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• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Exodus 12:12

  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

• Exodus 20:3

  “You shall have no other gods before me.

• 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 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,

• Exodus 20:6

  and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Exodus 20:23

  You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

• Exodus 23:13

  “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

• Exodus 32:4

  He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 32:6

  They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

• Exodus 32:18

  He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

• Exodus 32:19

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Exodus 32:25

  When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

• Exodus 34:17

  “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

• Leviticus 18:21

  “‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:4

  “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 20:2

  “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

• Leviticus 20:3

  I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

• Leviticus 20:4

  If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death;

• Leviticus 20:5

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

• Leviticus 26:1

  “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 26:30

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Numbers 25:1

  Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

• Numbers 25:2

  for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

• Numbers 25:3

  Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

• Numbers 33:52

  then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

• Deuteronomy 4:15

  Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• Deuteronomy 4:17

  the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

• Deuteronomy 4:18

  the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

• Deuteronomy 4:20

  But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 4:21

  Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;

• Deuteronomy 4:22

  but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

• Deuteronomy 4:23

  Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

• Deuteronomy 4:25

  When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger;

• Deuteronomy 4:26

  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 4:27

  Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.

• Deuteronomy 4:28

  There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

• Deuteronomy 5:7

  “You shall have no other gods before me.

• Deuteronomy 5:8

  “You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

• Deuteronomy 5:9

  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, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

• Deuteronomy 11:16

  Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

• Deuteronomy 11:17

  and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

• Deuteronomy 11:28

  and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

• Deuteronomy 12:31

  You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

• Deuteronomy 14:1

  You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

• Deuteronomy 16:21

  You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

• Deuteronomy 16:22

  Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

• 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 practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 28:15

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.

• Deuteronomy 28:16

  You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

• Deuteronomy 28:17

  Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:18

  The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:19

  You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

• Deuteronomy 28:21

  Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:22

  Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:23

  Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

• Deuteronomy 28:24

  Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:25

  Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 28:26

  Your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Deuteronomy 28:27

  Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

• Deuteronomy 28:28

  Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 28:31

  Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:32

  Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  A nation which you don’t know eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;

• Deuteronomy 28:34

  so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

• Deuteronomy 28:35

  Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

• Deuteronomy 28:36

  Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:37

  You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

• Deuteronomy 28:41

  You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go into captivity.

• Deuteronomy 28:42

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• Deuteronomy 28:43

  The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

• Deuteronomy 28:44

  He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

• Deuteronomy 28:45

  All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 28:46

  They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

• Deuteronomy 28:47

  Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

• Deuteronomy 28:49

  Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;

• Deuteronomy 28:50

  a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,

• Deuteronomy 28:51

  and they will eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:52

  They will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

• Deuteronomy 28:54

  The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:58

  If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;

• Deuteronomy 28:59

  then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

• Deuteronomy 28:60

  He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.

• Deuteronomy 28:61

  Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

• Deuteronomy 28:63

  It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:64

  Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:65

  Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

• Deuteronomy 28:66

  Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

• Deuteronomy 28:67

  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

• Deuteronomy 28:68

  Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

• Deuteronomy 30:17

  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Deuteronomy 30:18

  I denounce to you today, that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 31:16

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

• Deuteronomy 31:17

  Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

• Deuteronomy 31:18

  I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

• Deuteronomy 31:19

  “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

• Deuteronomy 31:21

  It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

• Deuteronomy 31:29

  For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

• Deuteronomy 32:16

  They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

• Deuteronomy 32:17

  They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

• Deuteronomy 32:18

  Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

• Deuteronomy 32:19

  Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

• Deuteronomy 32:20

  He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

• Deuteronomy 32:21

  They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

• Deuteronomy 32:22

  For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

• Deuteronomy 32:23

  “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

• Deuteronomy 32:24

  They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

• Deuteronomy 32:26

  I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

• Deuteronomy 32:38

  which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.

• Judges 10:14

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Judges 16:24

  When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

• 1 Kings 12:33

  He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

• 1 Kings 14:24

  There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

• 1 Kings 15:12

  He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

• 2 Kings 3:26

  When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

• 2 Kings 3:27

  Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

• 2 Kings 5:18

  In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.”

• 2 Kings 16:3

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

• 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 17:18

  Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

• 2 Kings 17:30

  The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• 2 Kings 21:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 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 23:7

  He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

• 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.

• 2 Kings 23:11

  He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

• 2 Chronicles 28:3

  Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:14

  They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served 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 33:6

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 34:25

  Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’

• Job 31:26

  if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

• Job 31:27

  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

• Job 31:28

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Psalms 16:4

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

• 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.

• Isaiah 2:16

  For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

• Isaiah 44:17

  The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”

• Isaiah 45:20

  “Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.

