In Leviticus xvii. 7, Satan and his angels appear to be referred to under the word _devils_, where the children of Israel are commanded "to sprinkle the blood of animals slain by them on the altar of Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and to burn the fat for a sweet savor unto Jehovah." "And," it is added as a reason of the command, "they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto _devils_, after whom they have gone a whoring." Probably the images before which they thus offered sacrifices were those of goats, as the same word is often rendered _goats_. Again, 2 Chron. ii. 15, it is said of Jeroboam that "He ordained him priests for the high places, and for the _devils_, and for the calves which he had made." This may with propriety be rendered, "and for the devils, _even_ for the calves," the representatives of Satan which he had made. A different original word is rendered _devils_, Deut. xxxii. 17, where it is said that Israel "forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy, &c. They sacrificed unto _devils_, not to God; to Elohim whom they knew not." The word here translated _devils_ is often rendered _spoiler_, _destroyer_, _destruction_, &c. Doubtless the reference is to an intelligence beyond any visible image. The same word occurs, Ps. cvi. 36, 37: "They served their idols, which were a snare unto them; yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto _devils_." Since the existence of the fallen angels and of their prince and leader was known from the beginning; and that he was prince and leader also of the party of the human race which was at enmity with the true worshippers of Jehovah; and since they manifested their hostility chiefly in their false system of religion, it seems reasonable and even necessary to conclude that they followed and supported their leader in his rivalship, and regarded him, however represented by images, as the object of their worship, in opposition to Jehovah, the object, through sacrifices, of the homage of his worshippers. In this view of their conduct, it is easy to conceive that their serving and worshipping idols should provoke Jehovah to jealousy. They served and worshipped an antagonist, a rival.