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Hab. i. 3. Why dost thou shew me iniquity-Ver. 13. The Lord cannot look on iniquity.

Matt. vii. 23. Christ will say in the day of judgment, Depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

xiii. 41, 42. He shall cast them who do iniquity into a furnace of fire.

Jer. v. 25. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

xiii. 22. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, &c.

xxxi. 30. Every one shall die for his own iniquity. Ezek. iii. 18, 19, &c.

Lam. iv. 6. The punishment of the iniquiof my people is greater than the sin of Sodom.

Rev. xviii. 5, 6. Babylon's sins have reach-ty ed unto heaven, God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double.

CXXXV. The punishment of iniquity threatened under the providential government of God, intermixed with instances thereof. Gen. iv. 13. Cain said, My punishment (or iniquity) is greater than I can bear.

xv. 16. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Lev. xxvi. 39. They shall pine away in their iniquity, in your enemies' lands, and the iniquities of their fathers. Ezek. xxiv. 23.

Job xx. 27. The heaven shall reveal the wicked man's iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.-Ver. 22. Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

xxi. 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children.

Ezek. iv. 16, 17. They shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment. They shall want bread and water and consume away for their iniquity.

xxxii. 27. Their iniquity shall be upon their bones.

xxxiii. 6. He is taken away in his iniquity. -Ver. 8. He shall die in his iniquity. Ver. 9. 13. 18.

xxxix. 23. The house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity.

Dan. ix. 16. For our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, we are become a reproach. Hos. xiv. 1. Israel, return unto the Lord; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Mic. ii. 1. Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds.

Hab. ii, 12, Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by ini

Ps. vii. 14. The wicked travaileth with ini-quity. Mic. iii. 10. quity.

Matt. xxiii. 28. Ye are full of hypocrisy and

xxxi. 10. My life is spent with grief, and | iniquity.-Ver. 30. Woe unto you. my years with sighing; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity.

xxxvii. 1, 2. The workers of iniquity shall be cut down. Ps. xxxvi. 12.

xcii. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. Ver. 9.

cvi. 43. They were brought low for their iniquity.

cvii. 17. Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.

Prov. v. 22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

x. 29. Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Isa. v. 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope.

xxix. 20. All that watch for iniquity are cut off.

xxx. 13. Iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall.

1. 1. For your iniquities ye have sold your

selves.

Ixiv. 6. Our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.

COMMANDMENT FIRST.

CXXXVI. Idolatry forbidden. Exod. xx. 3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Ps. lxxxi. 9. Hos. xiii. 4. 1 Cor. viii. 4, 5.

xxiii. 13. Make no mention of the name of other gods. (Josh. xxiii. 7.)-Ver. 24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them.

Deut. iv. 15. Take good heed unto yourselves.-Ver. 19. Lest when thou seest the sun and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou shouldst be driven to worship and serve them.

vi. 14. Ye shall not go after the gods of the people which are round about you. Judg. vi. 10.

xii. 30. Inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Jer. v. 7.

CXXXVII. Enforced by threatenings as preventives. Exod. xxii. 20. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Lev. xx. 5.

Deut. viii. 19. If thou at all do forsake the Lord your God, and walk after other gods and

serve them, and worship them, I testify against | Baal-peor.-Ver. 29. The plague brake in you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

upon them.

Jer. v. 19. As ye have served other gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not yours.

1 Kings ix. 6, 7. If you or your children shall turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them, then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. Ver. 9. See vii. 9, 10. Will ye walk after other gods, Deut. xxviii. 15. 36. 64.-xxix. 18 to 28.- and come and stand before me in this house? xxx. 17, 18.-xxxi. 16, 17. Josh. xxiii. 16.--Ver. 15. I will cast you of my sight.—Ver. xxiv. 20. 2 Chron. vii. 19, 20. Ps. xvi. 4.-20. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Bexliv. 20, 21. Jer. xvi. 13.-xxii. 9. hold mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, &c. Ver. 30 to 34. Ch. viii. 2.—xix. 3 to 14.

CXXXVIII. Judgments inflicted upon transgressors of this command. Deut. xxxii. 15. Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; he forsook God that made him.

Deut. xxxii. 16, 17. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods. They sacrificed to devils, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up.

xi. 10. They went after other gods to serve them.-Ver. 11. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon this place.-Ver. 14. Therefore pray not for this people. Isa. lvii. 3. 5. 13. Jer. xliv. 21, 22, 23.-iii. 3. 6. 8. 20.

Ezek. xx. 32, 33. Ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries. Ver. 19, 20. And the Lord abhorred them, As I live, saith the Lord, surely with a stretchand said, I will hide my face from them.-ed-out arm, and with fury poured out, will I Ver. 22, 23. A fire is kindled in mine anger. rule over you. Ch. viii. 16-18. Zeph. i. I will heap mischiefs upon them. Ver. 24, 3, 4, 5. 25, 26. 35.

Judg. ii. 11, 12. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people round about them, and bowed themselves unto them.

Ver. 14. And the anger of the Lord was against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.-Ver. 15. Whithersoever they went out the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, and they were greatly distressed. Ver. 17. 20. 23. Ch. iii. 7, 8.-x. 6, 7. 13, 14. Jer. xi. 10.-xiii. 10. v. 8. They chose new gods; then was war in the gates.

x. 6, 7. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the gods of the Philistines. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines.

Ver. 10. They cried unto the Lord.-Ver. 13, 14. The Lord said, Ye have forsaken me, and served other gods. Let the gods which ye have chosen deliver you in the time of your

tribulation.