• Isaiah 46:7

  They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.

• Isaiah 57:5

  you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

• Isaiah 57:6

  Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

• Isaiah 65:3

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

• Isaiah 65:11

  “But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

• Jeremiah 1:16

  I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

• Jeremiah 7:17

  Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

• Jeremiah 7:18

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

• Jeremiah 7:19

  Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

• Jeremiah 7:20

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.”

• 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.

• Jeremiah 8:2

  and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

• Jeremiah 11:12

  Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

• Jeremiah 11:17

  For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

• Jeremiah 19:4

  Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and 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 sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

• Jeremiah 19:6

  therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

• Jeremiah 19:7

  “‘“I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 19:13

  and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

• Jeremiah 32:29

  and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

• 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, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”

• Jeremiah 41:5

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 44:3

  because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods, that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

• Jeremiah 44:17

  But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

• Jeremiah 44:19

  “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?”

• Jeremiah 44:25

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.” “‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’

• Jeremiah 48:35

  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

• 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 8:15

  Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

• Ezekiel 8:16

  He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

• Ezekiel 16:17

  You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

• Ezekiel 16:18

  You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

• Ezekiel 16:19

  My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 16:20

  “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

• Ezekiel 16:21

  that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

• Ezekiel 18:6

  and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

• Ezekiel 18:11

  or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

• Ezekiel 18:12

  has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

• Ezekiel 18:15

  who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

• Ezekiel 20:26

  and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’

• 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 also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.

• Ezekiel 20:31

  When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

• 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.

• Ezekiel 23:1

  Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

• Ezekiel 23:2

  “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

• Ezekiel 23:3

  They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

• Ezekiel 23:4

  Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

• Ezekiel 23:5

  “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

• Ezekiel 23:6

  who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

• Ezekiel 23:7

  She gave herself as a prostitute to them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.

• Ezekiel 23:8

  She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They carressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

• Ezekiel 23:9

  “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

• Ezekiel 23:10

  These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

• Ezekiel 23:11

  “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.

• Ezekiel 23:12

  She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

• Ezekiel 23:13

  I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

• Ezekiel 23:14

  “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

• Ezekiel 23:15

  dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

• Ezekiel 23:16

  As soon as she saw them she lusted after them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

• Ezekiel 23:17

  The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

• Ezekiel 23:18

  So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

• Ezekiel 23:19

  Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 23:20

  She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

• Ezekiel 23:21

  Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

• Ezekiel 23:22

  “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

• Ezekiel 23:23

  the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

• Ezekiel 23:24

  They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

• Ezekiel 23:25

  I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury; they will take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your residue will be devoured by the fire.

• Ezekiel 23:26

  They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

• Ezekiel 23:27

  Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

• Ezekiel 23:28

  “For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.

• Ezekiel 23:29

  They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

• Ezekiel 23:30

  These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

• Ezekiel 23:31

  You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.’

• Ezekiel 23:32

  “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

• Ezekiel 23:33

  You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

• Ezekiel 23:34

  You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 23:35

  “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”

• Ezekiel 23:36

  Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

• Ezekiel 23:37

  For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.

• Ezekiel 23:38

  Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

• Ezekiel 23:39

  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the middle of my house.

• Ezekiel 23:40

  “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

• Ezekiel 23:41

  and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

• Ezekiel 23:42

  “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

• Ezekiel 23:43

  Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’

• Ezekiel 23:44

  They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

• Daniel 3:2

  Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

• Daniel 3:3

  Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

• Daniel 3:5

  that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;

• Daniel 3:6

  and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

• Daniel 3:7

  Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

• Daniel 5:4

  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

• Daniel 11:38

  But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn’t know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

• Hosea 4:12

  My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

• Hosea 4:13

  They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

• 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.

• Hosea 11:2

  They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

• Hosea 13:2

  Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

• Amos 2:8

  and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

• Amos 4:4

  “Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

• Amos 4:5

  offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Jonah 1:5

  Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

• Micah 1:7

  All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”

• 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?

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Zephaniah 1:4

  I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

• Zephaniah 1:5

  those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

• Zechariah 9:7

  I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• Acts 14:13

  The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

• Romans 1:23

  and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

• Romans 1:24

  Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

• Romans 1:26

  For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

• Romans 1:27

  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

• 1 Corinthians 10:7

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

• Colossians 2:18

  Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

• 1 Peter 4:3

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• 1 Peter 4:4

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

• Revelation 2:14

  But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:20

  But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

• Revelation 2:21

  I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:22

  Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

• Revelation 9:20

  The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

• Revelation 9:21

  They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

• Revelation 14:8

  Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:1

  One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

• Revelation 17:2

  with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:3

  He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

• 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.

• Revelation 17:5

  And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

• Revelation 17:6

  I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.