Judges 2:12
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12 and they (A)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed (B)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they (C)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
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Exodus 20:5
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5 (A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Exodus 20:5 worship
- Exodus 20:5 punishing
Deuteronomy 29:25
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25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt;
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Deuteronomy 13:5
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5 But (A)that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. (B)So you shall [a]put away the evil from your midst.
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- Deuteronomy 13:5 exterminate
Deuteronomy 6:14-15
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14 You shall not go after other gods, (A)the gods of the peoples who are all around you 15 (for (B)the Lord your God is a jealous God (C)among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 29:18
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18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, (A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (C)bitterness or wormwood;
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Deuteronomy 5:9
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9 you shall not (A)bow[a] down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, [b]visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Deuteronomy 5:9 worship them
- Deuteronomy 5:9 punishing
Judges 5:8
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8 They chose (A)new gods;
Then there was war in the gates;
Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:17
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17 His glory is like a (A)firstborn bull,
And his horns like the (B)horns of the wild ox;
Together with them
(C)He shall push the peoples
To the ends of the earth;
(D)They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 31:16-17
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16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will [a]rest with your fathers; and this people will (A)rise and (B)play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will (C)forsake Me and (D)break My covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then My anger shall be (E)aroused against them in that day, and (F)I will forsake them, and I will (G)hide My face from them, and they shall be [b]devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, (H)‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is (I)not among us?’
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- Deuteronomy 31:16 Die and join your ancestors
- Deuteronomy 31:17 consumed
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