Isaiah 65:3

God indicts a people who continually provoke Him by idolatrous sacrifices in gardens and on bricks. It matters because it exposes the seriousness of persistent idolatry.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 1:29Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
• Isa 66:17“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
• Deut 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
• Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Jer 32:30–35For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 17:14–17But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
• Isa 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• Deut 32:16–19They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
• Ezek 8:17–18“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
• Ps 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
• Ps 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
• Jer 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
• 2 Kgs 22:17because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’
• Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Ezek 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
• Matt 23:32–36Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
• Exod 30:1–10“You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.
• Lev 17:5For this reason the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as sacrifices of peace to the LORD.
• Exod 20:24–25You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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