1 Kings 14:9

Jeroboam outdid all before him in evil, making idols and casting God behind his back. His idolatry was a deliberate rejection of the LORD who had blessed him.

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• Neh 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Ps 50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
• Ezek 23:35Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
• 2 Chr 11:15And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
• 1 Kgs 12:28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Exod 34:17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
• 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
• Ps 78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
• Jer 7:9–10Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
• Isa 44:9–20They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
• Ezek 8:17Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
• Ps 106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
• Jer 10:14–16Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Ezek 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
• Deut 32:16–17They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
• 1 Kgs 14:16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
• Deut 9:24Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
• Deut 9:8–16Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
• 2 Kgs 21:3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
• 1 Kgs 15:34And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
• 1 Kgs 13:33–34After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
• Deut 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
• 1 Kgs 16:31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
• 2 Kgs 23:26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
• 2 Chr 33:6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• Ps 106:19–20They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
• Judg 5:8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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