Bible Cross References
as if it had been a light thing
Genesis 30:15
Leah answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes." Rachel said, "If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight."
Numbers 16:9
Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the LORD's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?
Isaiah 7:13
To that Isaiah replied, "Listen, now, descendants of King David. It's bad enough for you to wear out the patience of people---do you have to wear out God's patience too?
Ezekiel 8:17
The LORD said to me, "Mortal man, do you see that? These people of Judah are not satisfied with merely doing all the disgusting things you have seen here and with spreading violence throughout the country. No, they must come and do them right here in the Temple and make me even more angry. Look how they insult me in the most offensive way possible!
Ezekiel 16:20
"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,
Ezekiel 16:47
Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.
Ezekiel 34:18
Some of you are not satisfied with eating the best grass; you even trample down what you don't eat! You drink the clear water and muddy what you don't drink!
took to wife
Genesis 6:2
some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
Deuteronomy 7:3
Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,
Deuteronomy 7:4
because then they would lead your children away from the LORD to worship other gods. If that happens, the LORD will be angry with you and destroy you at once.
Joshua 23:12
If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them,
Joshua 23:13
you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. And this will last until none of you are left in this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Nehemiah 13:23-29
23
At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
24
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or some other language and didn't know how to speak our language.
25
I reprimanded the men, called down curses on them, beat them, and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath in God's name that never again would they or their children intermarry with foreigners.
26
I told them, "It was foreign women that made King Solomon sin. Here was a man who was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him and made him king over all of Israel, and yet he fell into this sin.
27
Are we then to follow your example and disobey our God by marrying foreign women?"
28
Joiada was the son of Eliashib the High Priest, but one of Joiada's sons married the daughter of Sanballat, from the town of Beth Horon, so I made Joiada leave Jerusalem.
29
Remember, God, how those people defiled both the office of priest and the covenant you made with the priests and the Levites.
Jezebel
1 Kings 18:4
and when Jezebel was killing the LORD's prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them, hid them in caves in two groups of fifty, and provided them with food and water.)
1 Kings 18:19
Now order all the people of Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel. Bring along the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the goddess Asherah who are supported by Queen Jezebel."
1 Kings 19:1
King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had put all the prophets of Baal to death.
1 Kings 19:2
She sent a message to Elijah: "May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow I don't do the same thing to you that you did to the prophets."
1 Kings 21:5-14
5
His wife Jezebel went to him and asked, "Why are you so depressed? Why won't you eat?"
6
He answered, "Because of what Naboth said to me. I offered to buy his vineyard or, if he preferred, to give him another one for it, but he told me that I couldn't have it!"
7
"Well, are you the king or aren't you?" Jezebel replied. "Get out of bed, cheer up, and eat. I will get you Naboth's vineyard!"
8
Then she wrote some letters, signed Ahab's name to them, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the officials and leading citizens of Jezreel.
9
The letters said: "Proclaim a day of fasting, call the people together, and give Naboth the place of honor.
10
Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death."
11
The officials and leading citizens of Jezreel did what Jezebel had commanded.
12
They proclaimed a day of fasting, called the people together, and gave Naboth the place of honor.
13
The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.
14
The message was sent to Jezebel: "Naboth has been put to death."
1 Kings 21:25-14
2 Kings 9:30-37
30
Jehu arrived in Jezreel. Jezebel, having heard what had happened, put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace.
31
As Jehu came through the gate, she called out, "You Zimri! You assassin! Why are you here?"
32
Jehu looked up and shouted, "Who is on my side?" Two or three palace officials looked down at him from a window,
33
and Jehu said to them, "Throw her down!" They threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses. Jehu drove his horses and chariot over her body,
34
entered the palace, and had a meal. Only then did he say, "Take that cursed woman and bury her; after all, she is a king's daughter."
35
But the men who went out to bury her found nothing except her skull and the bones of her hands and feet.
36
When they reported this to Jehu, he said, "This is what the LORD said would happen, when he spoke through his servant Elijah: 'Dogs will eat Jezebel's body in the territory of Jezreel.
37
Her remains will be scattered there like dung, so that no one will be able to identify them.' "
Revelation 2:20
But this is what I have against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a messenger of God. By her teaching she misleads my servants into practicing sexual immorality and eating food that has been offered to idols.
the Zidonians
1 Kings 11:1
Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.
Judges 10:12
the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you in the past, and you cried out to me. Did I not save you from them?
Judges 18:7
So the five men left and went to the town of Laish. They saw how the people there lived in security like the Sidonians. They were a peaceful, quiet people, with no argument with anyone; they had all they needed. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any other people.
and went
1 Kings 11:4-8
4
and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
5
He worshiped Astarte, the goddess of Sidon, and Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
6
He sinned against the LORD and was not true to him as his father David had been.
7
On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
8
He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
served Baal
1 Kings 21:25
(There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the LORD's sight as Ahab---all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.
1 Kings 21:26
He committed the most shameful sins by worshiping idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had driven out of the land as the people of Israel advanced.)
Judges 2:11
Then the people of Israel sinned against the LORD and began to serve the Baals.
Judges 3:7
The people of Israel forgot the LORD their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.
Judges 10:6
Once again the Israelites sinned against the LORD by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of Philistia. They abandoned the LORD and stopped worshiping him.
2 Kings 10:18
Jehu called the people of Samaria together and said, "King Ahab served the god Baal a little, but I will serve him much more.
2 Kings 17:16
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.