of their gods, and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord. Ver. 8, 9. The plague was stayed.Those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. Judg. i. 21. 27 to 34. They did not drive out the inhabitants.

ii. 1-4. The angel of the Lord said, Ye have not obeyed my voice; wherefore I will not drive them out before

you, but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. When the angel of the Lord spake these words, the children of Israel lift up their voice and wept.

iii. 6. The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.-Ver. 8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled. against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the king of Mesopotamia.

1 Kings xi. 1. Solomon loved many strange wives.-Ver. 4. When he was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods.-Ver. 9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, and said I will rend the kingdom from thee. Ver. 11.

33.

xvi. 31. Ahab took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians. Ch. xxi. 25. There was none like unto Ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

2 Kings v. 17, 18. Naaman asks pardon for being present at idolatrous worship, though he joined not in it.

CXLII. Strange gods to be put away. Gen. xxxv. 2. Jacob said unto his household, Put away the strange gods that are among you. Ver. 4. Jos. xxiv. 14. 23. 1 Sam. vii. 3.

Judges x. 16. They put away the strange gods, and serve the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

1 Kings xxiii. 4, 5. the idolatrous priests. 26.

2 Chron. xxxiii. 15. away the strange gods.

Josiah put down

See to ver.

Manasseh put

Hos. xiv. 3. Neither will we say to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods.

See Deut. xxxii. 12. Josh. iii. 12. Dan. iii. 12.

CXLIII. Transgressors of this commandment among the people of Israel, and the hands of men. the enticers thereto, to be put to death by

Deut. xiii. 1. 5. If there arise among and giveth a sign or a wonder, and the you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake, saying, Let us go after other gods; that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death. Ch. xviii. 20.

1 Sam. xxvi. 19.

thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, xiii. 6. 8. If thy brother, the son of or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend which is as thine own soul, entice thee. saying, Let us go and serve other gods; thou shalt not consent unto him, neither shalt 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 afterward the hand of all the people.

Ver. 12-16. If thou shalt hear say, in dren of Belial, are gone out, and have one of thy cities, Certain men, the chilwithdrawn the inhabitants of the city, saying, Let us go serve other gods; then thou shalt make search diligently, and if it be truth, thou shalt smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it utterly; It shall be an heap for ever. Deut. xvii. 2 to 8. 1 Kings xviii. 40. Job xxxi. 11.

CXLIV. Threatenings against strange gods. Exod. xii. 12. Against the gods of Egypt will I execute judgment. Numb. xxxiii. 4. Upon the gods of Egypt the Lord executed judgment.

Zeph. ii. 11. The Lord will famish all the gods of the earth.

CXLV. Strange Gods are vanity. Judg. vi. 31. Joash said, If Baal be a god let him plead for himself.

1 Kings xviii. 21. Elijah said, If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.

Ver. 27. Elijah mocked the priests of Baal, saying, Cry aloud: for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.—Ver. 29. There was neither voice nor any to

answer.

2 Kings xix. 18. They were no gods. Ch. xviii. 35.

1 Chron. xvi. 26. All the gods of the people are idols. Isa. xli. 23. Shew the things to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. Ver. 24.

Acts xix. 26. Paul persuaded, saying, That they are no gods that are made with hands.

Rom. i. 25. They served and worshipped the creature.

Gal. iv. 8. Did service to them which by nature are no gods.

CXLVI. Against inquiring concerning future events, from those who by nature are no gods. Isa. xli. 2. Shew the things to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods.

2 Kings i. 2. Ahaziah sent to inquire of the god of Ekron if he should recover.-Ver. 4. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt surely die. Instance. Saul, 1 Sam. xxviii. 7.-His punishment, 1 Chron. x. 13.

COMMANDMENT SECOND. CXLVII. Images, the use of them forbidden, with preventative threatenings.

Exod. xx. 4. Thou shalt not make unto

thee any graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Chap. xxxiv. 17. Lev. xix. 4.-xxvi. 1. 30. Deut. iv. 16, 17, 18, 19. 25.-v. 8.-xvi. 22.

Deut. xxvii. 15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord.

Ps. xcvii. 7. Confounded be all they that serve graven images.

Isa. xlii. 8. My glory will I not give to another; nor my praise to graven im

people, because of the calf which Aaron made.

1 Kings xiv. 9. Thou [Jeroboam] hast made thee molten images, to provoke me to anger.-Ver. 10. I will bring evil upon the house ef Jeroboam. Ch. xvi. 3.

1 Kings xiv. 22, 23. Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins. They built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.-Ver. 25, 26. And it came to pass that Shishak, king of Egypt, came against Jerusalem: And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he took away all the shields of gold, which Solomon had made.

2 Kings xvii. 16-18. They made molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments. Therefore the Lord was angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. Ver, 20.

2 Chron. xxviii. 2. Ahaz made molten

images for Baalim. He burnt his children in the fire, after the abomination of the heathen, &c.-Ver. 5. Werefore the Lord delivered him into the hands of the king of Assyria.

xxxiii. 7. Manasseh set a carved image in the house of God.-Ver. 9. He made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err.-Ver. 11. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 2 Kings

xxi. 7. 12.

Ver. 22. Amon sacrificed to all carved

images.-Ver. 24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him.

Ps. lxxviii. 58, 59. They provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. And God was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel.-Ver. 62. He gave his people over to the sword.

Isa. viii. 19. 22. Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images? Why is not the health of the daughter of my people restored?

