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1 Kings 12 28
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people,“ It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (niv)
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1 Kings 16 31
He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. (niv)
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1 Kings 14 15
And the Lord will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles. (niv)
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1 Kings 14 23
They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars— all the heavenly array— do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. (niv)
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2 Kings 21 3
He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. (niv)
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1 Kings 16 33
Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him. (niv)
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1 Kings 22 53
He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father had done. (niv)
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1 Kings 15 13
He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley. (niv)
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2 Kings 11 18
All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the Lord. (niv)
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Isaiah 44:9-10
All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? (niv)
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Exodus 32:4
He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said,“ These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 8:2
They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. (niv)
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Psalms 106:18-20
Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass. (niv)
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2 Kings 17 10
They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. (niv)
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Exodus 32:8
They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said,‘ These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’ (niv)
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2 Kings 10 18-2 Kings 10 28
Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them,“ Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.Jehu said,“ Call an assembly in honor of Baal.” So they proclaimed it.Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe,“ Bring robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal,“ Look around and see that no one who serves the Lord is here with you— only servants of Baal.”So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning:“ If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.”As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers:“ Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel. (niv)