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forgotten; make sweet melody. I knew that the seed should not be
Bing many songs, that thou mayesthis: and it came to pass, when he
be remembered.
went in unto his brother's wife,
that he spilled it on the ground,
lest that he should give seed to
his brother. And the thing which
he did displeased the LORD; where-

Jer. iii, 3. Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou re

fusedst to be ashamed.

none

fore he slew him also.

Exod. xxii, 19. Whosoever lieth
with a beast shall surely be put
to death.

man's seed of copulation go out
Lev. xv, 16, 17, 32. And if any
from him, then he shall wash all
his flesh in water, and be unclean
ment, and every skin, whereon is
until the even. And every gar-
the seed of copulation, shall be
clean until the even. This is the
washed with water, and be un-

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 whoredom. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee; therefore thou 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.

Judges xi, 1, 2. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bare him

sons: and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange

woman.

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Hosea ii, 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 vill, 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. xil, 8. But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Neither shalt thou lie with any
Lev. xviii, 23, 24, 26, 28-30.
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
of your own nation, nor any
stranger that sojourneth among
you. That the land spue not you
out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that were
before you. For whosoever shall
commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them
shall be cut off from among their
people. Therefore shall ye keep
mine ordinance, that ye commit
customs, which were committed
not any one of these abominable
before you, and that ye defile not
your God.
yourselves therein: I am the LORD

Lev. xx, 15. 16. And if a man lie
put to death; and ye shall slay the
with a beast, he shall surely be
beast. And if a woman approach
unto any beast, and lie down
thereto, thou shalt kill the woman
and the beast.

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that lieth with any manner of
Deut. xxvii, 21. Cursed be he
beast, and all the people shall say,
Amen.

EUNUCHISM.

Deut. xxiii, 1. He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

2 Kings xx, 18. And of thy sons AGAINST NATURE. that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take Gen, xxxviii, 9, 10. And Onan away; and they shall be eunuchs

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spake unto Asbpenaz, the mas Dan. i, 3, 9, 11. And the king ter of his eunuchs, that he should Israel, and of the king's seed, and bring certain of the children of of the princes; Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs. Then said Daniel to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. eunuchs had set over Daniel,

unto them, All men cannot receivə Matth. xix, 11, 12. But he said this saying, save they to whom it from their mother's womb, and is given. For there are some there are some eunuchs, which eunuchs, which were 80 born

there be eunuchs which have were made eunuchs of men; and made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Acts viii, 27. And he arose and went: and, behold, a Ethiopia, an eunuch of great man of authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship.

SODOM.

Sodom were wicked, and sinners Gen. xiii, 13. But the men of before the LORD exceedingly.

LORD said, Because the cry of Gen. xviii, 20-22. And the and because their sin is very Sodom and Gomorrah is great, grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if turned their faces. from thence, not, I will know. And the men and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the

LORD.

Gen. xix, 4-11. But, before they lay down, the men of the city. even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethnow, I have two daughters which ren, do not so wickedly. Behold have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto

you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Lev. xviii, 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination.

Deut. xxiii, 17, 18. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Deut. xxxii, 32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their

clusters are bitter.

Judges xix, 22-24. Now, as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

1 Kings xiv, 24. And there were also Sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Rom. i, 24, 26, 27. Wherefore God also gave them to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the

Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride.

men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with Matth. xi, 23, 24. And thou, Camen working that which is unpernaum, which art exalted unto seemly, and receiving in them-heaven, shalt be brought down to selves that recompence of their hell: for if the mighty works, 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. iii, 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 rewarded 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 moment, 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 sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked 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

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 be consumed. Then the LORD 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 children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land,shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD whole land thereof is brimstone, hath laid upon it; And that the 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 LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

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 xxiii, 7. And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Jer. xlix, 18. As in the over

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and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

Jer. 1, 40. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; 80 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

were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

day that Lot went out of Sodom Luke xvii, 29, 30. But the same it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

2 Pet. ii, 6. And turning the

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into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.

Gomorrha, and the cities about Jude 7. Even as Sodom and then in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering 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 first is Pison: that is it which

compasseth 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 Joram 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:) and Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass.

1 Kings x, 21. And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: 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 gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the

house of the LORD.

2 Kings xviii, 16. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

I had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

Ezra viii, 26. I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and

fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents.

