1 Kings 16:31
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31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the (B)Sidonians; (C)and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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2 Kings 17:16
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16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (A)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (B)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (C)host of heaven, (D)and served Baal.
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2 Kings 10:18
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Worshipers of Baal Killed
18 Then Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, (A)“Ahab served Baal a little, Jehu will serve him much.
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Judges 18:7
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7 So the five men departed and went to (A)Laish. They saw the people who were there, (B)how they dwelt safely, in the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. There were no rulers in the land who might put them to shame for anything. They were far from the (C)Sidonians, and they had no ties [a]with anyone.
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- Judges 18:7 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX with Syria
1 Kings 21:25-26
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25 But (A)there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, (B)because Jezebel his wife [a]stirred him up. 26 And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all (C)that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
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- 1 Kings 21:25 incited him
Judges 2:11
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Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 Then the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals;
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Deuteronomy 7:3-4
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3 (A)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (B)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
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Revelation 2:20
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20 Nevertheless I have [a]a few things against you, because you allow [b]that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [c]to teach and seduce My servants (B)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
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- Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
- Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
- Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces
Ezekiel 34:18
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18 Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the [a]residue of your pasture—and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet?
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- Ezekiel 34:18 remainder
Ezekiel 16:47
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47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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Ezekiel 16:20
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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,
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Ezekiel 8:17
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.
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Isaiah 7:13
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13 Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
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Nehemiah 13:23-29
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23 In those days I also saw Jews who (A)had married women of (B)Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.
25 So I (C)contended with them and [a]cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them (D)swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 (E)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, (F)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. (G)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, (H)transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
28 And one of the sons (I)of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of (J)Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.
29 (K)Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and (L)the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
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- Nehemiah 13:25 pronounced them cursed
2 Kings 9:30-37
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Jezebel’s Violent Death
30 Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; (A)and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window. 31 Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, (B)“Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?”
32 And he looked up at the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 Then he said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot. 34 And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury her, for (C)she was a king’s daughter.” 35 So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (D)‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be (E)as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”
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1 Kings 21:5-14
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5 But (A)Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food?”
6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”
7 Then Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise authority over Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
8 And she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in the city with Naboth. 9 She wrote in the letters, saying,
Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth [a]with high honor among the people; 10 and seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, “You have (B)blasphemed God and the king.” Then take him out, and (C)stone him, that he may die.
11 So the men of his city, the elders and nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12 (D)They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth with high honor among the people. 13 And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels (E)witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!” (F)Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”
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- 1 Kings 21:9 Lit. at the head
1 Kings 19:1-2
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Elijah Escapes from Jezebel
19 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had (A)executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, (B)“So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
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1 Kings 18:19
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19 Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on (A)Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, (B)and the four hundred prophets of [a]Asherah, who [b]eat at Jezebel’s table.”
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- 1 Kings 18:19 A Canaanite goddess
- 1 Kings 18:19 Are provided for by Jezebel
1 Kings 18:4
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4 For so it was, while Jezebel [a]massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)
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- 1 Kings 18:4 Lit. cut off
1 Kings 11:4-8
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4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, (A)that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his (B)heart was not [a]loyal to the Lord his God, (C)as was the heart of his father David. 5 For Solomon went after (D)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after (E)Milcom[b] the abomination of the (F)Ammonites. 6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. 7 (G)Then Solomon built a [c]high place for (H)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on (I)the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. 8 And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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- 1 Kings 11:4 Lit. at peace with
- 1 Kings 11:5 Or Molech
- 1 Kings 11:7 A place for pagan worship
1 Kings 11:1-2
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Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord
11 But (A)King Solomon loved (B)many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— 2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, (C)“You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
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Judges 10:12
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12 Also (A)the Sidonians (B)and Amalekites and [a]Maonites (C)oppressed you; and you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hand.
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- Judges 10:12 LXX mss. Midianites
Judges 10:6
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Israel Oppressed Again
6 Then (A)the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and (B)served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, (C)the gods of Syria, the gods of (D)Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
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Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 So the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. They (B)forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and [a]Asherahs.
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- Judges 3:7 Name or symbol for Canaanite goddesses
Joshua 23:12-13
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12 Or else, if indeed you do (A)go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and (B)make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, 13 know for certain that (C)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. (D)But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
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