Isaiah 30:22
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22 (A)You will also defile the covering of your images of silver,
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing;
(B)You will say to them, “Get away!”
Isaiah 46:6
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6 (A)They lavish gold out of the bag,
And weigh silver on the scales;
They hire a (B)goldsmith, and he makes it a god;
They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.
Judges 17:3-4
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3 So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, “I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to (A)make a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you.” 4 Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother (B)took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.
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Hosea 14:8
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8 “Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’
I have heard and observed him.
I am like a green cypress tree;
(A)Your fruit is found in Me.”
Isaiah 31:7
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7 For in that day every man shall (A)throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—(B)sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.
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Revelation 19:20
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20 (A)Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and (B)those who worshiped his image. (C)These two were cast alive into the lake of fire (D)burning with brimstone.
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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 5:10-14
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10 “And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord,
“That I will (A)cut[a] off your (B)horses from your midst
And destroy your (C)chariots.
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 (D)soothsayers.
13 (E)Your carved images I will also cut off,
And your sacred pillars from your midst;
You shall (F)no more worship the work of your hands;
14 I will pluck your [b]wooden images from your midst;
Thus I will destroy your cities.
Footnotes
- Micah 5:10 destroy
- Micah 5:14 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Ezekiel 36:31
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31 Then (A)you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you (B)will [a]loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.
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- Ezekiel 36:31 despise
Ezekiel 18:6
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6 (A)If he has not eaten [a]on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor (B)defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached (C)a woman during her impurity;
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 18:6 At the mountain shrines
Lamentations 1:17
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17 (A)Zion [a]spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those (B)around him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:17 Prays
Isaiah 27:9
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9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[a]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Isaiah 17:7-8
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7 In that day a man will (A)look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his (B)fingers have made,
Nor the [a]wooden images nor the incense altars.
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- Isaiah 17:8 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Isaiah 2:20-21
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20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
2 Chronicles 34:3-7
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still (A)young, he began to (B)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began (C)to purge Judah and Jerusalem (D)of the [a]high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. 4 (E)They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them (F)and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 He also (G)burned the bones of the priests on their (H)altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with [b]axes. 7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (I)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 34:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 34:6 Lit. swords
2 Chronicles 31:1
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The Reforms of Hezekiah(A)
31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and (B)broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the [a]high places and the altars—from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh—until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.
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- 2 Chronicles 31:1 Places for pagan worship
2 Kings 23:4-20
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4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the (A)priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring (B)out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for [a]Asherah, and for all [b]the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the [c]constellations, and to (C)all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the (D)wooden[d] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to (E)ashes, and threw its ashes on (F)the graves of the common people. 7 Then he tore down the ritual [e]booths (G)of the [f]perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, (H)where the (I)women wove hangings for the wooden image. 8 And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from (J)Geba to Beersheba; also he broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were to the left of the city gate. 9 (K)Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, (L)but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled (M)Topheth, which is in (N)the Valley of the [g]Son of Hinnom, (O)that no man might make his son or his daughter (P)pass through the fire to Molech. 11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had [h]dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The altars that were (Q)on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which (R)Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron. 13 Then the king defiled the [i]high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the [j]south of [k]the Mount of Corruption, which (S)Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon. 14 And he (T)broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the [l]high place (U)which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the (V)word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17 Then he said, “What gravestone is this that I see?”
So the men of the city told him, “It is (W)the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
18 And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of (X)the prophet who came from Samaria.
19 Now Josiah also took away all the [m]shrines of the [n]high places that were (Y)in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [o]the Lord to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel. 20 (Z)He (AA)executed all the priests of the [p]high places who were there, on the altars, and (AB)burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Kings 23:4 A Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 23:4 The gods of the Assyrians
- 2 Kings 23:5 Of the Zodiac
- 2 Kings 23:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 23:7 Lit. houses
- 2 Kings 23:7 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
- 2 Kings 23:10 Kt. Sons
- 2 Kings 23:11 given
- 2 Kings 23:13 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 23:13 Lit. right of
- 2 Kings 23:13 The Mount of Olives
- 2 Kings 23:15 A place for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 23:19 Lit. houses
- 2 Kings 23:19 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 23:19 So with LXX, Syr., Vg.; MT, Tg. omit the Lord
- 2 Kings 23:20 Places for pagan worship
Exodus 32:2-4
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2 And Aaron said to them, “Break off the (A)golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 (B)And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.
Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that (C)brought you out of the land of Egypt!”
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