Bible Cross References
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!
Psalm 78:41
Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:16-20
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The LORD said to Moses, "You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.
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When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.
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And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.
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"Now, write down this song. Teach it to the people of Israel, so that it will stand as evidence against them.
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I will take them into this rich and fertile land, as I promised their ancestors. There they will have all the food they want, and they will live comfortably. But they will turn away and worship other gods. They will reject me and break my covenant,
Deuteronomy 32:15-21
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"The LORD's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
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Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry.
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They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.
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They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.
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"When the LORD saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.
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'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.
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With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
Judges 2:11
Then the people of Israel sinned against the LORD and began to serve the Baals.
Judges 2:12
They stopped worshiping the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God who had brought them out of Egypt, and they began to worship other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and made the LORD angry.
2 Kings 17:7-23
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Samaria fell because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the king of Egypt and had led them out of Egypt. They worshiped other gods,
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followed the customs of the people whom the LORD had driven out as his people advanced, and adopted customs introduced by the kings of Israel.
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The Israelites did things that the LORD their God disapproved of. They built pagan places of worship in all their towns, from the smallest village to the largest city.
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On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,
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and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land. They aroused the LORD's anger with all their wicked deeds
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and disobeyed the LORD's command not to worship idols.
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The LORD had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: "Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets."
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But they would not obey; they were stubborn like their ancestors, who had not trusted in the LORD their God.
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They refused to obey his instructions, they did not keep the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves, and they followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying the LORD's command not to imitate them.
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They broke all the laws of the LORD their God and made two metal bull-calves to worship; they also made an image of the goddess Asherah, worshiped the stars, and served the god Baal.
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters as burnt offerings to pagan gods; they consulted mediums and fortunetellers, and they devoted themselves completely to doing what is wrong in the LORD's sight, and so aroused his anger.
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The LORD was angry with the Israelites and banished them from his sight, leaving only the kingdom of Judah.
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But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the LORD their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
20
The LORD rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
21
After the LORD had separated Israel from Judah, the Israelites made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam caused them to abandon the LORD and led them into terrible sins.
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They followed Jeroboam and continued to practice all the sins he had committed,
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until at last the LORD banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live.
Nehemiah 9:25
Your people captured fortified cities, fertile land, houses full of wealth, cisterns already dug, olive trees, fruit trees, and vineyards. They ate all they wanted and grew fat; they enjoyed all the good things you gave them.
Nehemiah 9:26
"But your people rebelled and disobeyed you; they turned their backs on your Law. They killed the prophets who warned them, who told them to turn back to you. They insulted you time after time,
Ezekiel 16:15-26
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"But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.
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You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.
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You took the silver and gold jewelry that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them.
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You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.
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I gave you food---the best flour, olive oil, and honey---but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favor of idols." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
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without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
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During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood---when you were naked, squirming in your own blood."
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The Sovereign LORD said, "You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then
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by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.
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You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
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You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.