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Deuteronomy 12:30-31
and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying,“ How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding. (niv)
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Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.Although they claimed to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. (niv)
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Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the Lord says:“ What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. (niv)
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Jeremiah 8:9
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have? (niv)
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1 Kings 16 13
because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols. (niv)
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Exodus 24:6-8
Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded,“ We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said,“ This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 44:4
Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said,‘ Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’ (niv)
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2 Kings 17 11-2 Kings 17 12
At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger.They worshiped idols, though the Lord had said,“ You shall not do this.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 10:15
They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish. (niv)
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1 Samuel 12 21
Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 8 4
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that“ An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that“ There is no God but one.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Nehemiah 9:29-30
“ You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said,‘ The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff- necked and refused to listen.For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 29:10-15
All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God— your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with youwho are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here today. (niv)
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Jeremiah 44:23
Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see.” (niv)
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Nehemiah 9:26
“ But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies. (niv)
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Psalms 115:8
Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. (niv)
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2 Kings 17 8
and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 6:17-18
Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors, (niv)
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2 Chronicles 33 2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 33 9
But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites. (niv)
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Jeremiah 10:8
They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 36 15-2 Chronicles 36 16
The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 29:25-26
And the answer will be:“ It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. (niv)
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John 2:8
Then he told them,“ Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, (niv)