Bible Cross References
molten images
Exodus 32:4
He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf. The people said, "Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt!"
Exodus 32:8
They have already left the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made a bull-calf out of melted gold and have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They are saying that this is their god, who led them out of Egypt.
1 Kings 12:28
After thinking it over, he made two bull-calves of gold and said to his people, "You have been going long enough to Jerusalem to worship. People of Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt!"
Psalm 106:18-20
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fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
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They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;
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they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
Isaiah 44:9
All those who make idols are worthless, and the gods they prize so highly are useless. Those who worship these gods are blind and ignorant---and they will be disgraced.
Isaiah 44:10
It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
a grove
2 Kings 17:10
On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,
1 Kings 14:15
The LORD will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.
1 Kings 14:23
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
1 Kings 15:13
He removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol and burned it in Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 16:33
He also put up an image of the goddess Asherah. He did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel before him.
worshipped
Deuteronomy 4:19
Do not be tempted to worship and serve what you see in the sky---the sun, the moon, and the stars. The LORD your God has given these to all other peoples for them to worship.
Jeremiah 8:2
Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.
Baal
2 Kings 10:18-28
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Jehu called the people of Samaria together and said, "King Ahab served the god Baal a little, but I will serve him much more.
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Call together all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. No one is excused; I am going to offer a great sacrifice to Baal, and whoever is not present will be put to death." (This was a trick on the part of Jehu by which he meant to kill all the worshipers of Baal.)
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Then Jehu ordered, "Proclaim a day of worship in honor of Baal!" The proclamation was made,
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and Jehu sent word throughout all the land of Israel. All who worshiped Baal came; not one of them failed to come. They all went into the temple of Baal, filling it from one end to the other.
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Then Jehu ordered the priest in charge of the sacred robes to bring the robes out and give them to the worshipers.
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After that, Jehu himself went into the temple with Jonadab son of Rechab and said to the people there, "Make sure that only worshipers of Baal are present and that no worshiper of the LORD has come in."
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Then he and Jonadab went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings to Baal. He had stationed eighty men outside the temple and had instructed them: "You are to kill all these people; anyone who lets one of them escape will pay for it with his life!"
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As soon as Jehu had presented the offerings, he said to the guards and officers, "Go in and kill them all; don't let anyone escape!" They went in with drawn swords, killed them all, and dragged the bodies outside. Then they went on into the inner sanctuary of the temple,
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brought out the sacred pillar that was there, and burned it.
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So they destroyed the sacred pillar and the temple, and turned the temple into a latrine---which it still is today.
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That was how Jehu wiped out the worship of Baal in Israel.
2 Kings 11:18
Then the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down; they smashed the altars and the idols, and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. Jehoiada put guards on duty at the Temple,
1 Kings 16:31
It was not enough for him to sin like King Jeroboam; he went further and married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon, and worshiped Baal.
1 Kings 22:53
He worshiped and served Baal, and like his father before him, he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.