mocked them, and said, 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. Jud. 6.31.

1 Sam. 5.3,4.

2 Chr. 25.15. Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? 2 Kin. 3.13. Isa. 36.18. Isa. 16.12. 1 Sam. 12.21. Psa. 115.4. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. 8. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. Psa. 96.5. Psa. 135.15-18. Isa. 2.8.

Isa. 41.23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. v. 26-29. Isa. 43.9.

Isa. 44.19. None considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? v. 9-20. Isa. 40.19,20.

Isa. 45.20. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Isa. 46.1. Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2. They stoop, they bow down together; they could

not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Jer. 14.22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain?

Jer. 16.19 Our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. 20. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

Hos. 8.5. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; 6. The workmen made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. Ex. 32.20. Psa. 106.20.

Act. 14.15. Turn from these vanities unto the living God.

Act. 17.22. In all things ye are too superstitious. 23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. 29. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Rom. 1.23. Changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. We know that an idol is nothing v. 5.

1 Cor. 8.4. in the world.

1 Cor. 12.2. Ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Gal. 4.8. When ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Rev. 9.20. Repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk. Deu. 4.28. Dan. 5.23.

IDOLATRY. IDOLATROUS CANAANITES Their example to be avoided, Ex. 23.31-33. Ex. to be destroyed, Deu. 7.2-5,16. Deu. 20.16-18. 34.12-16. Lev. 18.3,27-30. Lev. 20.23. Num.

33.52. Deu. 6.14. Deu. 12.29-31. Deu. 18.9-14. Deu. 29.16-18. Deu. 31.16-18. Jos.

IDOLATROUS OFFERINGS AND WORSHIP. Burnt-offerings of animals, Ex. 32.6. 1 Kin. 18.26. Act. 14.13.

Isa. 47.13. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14. 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. v. 12-15. 2 Kin. 19.18. Isa. 37.19. Zec. 10.2.

Isa. 57.13. When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them. Jer. 2.28. Where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. Deu. 32.37,38. Jud. 10.14. Jer. 11.12. Jer. 10.5. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. v. 3-16. Jer. 48.13. Jer. 51.17. Hab. 2.18,19.

Burnt-offerings of children (forbidden, see Lev. 18.21. Lev. 20.1-5). By Canaanites, Deu. 12.31. King of Moab, 2 Kin. 3.27. To Moloch, by Israelites, 2 Kin. 16.3. 2 Chr. 28.3. 2 Kin. 21.6. 2 Kin. 23.10. Isa. 57.5. Jer. 7.31. Jer. 32.35. Eze. 16.20,21. Eze. 20.26,31. Eze. 23.37,39. To demons, Psa. 106.37,38; and to Baal, Jer. 19.5,6.

Drink-offerings, Isa. 57.6. Isa. 65.11. Jer. 7.18. Jer. 19.13. Jer. 32.29. Jer. 44.17,19,25. Eze. 20.28. Of wine, Deu. 32.38. Of blood, Psa. 16.4. Zec. 9.7. Meat-offerings, Isa. 57.6. Jer. 7.18. Jer. 44.17. Eze. 16.19. Peaceofferings, Ex. 32.6.

Incense burned on altars, 1 Kin. 12.33. 2 Chr. 30.14. 2 Chr. 34.25. Jer. 11.12,17. Jer. 48.35. Eze. 16.18. Eze. 23.41. On brick altars, Isa. 65.3. Prayers to idols, Jud. 10.14. Isa. 44.17. Isa. 45.20. Isa. 46.7. Jonah 1.5. Praise, Jud. 16.24. Dan. 5.4.

Singing and dancing, Ex. 32.18,19. Music, Dan. 3.5-7. Cutting the flesh, 1 Kin. 18.28. Jer. 41.5. Kissing, Hos. 13.2. Job 31.27. Bowing, 1 Kin. 19.18. 2 Kin. 5.18. Tithes and gifts offered, 2 Kin. 23.11. Dan. 11.38. Amos 4.4,5. Feasting and licentious practices, Ex. 32.25. Num. 25.1-3. 1 Cor. 10.7,8. Festivals, 1 Kin. 12.32. Dan. 3.2,3.

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7.5,25,26. Deu. 12.2,3. Jud. 2.2. Destroyed by Jacob, Gen. 35.2-4. Moses, Ex. 32.19,20. Gideon, Jud. 6.28-32. David, 2 Sam. 5.21. Jehu, 2 Kin. 10.26-28. Jehoiada, 2 Kin. 11.18. Hezekiah, 2 Kin. 18.3-6. Josiah, 2 Kin. 23.4-20. Asa, 2 Chr. 14.3-5. 2 Chr. 15.8-16. Jehoshaphat, 2 Chr. 17.6. 2 Chr. 19.3. Jews, 2 Chr. 30.14. Manasseh, 2 Chr. 33.15.

