Bible Cross References
For he sacrificed
2 Chronicles 25:14
When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought their idols back with him, set them up, worshiped them, and burned incense to them.
2 Kings 16:12
On his return from Damascus, Ahaz saw that the altar was finished,
2 Kings 16:13
so he burned animal sacrifices and grain offerings on it and poured a wine offering and the blood of a fellowship offering on it.
Because the gods
Habakkuk 1:11
Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their god."
sacrifice to them
Jeremiah 10:5
Such idols are like scarecrows in a field of melons; they cannot speak; they have to be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them: they can cause you no harm, and they can do you no good."
Jeremiah 44:15-18
15
Then all the men who knew that their wives offered sacrifices to other gods, and all the women who were standing there, including the Israelites who lived in southern Egypt---a large crowd in all---said to me,
16
"We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of the LORD.
17
We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.
18
But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation."
But they were
Isaiah 1:28
But he will crush everyone who sins and rebels against him; he will kill everyone who forsakes him.
Jeremiah 44:20-28
20
Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way,
21
"As for the sacrifices which you and your ancestors, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land offered in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem---do you think that the LORD did not know about them or that he forgot them?
22
This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight, and people use its name as a curse because the LORD could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.
23
This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against the LORD by not obeying all his commands."
24
I told all the people, especially the women, what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, was saying to the people of Judah living in Egypt: "Both you and your wives have made solemn promises to the Queen of Heaven. You promised that you would offer sacrifices to her and pour out wine offerings to her, and you have kept your promises. Very well, then! Keep your promises! Carry out your vows!
26
But now listen to the vow that I, the LORD, have made in my mighty name to all you Israelites in Egypt: Never again will I let any of you use my name to make a vow by saying, 'I swear by the living Sovereign LORD!'
27
I will see to it that you will not prosper, but will be destroyed. All of you will die, either in war or of disease, until not one of you is left.
28
But a few of you will escape death and return from Egypt to Judah. Then the survivors will know whose words have come true, mine or theirs.
Hosea 13:9
"I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?