Job 31:26
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- 31.26 Heb the light
Ezekiel 8:16
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16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.(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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Deuteronomy 17:3
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3 by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—
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Jeremiah 44:17
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17 Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.(A)
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Jeremiah 8:2
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2 and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.(A)
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2 Kings 23:11
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11 He removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of the eunuch Nathan-melech, which was in the precincts;[a] then he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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- 23.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Kings 23:5
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5 He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
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Psalm 8:3-4
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3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;(A)
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
mortals[a] that you care for them?(B)
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- 8.4 Heb son of man
Deuteronomy 11:16
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16 Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them,(A)
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Genesis 1:16-18
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16 God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.(A) 17 God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.(B)
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