Judges 10:6
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Israel Oppressed Again
6 Then (A)the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and (B)served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, (C)the gods of Syria, the gods of (D)Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
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2 Kings 23:13
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13 Then the king defiled the [a]high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the [b]south of [c]the Mount of Corruption, which (A)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.
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- 2 Kings 23:13 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 23:13 Lit. right of
- 2 Kings 23:13 The Mount of Olives
1 Kings 11:33
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33 (A)because [a]they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
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- 1 Kings 11:33 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. he has
1 Kings 11:7
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7 (A)Then Solomon built a [a]high place for (B)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on (C)the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.
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- 1 Kings 11:7 A place for pagan worship
1 Kings 11:5
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5 For Solomon went after (A)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after (B)Milcom[a] the abomination of the (C)Ammonites.
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- 1 Kings 11:5 Or Molech
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (A)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Psalm 106:36
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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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Judges 16:23
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Samson Dies with the Philistines
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to (A)Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said:
“Our god has delivered into our hands
Samson our enemy!”
Ezekiel 16:25-26
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25 You built your high places (A)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. 26 You also committed harlotry with (B)the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to (C)provoke Me to anger.
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2 Chronicles 28:23
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23 For (A)he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them (B)that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.
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2 Kings 17:29-31
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29 However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them (A)in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt. 30 The men of (B)Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 (C)and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites (D)burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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2 Kings 1:2-3
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2 Now (A)Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of (B)Baal-Zebub,[a] the god of (C)Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” 3 But the [b]angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’
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- 2 Kings 1:2 Lit. Lord of Flies
- 2 Kings 1:3 Or Angel
1 Kings 16:31
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31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the (B)Sidonians; (C)and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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1 Samuel 5:2
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2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of (A)Dagon[a] and set it by Dagon.
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- 1 Samuel 5:2 A Philistine idol
Judges 13:1
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The Birth of Samson(A)
13 Again the children of Israel (B)did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them (C)into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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Judges 6:1
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Midianites Oppress Israel
6 Then the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord delivered them into the hand of (B)Midian for seven years,
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Judges 4:1
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Deborah
4 When Ehud was dead, (A)the children of Israel again did (B)evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 So the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. They (B)forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and [a]Asherahs.
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- Judges 3:7 Name or symbol for Canaanite goddesses
Judges 2:11-14
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Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 Then the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; 12 and they (B)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed (C)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they (D)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They forsook the Lord (E)and served [a]Baal and the [b]Ashtoreths. 14 (F)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He (G)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and (H)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they (I)could no longer stand before their enemies.
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- Judges 2:13 A Canaanite god
- Judges 2:13 Canaanite goddesses
Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 31:16
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16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will [a]rest with your fathers; and this people will (A)rise and (B)play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will (C)forsake Me and (D)break My covenant which I have made with them.
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- Deuteronomy 31:16 Die and join your ancestors
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