Jeremiah 2:28
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28 But where are your gods
that you made for yourself?
Let them come, if they can save you,
in your time of trouble,
for you have as many gods
as you have towns, O Judah.(A)
Jeremiah 11:13
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13 For your gods have become as many as your towns, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars to shame you have set up, altars to make offerings to Baal.
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Isaiah 45:20
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Idols Cannot Save Babylon
20 Assemble yourselves and come together;
draw near, you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge—
those who carry about their wooden idols
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:37
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37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,(A)
Judges 10:14
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14 Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”(A)
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Isaiah 46:7
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7 They lift it to their shoulders; they carry it;
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
it cannot move from its place.
If one cries out to it, it does not answer
or save anyone from trouble.(A)
2 Kings 17:30-31
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30 the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima;(A) 31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.(B)
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Hosea 10:1
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Israel’s Sin and Captivity
10 Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.(A)
Isaiah 46:2
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2 They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden
but themselves go into captivity.(A)
2 Kings 3:13
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13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to your father’s prophets or to your mother’s.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”(A)
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