Deuteronomy 4:19
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19 And take heed, lest you (A)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, (B)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to (C)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has [a]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
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- Deuteronomy 4:19 divided
2 Kings 21:3
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places (A)which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a [b]wooden image, (B)as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he (C)worshiped all [c]the host of heaven and served them.
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- 2 Kings 21:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 21:3 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 21:3 The gods of the Assyrians
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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Deuteronomy 17:3
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3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either (A)the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, (B)which I have not commanded,
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Genesis 2:1
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The Garden of Eden
2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and (A)all the host of them, were finished.
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Genesis 1:16-18
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16 Then God made two great [a]lights: the (A)greater light to rule the day, and the (B)lesser light to rule the night. He made (C)the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the (D)heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to (E)rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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- Genesis 1:16 luminaries
Romans 1:25
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25 who exchanged (A)the truth of God (B)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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Psalm 148:3-5
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3 Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all you stars of light!
4 Praise Him, (A)you heavens of heavens,
And (B)you waters above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For (C)He commanded and they were created.
Psalm 136:7-9
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7 (A)To Him who made great lights,
For His mercy endures forever—
8 (B)The sun to rule by day,
For His mercy endures forever;
9 The moon and stars to rule by night,
For His mercy endures forever.
Acts 7:42
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42 Then (A)God turned and gave them up to worship (B)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
(C)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
Amos 5:25-26
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25 “Did(A) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried [a]Sikkuth[b] (B)your king
And Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
Psalm 74:16-17
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16 The day is Yours, the night also is (A)Yours;
(B)You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 You have (C)set all the borders of the earth;
(D)You have made summer and winter.
Joshua 10:12-13
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12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel:
(A)“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of (B)Aijalon.”
13 So the sun stood still,
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
(C)Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
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Matthew 5:45
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45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for (A)He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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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
Ezekiel 8:16
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16 So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, (A)between the porch and the altar, (B)were about twenty-five men (C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (D)the sun toward the east.
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Jeremiah 33:25
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25 “Thus says the Lord: ‘If (A)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not (B)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
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Jeremiah 31:35
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35 Thus says the Lord,
(A)Who gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs (B)the sea,
And its waves roar
(C)(The Lord of hosts is His name):
Jeremiah 19:13
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13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled (A)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose (B)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and (C)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 8:2
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2 They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and (A)which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered (B)nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.
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Job 31:26-28
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26 (A)If I have observed the [a]sun when it shines,
Or the moon moving in brightness,
27 So that my heart has been secretly enticed,
And my mouth has kissed my hand;
28 This also would be an iniquity deserving of judgment,
For I would have denied God who is above.
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- Job 31:26 Lit. light
2 Kings 23:11
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11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had [a]dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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- 2 Kings 23:11 given
2 Kings 23:4-5
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4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the (A)priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring (B)out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for [a]Asherah, and for all [b]the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the [c]constellations, and to (C)all the host of heaven.
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- 2 Kings 23:4 A Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 23:4 The gods of the Assyrians
- 2 Kings 23:5 Of the Zodiac
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