Psalm 78:58
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58 (A)For they provoked Him to anger with their (B)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Deuteronomy 32:21
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21 (A)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (B)by their [a]foolish idols.
But (C)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
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- Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities
Leviticus 26:30
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30 (A)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
1 Corinthians 10:22
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22 Or do we (A)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 made [a]shrines on the high places, (A)and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
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- 1 Kings 12:31 Lit. a house; cf. 1 Kin. 13:32, lit. houses
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
Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which 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 Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let [a]the men who sacrifice [b]kiss the calves!”
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- Hosea 13:2 Or those who offer human sacrifice
- Hosea 13:2 Worship with kisses
Ezekiel 20:28-29
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28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and (A)they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their (B)sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, ‘What is this [a]high place to which you go?’ So its name is called [b]Bamah to this day.” ’
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- Ezekiel 20:29 Place for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 20:29 Lit. High Place
Ezekiel 8:3-5
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3 He (A)stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and (B)the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and (C)brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, (D)where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which (E)provokes[a] to jealousy. 4 And behold, the (F)glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I (G)saw in the plain.
5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.
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- Ezekiel 8:3 Arouses the Lord’s jealousy
Jeremiah 8:19
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19 Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From (A)a far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
Psalm 97:7
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7 (A)Let all be put to shame who serve carved images,
Who boast of idols.
(B)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 had commanded.
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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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Judges 2:20
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20 Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has (A)transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice,
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Judges 2:17
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17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they (A)played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so.
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Judges 2:11-12
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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.
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Deuteronomy 32:16-17
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16 (A)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With [a]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
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- Deuteronomy 32:16 detestable acts
Deuteronomy 27:15
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15 (A)‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, [a]an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
(B)“And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’
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- Deuteronomy 27:15 a detestable thing
Deuteronomy 12:4
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4 You shall not (A)worship the Lord your God with such things.
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Deuteronomy 4:16-25
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16 lest you (A)act corruptly and (B)make for yourselves a carved image in the [a]form of any figure: (C)the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth. 19 And take heed, lest you (D)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, (E)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to (F)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has [b]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. 20 But the Lord has taken you and (G)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be (H)His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. 21 Furthermore (I)the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that (J)I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22 But (K)I must die in this land, (L)I must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and [c]possess (M)that good land. 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, (N)and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. 24 For (O)the Lord your God is a consuming fire, (P)a jealous God.
25 “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and (Q)do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger,
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- Deuteronomy 4:16 similitude
- Deuteronomy 4:19 divided
- Deuteronomy 4:22 take possession of
Numbers 33:52
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52 (A)then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their [a]high places;
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- Numbers 33:52 Places for pagan worship
Exodus 34:14
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14 (for you shall worship (A)no other god, for the Lord, whose (B)name is Jealous, is a (C)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—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 nor [a]serve them. (C)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (D)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Exodus 20:5 worship
- Exodus 20:5 punishing
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