Hosea 11:2
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2 [a]As they called them,
So they (A)went [b]from them;
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to carved images.
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- Hosea 11:2 So with MT, Vg.; LXX Just as I called them; Tg. interprets as I sent prophets to a thousand of them.
- Hosea 11:2 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX from My face
Hosea 2:13
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13 I will punish her
For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And went after her lovers;
But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 18:15
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15 “Because My people have forgotten (A)Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the (B)ancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
Isaiah 65:7
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7 Your iniquities and (A)the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the Lord,
(B)“Who have burned incense on the mountains
(C)And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”
Hosea 13:1-2
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Relentless Judgment on Israel
13 When Ephraim spoke, trembling,
He exalted himself in Israel;
But when he offended through Baal worship, he died.
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 11:7
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7 My people are bent on (A)backsliding from Me.
Though [a]they call [b]to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:7 The prophets
- Hosea 11:7 Or upward
Acts 7:51
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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
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- Acts 7:51 stubborn
John 3:19
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19 And this is the condemnation, (A)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
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Luke 13:34
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Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)
34 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
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Zechariah 7:11
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11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Zechariah 1:4
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4 “Do not be like your fathers, (A)to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (B)“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 44:15-17
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15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying: 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you! 17 But we will certainly do (B)whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the (C)queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of [a]food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.
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- Jeremiah 44:17 Lit. bread
Jeremiah 35:13
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13 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not (A)receive instruction to [a]obey My words?” says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 35:13 listen to
Isaiah 30:9-11
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9 That (A)this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
10 (B)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(C)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”
Nehemiah 9:30
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30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And [a]testified (A)against them by Your Spirit (B)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
(C)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 9:30 admonished or warned them
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
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The Fall of Jerusalem(A)
15 (B)And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. 16 But (C)they mocked the messengers of God, (D)despised His words, and (E)scoffed at His prophets, until the (F)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
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2 Kings 17:13-16
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13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His (A)prophets, (B)every seer, saying, (C)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but (D)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who (E)did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 And they (F)rejected His statutes (G)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed (H)idols, (I)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should (J)not do like them. 16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (K)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (L)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (M)host of heaven, (N)and served Baal.
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1 Kings 18:19
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19 Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on (A)Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, (B)and the four hundred prophets of [a]Asherah, who [b]eat at Jezebel’s table.”
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- 1 Kings 18:19 A Canaanite goddess
- 1 Kings 18:19 Are provided for by Jezebel
1 Kings 16:31-32
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31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the (B)Sidonians; (C)and he went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32 Then he set up an altar for Baal in (D)the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
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1 Kings 12:33
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33 So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had (A)devised in his own heart. And he [a]ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and (B)burned incense.
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- 1 Kings 12:33 instituted
1 Samuel 8:7-9
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7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for (A)they have not rejected you, but (B)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. 9 Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and (C)show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”
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Judges 10:6
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Israel Oppressed Again
6 Then (A)the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and (B)served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, (C)the gods of Syria, the gods of (D)Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
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Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 So the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. They (B)forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and [a]Asherahs.
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- Judges 3:7 Name or symbol for Canaanite goddesses
Judges 2:13
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13 They forsook the Lord (A)and served [a]Baal and the [b]Ashtoreths.
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- Judges 2:13 A Canaanite god
- Judges 2:13 Canaanite goddesses
Deuteronomy 29:2-4
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2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: (A)“You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— 3 (B)the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 Yet (C)the Lord has not given you a heart to [a]perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.
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- Deuteronomy 29:4 understand or know
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