Psalm 78:58
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58 For they (A)provoked him to anger with their (B)high places;
they (C)moved him to jealousy with their (D)idols.
Deuteronomy 32:21
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21 (A)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (B)with their idols.
So (C)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (D)a foolish nation.
Leviticus 26:30
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30 And (A)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (B)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
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1 Corinthians 10:22
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22 (A)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than he?
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1 Kings 12:31
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31 He also made (A)temples on high places and (B)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
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1 Kings 11:7
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7 Then Solomon built a high place for (A)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for (B)Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Hosea 13:2
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2 And now they sin more and more,
and (A)make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
(B)all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice (C)kiss calves!”
Ezekiel 20:28-29
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings. 29 (I said to them, (D)‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah[a] to this day.)
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- Ezekiel 20:29 Bamah means high place
Ezekiel 8:3-5
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3 He (A)put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up (B)between earth and heaven and (C)brought me in (D)visions of God to Jerusalem, (E)to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, (F)where was the seat of the (G)image of jealousy, (H)which provokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, (I)the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw (J)in the valley.
5 Then he said to me, (K)“Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of (L)the altar gate, in the entrance, was this (M)image of jealousy.
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Jeremiah 8:19
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19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
(B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
Psalm 97:7
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7 All worshipers of images are (A)put to shame,
who make their boast in (B)worthless idols;
(C)worship him, all you gods!
Psalm 79:5
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1 Kings 11:10
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10 and (A)had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.
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Judges 10:6
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Further Disobedience and Oppression
6 (A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, (C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they (D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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Judges 2:20
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20 (A)So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people (B)have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
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Judges 2:17
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17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for (A)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. (B)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
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Judges 2:11-12
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Israel's Unfaithfulness
11 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 (B)And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. (C)They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and (D)bowed down to them. (E)And they provoked the Lord to anger.
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Deuteronomy 32:16-17
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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to (C)new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
Deuteronomy 27:15
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15 (A)“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ (B)And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
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Deuteronomy 12:4
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4 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.
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Deuteronomy 4:16-25
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16 beware (A)lest you act corruptly (B)by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, (C)the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see (D)the sun and the moon and the stars, (E)all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and (F)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, (G)to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. 21 Furthermore, (H)the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. 22 For I must die in this land; (I)I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of (J)that good land. 23 (K)Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and (L)make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. 24 For (M)the Lord your God is a consuming fire, (N)a jealous God.
25 “When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, (O)if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and (P)by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
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Numbers 33:52
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52 then (A)you shall drive out (B)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their (C)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
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Exodus 34:14
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14 (for (A)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
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Exodus 20:4-5
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4 (A)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 (B)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (C)a jealous God, (D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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