Who is on the LORD's side? come unto me. And all s of Levi gathered themtogether unto him. And d unto them, Thus saith God of Israel, Put every assword by his side, and go out from gate to gate at the camp, and slay m his brother, and every companion, and every neighbour. And the of Levi did according ard of Moses: and there the people that day about theasand men. xxv, 4, 5. And the LORD to Moses, Take all the of the people, and hang any before the LORD against , that the fierce anger of LED may be turned away srael, And Moses said unto adges of Israel, Slay ye every smen that were joined unto peur. Kings xviii, 40. And Elijah to them, Take the proof Baal; let not one of them And they took them; Elijah brought them down to Brook Kishon, and slew them Kings x, 23-25. And Jehu and Jehouadab the son of ah, into the house of Baal, ld unto the worshippers of Search, and look that there there with you none of the nts of the LORD, but the ippers of Baal only. And they went in to offer sacriand burnt-offerings, Jehu onted fourscore men withont, sald, If any of the men whom lave brought into your hands ape, be that letteth him go, his le shall be for the life of him. and it came to pass, as soon as he ad made an end of offering the offering, that Jehu said to guard, and to the captains, Go in and slay them; let none | Ashtaroth from among you, and come forth. And they smote prepare your hearts unto the them with the edge of the sword; LORD, and serve him only; and he and the guard and the captains will deliver you out of the hand cast them out, and went to the of the Philistines. city of the house of Baal. Lev. xxvi, 30. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. Deut. xxvii, 14, 15. And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsmen, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. Deut. xxxi, 17, 18. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day, for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Deut. xxxii, 16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. Judges ii, 11, 12. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 1 Sam. vii, 3. And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and 2 Kings xxii, 16, 17. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kin dled against this place, and shail not be quenched. 2 Chron. vii, 19-22. But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and will make it to be a proverb and a by-word among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought this evil upon them. Ps. cvi, 36. And they served their idols, which were a suare unto them. Jer. viii, 19. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country. Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? Jer. xi, 17. For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger, in offering incense unto Baal. |