1 Kings 14:23
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
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1 Kings 14:23
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
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Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
Ezekiel 22:9
In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.
Hosea 4:14
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
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Genesis 31:54
And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.
Exodus 20:4
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Exodus 23:24
Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.
Numbers 22:41
And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.
Deuteronomy 16:22
You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.
1 Samuel 9:13
When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.
1 Kings 2:45
But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.
1 Kings 18:19
Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table.
2 Kings 3:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.
2 Kings 23:8
And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
Deuteronomy 12:6
And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
Deuteronomy 12:8
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
Deuteronomy 12:9
For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
Deuteronomy 12:13
Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
Deuteronomy 12:14
But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.
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Deuteronomy 18:9
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:10
Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
Deuteronomy 18:12
For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
Deuteronomy 29:17
And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)
Deuteronomy 32:16
The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
2 Kings 17:11
Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
2 Kings 21:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:4
And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Chronicles 33:4
And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:7
And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
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1 Kings 13:32
For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.
1 Kings 13:33
After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.
1 Kings 13:34
And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
1 Kings 15:26
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.
1 Kings 15:34
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.
2 Kings 17:19
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
2 Chronicles 11:3
Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,
Hosea 5:10
The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
Micah 1:5
All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
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1 Kings 16:4
Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.
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1 Kings 17:10
So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?
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1 Kings 22:46
He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.
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1 Kings 15:13
And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.
2 Kings 10:27
The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.
2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 14:4
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
2 Chronicles 14:5
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
Isaiah 1:29
For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
Isaiah 17:8
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
Isaiah 65:3
A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Jeremiah 43:13
And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.
Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,
Ezekiel 6:4
And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.
Micah 5:14
I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.
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1 Kings 11:4
For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.
2 Kings 14:3
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
2 Kings 15:3
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 21:5
And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
2 Kings 21:6
And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
2 Kings 23:24
And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 21:13
But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:
2 Chronicles 24:4
Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;
2 Chronicles 33:6
More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
Ezekiel 8:6
And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;
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1 Kings 12:17
(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)
1 Kings 14:28
And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.
2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;
2 Chronicles 11:15
And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.
2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 11:17
So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles 12:2
Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,
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2 Chronicles 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
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2 Chronicles 16:2
Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,
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2 Kings 21:8
And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.
2 Chronicles 33:5
And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
Ezekiel 16:31
For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.
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Psalms 121:2
Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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1 Samuel 4:8
Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.
1 Kings 20:23
Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20:28
And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chronicles 32:13
Have you no knowledge of what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of every land? were the gods of the nations of those lands able to keep their land from falling into my hands?
2 Chronicles 32:14
Who was there among all the gods of those nations, which my fathers put to destruction, who was able to keep his people safe from my hands? and is it possible that your God will keep you safe from my hands?
2 Chronicles 32:15
So do not be tricked by Hezekiah or let him get you to do this, and do not put any faith in what he says: for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to keep his people safe from my hands, or the hands of my fathers: how much less will your God keep you safe from my hands!
2 Chronicles 32:16
And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17
And he sent letters, in addition, to put shame on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to say evil against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not been able to keep their people safe from my hands, no more will the God of Hezekiah keep his people safe from my hands.
2 Chronicles 32:18
These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;
2 Chronicles 32:19
Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Psalms 50:22
Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
Psalms 121:1
A Song of the going up. My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
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Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
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Isaiah 65:7
For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.
Ezekiel 6:5
And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.
Ezekiel 16:16
And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.
Hosea 14:8
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
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Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
Ezekiel 20:19
I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:
Zechariah 1:2
The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:
Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
1 Peter 1:18
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
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