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ALAMOTH
- -  A musical term: ...  1Ch 15:20
- -  Inscription to: ...  Ps 46
- -  See MUSIC
 

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ALIENS -(Strangers, heathen)
- -To be treated with justice: ...  Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33,34; De 1:16; 10:19; 24:14,17; 27:19; Jer 7:6; 22:3; Ezek 22:29; Mal 3:5

- -  Religious privileges of: ...  Ex 12:48,49; Nu 9:14; 15:14,15
- -  Kindness to Edomites, enjoined: ...  De 23:7
- -  Jews authorized to purchase, as slaves: ...  Le 25:44,45
- -  Jews authorized to take usury from: ...  De 15:3; 23:20
- -  Jews not permitted to make kings of: ...  De 17:15
- -  Forbidden to eat the Passover: ...  Ex 12:45
- -  Partially exempt from Jewish law: ...  De 14:21
- -  Numerous in times of David and Solomon: ...  2Sa 22:45,46; 2Ch 2:17; 15:9
- -  Oppressed: ...  Eze 22:29
- -  Rights of: ...  Nu 35:15; Jos 20:9; Eze 47:22,23
- -  David's kindness to: ...  2Sa 15:19,20
- -  Hospitality to, required by Jesus: ...  Mt 25:35,38,43
- -  See GLEANING
- -  See HEATHEN
- -  See HOSPITALITY
- -  See INHOSPITABLENESS
- -  See PROSELYTE 
- -  See STRANGERS
 

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ALLEGORY
- -  Of the trees seeking a king: ...  Jud 9:8-15
- -  Messiah's kingdom represented under, of the wolf and the lamb dwelling together: ...  Isa 11:6-8
- -  Wilderness to blossom as the rose: ...  Isa 35
- -  The two covenants: ...  Ga 4:24
- -  See PARABLE
- -  See SYMBOL
 

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ALLELUIA, praise the Lord
 

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ALLIANCE WITH THE ENEMIES OF GOD
- -  Forbidden: ...  Ex 23:32; 34:12; De 7:2,3; 13:6,8; Jos 23:6,7; Judges 2:2; Ezra 9:12; Pr 1:10,15; 2Co 6:14-17; Eph 5:11

- -  Lead to idolatry: ...  Ex 34:15,16; Nu 25:1-8; De 7:4; Judges 3:5-7; Re 2:20
- -  Have led to murder and human sacrifice: ...  Ps 106:37,38
- -  Provoke the anger of God: ...  De 7:4; 31:16,17; 2Ch 19:2; Ezra 9:13,14; Ps 106:29,40; Isa  2:6

- -  Provoke God to leave mean to reap the fruits of them: ...  Jos 23:12,13; Judges 2:1-3
- -  Are ensnaring: ...  Ex 23:33; Nu 25:18; De 12:30; 13:6; Ps 106:36
- -  Are enslaved: ...  2Pe 2:18,19
- -  Are defiling:..  Ezr 9:1,2
- -  Are degrading: ...  Isa 1:23
- -  Are ruinous to spiritual interest: ...  Pr 29:24; Heb 12:14,15; 2Pe 3:17
- -  Are ruinous to moral character: ...  1Co 15:33
- -  Are a proof of folly: ...  Pr 12:11
- -  Children who enter into, bring shame upon their parents: ...  Pr 28:7
- -  Evil consequences of: ...  Pr 28:19; Jer 51:7
- -  The wicked are prone to: ...  Ps 50:18; Jer 2:25
- -  The wicked tempt saints to: ...  Ne 6:2-4
- -  Sin of, to be confessed, deeply repented of, and forsaken: ...  Ezra 10:1-44
- -  Involve saints in their guiltiness: ...  2Jo 1:9-11; Re 18:4
- -  Involve saints in their punishment: ...  Nu 16:26; Jer 51:6; Re 18:4
- -  Unbecoming in those called saints: ...  2Ch 19:2; 2Co 6:14-16; Phil 2:15
- -  Exhortations to shun all inducements to: ...  Pr 1:10-15; 4:14,15; 2Pe 3:17
- -  Exhortations to hate and avoid: ...  Pr 14:7; Ro 16:17; 1Co 5:9-11; Eph 5:6,7; 1Ti 6:5; 2Ti  3:5

