and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

Isa. 63:16. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. v.8.

but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. v. 26; 2 Sam. 7:14; Heb. 1:5.

2 Cor. 6:17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

heirs according to the promise.

Hos. 1:9. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10. It shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Hos. 11:1. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. Matt. 5:9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:

Gal. 4:5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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Eph. 1:5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,

Eph. 2.19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Luke 6:35. Ye shall be the children of the Highest:

John 1:12. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 11:52. And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

Acts 15:17. That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

Rom. 8:14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; 19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 21. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of the Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Rom. 9:8. They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:

Phil. 2:15. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Heb. 2:10. It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. 13. Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

Heb. 12:6. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 9... Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

1 John 3:1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."

1 John 4:4. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Rev. 21:7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

TYPIFIED, in Israel, Ex. 4:22; Hos. 11:1; Rom. 9:4.

See GOD, FATHERHOOD OF; RIGHTEOUS, UNION OF, WITH CHRIST.

ADORAIM, a city of Judah, 2 Chr. 11:9. ADORAM. 1. Officer over the tribute, 2 Sam. 20:24.

2. See ADONIRAM. ADRAMMELECH. idol, 2 Kin. 17:31.

1. An Assyrian

2. Son of Sennacherib, 2 Kin. 19:37; Isa. 37: 38.

ADRAMYTTIUM, a city of Mysia,

Acts 27:2.

ADRIA, sea of, Acts 27:27. ADRIEL, Saul's son-in-law, 1 Sam. 18:19; 2 Sam. 21:8,9.

ADULLAM. 1. A cave near the Dead Sea. David takes refuge in, 1 Sam. 22:1; 2 Sam. 23:13; 1 Chr. 11:15. See titles of Psalms 57 and 142.

2. An ancient city of Canaan, Gen. 38:1; Josh. 12:15; 15:35; 2 Chr. 11.7; Neh. 11:30; Mic. 1:15.

ADULTERY. Gen. 20:3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

2 Sam. 12:14. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Job 24:15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. v. 18.

Job 31:1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neigh bour's door; 10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11. For this is a heinous crime; yet it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Prov. 2:16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 18. Her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

2. 17.

Prov. 5:3. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. vs. 5-22.

Prov. 6:24. To keep thee from the evil

woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. 27. Can a man tak fire in his bosom, and his clothes not l burned? 28. Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29. So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 32. But whose committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Prov. 7:5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. 6. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. 11. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth_in_wait at every corner.) 13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 14. I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. 15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. 21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23. Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Prov. 9:13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 15. To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18. But he knoweth not that the dead are there. and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Prov. 22:14. The mouth of strange women

Prov. 23:27. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Prov. 29:3. He that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Prov. 30:18. There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19. The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Prov. 31:3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Isa. 57:3. But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, Jer. 3:1. If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?

Jer. 5:7. How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8. They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Jer. 7:9. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10. And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jer. 23:10. The land is full of adulterers. Ezek. 18:5. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 6. And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, 9. . . . He is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

Matt. 15:19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, Mark 7:21. Matt. 19.9. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Mark 10:11.

Mark 10:19. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. Jas. 2:11.

Acts 15:20. We write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, v. 29.

Rom. 1:28. As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, 32. Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Rom. 7:3. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress : but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

1 Cor. 5:9. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then must ye needs go out of the world.

1 Cor. 6:15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 18. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Cor. 10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Gal. 5:19. The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 21. Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Tim. 3:6. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

1 Pet. 4:3. The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts,. 4. Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

2 Pet. 2:9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10. But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls:

Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them 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.

Rev. 2:20. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel... to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,... 21. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Rev. 9:21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,

See LASCIVIOUSNESS; RAPE; SENSUALITY; SODOMY; WHORE; WHOREDOM.

FORBIDDEN: Ex. 20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Deut. 5:18; Matt. 5:27; 19: 18; Luke 18:20; Rom. 13:9; Jas. 2:11.

Lev. 18:20. Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Lev. 19:29. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Deut. 23:17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Acts 15:20. We write unto them, that they abstain from fornication.

Rom. 13:13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.

1 Cor. 5:11. I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, ... with such an one no not to eat. vs. 9.10.

1 Cor. 6:13. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take

1 Cor. 10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Eph. 4:17. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; 19. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20. But ye have not so learned Christ;

Eph. 5:3. But fornication, and all uncleanness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Col. 3:5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence.

1 Thes. 4:3. This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 7. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. FORGIVENESS OF: INSTANCES OF. Judg.

19:1-4.

John 8:10. Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11. She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

PENALTIES FOR: Gen. 20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Gen. 26:11. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

Gen. 38:24. And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Ex. 22:16. And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Lev. 19:20. And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21. And he shall bring his trespass offer