Hosea 13:2
And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
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Hosea 13:2
And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
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Genesis 2:19
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
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Genesis 41:43
And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 41:44
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 20:3
You are to have no other gods but me.
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.
Deuteronomy 4:25
If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:
Deuteronomy 5:9
You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
Judges 2:13
And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
Judges 2:17
But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.
Judges 3:7
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 11:10
And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.
1 Kings 16:32
And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.
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.
Psalms 78:58
They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
Jeremiah 8:19
The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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Exodus 32:1
And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.
Exodus 32:5
And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.
Exodus 32:6
So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.
Exodus 32:7
And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;
Exodus 32:31
Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;
Psalms 106:19
They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.
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Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.
1 Kings 12:30
And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.
1 Kings 13:22
But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.
1 Kings 13:23
Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.
1 Kings 13:24
And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.
1 Kings 13:25
And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.
1 Kings 13:26
Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.
1 Kings 13:27
And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.
1 Kings 13:28
And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.
1 Kings 13:29
Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.
1 Kings 13:30
And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!
1 Kings 13:31
And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.
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 14:9
But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.
1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
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Judges 17:1
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
Judges 17:2
And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.
Judges 17:3
And he gave back the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have made the silver holy to the Lord from me for my son, to make a pictured image and a metal image.
Judges 17:4
So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.
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1 Kings 11:40
And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
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1 Kings 12:2
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
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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 16:24
He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.
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1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
1 Kings 19:11
Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.
1 Kings 19:14
And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
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2 Samuel 19:39
Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.
1 Kings 19:20
And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
1 Thessalonians 5:26
Give all the brothers a holy kiss.
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2 Kings 12:7
Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.
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2 Kings 12:8
So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.
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2 Kings 16:2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
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2 Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.
2 Kings 17:10
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
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2 Chronicles 28:13
And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here; for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.
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Job 14:17
My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
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Job 31:28
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
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Isaiah 5:18
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
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Isaiah 7:10
And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,
Isaiah 8:5
And the Lord said again to me,
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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 31:6
Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
Hosea 2:16
And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;
Micah 5:13
And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
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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Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
Isaiah 45:20
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Isaiah 46:8
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
Jeremiah 10:4
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Jeremiah 10:14
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Habakkuk 2:19
A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
Romans 1:27
And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.
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Daniel 9:5
We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hosea 9:15
All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
Hosea 12:11
In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Hosea 13:6
When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.
Amos 7:13
But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.
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Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.
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Zechariah 11:13
And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
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Luke 7:37
And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,
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Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Hosea 10:2
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
Hosea 10:6
And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
Hosea 11:6
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
John 5:23
So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
Colossians 2:23
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
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Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
Psalms 97:7
Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
Psalms 135:15
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Isaiah 37:19
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Isaiah 42:17
They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
Isaiah 44:16
With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:
Hosea 4:12
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
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Proverbs 3:5
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 10:20
And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
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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Leviticus 18:21
And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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.
Psalms 106:37
They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,
Psalms 106:38
And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
Jeremiah 19:5
And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,
Ezekiel 16:21
That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
Ezekiel 22:4
You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
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