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Amos 5:25-26
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
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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 upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink- offerings unto other gods.
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Romans 1:24-28
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
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Psalms 81:11-12
But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
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Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
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Joshua 24:20
If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
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Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
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Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.
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2 Kings 21 3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
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Job 31:26-28
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
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2 Kings 17 16
And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
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Hebrews 3:15-17
while it is said, To- day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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Psalms 95:10
Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
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Hebrews 3:9
Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
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Ezekiel 14:7-10
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh unto him;
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Deuteronomy 17:3
and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
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Ezekiel 20:25
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
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Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah’s house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
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Acts 7:36
This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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Isaiah 43:23
Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt- offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
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2 Thessalonians 2 10-2 Thessalonians 2 12
and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.