He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the (A)host of heaven.

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13 The (A)houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be (B)defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the (C)houses on whose rooftops they burned [a]sacrifices to (D)all the heavenly host and (E)poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:13 Or incense

“And those who bow down on the (A)housetops to the host of heaven,
And those who bow down and (B)swear to the Lord and yet swear by [a](C)Milcom,

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:5 Or their king; M.T. Malcam, probably a variant spelling of Milcom

42 But God (A)turned away and delivered them up to [a]serve the [b]host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘(B)It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices (C)forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:42 Or worship
  2. Acts 7:42 I.e. heavenly bodies