• Forbidden — Ro 12:11; Heb 6:12
  • Produce apathy — Pr 12:27; 26:15
  • Akin to extravagance — Pr 18:9
  • Accompanied by conceit — Pr 26:16
  • Lead to
    • Poverty - Pr 10:4; 20:13
    • Want - Pr 20:4; 24:34
    • Hunger - Pr 19:15; 20:13
    • Bondage - Pr 12:24
    • Disappointment - Pr 13:4; 21:25
    • Ruin - Pr 24:30,31; Ec 10:18
    • Tattling and meddling - 1Ti 5:13
  • Effects of, afford instruction to others — Pr 24:30-32
  • Remonstrance against — Pr 6:6,9
  • False excuses for — Pr 20:4; 22:13
  • Illustrated — Pr 26:14; Mt 25:18,26
  • Exemplified
    • Watchmen - Isa 56:10
    • Athenians - Ac 17:21
    • Thessalonians - 2Th 3:11
  • Forbidden — Ex 20:2,3; De 5:7
  • Consists in
    • Bowing down to images - Ex 20:5; De 5:9
    • Worshipping images - Isa 44:17; Da 3:5,10,15
    • Sacrificing to images - Ps 106:38; Ac 7:41
    • Worshipping other gods - De 30:17; Ps 81:9
    • Swearing by other gods - Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7
    • Walking after other gods - De 8:19
    • Speaking in the name of other gods - De 18:20
    • Looking to other gods - Ho 3:1
    • Serving other gods - De 7:4; Jer 5:19
    • Fearing other gods - 2Ki 17:35
    • Sacrificing to other gods - Ex 22:20
    • Worshipping the true God by an image, & c - Ex 32:4-6; Ps 106:19,20
    • Worshipping angels - Col 2:18
    • Worshipping the host of heaven - De 4:19; 17:3
    • Worshipping demons - Mt 4:9-10; Re 9:20
    • Worshipping dead men - Ps 106:28
    • Setting up idols in the heart - Eze 14:3,4
    • Covetousness - Eph 5:5; Col 3:5
    • Sensuality - Php 3:19
  • Is changing the glory of God into an image — Ro 1:23; Ac 17:29
  • Is changing the truth of God into a lie — Ro 1:25; Isa 44:20
  • Is a work of the flesh — Ga 5:19,20
  • Incompatible with the service of God — Ge 35:2,3; Jos 24:23; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 18:21; 2Co 6:15,16
  • Described as
    • An abomination to God - De 7:25
    • Hateful to God - De 16:22; Jer 44:4
    • Vain and foolish - Ps 115:4-8; Isa 44:19; Jer 10:3
    • Bloody - Eze 23:39
    • Abominable - 1Pe 4:3
    • Unprofitable - Judg 10:14; Isa 46:7
    • Irrational - Ac 17:29; Ro 1:21-23
    • Defiling - Eze 20:7; 36:18
  • They who practise
    • Forget God - De 8:19; Jer 18:15
    • Go astray from God - Eze 44:10
    • Pollute the name of God - Eze 20:39
    • Defile the sanctuary of God - Eze 5:11
    • Are estranged from God - Eze 14:5
    • Forsake God - 2Ki 22:17; Jer 16:11
    • Hate God - 2Ch 19:2,3
    • Provoke God - De 31:20; Isa 65:3; Jer 25:6
    • Are vain in their imaginations - Ro 1:21
    • Are ignorant and foolish - Ro 1:21,22
    • Inflame themselves - Isa 57:5
    • Hold fast their deceit - Jer 8:5
    • Carried away by it - 1Co 12:2
    • Go after it in heart - Eze 20:16
    • Are mad upon it - Jer 50:38
    • Boast of it - Ps 97:7
    • Have fellowship with devils - Ho 4:12
    • Ask counsel of their idols - Ho 4:12
    • Look to idols for deliverance - Isa 44:17; 45:20
    • Swear by their idols - Am 8:14
  • Objects of, numerous — 1Co 8:5
