Amos 5:5
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5 But do not seek (A)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to (B)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And (C)Bethel shall come to nothing.
Deuteronomy 9:21
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21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I (A)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
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Acts 9:2
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2 and asked (A)letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 12:28-29
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28 Therefore the king asked advice, (A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. (B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” 29 And he set up one in (C)Bethel, and the other he put in (D)Dan.
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Acts 24:14
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14 But this I confess to you, that according to (A)the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the (B)God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in (C)the Law and in the Prophets.
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Acts 19:23
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23 And (A)about that time there arose a great commotion about (B)the Way.
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Acts 19:9
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9 But (A)when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil (B)of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
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Acts 18:25
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25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being (A)fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, (B)though he knew only the baptism of John.
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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 Those (A)who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear (B)by [a]Milcom;
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- Zephaniah 1:5 Or Malcam, an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Jer. 49:1; Molech, Lev. 18:21
Amos 5:2
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2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.
Hosea 13:16
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16 Samaria [a]is held guilty,
For she has (A)rebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child (B)ripped open.
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- Hosea 13:16 LXX shall be disfigured
Hosea 13:2
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2 Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let [a]the men who sacrifice [b]kiss the calves!”
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- Hosea 13:2 Or those who offer human sacrifice
- Hosea 13:2 Worship with kisses
Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the (A)calf[a] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And [b]its priests shriek for it—
Because its (B)glory has departed from it.
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- Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
- Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
Hosea 8:5-6
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5 Your [a]calf [b]is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—
(A)How long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this:
A (B)workman made it, and it is not God;
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
Hosea 4:15
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15 “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Let not Judah offend.
(A)Do not come up to Gilgal,
Nor go up to (B)Beth[a] Aven,
(C)Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—
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- Hosea 4:15 Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness
Jeremiah 51:64
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64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Jeremiah 25:27
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27 “Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)“Drink, (B)be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’
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Isaiah 43:17
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17 Who (A)brings forth the chariot and horse,
The army and the power
(They shall lie down together, they shall not rise;
They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):
Proverbs 29:1
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Happy Is He Who Keeps the Law
29 He(A) who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck,
Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Psalm 140:10
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10 (A)Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Psalm 36:12
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12 There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and are not able to rise.
2 Chronicles 36:16
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16 But (A)they mocked the messengers of God, (B)despised His words, and (C)scoffed at His prophets, until the (D)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
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2 Kings 10:29
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29 However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from (A)the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan.
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1 Kings 16:24
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24 And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, (A)Samaria,[a] after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.
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- 1 Kings 16:24 Heb. Shomeron
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