Hosea 13:2
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2 And now they sin more and more,
and (A)make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
(B)all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice (C)kiss calves!”
Isaiah 46:6
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6 (A)Those who lavish gold from the purse,
and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
(B)then they fall down and worship!
1 Kings 19:18
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18 (A)Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not (B)kissed him.”
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Jeremiah 10:4
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4 (A)They decorate it with silver and gold;
(B)they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
Isaiah 44:17-20
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17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. (A)He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an (B)abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 (C)He feeds on (D)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (E)a lie in my right hand?”
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Romans 11:4
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4 But what is God's reply to him? (A)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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Romans 1:22-25
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (B)exchanged the glory of (C)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore (D)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (E)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for (F)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, (G)who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Habakkuk 2:18-19
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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes (C)speechless idols!
19 (D)Woe to him (E)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and (F)there is no breath at all in it.
2 Timothy 3:13
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13 while (A)evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and (B)being deceived.
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Romans 2:5
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5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Hosea 11:6
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6 (A)The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them (B)because of their own counsels.
Hosea 10:1
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10 (A)Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
(B)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.
Hosea 8:6
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6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
(A)The calf of Samaria
(B)shall be broken to pieces.[a]
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames
Hosea 8:4
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4 (A)They made kings, (B)but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
Jeremiah 10:8
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Isaiah 46:8
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8 “Remember this and stand firm,
recall it to mind, (A)you transgressors,
Isaiah 45:20
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20 (A)“Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
(B)They have no knowledge
who (C)carry about their wooden idols,
(D)and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
Isaiah 30:1
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
Isaiah 1:5
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5 Why will you still be (A)struck down?
Why will you (B)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
Psalm 135:17-18
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17 they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them become like them,
so do all who trust in them.
Psalm 115:4-8
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4 (A)Their idols are silver and gold,
(B)the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, (C)but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 (D)Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
Psalm 2:12
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12 (A)Kiss (B)the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his (C)wrath is quickly kindled.
(D)Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
2 Chronicles 33:23
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23 And he did not humble himself before the Lord, (A)as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
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2 Chronicles 28:13
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13 and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
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