2 Kings 21:5
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
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2 Kings 21:5
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
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Genesis 2:1
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
Psalms 33:6
By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 33:9
For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
Isaiah 40:28
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.
Daniel 8:10
It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground and trampled on them.
Luke 2:13
Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying,
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Exodus 7:18
The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.” ’ ”
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Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
2 Kings 21:19
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2 Kings 24:3
Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
2 Chronicles 33:2
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 Chronicles 33:8
I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
2 Chronicles 33:9
Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:10
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
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Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
Psalms 106:34
They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,
Psalms 106:35
but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
Psalms 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
Psalms 106:37
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
Psalms 106:38
They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 106:39
Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Psalms 106:40
Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
Psalms 106:41
He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
Ezekiel 22:3
You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
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Exodus 34:13
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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.
2 Kings 17:10
and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
2 Chronicles 28:4
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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.
Jeremiah 17:2
Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
Ezekiel 16:24
“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
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.
Ezekiel 16:39
I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:29
Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
Micah 5:14
I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
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Numbers 32:14
“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
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.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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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.
Daniel 11:31
“Forces from him will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
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2 Kings 11:18
All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
2 Kings 16:8
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:10
King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
2 Kings 16:11
Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:12
When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.
2 Kings 16:15
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
Ezekiel 16:28
You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.
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2 Kings 20:21
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:17
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:18
Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 3:13
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
2 Chronicles 32:33
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
Matthew 1:10
Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
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2 Kings 23:32
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
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2 Chronicles 20:5
Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;
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2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles 34:4
They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
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Jeremiah 2:1
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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2 Kings 17:9
The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 17:17
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 23:10
He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
Jeremiah 11:13
For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’
Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
Jeremiah 19:5
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah 32:35
They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Jeremiah 44:18
But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
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Jeremiah 44:19
The women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
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Ezekiel 8:5
Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
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.”
Ezekiel 8:8
Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.” When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.
Ezekiel 8:9
He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”
Ezekiel 8:10
So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
Ezekiel 8:11
Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”
Ezekiel 8:13
He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”
Ezekiel 8:14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel 8:15
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”
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Ezekiel 40:28
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;
Ezekiel 40:32
He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
Ezekiel 40:37
Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40:47
He measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
Ezekiel 42:3
Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories.
Ezekiel 43:5
The Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
Ezekiel 44:19
When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
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Ezekiel 43:7
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Ezekiel 43:8
in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
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