2 Kings xvii. 7, 8. The children of Israel feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the heathen. (Jer. xliv. 3 to 28.) Ver. 18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight.

xxii. 17. Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. Jer, i. 16. -xix. 4.

Ps. cvi. 28. They joined themselves to

CXXXIX. God's judgments upon particular transgressors of this command. On Solomon, 1 Kings xi. 1. 9. 11. 33.—Jeroboam, 1 Kings xii. 28.-xiv. 2. 17.-Baasha, 1 Kings xvi. 3. 12.-Ahab, 1 Kings xvi. 30. xxi. 21.-xxii. 34. 38. 2 Kings x. 11.Jehoram, Ahaziah, 2 Kings i. 2. 16, 17. 2 Chron. xxi. 11. 14. 19.-Manasseh, 2 Kings xxi. 3, 4, 5, 6. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 2 to 15.Amaziah, 2 Chron. xxv. 14 to 20.

CXL. Covenants and intermarriages with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan forbidden to the Jews, lest they should thereby be enThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor snared to their idolatry. Exod. xxiii. 32. with their gods. Ver. 33. Deut. vii. 2. Numb. xxxiii. 55.

make a covenant with the inhabitants of the xxxiv. 12. Take heed to thyself, lest thou land, lest it be a snare unto thee.-Ver. 15. sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and And go a-whoring after their gods, and do thou eat of his sacrifice.-Ver. 16. 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. Deut. vii. 3, 4. Ch. xx. 17, 18. Josh. xxiii. 12, 13. Judg. ii. 1, 2.—iii. 5. to 8.

the Gibeonites, Josh. ix. 14, 15. This coveTransgressed in making a covenant with xxi. 1. nant confirmed for their punishment. 2 Sam.

CXLI. Making covenants and intermarriages with the transgressors of this command punished. Numb. xxv. 2, 3, 4. They called the people unto the sacrifices 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 lifted 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 served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

2 Kings xxiii. 4, 5. Josiah put down the idolatrous priests. See to ver. 26.

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

Hos. xiv. 3. Neither will we say to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods. See Deut. xxxii. 12. Dan. iii. 12.

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

Deut. xiii. 1, 2. 5. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth a sign or a wonder, and the 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.

xiii. 6. 8, 9. 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, 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; thy 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 one of thy cities, Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out, and have withdrawn 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. 26-28.

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 judgments.

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

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

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. after, that we Ver. 24.

Shew the things to come heremay know that ye are gods.

Acts xix. 26. Paul persuaded, saying, That they are no gods that are made with hands. Rom. i. 25. They worshipped and served 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. 23. 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.

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, 3. Ahaz made molten

Instance. Saul. 1 Sam. xxviii. 7.-His images for Baalim. He burnt his children in punishment. 1 Chron. x. 13.

COMMANDMENT SECOND. CXLVII. Images, the use of them forbid den, with preventive threatenings. Exod. xx. 4, 5. 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 water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Ch. 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 abomi

nation to the Lord.

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

the fire, after the abomination of the heathen, &c.-Ver. 5. Wherefore the Lord delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria.

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. the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, 11. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them 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.

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

Isa. xlii. 8. My glory will I not give to other; nor my praise to graven images. Rev. xiv. 9, 10. If any man worship the beast and his image, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb, &c.

CXLVIII. God's judgments upon the breakers of this commandment.

Exod. xxxii. 4. Aaron made a molten calf. Deut. ix. 12. 16. Neh. ix. 18. Ps. cvi. 19. The Lord plagued the people, because of the calf which Aaron made. Exod. xxxii. 35.

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 of Jeroboam. Ch. xvi. 3.

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,

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

their abominations in the house of the Lord. Ezek. vii. 20. They made the images of

Ver. 21. I will give it into the hands of the wicked for a spoil, and they shall pollute 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. 27. Thou madest thyself images, (See to ver. 30.) Therefore I have delivered thee into the hand of them that hate thee.

See Ezek. xxiii. throughout; Israel's apostasy 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 beasts of the field.

Hos. x. 1. According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.-Ver. 10. It is my desire that I should chastise them. Ch. ii. 13.

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 whirlwind.

Amos v. 26. Ye have borne the tabernacle 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.-1. 2.-li. 47. 52. Ezek. vi. 4.6.-xxx. 13. Hos. iii. 4. Mic. i. 7.—v. 13. |

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CLII. Instances of images used by apostates, as outward symbols in worship offered to the true God. The golden calf, Exod. xxxii. 4, 5. Neh. ix. 18. Micah's image, Judg. xvii. 3.-ver. 13. Ch. xviii. 31. Jeroboam's calves, 1 Kings xii. 26 to 33.

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

1 Kings xix. 18. By seven thousand in Is rael. Rom. xi. 4. Rev. xv. 2.-xx. 4.

CLIV. Threats against idols and idolaters. 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.

CXLIX. Images, no representation of God. Deut. iv. 12. The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire, ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude.-Ver. 15, 16. Take therefore heed unto yourselves, lest Ver. 18. The idols he shall utterly abolish. ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven-Ver. 20, 21. In that day shall a man cast image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. Ver. 17, 18, 19. 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 Godhead is like unto gold or 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. Deut. vii. 5. 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. 2 Kings iii. 2. Jehoram put away the images of Baal.

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

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

xxiii. 14. Josiah brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, &c. Ver. 19. 24. 2 Chron. xiv. 3. Asa brake down the images. Ver. 5.

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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 See to ver. 18. Their pu

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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. 13.

1 Cor. vi. 9. Idolaters shall not enter the kingdom of God. Eph. v. 5.

Rev. xxi. 8. 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. 5, 6. 9. If a man be just, and hath not lifted up his

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