Acts 7:42
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42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A)
Amos 5:25-26
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25 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A) 26 You shall take up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, your images,[a] which you made for yourselves;
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- 5.26 Heb your images, your star god
Ezekiel 20:39
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39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve your idols, every one of you now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me, but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.(A)
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Jeremiah 19:13
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13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and libations have been poured out to other gods.(A)
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Romans 1:24-28
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24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(A) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(B)
26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(C) 27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(D)
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(E)
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Isaiah 63:10
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10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(A)
Psalm 81:11-12
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11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.(A)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(B)
Hosea 4:17
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17 Ephraim is joined to idols—
let him alone.
Joshua 24:20
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20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:19
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19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.(A)
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Isaiah 66:4
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4 so I will choose their punishments
and bring upon them what they fear,
because, when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen,
but they did what was evil in my sight
and chose what did not please me.(A)
Job 31:26-28
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26 if I have looked at the sun[a] when it shone
or the moon moving in splendor,(A)
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
and my mouth has kissed my hand,
28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
for I should have been false to God above.(B)
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- 31.26 Heb the light
2 Kings 21:3
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3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he erected altars for Baal, made a sacred pole,[a] as King Ahab of Israel had done, worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.(A)
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- 21.3 Or Asherah
2 Kings 17:16
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16 They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole,[a] worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.(A)
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- 17.16 Or Asherah
Hebrews 3:15-17
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15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”(A)
16 Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?(B) 17 And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?(C)
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Hebrews 3:9
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9 where your ancestors put me to the test,[a]
though they had seen my works
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- 3.9 Other ancient authorities read tempted me, tested me
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
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10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(A) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(B) 12 so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.(C)
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Acts 7:36
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36 He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:25
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25 Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.(A)
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Ezekiel 14:7-10
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7 For any of those of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside in Israel who separate themselves from me, taking their idols into their hearts and placing their iniquity as a stumbling block before them and yet come to a prophet to inquire of me by him, I the Lord will answer them myself.(A) 8 I will set my face against them; I will make them a sign and a byword and cut them off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.(B)
9 If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.(C) 10 And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer and the punishment of the prophet shall be the same—
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Ezekiel 8:16
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16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.(A)
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Isaiah 43:23
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23 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with frankincense.(A)
Psalm 95:10
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10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(A)
Deuteronomy 17:3
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3 by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—
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