Leviticus 20:1-13
Any man <0376> [Whosoever.]
gives <05414> [giveth.]
[Moloch. Molech.]
The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal, in the form of a man, with the head of a calf, adorned with a royal crown, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they offered any children to him, they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within, and the victim was put into his arms, and thus consumed. Others relate, that the idol, which was hollow, was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour, in the second turtles, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and the seventh a child; which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside. The account which Diodorus (l. xx.) gives of the statue of Saturn, to which the Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites, sacrificed their children, is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn, stretching out his hands towards the ground, in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account Milton alludes, in Paradise Lost, B. 1. 392.
people <05971> [the people.]
will set .................... given <05414> [I will set.]
defiled <02930> [to defile.]
profaned <02490> [profane.]
however ....... shut <05956> [hide.]
death <04191> [and kill.]
set <07760> [I will.]
clan <04940> [against his.]
prostitution .... prostitution <02181> [whoring.]
spirits <0178> [familiar.]
prostitution <02181> [go.]
cut ... off <03772> [cut him.]
In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.
sure <08104> [And ye.]
sanctifies <06942> [sanctify.]
curses .............. cursed <07043> [curseth.]
The term {yekallel} signifies not only to curse, but to speak contemptuously, disrespectfully, or to make light of a person: so that all speeches which have a tendency to lessen our parents in the eyes of others, or to render their judgment, piety, etc., suspected or contemptible, is here included; though the act of cursing, or of treating the parent with injurious or opprobrious language, is what is particularly intended. He who conscientiously keeps the fifth commandment, can be in no danger of the judgment here denounced.
blood <01818> [his blood.]
commits adultery ........ adulterer .... adulteress <05003> [the adulterer.]
blood <01818> [their.]
sexual <07901> [lie.]
perversion <08397> [confusion.]
Deuteronomy 28:1-14
indeed obey <08085> [If thou shalt.]
observe .... commandments <06213 04687> [to do all.]
<05414> [will set.]
come ..... abundance <0935 05381> [come on thee.]
city <05892> [in the city.]
field <07704> [in the field.]
basket <02935> [thy basket.]
By basket, may be understood the olive-gathering and vintage, in which it was employed; and by the store or remainder, all laid up for future use, or prepared for present consumption.
mixing bowl <04863> [store. or, dough, or kneading troughs.]
<05414> [shall cause.]
before ........... flee ....... directions <06440 05127> [flee before.]
decree <06680> [command.]
barns <0618> [storehouses. or, barns.]
do <04916> [settest.]
designate <06965> [establish.]
promised <07650> [sworn.]
peoples <05971> [And all.]
Lord <07121> [called.]
respect <03372> [and they shall.]
The .... greatly <03498> [plenteous.]
multiply <02896> [in goods. or, for good. body. Heb. belly.]
open <06605> [open.]
bless .... do <01288 04639> [to bless all.]
lend ......... borrow <03867> [lend.]
head <07218> [the head.]
obey <08085> [if that thou.]
turn <05493> [thou shalt.]
right <03225> [the right.]
Joshua 24:14
obey <03372> [fear.]
worship ............. worshiped ......... worship <05647> [serve.]
aside <05493> [put.]
From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached. 1. Those whom their fathers worshipped on the other side of the food, or the river Euphrates, i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun, etc. 2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, serpents, vegetables, etc. 3. Those of the Amorites, Moabites, Canaanites, etc., Baal-peor, Astarte, etc. How astonishing is it, that after all that God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!
Egypt <04714> [in Egypt.]
Joshua 24:20
turn <07725> [he will turn.]
Psalms 81:12-15
gave <07971> [I gave.]
stubborn desires <08307 03820> [their own hearts' lust. or, the hardness of their hearts, or imaginations. they walked.]
only ... people <03863 05971> [Oh that.]
would quickly <04592> [I should.]
Then ......... attack <07725> [turned.]
hate <08130> [The haters.]
cower .......... humiliated <03584 06256> [submitted themselves. or yielded feigned obedience. Heb. lied.]
humiliated <06256> [time.]
Isaiah 3:10
Tell ... innocent <0559 06662> [Say ye.]
<0398> [they shall eat.]
Romans 2:7
perseverance <5281> [patient.]
glory <1391> [glory.]
immortality <861> [immortality.]
eternal <166> [eternal.]