Jer. 1. 37, 38. A sword is upon their treasures. For it is a land of graven images; they are mad upon their images.

Ezek. vii. 20. They made the images

of their abominations in the house of the Lord.-Ver. 21. I will give it into the hands of the wicked for a spoil, and they shall spoil it. Ch. vi. 4.-v. 13.

viii. 12. Seest thou what the ancients of Israel do in the dark, every one in the house of his imagery.-Ver. 18. Therefore will I deal in fury, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

xvi. 17. 20. Thou madest thyself images. (See to ver. 30.) Therefore 1 have delivered thee into the hand of them that hate thee.

See Ezek. xxxiii. throughout; Israel's apostacy and punishment.

Dan. iii. 1. 5. The king made an image. He commanded to worship it. Ch. iv. 25. They shall drive thee from among men; thy dwelling shall be with the

beast of the field.

Hos. x. 1. According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.-Ver. 17. It is my desire that I should chastise them. Ch. iii. 4.

xi. 2. They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images. Ver. 5. The Assyrian shall be his king.

xiii. 2. They sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver.-Ver. 3. Therefore they shall be as the chaff that is driven with the whirl-wind.

Amos v. 26. Ye have borne the taber

nacle of your Moloch, and Chiun, your images.-Ver. 27. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity.

Rom. i. 23, 24. They changed the glory of God into an image. Wherefore God gave them up, &c.

See Rev. xiii. 14.-xix. 20.-xvi. 2. See also Lev. xxvi. 14. 30. Isa. xxi. 9. xxvii. 9. Jer. xliii. 10. 13.—l. 2.—li. 47. 52. Ezek. vi. 4. 6.-xxx. 13. Hos. iii. 4.

silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Images are vanity. Isa. xl. 19, 20.xli. 29.-xliv. 9, 10 to 18.-xlv. 20. Jer. x. 8. 14. Hab. ii. 18, 19.

CL. They were commanded to be broken. Lev. vii. 25. Ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Numb. xxxiii. 52. Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places. Exod. xxiii. 24. xxxiv. 13. Deut. vii. 5. 25. Isa. xxx. 22.-xvii. 8.

CLI. Images were broken down. Exod. xxxii. 20. Moses burnt the calf which they had made in the fire.

2 Sam. v. 21. David burnt their images. images of Baal. 2 Kings iii. 2. Jehoram put away the

x. 26. Jehu and his men burnt the images of Baal. Ch. xi. 18.

places, and brake the images, and cut xviii. 4. Hezekiah removed the high down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent which Moses had made, for the children of Israel did burn

incense to it.

CLII. Worship to images refused, though commanded by kings. Dan. iii. 18. Refused by Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego.

1 Kings xix. 4. By seven thousand in Israel. Rom. xi. 4. Rev. xv. 2.

Isa. xl. 18. To whom will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him. Ver. 25. Ch. xlvi. 5.

Acts xvii. 29. We ought not to think that the God-head is like unto gold or

aters. Isa. ii. 8, 9. Their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself, therefore forgive them not. Ch. xxvii. 11.

Ver. 18. The idols he shall utterly

abolish.-Ver. 20, 21. In that day shall a man cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clifts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Isa. xix. 1. The Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence.-Ver. 3. They shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. See to ver. 18. punishment.

xlv. 16. They shall go to confusion, that are makers of idols.

Zeph. i. 3. I will consume, saith the Lord, the stumbling blocks with the wicked. Ezek. xiv. 4. 7.

Ver. 4, 5. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place; and them that worship the host of heaven, and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham. See threats to ver. 18. Zech. xiii. 2. Thus saith the Lord, I will cut off the names of idols out of the land of Egypt. Ezek. xxx. 12. 1 Cor. vi. 9. Idolaters shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Eph. v. 5. Rev. xxi. 4. Idolaters shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.

xxii. 15. Without [the heavenly Jerusalem] are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, &c.

CLV. Promises, warnings, and exhortations against idolatry. Ezek. xviii. 6. 9. If a man be just, and hath not lift up his eyes to idols, he shall live.-Ver. 17. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father.

xxxvi. 25. From all your idols will I cleanse you. Ch. xxxvii. 23. Isa. xxxi. 7.-xxvii. 9.

Acts xv. 20. Write to them, that they abstain from idolatry.-Ver. 29. That they abstain from meats offered to idols. Ch. xxi. 25. Rev. ii. 14. 20.

Isa. lvii. 4, 5. Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood; inflaming yourselves with idols.-Ver. 10. Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way.-Ver. 12. Thy works shall not profit thee.

Ezek. vi. 5. I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols. Ver. 6. 9. 13.

viii. 10. I saw the idols of Israel pourtrayed upon the wall.-Ver. 18. I will deal in fury; mine eye shall not spare.

xiv. 3. These men have set up their idols in their heart.-Ver. 4, 5. Thus saith the Lord, every man of the house of Israel, that setteth up his idols in his heart, and cometh to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols: that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are estranged from me through their idols. Ver. 6. 8, 9.

Ver. 36. 38. Thus saith the Lord God, Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms, with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thine abominations: I will judge thee as a woman that breaketh wedlock. Ver. 37.

xx. 7. Then said I, Defile not yourselves with idols; but they rebelled against me.-Ver. 8. Then said I, I will pour out my fury upon them. See to

maketh idols against herself to defile herself.-Ver. 4. Therefore have I made thee a reproach. See Chap. xxiii. throughout.

xxxiii. 25. Thus saith the Lord, Ye lift up your eyes unto your idols, and