Amos 5:5
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5 Don’t worship at the pagan altars at Bethel;
don’t go to the shrines at Gilgal or Beersheba.
For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile,
and the people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing.”
Hosea 4:15
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15 “Though you, Israel, are a prostitute,
may Judah not be guilty of such things.
Do not join the false worship at Gilgal or Beth-aven,[a]
and do not take oaths there in the Lord’s name.
Footnotes
- 4:15 Beth-aven means “house of wickedness”; it is being used as another name for Bethel, which means “house of God.”
Amos 8:14
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14 And those who swear by the shameful idols of Samaria—
who take oaths in the name of the god of Dan
and make vows in the name of the god of Beersheba[a]—
they will all fall down,
never to rise again.”
Footnotes
- 8:14 Hebrew the way of Beersheba.
Amos 4:4
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4 “Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel.
Keep on disobeying at Gilgal.
Offer sacrifices each morning,
and bring your tithes every three days.
Genesis 21:33
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33 Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he worshiped the Lord, the Eternal God.[a]
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- 21:33 Hebrew El-Olam.
Revelation 18:17
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17 In a single moment
all the wealth of the city is gone!”
And all the captains of the merchant ships and their passengers and sailors and crews will stand at a distance.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
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6 Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.
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1 Corinthians 1:28
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28 God chose things despised by the world,[a] things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
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- 1:28 Or God chose those who are low born.
Amos 7:17
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17 But this is what the Lord says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city,
and your sons and daughters will be killed.
Your land will be divided up,
and you yourself will die in a foreign land.
And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile,
far from their homeland.’”
Hosea 12:11
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11 But the people of Gilead are worthless
because of their idol worship.
And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls;
their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone
along the edges of a plowed field.
Hosea 10:14-15
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14 Now the terrors of war
will rise among your people.
All your fortifications will fall,
just as when Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel.
Even mothers and children
were dashed to death there.
15 You will share that fate, Bethel,
because of your great wickedness.
When the day of judgment dawns,
the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
Hosea 10:8
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8 And the pagan shrines of Aven,[a] the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble.
Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars.
They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!”
and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”
Hosea 9:15
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15 The Lord says, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
I will drive them from my land
because of their evil actions.
I will love them no more
because all their leaders are rebels.
Isaiah 29:20
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20 The scoffer will be gone,
the arrogant will disappear,
and those who plot evil will be killed.
Isaiah 8:10
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10 Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless.
Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed.
For God is with us![a]”
Footnotes
- 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel!
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
Job 8:22
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22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the home of the wicked will be destroyed.”
1 Samuel 11:14
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14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us all go to Gilgal to renew the kingdom.”
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1 Samuel 7:16
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16 Each year he traveled around, setting up his court first at Bethel, then at Gilgal, and then at Mizpah. He judged the people of Israel at each of these places.
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Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.
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Leviticus 26:30-32
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30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols,[a] and I will despise you. 31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me. 32 Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see.
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- 26:30 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
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