Ezekiel 21:21
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21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the [a]images, he looks at the liver.
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- Ezekiel 21:21 Heb. teraphim
Proverbs 16:33
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33 The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.
Genesis 31:19
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19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the (A)household[a] idols that were her father’s.
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- Genesis 31:19 Heb. teraphim
Judges 18:20
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20 So the priest’s heart was glad; and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and took his place among the people.
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Judges 17:5
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5 The man Micah had a (A)shrine, and made an (B)ephod and (C)household[a] idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
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- Judges 17:5 Heb. teraphim
Genesis 31:30
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30 And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you (A)steal my gods?”
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Acts 16:16
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Paul and Silas Imprisoned
16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl (A)possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters (B)much profit by fortune-telling.
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Zechariah 10:2
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2 For the (A)idols[a] speak delusion;
The diviners envision (B)lies,
And tell false dreams;
They (C)comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wend their way like (D)sheep;
They are [b]in trouble (E)because there is no shepherd.
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- Zechariah 10:2 Heb. teraphim
- Zechariah 10:2 afflicted
Hosea 4:12
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12 My people ask counsel from their (A)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (B)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
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- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
Hosea 3:4
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4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days (A)without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without (B)ephod or (C)teraphim.
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Proverbs 21:1
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The Lord Considers the Heart
21 The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord,
Like the [a]rivers of water;
He turns it wherever He wishes.
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- Proverbs 21:1 channels
Proverbs 16:10
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10 Divination is on the lips of the king;
His mouth must not transgress in judgment.
2 Kings 23:24
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24 Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of (A)the law which were written in the book (B)that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 15:23
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23 For rebellion is as the sin of [a]witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(A)He also has rejected you from being king.”
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- 1 Samuel 15:23 divination
Judges 18:24
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24 So he said, “You have (A)taken away my [a]gods which I made, and the priest, and you have gone away. Now what more do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What ails you?’ ”
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- Judges 18:24 idols
Judges 18:18
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18 When these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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Judges 18:14
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14 (A)Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brethren, “Do you know that (B)there are in these houses an ephod, household idols, a carved image, and a molded image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”
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Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (A)pass[a] through the fire, (B)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
Numbers 23:28
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28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that (A)overlooks the [a]wasteland.
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- Numbers 23:28 Heb. Jeshimon
Numbers 23:23
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23 “For there is no [a]sorcery against Jacob,
Nor any [b]divination against Israel.
It now must be said of Jacob
And of Israel, ‘Oh, (A)what God has done!’
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- Numbers 23:23 enchantment
- Numbers 23:23 fortune-telling
Numbers 22:7
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7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with (A)the diviner’s fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.
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