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OBJECTS OF. Angels, Col. 2.18. Animals, Rom. 1.23. Gods of Egypt, Ex. 12.12. Golden calf, Ex. 32.4. Brazen serpent, 2 Kin. Unknown Net and drag, Hab. 1.16. god, Act. 17.23. God of forces, Dan. 11.38. Men, Act.14.8-18. The dead, see NECROMANCY. IMAGES. Graven and molten, Ex. 20.4. Ex. 32.4,20. Deu. 4.23. Isa. 44.9-12. Hab. Standing, Lev. 26.1. 1 Sam. 5.3. Isa. 46.7. Made of gold, silver, or brass, Psa. 135.15. Isa. 46.6. Dan. 3.1. Rev. 9.20. Of wood, Deu. 4.28. 2 Kin. 19.18. Isa. 44.13-19; and adorned with gold and silver, Isa. 40.19,20. Jer. 10.3-5. Of stone, Lev. 26.1. Jer. 2.27. Act. 17.29. Adorned with garments, Jer. 10.9. Eze. 16.18.

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Job 9.4. Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

Job 24.13. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 33.14. God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

Psa. 7.12. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. v. 13.

Psa. 32.9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding.

Psa. 50.17. Thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psa. 58.4. Like the deaf adder that stoppeth 5. Which will not hearken to the her ear; voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Psa. 68.21. God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Psa. 78.8. A stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Psa. 81.11. My people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

Psa. 82.5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness.

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Pro. 1.24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh. 28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: 30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,

and be filled with their own devices. v. 27.

Pro. 11.3. The perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Pro. 15.10. He that hateth reproof shall die. 32. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul. Pro. 19.16. He that despiseth his way shall

die. Pro. 26.11. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Pro. 28.13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper. 14. He that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Pro. 21.29.

Pro. 29.1. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Ecc. 8.11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Isa. 26.10. Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. Isa. 32.9. Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 10. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless

women.

Isa. 46.12. Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness 13. I bring near my righteousness.

Isa. 48.4. I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass. 8. Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Isa. 57.11. Of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

Isa. 65.12. Because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 15. Ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord God shall slay thee. Isa. 66.4. Jer. 3.10. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. v. 7-9.

Jer. 5.21. Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22. Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence. 23. This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Jer. 6.10. To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 16. Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17. I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Jer. 6.19. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Jer. 7.13. I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 14. Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their

turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

Jer. 8.20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. v. 4-22. Jer. 12.11. The whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

Jer. 13.17. If ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive. 27. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? v. 15. Jer. 19.15.

Jer. 14.10. Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. v. 1-16.

Jer. 15.6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7. I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Jer. 16.12. Ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me. Jer. 44.10.

Jer. 17.23. They obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Jer. 18.12. They said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. Jer. 2.25.

Jer. 22.21. I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

Jer. 44.16. As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. 17. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, as we have done, we, and our fathers: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

Eze. 2.5. They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

Eze. 3.5. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel, 6. Surely, had sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7. But the house of Israel will not

hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken | unto me for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 19. If thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity. 26. I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. v. 1-11. Eze. 2.4. Eze. 33.9.

Eze. 12.2. Thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Eze. 20.21. The children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them.

Eze. 33.4. Whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him.

Hos. 4.17. Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Hos. 5.4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Hos. 7.13. Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 15. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

Hos. 11.2. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 7. My people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.'

Zec. 7.11. They refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. 13. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts. v. 4-14.

Mal. 2.2. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 17. Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Mal. 4.6. He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Mat. 11.21. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in

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Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. v. 20-24. Mat. 12.42,44.

Mat. 23.37. How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Luk. 13.34.

Mat. 24.38. Marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 48. If that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming. 50. The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not, 51. And shall cut him asunder.

Mat. 27.4. They said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 25. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Mar. 3.5. He looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.

Act. 17.51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Rom. 2.4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 5. After thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Rev. 2.5. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 16. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 21. I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22. Behold I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Rev. 3.3. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

IMPENITENCE, EXAMPLES OF: Pharaoh, Ex. 4.21. Ex. 5.2. Ex.7.13,16. Ex. 8.15,19,31. Ex. 9.7,12,30,34. Ex. 10.20,27. Ex. 11.9,10. Ex. 14.5-9. Israelites, Num. 14.22,23. Deu. 9.7-14. Deu. 31.27. Jud. 2.17,19. 1 Sam. 8.7,8. 2 Kin. 17.14. 2 Chr. 24.19. 2 Chr. 36.16,17. Neh. 9.16,17,29,30. Jer. 36.31. Eli's sons, 1 Sam. 2.25. Amaziah, 2 Chr. 25.16. Manasseh, 2 Chr. 33.10. Amon, 2 Chr. 33.23. Zedekiah, 2 Chr. 36.12,13. Jer. 37.2. Jehoiakim and his servants, Jer. 36.22-24. Belshazzar, Dan. 5.22,23.

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