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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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 31:19
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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
Hebrews 10:26
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The Just Live by Faith
26 For (A)if we sin willfully (B)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there (C)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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Daniel 12:11
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11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
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Daniel 9:27
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27 Then he shall confirm (A)a [a]covenant with (B)many for one week;
But in the middle of the week
He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
(C)Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the [b]desolate.”
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- Daniel 9:27 Or treaty
- Daniel 9:27 Or desolator
2 Chronicles 15:2
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2 And he went out [a]to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. (A)The Lord is with you while you are with Him. (B)If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but (C)if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:2 Lit. before
1 Samuel 23:9
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9 When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him, (A)he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
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Judges 8:27
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27 Then Gideon (A)made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, (B)Ophrah. And all Israel (C)played the harlot with it there. It became (D)a snare to Gideon and to his house.
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Exodus 28:4
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4 And these are the garments which they shall make: (A)a breastplate, (B)an [a]ephod, (C)a robe, (D)a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and (E)a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest.
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- Exodus 28:4 Ornamented vest
Acts 6:13-14
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13 They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak [a]blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; 14 (A)for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
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- Acts 6:13 NU omits blasphemous
John 19:15
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15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, (A)“We have no king but Caesar!”
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Luke 21:24
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24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles (A)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Matthew 24:1-2
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Jesus Predicts the Destruction of the Temple(A)
24 Then (B)Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, (C)not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
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Zechariah 13:2
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2 “It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will (A)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause (B)the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.
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Micah 5:11-14
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11 I will cut off the cities of your land
And throw down all your strongholds.
12 I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
And you shall have no (A)soothsayers.
13 (B)Your carved images I will also cut off,
And your sacred pillars from your midst;
You shall (C)no more worship the work of your hands;
14 I will pluck your [a]wooden images from your midst;
Thus I will destroy your cities.
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- Micah 5:14 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Hosea 13:11
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11 (A)I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.
Hosea 10:1-3
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Israel’s Sin and Captivity
10 Israel (A)empties his vine;
He brings forth fruit for himself.
According to the multitude of his fruit
(B)He has increased the altars;
According to the bounty of his land
They have embellished his sacred pillars.
2 Their heart is (C)divided;[a]
Now they are held guilty.
He will break down their altars;
He will ruin their sacred pillars.
3 For now they say,
“We have no king,
Because we did not fear the Lord.
And as for a king, what would he do for us?”
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- Hosea 10:2 Divided in loyalty
Hosea 2:11
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11 (A)I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.
Daniel 11:31
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31 And [a]forces shall be mustered by him, (A)and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.
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- Daniel 11:31 Lit. arms
Daniel 8:11-13
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11 (A)He even exalted himself as high as (B)the Prince of the host; (C)and by him (D)the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of [a]His sanctuary was cast down. 12 Because of transgression, (E)an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast (F)truth down to the ground. He (G)did all this and prospered.
13 Then I heard (H)a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, “How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression [b]of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot?”
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- Daniel 8:11 The temple
- Daniel 8:13 Or making desolate
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
Ezekiel 20:32
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32 (A)What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’
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Jeremiah 15:4-5
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4 I will hand them over to (A)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of (B)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
5 “For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
Or who will bemoan you?
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
Isaiah 19:19-20
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19 In that day (A)there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the (B)Lord at its border. 20 And (C)it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a (D)Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.
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