  • Objects of described as
    • Strange gods - Ge 35:2,4; Jos 24:20
    • Other gods - Judg 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9
    • New gods - De 32:17; Judg 5:8
    • Gods that cannot save - Isa 45:20
    • Gods that have not made the heavens - Jer 10:11
    • No gods - Jer 5:7; Ga 4:8
    • Molten gods - Ex 34:17; Le 19:4
    • Molten images - De 27:15; Hab 2:18
    • Graven images - Isa 45:20; Ho 11:2
    • Senseless idols - De 4:28; Ps 115:5,7
    • Dumb idols - Hab 2:18
    • Dumb Stones - Hab 2:19
    • Stocks - Jer 3:9; Ho 4:12
    • Abominations - Isa 44:19; Jer 32:34
    • Images of abomination - Eze 7:20
    • Idols of abomination - Eze 16:36
    • Stumbling blocks - Eze 14:3
    • Teachers of lies - Hab 2:18
    • Wind and confusion - Isa 41:29
    • Nothing - Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4
    • Helpless - Jer 10:5
    • Vanity - Jer 18:15
    • Vanities of the Gentiles - Jer 14:22
  • Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed — Isa 44:10-20
  • Obstinate sinners judicially given up to — De 4:28; 28:64; Ho 4:17
  • Warnings against — De 4:15-19
  • Exhortations to turn from — Eze 14:6; 20:7; Ac 14:15
  • Renounced on conversion — 1Th 1:9
  • Led to abominable sins — Ro 1:26-32; Ac 15:20
  • Saints should
    • Keep from - Jos 23:7; 1Jo 5:21
    • Flee from - 1Co 10:14
    • Not have anything connected with in their houses - De 7:26
    • Not partake of any thing connected with - 1Co 10:19,20
    • Not have religious intercourse with those who practise - Jos 23:7; 1Co 5:11
    • Not covenant with those who practise - Ex 34:12,15; De 7:2
    • Not intermarry with those who practise - Ex 34:16; De 7:3
    • Testify against - Ac 14:15; 19:26
    • Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death - Da 3:18
  • Saints preserved by God from — 1Ki 19:18; Ro 11:4
  • Saints refuse to receive the worship of — Ac 10:25,26; 14:11-15
  • Angels refuse to receive the worship of — Re 22:8,9
  • Destruction of, promised — Eze 36:25; Zec 13:2
  • Everything connected with, should be destroyed — Ex 34:13; De 7:5; 2Sa 5:21; 2Ki 23:14
  • Woe denounced against — Hab 2:19
  • Curse denounced against — De 27:15
  • Punishment of
    • Judicial death - De 17:2-5
    • Dreadful judgments which end in death - Jer 8:2; 16:1-11
    • Banishment - Jer 8:3; Ho 8:5-8; Am 5:26,27
    • Exclusion from heaven - 1Co 6:9,10; Eph 5:5; Re 22:15
    • Eternal torments - Re 14:9-11; 21:8
  • Exemplified
    • Israel - Ex 32:1; 2Ki 17:12
    • Philistines - Judg 16:23
    • Micah - Judg 17:4,5
    • Jeroboam - 1Ki 12:28
    • Maachah - 1Ki 15:13
    • Ahab - 1Ki 16:31
    • Jezebel - 1Ki 18:19
    • Sennacherib - 2Ki 19:37
    • Manasseh - 2Ki 21:4-7
    • Amon - 2Ki 21:21
    • Ahaz - 2Ch 28:3
    • Judah - Jer 11:13
    • Nebuchadnezzar - Da 3:1
    • Belshazzar - Da 5:23
    • People of Lystra - Ac 14:11,12
    • Athenians - Ac 17:16
    • Ephesians - Ac 19:28
  • Zeal against — Exemplified
    • Asa - 1Ki 15:12
    • Josiah - 2Ki 23:5
    • Jehoshaphat - 2Ch 17:6
