int and that I should drive you and ye should perish. v, 12. And I will cut off crafts out of thine hand; and halt have no more sooth tum fil, 4. Because of the de of the whoredoms of -favoured harlot, the misof witchcrafts, that selleth through her whoredoms, les through her witch DIVINATION. 4,5,15. And when they iii, 22. Balaam also, the rvi, 13. And Haman told bis wife and all his friends thing that had befallen him. add his wise men and Zeresh le unto him, If Mordecai be seed of the Jews, before thou hast begun to fall, shalt not prevail against but shalt surely fall before E, & Therefore thou hast thy people the house of because they be replenished the east, and are soothsayers the Philistines, and they themselves in the children risgers. vil, 13. Thou art wearied multitude of thy counsels. the astrologers, the starthe monthly prognosticaand up and save thee from things that shall come upon , 22. At his right hand the divination for Jerusalem, petat captains, to open the on in the slaughter, to lift up ce with shouting, to appoint ring-rams against the gates, cat a mount, and to build a Jan. 1, 20. And in all matters of | IDOLATRY.-IDOLS. wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. me Dan. v,7, 15. The king cried aloud to bringin the astrologers,the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever thereof, shall read this writing, and show the interpretation shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler And now the in the kingdom. wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the inter-out pretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing. divination met Acts xvi, 16-18. And it came to NECROMANCY. 1 Sam. xxviii, 3-25. Now Samuel Israel had was dead, and all 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 Philis tines gathered themselves tocame and pitched gether, and in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they And when pitched in Gilboa. Saul saw the host of the PhilAnd istines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. 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, Behold, there is a woman that hath a' familiar spirit at En-dor. 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 273 cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a die? And Saul sware to her by snare for my life, to cause me to the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And Andwhen the woman saw Samuel, he said, Bring me up Samuel. she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending of the earth. unto her, What form is he of? up; and he is covered with a And she said, An old man cometh mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the And he said Because Philistines make war from me, and answereth me no against me, and God is departed more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called known unto me what I shall do. 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: 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 be with me: the and thy sons Israel into the hand of the PhilLORD also shall deliver the host of istines. Then Saul fell straightwas sore afraid, because of the way all along on the earth, and words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, hath Behold, thine handmaid obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me: therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength when thou goest on thy way. But he S Now 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. viii, 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 because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. To 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: 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. 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 now, and let them know what the LORD of host hath purposed upon 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. Hosea ix, 10. I found Israel grapes in the wilderness I the fig-tree at her first time your fathers as the first-ripe they went to Baal-peor, separated themselves unto shame; and their abominat were according as they loved. BAAL-ZEBUB. 2 Kings i, 16. And he said him, Thus saith the LORD, Fus much as thou hast sent messe to enquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron, is it not because t is no God in Israel to enquire his word?... BEL. Jer. 11, 44. And I will pu Bel in Babylon; and I will br forth out of his mouth that wi he hath swallowed up: and the tions shall not flow together a more unto him; yea, the wa Babylon shall fall. BERITH. Judges ix, 46. And when all Amos v, 26. But ye have borne 3 tabernacle of your Moloch Chion your images, the star your god, which ye made to Cavarselves. 1 Sam. v, 3. And when they of dod arose early on the morA behold, Dagon was fallen incense to the queen of heaven, be kindled against you, and he will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy But thus shall Deut. iv, 15-18, 23. Take ye thee suddenly, therefore good heed unto your-ye deal with them; ye shall destroy selves, (for ye saw no manner of their altars, and break down thei Isa. xivi, 1. Bel Loweth down, similitude on the day that the images, and cut down their groves 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, Cert the children of Belial, 1 out from among you, a withdrawn the inhabi their city, saying, Let u serve other gods, which quire, and make search, not known; Then shalt diligently; and, behold, truth, and the thing cer such abomination is among you; Thou shal smite the inhabitants of 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 neither shall ye set up any image rear up you a standing 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. with the edge of the s stroying it utterly, and with the edge of the sw therein, and the cattle Deut. xvil, 2-5. If found among you, with thy, gates which the ! God giveth thee, man that hath wrought wich the sight of the LORD th transgressing his cover hath gone and served o sun, or moon, or any of and worshipped them, of heaven, which I have manded; And it be told thou hast heard of be true, and the thin that such abomination i in Israel: Then shalt t forth that man or the which have committed ed thing unto thy g that man or that wo shalt stone them wi till they die. 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. 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 secretly, 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 from the one end of the earth unto thee, or far off from thee, 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, turn away, so that tho Deut. xxx, 17, 18. But if hear, but shalt be dra and worship other gods them; I denounce unt and that ye shall no day, that ye shall sur your days upon the lar thou passest over Jorda possess it. 1 Kings xiv, 9, 10. done evil above all before thee: for thou molten images, to prov and made thee other 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 tai dung, till it be all gone. 1 Kings xix, 1, 2 told Jezebel all that 1 done, and withal how he Kings x, 23-25. And Jehu and Jehonadab the son of ab, into the house of Baal, add unto the worshippers of Search, and look that there here with you none of the ants of the LORD, but the hippers of Baal only. And they went in to offer sacriand burnt-offerings, Jehu unted fourscore men withont, sald, If any of the men whom ve brought into your hands ape, be that letteth him go, his shall be for the life of him. ad it came to pass, as soon as he ad made an end of offering the t-offering, that Jehu said to guard, and to the captains, Go in and slay them; let none | Ashtaroth from among you, and 2 Kings xi, 18. And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars: and the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 2 Chron. xxiii, 17. Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars, and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 2.-OTHER FORMS OF Lev. xxvi, 30. And I will destroy 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 il, 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 kindled against this place, and shall 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. Isa, xlii, 17. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. Jer. i, 16. And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burnt incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. 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. |