Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf[a] of Beth-aven.
Its people shall mourn for it,
and its idolatrous priests shall wail[b] over it,
over its glory that has departed from it.(A)
Hosea 9:11
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11 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!(A)
Hosea 5:8
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8 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
look behind you, Benjamin!(A)
Hosea 8:5-6
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5 Your calf is rejected, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?(A)
6 For it is from Israel,
an artisan made it;
it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
shall be broken to pieces.(B)
Hosea 4:15
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15 Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel,
do not let Judah become guilty.
Do not enter into Gilgal
or go up to Beth-aven,
and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”(A)
2 Kings 23:5
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5 He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
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Hosea 13:2
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2 And now they keep on sinning
and make a cast image for themselves,
idols of silver made according to their understanding,
all of them the work of artisans.
“Sacrifice to these,” they say.[a]
People are kissing calves!(A)
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- 13.2 Cn Compare Gk: Heb To these they say sacrifices of people
1 Samuel 4:21-22
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21 She named the child Ichabod, meaning, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”(A)
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Revelation 18:11-19
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11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron, and marble,(A) 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, choice flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, slaves—and human lives.[a](B)
14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendor
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”
15 The merchants of these wares, who grew wealthy from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,(C)
16 “Alas, alas, the great city,
clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!(D)
17 For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!”
And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off(E) 18 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,
“What city was like the great city?”(F)
19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, the great city,
where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For in one hour she has been laid waste.”(G)
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- 18.13 Or chariots, and human bodies and souls
Acts 19:27
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27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be scorned, and she will be deprived of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her.”
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Zephaniah 1:4
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4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah
and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal
and the name of the idolatrous priests,[a](A)
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- 1.4 Compare Gk: Heb the idolatrous priests with the priests
2 Chronicles 13:8
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8 “And now you think that you can withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made as gods for you.(A)
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2 Chronicles 11:15
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15 and had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and for the calves that he had made.(A)
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2 Kings 17:16
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16 They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole,[a] worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.(A)
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- 17.16 Or Asherah
2 Kings 10:29
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29 But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he caused Israel to commit: the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.(A)
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1 Kings 12:28-32
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28 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people,[a] “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”(A) 29 He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.(B) 30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one at Bethel and before the other as far as Dan.[b](C) 31 He also made houses[c] on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.(D) 32 Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.(E)
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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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Joshua 7:2
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2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.
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