Esther i, 7. And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

Job xxiii, 10. But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

The

of it are the place of sapphires; Job xxviii, 6, 17, 19. The stones and it hath dust of gold. gold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

Ps. xix, 10. More to be desired

are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold..

hand did stand the queen in gold Ps. xlv, 9. . . . . Upon thy right of Ophir.

Ps. Ixxii, 15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba...

Isa. Ix, 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 2 Kings xxiv, 13. And he car-sanctuary are poured out in the ried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut 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 Parvalm.

2 Chron. viii, 18. And Huram sent him, by the hands of his servants, ships, and servants that

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

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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. ill, 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich. . . .

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Job xxii, 25. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Job xxvii, 16, 17. Though he 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,

hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Prov. x, 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart

of the wicked is little worth.

Prov. xxv, 4. Take away the

which we found in our sacks'
mouths we brought again unto
thee out of the land of Canaan,
how then should we steal out of
thy lord's house silver or gold?
Exod. iii, 22. But every woman

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Matth. x. 9. Provide neither

dross from the silver, and there shall borrow of her neighbour, gold, nor silver, nor brass, in your

shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

Isa. i, 22. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Isa. xlviii, 10. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace

of affliction.

Jer. vi, 30. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Jer. x, 9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder.

Ezek. xxil, 18. Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Ezek. xxvii, 12. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver. . . . . .

Dan. v. 2. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem. . . .

Dan. xi, 8. And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold.

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Amos ii, 6. They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

Zech. ix, 3. And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the

streets.

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and of her that sojourneth in her
house, jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold..

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purses.

Acts ill, 6. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.....

Acts xx, 33. I have coveted no

Num. xxii, 18. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silverman's silver, or gold, or apparel. and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do cankered. . . . . James v, 3. Your gold and silver

less or more.

and the silver, the brass, the iron,
Num. xxxi, 22. Only the gold,

the tin, and the lead.

Neither

Deut. xvii, 17.
shall he greatly multiply to him-
self silver and gold.

Josh. vi, 19. But all the silver,
and gold, and vessels of brass and
iron, are consecrated unto the
LORD: they shall come into the
treasury of the LORD.

David did dedicate unto the LORD,
2 Sam. viii, 11. Which also king
with the silver and gold that he
had dedicated of all nations which
he subdued.

2 Sam. xxi, 4. And the Gibcon-
ites said unto him, We will have
no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of
his house. . . .

took all the silver and the gold
1 Kings xv, 18, 19. Then Asa
that were left in the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's bouse, and

delivered them into the hand of
his servants; and king Asa sent
them to Ben-hadad, the son of
Tabrimon, the son of Hezion,
king of Syria, that dwelt at Da-
between me and thee, and between
mascus, saying. There is a league
my father and thy father: behold,
I have sent unto thee a present of
silver and gold; come and break
thy league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from

me.

thy gold is mine.
1 Kings xx, 3. Thy silver and

made silver and gold at Jerusa-
2 Chron. 1, 15. And the king
lem as plenteous as stones, and
cedar-trees made he as the syca-
more-trees that are in the vale for
abundance.

Ps. cv, 37. He brought them
forth also with silver and gold..

Ps. cxix, 72. The law of thy

mouth is better unto me than
thousands of gold and silver.

Eccles. ii, 8. I gathered me also
silver and gold, and the peculiar
treasure of kings and of the pro-

vinces.....

Isa. ii, 7. Their land also is full
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1 Peter i, 18. Forasmuch as ye and gold, from your vain conver know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver sation received by tradition from your fathers.

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Deut. viii, 9. ... A land whose hills thou mayest dig brass. stones are iron, and out of whose

Josh. vi, 24. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that 008 therein; only the silver, and the of iron, they put into the treasury gold, and the vessels of brass and of the house of the LORD.

Judges xvi, 21. But the Philis Gaza, and bound him with fetters tines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to

of brass. . . . .

and from Berothai, cities of Hada2 Sam. viii, 8. And from Betab, ezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

2 Kings xxv, 13, 14. And the pillars of brass that were in the and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, and the bases, house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

1 Chron. xxii, 3. And David prenails for the doors of the gates, pared iron in abundance for the and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight.

2 Chron. vi, 13. For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five cubits broad; and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court. ...

Ezek. xxvii, 13. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Zech. vi, 1. And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked

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