Jeremiah 19:13
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13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and libations have been poured out to other gods.(A)
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Jeremiah 32:29
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29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come, set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and libations have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.(A)
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2 Kings 23:12
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12 The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz that the kings of Judah had made and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord he pulled down from there and broke in pieces and threw the rubble into the Wadi Kidron.(A)
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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
those who bow down and swear to the Lord
but also swear by Milcom,[a](A)
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- 1.5 Gk mss Syr Vg: Heb their king
Jeremiah 7:18
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18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:19
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19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.(A)
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Ezekiel 7:21-22
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21 I will hand it over to strangers as plunder,
to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
they shall profane it.(A)
22 I will avert my face from them
so that they may profane my treasured[a] place;
the violent shall enter it;
they shall profane it.(B)
Footnotes
- 7.22 Or secret
Jeremiah 44:18
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18 But from the time we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have perished by the sword and by famine.”(A)
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Psalm 79:1
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Psalm 79
Plea for Mercy for Jerusalem
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.(A)
Psalm 74:7
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7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.(A)
2 Kings 23:10
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10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.(A)
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Acts 7:42
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42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A)
Ezekiel 20:28
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.(A)
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Jeremiah 52:13
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13 He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.(A)
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2 Kings 23:14
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14 He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles,[a] and covered the sites with human bones.(A)
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- 23.14 Or Asherahs
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