    • Israel - 2Ch 31:1
    • Manasseh - 2Ch 33:15
  • All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses — Ex 20:4,5
  • All heathen nations given up to — Ps 96:5; Ro 1:23,25; 1Co 12:2
  • Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapes — Ac 14:11
  • Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence — 1Ki 20:23; 2Ki 17:26
  • Objects of
    • The heavenly bodies - 2Ki 23:5; Ac 7:42
    • Angels - Col 2:18
    • Departed spirits - 1Sa 28:14,15
    • Earthly creatures - Ro 1:23
    • Images - De 29:17; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:17
  • Temples built for — Ho 8:14
  • Altars raised for — 1Ki 18:26; Ho 8:11
  • Accompanied by feasts — 2Ki 10:20; 1Co 10:27,28
  • Objects of, worshipped
    • With sacrifices - Nu 22:40; 2Ki 10:24
    • With libations - Isa 57:6; Jer 19:13
    • With incense - Jer 48:35
    • With prayer - 1Ki 18:26; Isa 44:17
    • With singing and dancing - Ex 32:18,19; 1Ki 18:26; 1Co 10:7
    • By bowing to them - 1Ki 19:18; 2Ki 5:18
    • By kissing them - 1Ki 19:18; Ho 13:2
    • By kissing the hand to them - Job 31:26,27
    • By cutting the flesh - 1Ki 18:28
    • By burning children - De 12:31; 2Ch 33:6; Jer 19:4,5; Eze 16:21
    • In temples - 2Ki 5:18
    • On high places - Nu 22:41; Jer 2:20
    • In groves - Ex 34:13
    • Under trees - Isa 57:5; Jer 2:20
    • In private houses - Judg 17:4,5
    • On the tops of houses - 2Ki 23:12; Zep 1:5
    • In secret places - Isa 57:8
  • Rites of, obscene and impure — Ex 32:25; Nu 25:1-3; 2Ki 17:9; Isa 57:6,8,9; 1Pe 4:3
  • Divination connected with — 2Ch 33:6
  • Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands — Ac 14:13
  • Idols, mentioned in Scripture
    • Adrammelech - 2Ki 17:31
    • Anammelech - 2Ki 17:31
    • Ashima - 2Ki 17:30
    • Ashtoreth - Judg 2:13; 1Ki 11:33
    • Baal - Judg 2:11-13; 6:25
    • Baal-berith - Judg 8:33; 9:4,46
    • Baal-peor - Nu 25:1-3
    • Baalzebub - 2Ki 1:2,16
    • Baal-zephon - Ex 14:2
    • Bel - Jer 50:2; 51:44
    • Chemosh - Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33
    • Chiun - Am 5:26
    • Dagon - Judg 16:23; 1Sa 5:1-3
    • Diana - Ac 19:24,27
    • Huzzab - Na 2:7
    • Jupiter - Ac 14:12
    • Mercury - Ac 14:12
    • Molech or Milcom - Le 18:21; 1Ki 11:5,33
    • Merodach - Jer 50:2
    • Nergal - 2Ki 17:30
    • Nebo - Isa 46:1
    • Nibhaz and Tartak - 2Ki 17:31
    • Nisroch - 2Ki 19:37
    • Queen of heaven - Jer 44:17,25
    • Remphan - Ac 7:43
    • Rimmon - 2Ki 5:18
    • Succothbenoth - 2Ki 17:30
    • Tammuz - Eze 8:14
  • Objects of, carried in procession — Isa 46:7; Am 5:26; Ac 7:43
  • Early notice of, amongst God's professing people — Ge 31:19,30; 35:1-4; Jos 24:2
  • The Jews
    • Practised, in Egypt - Jos 24:14; Eze 23:3,19
    • Brought, out of Egypt with them - Eze 23:8; Ac 7:39-41
    • Forbidden to practise - Ex 20:1-5; 23:24
    • Often mixed up, with God's worship - Ex 32:1-5; 1Ki 12:27,28
    • Followed the Canaanites in - Judg 2:11-13; 1Ch 5:25
    • Followed the Moabites in - Nu 25:1-3
