1 Kings 16:33
And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
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1 Kings 16:33
And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
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Leviticus 18:3
You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.
Leviticus 18:27
(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)
Leviticus 18:28
So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.
Leviticus 18:29
For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:30
So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:30
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
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.
2 Kings 16:10
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
2 Kings 17:8
Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:17
And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved 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 Chronicles 28:3
More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
Psalms 106:35
But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
Jeremiah 10:2
This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
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Numbers 25:1
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 25:2
For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
Judges 3:6
And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
1 Kings 11:2
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
2 Corinthians 6:15
And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Revelation 15:5
And after these things I saw, and the house of the Tent of witness in heaven was open:
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1 Kings 16:27
Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:28
So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.
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1 Kings 18:18
Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
1 Kings 18:26
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.
1 Kings 21:4
So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.
1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
1 Kings 22:28
And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
Esther 1:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)
Isaiah 9:16
For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.
Hosea 11:2
When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
Hosea 13:1
When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
Romans 11:4
But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
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1 Kings 19:1
Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
1 Kings 21:7
Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.
1 Kings 21:8
So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.
1 Kings 21:9
And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;
1 Kings 21:10
And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
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2 Kings 1:2
Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.
2 Kings 1:3
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
2 Kings 1:4
Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.
2 Kings 1:5
And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?
2 Kings 1:6
And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.
2 Kings 1:7
And he said to them, What sort of a man was it who came and said these words to you?
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2 Kings 10:18
Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.
2 Kings 10:19
Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.
2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.
2 Kings 10:26
And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.
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 10:28
So Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel.
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2 Kings 21:7
He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord 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, I will put my name for ever.
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 Kings 23:4
Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:15
And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.
2 Kings 23:25
Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.
2 Chronicles 15:16
And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:3
In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:7
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 12:29
And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 12:33
He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.
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.
2 Kings 17:18
So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
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 17:4
But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
Jeremiah 3:7
And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Hosea 4:15
Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
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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 16:1
And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,
1 Kings 16:7
And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.
1 Kings 16:13
Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.
1 Kings 21:22
And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.
2 Kings 8:26
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:27
He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.
2 Kings 11:1
Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.
2 Chronicles 18:1
Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.
2 Chronicles 18:31
So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
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 22:2
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 22:4
And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.
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2 Chronicles 28:4
And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
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Revelation 2:21
And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.
Revelation 2:22
See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.
Revelation 2:23
And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
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Isaiah 47:9
But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
Isaiah 47:11
Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.
Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters;
Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
Revelation 17:3
And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,
Revelation 18:3
For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.
Revelation 18:23
And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.
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