- -  A call to come out from: ...  Nu 16:26; Ezra 10:11; Jer 51:6,45; 2Co 6:17; 2Th 3:6; Re
   18:4

- -  Means of preservation from: ...  Pr 2:10-20; 19:27
- -  Blessedness of avoiding: ...  Ps 1:1
- -  Blessedness of forsaking: ...  Ezr 9:12; Pr 9:6; 2Co 6:17,18
- -  Saints grieve to meet with, in their intercourse with the world: ...  Ps 57:4; 120:5,6; 2Pe 2:7,8

- -  Saints grieve to witness in their brethren: ...  Ge 26:35; Ezra 9:3; 10:6
- -  Saints hate and avoid: ...  Ps 26:4,5; 31:6; 101:7; Re 2:2
- -  Saints deprecate: ...  Ge 49:6; Ps 6:8; 15:4; 101:4,7; 119:115; 139:19
- -  Saints are separate from: ...  Ex 33:16; Ezra 6:21
- -  Saints should be circumspect when unintentionally thrown into: ...  Mt 10:16; Col 4:5; 1Pe 2:12

- -  Pious parents prohibit, to their children: ...  Ge 28:1
- -  Persons in authority should denounce: ...  Ezr 10:9-11; Ne 13:23-27
- -  Punishment of: ...  Nu 33:56; De 7:4; Jos 23:13; Judges 2:3; 3:5-8; Ezra 9:7,14;
   Ps 106:41,42; Re 2:16,22,23

- -  Exemplified
......  Solomon: ....   1Ki 11:1-8
......  Rehoboam: ....   1Ki 12:8,9
......  Jehoshaphat: ....   2Ch 18:3; 19:2; 20:35-37
......  Jehoram: ....   2Ch 21:6
......  Ahaziah: ....   2Ch 22:3-5
......  Israelites: ....   Ezra 9:1,2
......  Israel: ....   Ezek 44:7
......  Judas Iscariot: ....   Mt 26:14-16

- -  Examples of avoiding
......  Man of God: ....   1Ki 13:7-10
......  Nehemiah, &c: ....   Ne 6:2-4; 10:29-31
......  David: ....   Ps 101:4-7; 119:115
......  Jeremiah: ....   Jer 15:17
......  Joseph of Arimathaea: ....   Lu 23:51
......  Church of Ephesus: ....   Re 2:6

- -  Examples of forsaking
......  Israelites: ....   Nu 16:27; Ezra 6:21,22; 10:3,4,16,17
......  Sons of the Priests: ....   Ezra 10:18,19

- -  Examples of the judgments of God against
......  Korah, &c: ....   Nu 16:32
......  Ahaziah: ....   2Ch 22:7,8
......  Judas Iscariot: ....   Ac 1:18
 

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ALLIANCES
- -  POLITICAL......  With idolaters forbidden: ...  Ex 23:32,33; 34:12-15; De 7:2; Judges 2:2; 2Ch 19:2; 20:37; Isa 8:11,12; 30:2; 31:1; Ho 4:17; 12:1

- -  Ratification of
......  By oaths: ...  Ge 21:23; 26:28-31; Jos 9:15-20; 1Sa 20:16,17
......  By giving the hand: ...  La 5:6
......  See COVENANTS
......  See TREATY