    • Followed the Assyrians in - Eze 16:28-30; 23:5-7
  • Followed the Syrians in - Judg 10:6
  • Adopted by Solomon — 1Ki 11:5-8
  • Adopted by the wicked kings — 1Ki 21:26; 2Ki 21:21; 2Ch 28:2-4; 33:3,7
  • Example of the kings encouraged Israel in — 1Ki 12:30; 2Ki 21:11; 2Ch 33:9
  • Great prevalence of, in Israel — Isa 2:8; Jer 2:28; Eze 8:10
  • A virtual forsaking of God — Jer 2:9-13
  • The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy — 2Ch 15:16; 34:7
  • Captivity of Israel on account of — 2Ki 17:6-18
  • Captivity of Judah on account of — 2Ki 17:19-23
  • Ignorance of Christ is — Joh 8:19
  • Evidenced by
    • Want of love - 1Jo 4:8
    • Not keeping his commands - 1Jo 2:4
    • Living in sin - Tit 1:16; 1Jo 3:6
  • Leads to
    • Error - Mt 22:29
    • Idolatry - Isa 44:19; Ac 17:29,30
    • Alienation from God - Eph 4:18
    • Sinful lusts - 1Th 4:5; 1Pe 1:14
    • Persecuting saints - Joh 15:21; 16:3
  • Is no excuse for sin — Le 4:2; Lu 12:48
  • The wicked, in a state of — Jer 9:3; Joh 15:21; 17:25; Ac 17:30
  • The wicked choose — Job 21:14; Ro 1:28
  • Punishment of — Ps 79:6; 2Th 1:8
  • Ministers should
    • Compassionate those in - Heb 5:2; 2Ti 2:24,25
    • Labour to remove - Ac 17:23
  • Exemplified
    • Pharaoh - Ex 5:2
    • Israelites - Ps 95:10; Isa 1:3
    • False prophets - Isa 56:10,11
    • Jews - Lu 23:34
    • Nicodemus - Joh 3:10
    • Gentiles - Ga 4:8
    • Paul - 1Ti 1:13
  • Brought from Sheba — Jer 6:20
  • Called frankincense — Song 4:6,14
  • An article of extensive commerce — Re 18:13
  • Common, not to be offered to God — Ex 30:9
  • For God's service mixed with sweet spices — Ex 25:6; 37:29
  • Receipt for mixing — Ex 30:34-36
  • None but priest to offer — Nu 16:40; De 33:10
  • Offered
    • In censers - Le 10:1; Nu 16:17,46
    • On the altar of gold - Ex 30:1,6; 40:5
    • Morning and evening - Ex 30:7,8
    • Perpetually - Ex 30:8
    • By the high priest in the most holy place on the day of atonement - Le 16:12,13
    • With fire from off the altar of burnt offering - Le 16:12; Nu 16:46
  • Offering of, allotted to the priests — Lu 1:9
  • The Jews prayed at time of offering — Lu 1:10
  • Designed for atonement — Nu 16:46,47
  • Put on meat offerings — Le 2:1,2,15,16; 6:15
  • Levites had charge of — 1Ch 9:29
  • Used in idolatrous worship — Jer 48:35
  • The Jews
    • Not accepted in offering, on account of sin - Isa 1:13; 66:3
    • Offered, to idols on altars of brick - Isa 65:3
    • Punished for offering, to idols - 2Ch 34:25
  • Nadab and Abihu destroyed for offering, with strange fire — Le 10:1,2
  • Korah and his company punished for offering — Nu 16:16-35
  • Uzziah punished for offering — 2Ch 26:16-21
  • Presented to Christ by the wise men — Mt 2:11
  • Illustrative of
    • The merits of Christ - Re 8:3,4
    • Prayer - Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11; Re 5:8
  • Commanded — Eph 4:28; 1Th 4:11
  • Required of man in a state of innocence — Ge 2:15
  • Required of man after the fall — Ge 3:23
  • To be suspended on the Sabbath — Ex 20:10
