Ezekiel 21:21
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21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork in the two roads, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim;[a] he inspects the liver.(A)
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- 21.21 Or the household gods
Proverbs 16:33
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33 The lot is cast into the lap,
but the decision is the Lord’s alone.
Judges 18:20
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20 Then the priest accepted the offer. He took the ephod, the teraphim, and the idol and went along with the people.
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Judges 17:5
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5 This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.(A)
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Genesis 31:30
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30 Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”(A)
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Genesis 31:19
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19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.(A)
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Acts 16:16
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Paul and Silas in Prison
16 One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.(A)
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Zechariah 10:2
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2 For the teraphim[a] utter nonsense,
and the diviners see lies;
the dreamers tell false dreams
and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people[b] wander like sheep;
they suffer for lack of a shepherd.(A)
Hosea 4:12
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12 My people consult a piece of wood,
and their divining rod gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.(A)
Hosea 3:4
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4 For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.(A)
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Proverbs 21:1
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21 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
he turns it wherever he will.
Proverbs 16:10
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10 Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king;
his mouth does not sin in judgment.
2 Kings 23:24
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24 Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums, wizards, teraphim,[a] idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he established the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah had found in the house of the Lord.(A)
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- 23.24 Or household gods
1 Samuel 15:23
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23 For rebellion is no less a sin than divination,
and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has also rejected you from being king.”(A)
Judges 18:24
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24 He replied, “You take my gods that I made and the priest and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”(A)
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Judges 18:18
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18 When the men went into Micah’s house and took the idol of cast metal, the ephod, and the teraphim, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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Judges 18:14
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14 Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land (that is, Laish) said to their comrades, “Do you know that in these buildings there are an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? Now, therefore, consider what you will do.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,(A)
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Numbers 23:28
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28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.[a]
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- 23.28 Or overlooks Jeshimon
Numbers 23:23
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23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
‘See what God has done!’
Numbers 22:7
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7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand, and they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.(A)
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