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 wit 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 blind

ness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Lev. xviii, 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with woman

kind; 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.

know him.

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 master of the house, went out And the man, the 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. 1, 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.

2 Peter 11, 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. i, 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 moinent, and no hands 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 as thou hast done, thon and thy not done, she nor her daughters, 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 strengthen 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

PUNISHMENT.

Gen. xix, 13, 17, 24-28. For wo 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 ho 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 chil from a far land,shall say, when they dren that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come the sicknesses which the LORD see the plagues of that land, and hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overAdmah and Zeboim, which the throw of Sodom and Gomorrah, in his wrath. LORD Overthrew in his anger, and

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 sodomices, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Jer. xlix, 18. As in the over

(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.

2 Kings xxiv, 13. And he carried 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 Parvaim.

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

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.

of it are the place of sapphires; Job xxvill, 6, 17, 19. The stones and it hath dust of gold. The 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....

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

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

...

Lam. iv, 1, 2. How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the 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 447

precious vessels of silver and of gold..

third part through the fire, and Zech. xiii, 9. And I will bring the will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. . . . .

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

SILVER.

Gen. xxiii, 15. My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

1 Kings x, 25, 27. And they vessels of silver, and vessels of brought every man his present, And the king made gold.. silver to be in Jerusalem as stones.....

2 Chron. xvii, 11. Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute sil

ver.....

Ezra i, 6. And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold.

Job xxil, 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,

and, behold, there came four charlots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

THE EMBLEM Of Strength. Job vi, 12. Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass.

P3. cvii, 16. For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the

bars of iron in sunder.

Isa. xlv, 2. . . . . I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.

Jer. 1, 18. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land. . . .

Jer. xv, 20. And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee.

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Micah iv, 13. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass.....

IRON.

Jer. xv, 12. Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? Jer. xvii, 1. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.

Ezek. iv, 3. Moreover, take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, an 'it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezek. xxvii, 19. Dan also and Javan, going to and fro, occupied in thy fairs; bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

THE EMBLEM OF HARDNESS Deut. iv, 20. But the LORD hath

taken you, and brought you forth

man.

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

Josh. viii, 31. As Moses, the servant of the LORD, commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any

irən....

2 Sam. xil, 31. And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln. . . .

1 Kings vi, 7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building.

1 Chron. xxix, 2. Now, I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God, the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood. . . .

Job xxviii, 2. Iron is taken out

2 Sam. xxiii, 7. But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear.

Jer. 1, 18. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillir, and brasen walls against the whole land..

Amos i, 3. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, 1 will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

BRASS AND IRON OFTEN
CONNECTED.

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

Joshua xxii, 8. And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

2 Chron. 1 7. Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron....

Ezek. xxii, 20. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin into the midst of the

furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

the pride of your power, and I Lev. xxvi, 19. And I will break will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.

Deut. xxxiii, 25. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Isa. xlviii, 4. Because I knew

that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass.

COPPER.

Ezra viii, 27. Also twenty basons of gold of a thousand drams, and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

LEAD.

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

the tin, and the lead.

Job xix, 24. That they were graven with an iron pen, and lead

in the rock for ever.

Jer, vi, 29. The bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melteth in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Ezek. xxii, 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.

TIN.

Isa. i, 25. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.

Ezek. xxvii, 12. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

MINERALS.

Deut. xxxiii, 15. And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills.

Judges iii, 26. And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.