  • Characteristic of godly women — Pr 31:13-31
  • Early rising necessary to — Pr 31:15
  • Requisite to supply
    • Our own wants - Ac 20:34; 1Th 2:9
    • Wants of others - Ac 20:35; Eph 4:28
  • The slothful devoid of — Pr 24:30,31
  • Leads to
    • Increase of substance - Pr 13:11
    • Affection of relatives - Pr 31:28
    • General commendation - Pr 31:31
  • Illustrated — Pr 6:6-8
  • Exemplified
    • Rachel - Ge 29:9
    • Jacob - Ge 31:6
    • Jethro's daughters - Ex 2:10
    • Ruth - Ru 2:2,3
    • Jeroboam - 1Ki 11:28
    • David - 1Sa 16:11
    • Jewish elders - Ezr 6:14,15
    • Dorcas - Ac 9:39
    • Paul - Ac 18:3; 1Co 4:12
  • In his Church, as his temple — 1Co 3:16
  • In the body of saints, as his temple — 1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16
  • Promised to saints — Eze 36:27
  • Saints enjoy — Isa 63:11; 2Ti 1:14
  • Saints full of — Ac 6:5; Eph 5:18
  • Is the means of
    • Quickening - Ro 8:11
    • Guiding - Joh 16:13; Ga 5:18
    • Fruit bearing - Ga 5:22
  • A proof of being Christ's — Ro 8:9; 1Jo 4:13
  • A proof of adoption — Ro 8:15; Ga 4:5
  • Is abiding — 1Jo 2:27
  • Those who have not
    • Are sensual - Jude 1:19
    • Are without Christ - Ro 8:9
  • Opposed by the carnal nature — Ga 5:17
  • A characteristic of the wicked — Ps 38:20; 2Ti 3:2
  • Often exhibited
    • By relations - Job 19:14
    • By servants - Job 19:15,16
    • To benefactors - Ps 109:5; Ec 9:15
    • To friends in distress - Ps 38:11
  • Saints should avoid the guilt of — Ps 7:4,5
  • Should be met with
    • Prayers - Ps 35:12,13; 109:4
    • Faithfulness - Ge 31:38-42
    • Persevering love - 2Co 12:15
  • Punishment of — Pr 17:13; Jer 18:20,21
  • Exemplified
    • Laban - Ge 31:6,7
    • Chief butler - Ge 40:23
    • Israel - Ex 17:4
    • Men of Keilah - 1Sa 23:5,12
    • Saul - 1Sa 24:17
    • Nabal - 1Sa 25:5-11,21
    • Absalom - 2Sa 15:6
    • Joash - 2Ch 24:22
  • A characteristic of the wicked — Ro 1:21
  • Inexcusable — Isa 1:2,3; Ro 1:21
  • Unreasonable — Jer 2:5,6,31; Mic 6:2,3
  • Exceeding folly of — De 32:6
  • Guilt of — Ps 106:7,21; Jer 2:11-13
  • Prosperity likely to produce — De 31:20; 32:15; Jer 5:7-11
  • Warnings against — De 8:11-14; 1Sa 12:24,25
  • Punishment of — Ne 9:20-27; Ho 2:8,9
  • Illustrated — Isa 5:1-7; Eze 16:1-15
  • Exemplified
    • Israel - De 32:18
    • Saul - 1Sa 15:17-19
    • David - 2Sa 12:7-9
    • Nebuchadnezzar - Da 5:18-21
    • Lepers - Lu 17:17,18
  • Forbidden — Le 19:15,35; De 16:19
  • Specially to be avoided towards
    • The poor - Ex 23:6; Pr 22:16,22,23
    • The stranger and fatherless - Ex 22:21,22; De 24:17; Jer 22:3
    • Servants - Job 31:13,14; De 24:14; Jer 22:13
  • Of the least kind, condemned — Lu 16:10
  • God
    • Regards - Ec 5:8
    • Approves not of - La 3:35,36
    • Abominates - Pr 17:15; 20:10
    • Hears the cry of those who suffer - Jas 5:4
    • Provoked to avenge - Ps 12:5
  • Brings a curse — De 27:17,19
  • A bad example leads to — Ex 23:2
  • Intemperance leads to — Pr 31:5
  • Covetousness leads to — Jer 6:13; Eze 22:12; Mic 2:2
