through the abundance of delicacies. Ara xix, 2. For true and rightare his judgments: for he ith judged the great whore, ch did corrupt the earth with tornication, and hath avenged blood of his servants at her xxxviii, 24. And it came to about three months after, that told Judah, saying, Tamar aughter in law hath played barlet; and also, behold, she child by whoredom. And said, Bring her forth, and jr be burnt. xxii, 16, 17. And if a man amaid that is not betrothed, de with her, he shall surely ber to be his wife. If her atterly refuse to give her him, he shall pay money ng to the dowry of virgins. xxi, 9. And the daughter priest, if she profane herby playing the whore, she Beth her father: she shall be with fire. xxv, 7, 8 And when Phineson of Eleazar, the son of the priest, saw it, be rose among the congregation, Bok a javelin in his hand; be went after the man of Finto the tent, and thrust of them through, the man bel, and the woman through elly. So the plague was from the children of Israel. xxii, 21, 28, 29. Then they bring out the damsel to the Wher father's house, and the of her city shall stone her Bones that she die; because ath wrought folly in Israel, the whore in her father's so shalt thou put evil away among you. If a man find a that is a virgin, which is strothed, and lay hold on ad lie with her, and they be Then the man that lay with ball give unto the damsel's rafty shekels of silver, and hall be his wife; because he humbled her, he may not taway all his days. UFISHED IN PROVIDENCE. sea iv, 10, 11, 13, 14. For they ef, and not have enough: thali commit whoredom, and Lot increase; because they eft off to take heed to the Whoredom, and wine, new wine, take away the They sacrifice upon the of the mountains, and burn upon the hills, under = and poplars, and elms, bethe shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall BY POVERTY. Prov. v, 8-10...Come not nigh the door of her house. Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; Lest strangers be filled with wealth, and thy labours be in the thy house of a stranger. Prov. xxix, 3. Whoso loveth wlsdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance. BY LOSS OF HEALTH. Prov. ii, 18, 19. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. Prov. v, 11-14. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Prov. vii, 26. For she hath cast BY LOSS OF CHARACTER. Gen. xxxviii, 23. And Judah Job xxiv, 17, 18. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: it one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. Prov. vii, 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the Eccles. vil, 26. And I find more pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Eph. v, 5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. PROSTITUTION. Gen. xxxviii, 15, 16. When be an harlot: because she had Judah saw her, he thought her to covered her face. And he turned to, I pray thee, let me come in unto her by the way, and said, Go she was his daughter-in-law.) And unto thee; (for he knew not that she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? Lev. xix, 29. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Lev. xxi, 7. They shall not take neither shall they take a woman a wife that is a whore, or profane; put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. Delilah saw that he had told her Judges xvi, 18. And when all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once; for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. 1 Kings iii, 16. Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king, and stood before him. Prov. ii, 17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. Prov. v, 6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Prov. vii, 10-12. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) Prov. xxii, 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. Prov. xxiii, 27. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Isa. xxiii, 15, 16. And it shall Tyre shall be forgotten seventy come to pass in that day, that years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlo. Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, I knew that the seed should not be | In the palace of the king Bug many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Jer. iii, 3. Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. his: and it came to pass, when he Exod. xxli, 19. Whosoever lieth Ezek. xvi, 33-35, 41. They give gifts to all whores; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy man's seed of copulation go out Lev. xv, 16, 17, 32. And if any whoredom. And the contrary is from him, then he shall wash all in thee from other women in his flesh in water, and be unclean thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whore- ment, and every skin, whereon is until the even. And every gardoms: and in that thou givest the seed of copulation, shall be a reward, and no reward is washed with water, and be ungiven unto thee; therefore thou clean until the even. This is the art contrary. Wherefore, O har-law of him that hath an issue, and lot, hear the word of the LORD: of him whose seed goeth from him, And they shall burn thine houses and is defiled therewith. with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. BASTARDY. Deut. xxiii, 2. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Lev. xviii, 23, 24, 26, 28-30. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any Babylon. Isa. xxxix. 7. And of thy so that shall issue from thee, wh thou shalt beget, shall they ta away; and they shall be eunur in the palace of the king of Ba 'lon. Dan. 1, 8, 9, 11. And the ki spake unto Ashpenaz, the a ter of his eunuchs, that he sho Israel, and of the king's seed, bring certain of the childrea of the princes Now God brought Daniel into favour eunuchs. Then said Daniel tender love with the prince of Melzar, whom the prince of eunuchs had set over Da Hananiah, Mishael, and Azari unto them, All men cannot rec Matth. xix, 11, 12. But he this saying, save they to when eunuchs, which were so t is given. For there are s from their mother's womt: there are some eunuchs, w there be eunuchs which t were made eunuchs of men made themselves eunuchs for kingdom of heaven's sake. that is able to receive it, let receive it. Acts vili, 27. And he arose went: and, behold, a ma Ethiopia, an eunuch of Judges xl, 1, 2. Now Jephthan of your own nation, nor any authority under Candace q the Gileadite was a mighty man woman. Isa. Ivil, 3. But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Hosea il, 4. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. Hosea v, 7. They have dealt treacherously against the LORD; for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. Zech. ix, 6. And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. John vili, 41. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Heb. xli, 8. But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Lev. xx, 15. 16. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach thereto, thou shalt kill the woman unto any beast, and lie down and the beast. Deut. xxvii, 21. Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast, and all the people shall Amen. EUNUCHISM. say, Deut. xxiii, 1. He that is of the Ethiopians, who bad charge of all her treasure, a come to Jerusalem for to wor SODOM. Gen. xill, 13. But the m Sodom were wicked, and s. before the LORD exceeding Gen. xvili, 20-22. Anl LORD said, Because the and because their sin is Sodom and Gomorrah is c grievous, I will go down and see whether they have altogether according to the It, which is come unto me, a not, I will know. And The turned their faces from th and went toward Soden Abraham stood yet before LORD. Gen. xix, 4-11. But, before lay down, the men of the even the men of Sodom, o ed the house round, both young, all the people from quarter. And they calle Lot, and said unto him. W wound-thee this night? bring the are the men which came a unto us, that we may know And Lot went out at the dis to them, and shut the dor him, And said, I pray yon, t ren, do not so wickedly. B. now, I have two daughters " have not known man; let m pray you, bring them out 2 Kings xx, 18. