Jeremiah 8:2
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2 They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and (A)which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered (B)nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.
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2 Kings 23:5
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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 [a]constellations, and to (A)all the host of heaven.
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- 2 Kings 23:5 Of the Zodiac
Acts 7:42
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42 Then (A)God turned and gave them up to worship (B)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
(C)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
Jeremiah 9:22
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22 Speak, “Thus says the Lord:
‘Even the carcasses of men shall fall (A)as refuse on the open field,
Like cuttings after the harvester,
And no one shall gather them.’ ”
Zephaniah 1:5
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5 Those (A)who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear (B)by [a]Milcom;
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- Zephaniah 1:5 Or Malcam, an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Jer. 49:1; Molech, Lev. 18:21
Ezekiel 8:16
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16 So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, (A)between the porch and the altar, (B)were about twenty-five men (C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (D)the sun toward the east.
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Jeremiah 36:30
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30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: (A)“He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be (B)cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
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Jeremiah 22:19
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19 (A)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 19:13
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13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled (A)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose (B)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and (C)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 16:4
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4 “They shall die (A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be (B)lamented nor shall they be (C)buried, but they shall be (D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their (E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”
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Psalm 83:10
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10 Who perished at En Dor,
(A)Who became as refuse on the earth.
2 Kings 21:3
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places (A)which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a [b]wooden image, (B)as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he (C)worshiped all [c]the host of heaven and served them.
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- 2 Kings 21:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 21:3 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 21:3 The gods of the Assyrians
Deuteronomy 4:19
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19 And take heed, lest you (A)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, (B)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to (C)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has [a]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
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- Deuteronomy 4:19 divided
Zephaniah 1:17
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17 “I will bring distress upon men,
And they shall (A)walk like blind men,
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
Their blood shall be poured out like dust,
And their flesh like refuse.”
Jeremiah 44:17-19
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17 But we will certainly do (A)whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the (B)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. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
19 The women also said, (C)“And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?”
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- Jeremiah 44:17 Lit. bread
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or (A)indeed he has no burial, I say that (B)a [a]stillborn child is better than he—
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage
2 Chronicles 33:3-5
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places which Hezekiah his father had (A)broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and (B)made wooden images; and he worshiped (C)all [b]the host of heaven and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (D)“In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven (E)in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 The gods of the Assyrians
2 Kings 21:5
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5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the (A)two courts of the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 17:16
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16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (A)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (B)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (C)host of heaven, (D)and served Baal.
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2 Kings 9:36-37
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36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (A)‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be (B)as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”
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Deuteronomy 17:3
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3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either (A)the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, (B)which I have not commanded,
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