  • Saints should
    • Hate - Pr 29:27
    • Testify against - Ps 58:1,2; Mic 3:8,9
    • Bear, patiently - 1Co 6:7
    • Take no vengeance for - Mt 5:39
  • The wicked
    • Deal with - Isa 26:10
    • Judge with - Ps 82:2; Ec 3:16; Hab 1:4
    • Practise, without shame - Jer 6:13,15; Zep 3:5
  • Punishment of — Pr 11:7; 28:8; Am 5:11,12; 8:5,8; 1Th 4:6
  • Exemplified
    • Potiphar - Ge 39:20
    • Sons of Samuel - 1Sa 8:3
    • Ahab - 1Ki 21:10,15,16
    • Jews - Isa 59:14
    • Princes & c - Da 6:4
    • Judas - Mt 27:4
    • Pilate - Mt 27:24-26
    • Priests & c - Ac 4:3
    • Festus - Ac 24:27
  • Created by God — Ge 1:24,25
  • Divided into
    • Clean and fit for food - Le 11:21,22
    • Unclean and abominable - Le 11:23,24
  • Mentioned in scripture
    • Ant - Pr 6:6; 30:25
    • Bee - Judg 14:8; Ps 118:12; Isa 7:18
    • Beetle - Le 11:22
    • Caterpillar - Ps 78:46; Isa 33:4
    • Cankerworm - Joe 1:4; Na 3:15,16
    • Earthworm - Job 25:6; Mic 7:17
    • Flea - 1Sa 24:14
    • Fly - Ex 8:22; Ec 10:1; Isa 7:18
    • Gnat - Mt 23:24
    • Grasshopper - Le 11:22; Judg 6:5; Job 39:20
    • Hornet - De 7:20
    • Locust - Ex 10:12,13
    • Bald locust - Le 11:22
    • Lice - Ex 8:16; Ps 105:31
    • Maggot - Ex 16:20
    • Moth - Job 4:19; 27:18; Isa 50:9
    • Palmer-worm - Joe 1:4; Am 4:9
    • Spider - Job 8:14; Pr 30:28
  • Fed by God — Ps 104:25,27; 145:9,15
  • Foretold — Joe 2:28; Ac 2:16-18
  • All Scripture given by — 2Sa 23:2; 2Ti 3:16; 2Pe 1:21
  • Design of
    • To reveal future events - Ac 1:16; 28:25; 1Pe 1:11
    • To reveal the mysteries of God - Am 3:7; 1Co 2:10
    • To give power to ministers - Mic 3:8; Ac 1:8
    • To direct ministers - Eze 3:24-27; Ac 11:12; 13:2
    • To control ministers - Ac 16:6
    • To testify against sin - 2Ki 17:13; Ne 9:30; Mic 3:8; Joh 16:8,9
  • Modes of
    • Various - Heb 1:1
    • By secret impulse - Judg 13:25; 2Pe 1:21
    • By a voice - Isa 6:8; Ac 8:29; Re 1:10
    • By visions - Nu 12:6; Eze 11:24
    • By dreams - Nu 12:6; Da 7:1
  • Necessary to prophesying — Nu 11:25-27; 2Ch 20:14-17
  • Is irresistible — Am 3:8
  • Despisers of, punished — 2Ch 36:15,16; Zec 7:12
  • Dug out of the earth — Job 28:2
  • Described as
    • Strong and durable - Job 40:18; Da 2:40
    • Fusible - Eze 22:20
    • Malleable - Isa 2:4
  • Of greater gravity than water — 2Ki 6:5
  • Admits of a high polish — Eze 27:19
  • Hardened into steel — 2Sa 22:35; Job 20:24
  • Of small comparative value — Isa 60:17
  • The land of Canaan abounded with — De 8:9; 33:25
  • From the north hardest and best — Jer 15:12
  • Used from the earliest age — Ge 4:22
  • Made into
    • Armour - 2Sa 23:7; Re 9:9
    • Weapons of war - 1Sa 13:19; 17:7
    • Chariots - Judg 4:3
    • Implements for husbandry - 1Sa 13:20,21; 2Sa 12:31
    • Tools for artificers - Jos 8:31; 1Ki 6:7
    • Graving tools - Job 19:24; Jer 17:1
    • Gates - Ac 12:10
    • Nails and hinges - 1Ch 22:3
    • Bars - Ps 107:16; Isa 45:2
    • Fetters - Ps 105:18; 149:8
    • Yokes - De 28:48; Jer 28:13,14