- -  INSTANCES OF......  Between Abraham and Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner: ...  Ge 14:13
......  Abraham and Abimelech: ...  Ge 21:22-32
......  Isaac and Abimelech: ...  Ge 26:26-31
......  Canaanitish nations against Israel: ...  Jos 9:1,2
......  Joshua and the Gibeonites: ...  Jos 9
......  Moabites, Amalekites, and Ammonites: ...  Jud 3:12,13
......  Solomon and Hiram: ...  1Ki 5:12; Am 1:9
......  Asa and Benhadad: ...  1Ki 15:18,19; 2Ch 16:3
......  Jehoshaphat and Ahab: ...  1Ki 22; 2Ch 18:1
......  Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah: ...  2Ch 20:35
......  Ahaz and Tiglath: ...  2Ki 16:7,8; 2Ch 28:16,21
......  Rezin and Pekah: ...  2Ki 16:5
......  Zedekiah and Pharaoh: ...  Jer 37:1-8; Eze 17:15-17
 

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ALLOY, OF METALS
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Isa 1:25
 

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ALMOND
- -  (A tree) -Fruit of: ...  Ge 43:11
- -  Aaron's rod of the: ...  Nu 11:8
- -  Bowls of candlestick in the tabernacle fashioned after the nuts of the: ...  Ex 25:33,34; 37:19,20
- -  FIGURATIVE USE OF
 

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ALMS
- -  Asking: ...  John 9:8; Ac 3:2
- -  COMMANDMENTS AND PRACTICES CONCERNING: ...  Le 25:35; De 14:28,29; 15:7-11; Isa 58:6,7; Mt 5:42; 6:1-4; 19:21; Lu 11:41; 12:33; Ro 12:8; 2Co 9:5-7; Ga 2:10; 1Ti 6:18; Heb 13:16; 1Jo 3:17
......  See BENEFICENCE 
......  See GIFTS
......  See GIVING
......  See LIBERALITY
......  See POOR

- -  INSTANCES OF GIVING......  Zaccheus: ...  Lu 19:8
......  Dorcas: ...  Ac 9:36
......  Cornelius: ...  Ac 10:2
......  The early Christians: ...  Ac 2:44,45; 4:34-37; 6:1-3; 11:29,30; 24:17; Ro 15:25-28; 1Co 16:1-4; 2Co 8:1-4; 9:1; Heb 6:10
 

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ALOES
- -  Used as perfume: ...  Ps 45:8; Pr 7:17; So 4:14
- -  In embalming the dead: ...  Joh 19:39
- -  Lign-aloes: ...  Nu 2:1-6

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ALPHA
- -  A title of Christ: ...  Re 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13
- -  Compare: ...  Isa 41:4; 44:6; 48:12

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ALTAR
- -  Built by Noah: ...  Ge 8:2
- -  Built by Abraham: ...  Ge 12:7,8; 13:18; 22:9
- -  Built by Isaac: ...  Ge 26:25
- -  Built by Jacob: ...  Ge 33:20; 35:1-7
- -  Built by Moses: ...  Ex 17:15; 24:4
- -  Built by Balaam: ...  Nu 23:1,14,29
- -  Built by Joshua: ...  De 27:4-7; Jos 8:30-32
- -  Built by the Reubenites and Gadites: ...  Jos 22:10,34
- -  Built by Gideon: ...  Jud 6:26,27
- -  Built by Samuel: ...  1Sa 7:17
- -  Built by Saul: ...  1Sa 14:35
- -  Built by David: ...  2Sa 24:18,19
- -  Built by Elijah: ...  1Ki 18:31,32
- -  Mosaic commandments prescribing the construction of: ...  Ex 20:24-26; De 27:5-7; Jos 8:30,31, See also  Eze 43:13

- -  Used in idolatrous worship: ...  Jud 6:25; 1Ki 12:32; 16:32; 18:26; 2Ki 16:10; 23:12,15; Isa 27:9; 65:3; Ho 8:11; Ac 17:23