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which AGAINST NATURE. thou shalt beget, shall they take Gen, xxxviii, 9, 10. And Onan away; and they shall be eunuchs you, and do ye to them as is good 10 your eyes only unto these men o nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will deal worse with thee than ith them. And they pressed e upon the man, even Lot, and e bear to break the door. But men put forth their hand, and sed Lot into the house to wem, and shut to the door. And hry smote the men that were at be door of the house with blind both small and great; so at they wearied themselves to nd the door. len xvill, 22. Thou shalt not with mankind as with womanit is abomination. Deut. xxiii, 17, 18. There shall whore of the daughters of tel, nor a Sodomite of the sons Israel. Thou shalt not bring hire of a whore, or the price dog, into the house of the thy God for any vow: for both these are abomination the LORD thy God. Deut. xxxil, 32. For their vine of the vine of Sodom, and of fields of Gomorrah: their pes are grapes of gall, their ers are bitter. men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 2 Peter il, 7, 8. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. Isa. 1, 10. Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Isa. iil, 9. The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul? for they have re warded evil unto themselves. Lam. iv, 6. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moinent, and no nands stayed on her. Ezek. xvi, 46-50, 53–56. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thy younger Judges xix, 22-24. Now, as they sister, that dwelleth at thy right making their hearts merry, hand, is Sodom and her daughld the men of the city, cer-ters. Yet hast thou not walked sons of Belial, beset the Beround about, and beat at door, and spake to the master house, the old man, saying, forth the man that came thine house, that we may him. And the man, the Ser of the house, went out them, and said unto them, my brethren, nay, I pray do not so wickedly; seeing this man is come into mine , do not this folly. Behold, is my daughter, a maiden, his concubine, them I will out now, and humble ye and do with them what meth good unto you: but unto man do not so vile a thing. 1 Kings xiv, 24. And there o Sodomites in the land: they did according to all the ontations of the nations which * Logo cast out before the chilsa of Israel. Bras, 1, 24, 26, 27. Wherefore dalso give them to uncleanthrough the lusts of their hearts, to dishonour their bocles between themselves: at this canse God gave them up vile affections: for even their men did change the natural bato that which is against re: And likewise also the after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she streng then the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination be fore me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride. Matth. xi, 23, 24. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto thee, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. PUNISHMENT. Gen. xix, 13, 17, 24-28. For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou Then the LORD be consumed. rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven: And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. Deut. xxix, 22, 23. So that the generation to come of your chiland the stranger that shall come dren that shall rise up after you, from a far land,shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the in his wrath. LORD Overthrew in his anger, and 1 Kings xv, 12. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 1 Kings xxii, 46. And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. 2 Kings xxiil, 7. And he brake down the houses of the sodomi.es, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. Jer. xlix, 18. As in the over throw of Sodom and Gomorrah, | Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye Jer. 1, 40. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; So shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Amos iv, 11. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew day that Lot went out of Sodom 2 Pet. ii, 6. And turning the | cities of Sodom and Gom into ashes, condemned them an overthrow, making ther ensample unto those that should live ungodly. Jude 7. Even as Sodom Gomorrha, and the cities! them in like manner, giving! selves over to fornication, an ing after strange flesh, ar forth for an example, suf the vengeance of eternal fire METALS AND MINERALS. For many allusions to Metals, especially GOLD, SILVER, and BRASS, see under TABERNACLE-TEMPLE.) GOLD. Gen. ii, 11, 12. The name of the nis Pison: that is it which ... passeth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good.. Josh. vii, 21. . . . I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them.. 2 Sam. viii, 10. Then Toi sent Jeram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: (for Hadadezer had wars with Toi:) nd Joram brought with him Vessels of silver, and vessels of guid, and vessels of brass. 1 Kings x, 21. And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were guld, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of ver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 2 Kings xii, 13. Howbeit there Were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of old, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the bease of the LORD. 2 Kings xviii, 16. At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from The doors of the temple of the Lao, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had Overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 1 Kings xxiv, 13. And he carfed out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and ent in pieces all the vessels of gold, Which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the LORD had said. 2 Chron. iii, 6. And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 2 Chron. vill, 18. And Huram sent him, by the hands of his serFanta, ships, and servants that I had knowledge of the sea; and precious vessels of silver and of they went with the servants of gold. Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. hand did stand the queen in gold Ps. xlv, 9..... Upon thy right of Ophir. Ps. lxxii, 15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. . . . Isa. lx, 17. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. . . ... Lam. iv, 1, 2. How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Ezek. xxvii, 22. The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. Dan. xi, 8. And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their Zech. xiii, 9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried..... 2 Tim. ii, 20. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 1 Pet. 1,7. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Rev. iii, 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich. . . . Job xxil, 25. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. Job xxvii, 16, 17. Though be heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. Job xxviii, 1. Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. Ps. xii, 6. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. lxvi, 10. For thou, O God, |