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1 Kings 14:23
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

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Genesis 22:13
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”

Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

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Genesis 31:54
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Numbers 22:41
In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.

Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

1 Samuel 9:13
As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him.”

1 Kings 2:45
But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

1 Kings 18:19
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

2 Kings 3:2
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 23:8
He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

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Deuteronomy 12:5
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

Deuteronomy 12:6
You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.

Deuteronomy 12:7
There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:8
You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

Deuteronomy 12:9
for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 12:13
Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

Deuteronomy 12:14
but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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Deuteronomy 18:9
When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 18:11
or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deuteronomy 18:12
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 29:17
and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

Deuteronomy 32:16
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

2 Kings 17:11
and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

2 Kings 21:2
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:4
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

2 Chronicles 33:7
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

Jeremiah 7:31
They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

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1 Kings 13:32
For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

1 Kings 13:33
After this thing, Jeroboam didn’t turn from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

1 Kings 13:34
This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

1 Kings 15:26
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 15:34
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 17:19
Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Chronicles 11:3
“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Micah 1:5
“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?

Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”

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1 Kings 16:4
The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”

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1 Kings 17:10
So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

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1 Kings 22:46
The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

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1 Kings 15:13
He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 10:27
They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

2 Kings 18:22
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

2 Chronicles 14:4
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

2 Chronicles 14:5
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

Isaiah 17:8
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.

Isaiah 65:3
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

Jeremiah 43:13
He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’ ”

Ezekiel 6:2
“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,

Ezekiel 6:4
Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Micah 5:14
I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.

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1 Kings 11:4
When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

2 Kings 14:3
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.

2 Kings 15:3
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

2 Kings 21:5
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 21:6
He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 23:24
Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 21:13
but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

2 Chronicles 24:4
After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:6
He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

Revelation 17:4
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

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1 Kings 12:17
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 14:28
It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

2 Chronicles 11:13
The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.

2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 11:15
He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goat and calf idols which he had made.

2 Chronicles 11:16
After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 11:17
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

2 Chronicles 12:2
In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

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2 Chronicles 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

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2 Chronicles 16:2
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

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2 Kings 21:8
I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

2 Chronicles 33:5
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

Ezekiel 16:31
in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

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Psalms 121:2
My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

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1 Samuel 4:8
Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

1 Kings 20:23
The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

1 Kings 20:28
A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

2 Chronicles 32:13
Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:14
Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:15
Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

2 Chronicles 32:16
His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God and against his servant Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 32:17
He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

2 Chronicles 32:18
They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city.

2 Chronicles 32:19
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Psalms 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Psalms 121:1
I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Isaiah 42:8
“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

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Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

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Isaiah 65:7
your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

Ezekiel 6:5
I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shouldn’t happen, neither shall it be.

Hosea 14:8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

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Ezekiel 20:18
I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:19
I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

Zechariah 1:2
“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Zechariah 1:4
Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

1 Peter 1:18
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

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