- -  IN THE TABERNACLE
......  Pattern of: ...  Ex 27:1-8
......  Constructed by Bezaleel: ...  Ex 38:1-7; with 37:1
......  Location of: ...  Ex 40:6,29; Eze 8:16; Mt 23:35
......  Furniture of: ...  Ex 27:3-7; 38:3-7; 1Sa 2:13,14
......  Horns of: ...  Ex 27:2
......  Uses of the horns: ...  Ps 118:27
......  How sanctified: ...  Ex 29:36,37,44; 30:26-28; 40:10; Le 8:10,11; Nu 7
......  See: ...  Eze 43:18-27
......  See BLOOD
......  Sanctified everything that touched it: ...  Ex 29:37; 30:29; Mt 23:18,19
......  A place of refuge: ...  Ex 21:14; 1Ki 1:50; 2:28

- -  IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
......  Description of: ...  2Ch 4:1
......  Renewed by Asa: ...  2Ch 15:8
......  Removed by Ahaz, and one of idolatrous fashion substituted: ...  2Ki 16:14-17
......  Cleansed by Hezekiah: ...  2Ch 29:18-24
......  Repaired by Manasseh: ...  2Ch 33:16
......  Furniture of, taken to Babylon: ...  2Ki 25:14
......  IN SECOND TEMPLE: ...  Ezr 3:1-6
......  EZEKIEL'S VISION OF: ...  Eze 43:13-27
......  See TABERNACLE
......  See TEMPLE
 

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ALTARS
- -  Designed for sacrifice: ...  Ex 20:24
- -  To be made of earth, or unhewn stone: ...  Ex 20:24,25; De 27:5,6
- -  Of brick, hateful to God: ...  Isa 65:3
- -  Natural rocks sometimes used as: ...  Judges 6:19-21; 13:19,20
- -  Were not to have steps up to them: ...  Ex 20:26
- -  For idolatrous worship, often erected on roofs of houses: ...  2Ki 23:12; Jer 19:13; 32:29

- -  Idolaters planted groves near: ...  Judges 6:30; 1Ki 16:32,33; 2Ki 21:3
- -  The Jews not to plant groves near: ...  De 16:21
- -  For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed: ...  Ex 34:13; De 7:5
- -  Probable origin of inscriptions on: ...  De 27:8

- -  MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
......  Of Noah: ....   Ge 8:20
......  Of Abraham: ....   Ge 12:7,8; 13:18; 22:9
......  Of Isaac: ....   Ge 26:25
......  Of Jacob: ....   Ge 33:20; 35:1,3,7
......  Of Moses: ....   Ex 17:15; 24:4
......  Of Balaam: ....   Nu 23:1,14,29
......  Of Joshua: ....   Jos 8:30,31
......  Of the temple of Solomon: ....   2Ch 4:1,19
......  Of the second temple: ....   Ezra 3:2,3
......  Of Reubenites, &c east of Jordan: ....   Jos 22:10
......  Of Gideon: ....   Judges 6:26,27
......  Of the people of Israel: ....   Judges 21:4
......  Of Samuel: ....   1Sa 7:17
......  Of David: ....   2Sa 24:21,25
......  Of Jeroboam at Bethel: ....   1Ki 12:33
......  Of Ahaz: ....   2Ki 16:10-12
......  Of the Athenians: ....   Ac 17:23
......  For burnt-offering: ....   Ex 27:1-8
......  For incense: ....   Ex 30:1-6

- -  Protection afforded by: ...  1Ki 1:50,51
- -  Afforded no protection to murderers: ...  Ex 21:14; 1Ki 2:18-34
 

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ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING
- -  Dimensions, &c of: ...  Ex 27:1; 38:1
- -  Horns on the corners of: ...  Ex 27:2; 38:2
- -  Covered with brass: ...  Ex 27:2
- -  All its vessels of brass: ...  Ex 27:3; 38:3
- -  A net-working grate of brass placed in: ...  Ex 27:4,5; 38:4
- -  Furnished with rings and staves: ...  Ex 27:6,7; 38:5-7
- -  Made after a divine pattern: ...  Ex 27:8