    • Idols - Da 5:4,23
    • Bedsteads - De 3:11
    • Pillars - Jer 1:18
    • Rods - Ps 2:9; Re 2:27
  • Sharpens things made of — Pr 27:17
  • Working in, a trade — 1Sa 13:19; 2Ch 2:7,14
  • An article of commerce — Eze 27:12,19; Re 18:12
  • Great quantity of, provided for the temple — 1Ch 22:3,14,16; 29:2
  • Taken in war, often dedicated to God — Jos 6:19,24
  • Mode of purifying, taken in war — Nu 31:21-23
  • Miraculously made to swim — 2Ki 6:6
  • Illustrative
    • Of strength - Da 2:33,40
    • Of stubbornness - Isa 48:4
    • Of severe affliction - De 4:20; Ps 107:10
    • Of a hard barren soil - De 28:23
    • Of severe exercise of power - Ps 2:9; Re 2:27
    • (Seared with,) of insensibility of conscience - 1Ti 4:2
  • Descended from Abraham's son, Ishmael — Ge 16:15,16; 1Ch 1:28
  • Divided into twelve tribes — Ge 25:16
  • Heads of tribes — Ge 25:13-15; 1Ch 1:29-31
  • Called
    • Hagarites - 1Ch 5:10
    • Hagarenes - Ps 83:6
    • Arabians - Isa 13:20
  • Original possessions of — Ge 25:18
  • Governed by kings — Jer 25:24
  • Dwelt in tents — Isa 13:20
  • Rich in cattle — 1Ch 5:21
  • Wore ornaments of gold — Judg 8:24
  • Were the merchants of the east — Ge 37:25; Eze 27:20,21
  • Travelled in large companies or caravans — Ge 37:25; Job 6:19
  • Waylaid and plundered travellers — Jer 3:2
  • Often confederate against Israel — Ps 83:6
  • Overcome by
    • Gideon - Judg 8:10-24
    • Reubenites and Gadites - 1Ch 5:10,18-20
    • Uzziah - 2Ch 26:7
  • Sent presents to Solomon — 1Ki 10:15; 2Ch 9:14
  • Sent flocks to Jehoshaphat — 2Ch 17:11
  • Predictions respecting
    • To be numerous - Ge 16:10; 17:20
    • To be wild and savage - Ge 16:12
    • To be warlike and predatory - Ge 16:12
    • To be divided into twelve tribes - Ge 17:20
    • To continue independent - Ge 16:12
    • To be a great nation - Ge 21:13,18
    • To be judged with the nations - Jer 25:23-25
    • Their glory, & c to be diminished - Isa 21:13-17
    • Their submission to Christ - Ps 72:10,15
  • Probably preached to by Paul — Ga 1:17
  • Descended from Jacob's fifth son — Ge 30:17,18
  • Predictions respecting — Ge 49:14,15; De 33:18,19
  • Persons selected from
    • To number the people - Nu 1:8
    • To spy out the land - Nu 13:7
    • To divide the land - Nu 34:26
  • Strength of, on leaving Egypt — Nu 1:28,29; 2:6
  • Encamped under the standard of Judah east of the tabernacle — Nu 2:5
  • Next to and under standard of Judah in the journeys of Israel — Nu 10:14,15
  • Offering of, at the dedication — Nu 7:18-23
  • Families of — Nu 26:23,24
  • Strength of, on entering Canaan — Nu 26:25
  • On Gerizim said amen to the blessings — De 27:12
  • Bounds of their inheritance — Jos 19:17-23
  • Assisted Deborah against Sisera — Judg 5:15
  • Officers of, appointed by David — 1Ch 27:18
  • Officers of, appointed by Solomon — 1Ki 4:17
  • Some of, at David's coronation — 1Ch 12:32
  • Number of warriors belonging to, in David's time — 1Ch 7:2,5
  • Many of, at Hezekiah's passover — 2Ch 30:18
  • Remarkable persons of — Judg 10:1; 1Ki 15:27