- -  CALLED
......  The brazen altar: ....   Ex 39:39; 1Ki 8:64
......  The altar of God: ....   Ps 43:4
......  The altar of the Lord: ....   Mal 2:13

- -  Placed in the court before the door of the tabernacle: ...  Ex 40:6,29
- -  Sanctified by God: ...  Ex 29:44
- -  Anointed and sanctified with holy oil: ...  Ex 40:10; Le 8:10,11
- -  Cleansed and purified with blood: ...  Ex 29:36,37
- -  Was most holy: ...  Ex 40:10
- -  Sanctified whatever touched it: ...  Ex 29:37
- -  All sacrifices to be offered on: ...  Ex 29:38-42; Isa 56:7
- -  All gifts to be presented at: ...  Mt 5:23,24
- -  Nothing polluted or defective to be offered on: ...  Le 22:22; Mal 1:7,8
- -  Offering at the dedication of: ...  Nu 7:1-89

- -  THE FIRE UPON
......  Came from before the Lord: ....   Le 9:24
......  Was continually burning: ....   Le 6:13
......  Consumed the sacrifices: ....   Le 1:8,9
- -  Sacrifices bound to the horns of: ...  Ps 118:27

- -  The blood of sacrifices put on the horns and poured at the  foot of: ...  Ex 29:12; Le 4:7,18,25; 8:15

- -  THE PRIESTS
......  Alone to serve: ....   Nu 18:3,7
......  Derived support from: ....   1Co 9:13

- -  Ahaz removed and profaned: ...  2Ki 16:10-16
- -  The Jews condemned for swearing lightly by: ...  Mt 23:18,19
- -  A type of Christ: ...  Heb 13:10

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ALTAR OF INCENSE
- -  A cover made for, of the censers of Korah: ...  Nu 16:36-40
- -  Altar Before The Lord: ...  Le 16:18
- -  Altar of Sweet Incense: ...  Le 4:7
- -  Anointed with holy oil: ...  Ex 30:26,27
- -  Atonement made for, by the high priest once every year: ...  Ex 30:10; Le 16:18,19
- -  Called the golden altar: ...  Ex 39:38 ; Nu 4:11
- -  Carried by Kohathites: ...  Nu 3:27-31
- -  Covered with Gold: ...  Ex 30:3; 37:26
- -  Design & Constructed of: ...  Ex 30:1,2;  37:25-28
- -  Had four rings of gold under the crown for the staves: ...  Ex 30:4; 37:27
- -  How prepared for carrying: ...  Nu 4:4-15
- -  In Solomon's temple: ...  1Ki 6:19,20; 7:48; 1Ch 28:18
- -  Location of: ...  Ex 30:6; 40:5,26
- -  No strange incense nor any sacrifice to be offered on: ...  Ex 30:9
- -  Placed before the veil in the outer sanctuary: ...  Ex 30:6; 40:5,26
- -  Said to be before the Lord: ...  Le 4:7; 1Ki 9:25
- -  Seen in John's vision: ...  Re 8:3; 9:13
- -  Staves of, covered with gold: ...  Ex 30:5
- -  The priest burned incense on every morning and evening: ...  Ex 30:7,8
- -  The blood of all sin offerings put on the horns of: ...  Le 4:7,18
- -  Top of, surrounded with a crown of gold: ...  Ex 30:3; 37:26
- -  Uses of: ...  Ex 30:7-10,26,27; 40:27; Le 4:7,18; 8:15; 9:9; 16:12,18

- -  PUNISHMENT FOR
......  Offering strange fire on: ....   Le 10:1,2
......  Unauthorized offering on: ....   2Ch 26:16-19

- -  Covered by the priest before removal from the sanctuary: ...  Nu 4:11
- -  A type of Christ: ...  Re 8:3; 9:3
 

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AL-TASCHITH
- -  See MUSIC