Bible Cross References
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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.
Judges 3:6
They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.
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.
Judges 10:13
But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.
Judges 10:14
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."
Psalm 78:56
But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,
Psalm 78:57
but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.
Psalm 106:34-40
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They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do,
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but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
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God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
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They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
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They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
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They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
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So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.
Ezekiel 16:15-63
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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.
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"Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you and are disgusted with your immoral actions.
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"Because you were not satisfied by the others, you went running after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they didn't satisfy you either.
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You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
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On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
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You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
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A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
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You are a special kind of prostitute. No one forced you to become one. You didn't get paid; you paid them! Yes, you are different."
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Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the LORD is saying.
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You stripped off your clothes, and like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.
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Because of this I will bring all your former lovers together---the ones you liked and the ones you hated. I will bring them around you in a circle, and then I will strip off your clothes and let them see you naked.
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I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.
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I will put you in their power, and they will tear down the places where you engage in prostitution and worship idols. They will take away your clothes and jewels and leave you completely naked.
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"They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.
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They will burn your houses down and let crowds of women see your punishment. I will make you stop being a prostitute and make you stop giving gifts to your lovers.
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Then my anger will be over, and I will be calm. I will not be angry or jealous any more.
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You have forgotten how I treated you when you were young, and you have made me angry by all the things you did. That is why I have made you pay for them all. Why did you add sexual immorality to all the other disgusting things you did?" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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The LORD said, "People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
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You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.
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"Your older sister, with her villages, is Samaria, in the north. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.
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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.
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"As surely as I am the living God," the Sovereign LORD says, "your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done.
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She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.
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They were proud and stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.
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"Samaria did not sin half as much as you have. You have acted more disgustingly than she ever did. Your corruption makes your sisters look innocent by comparison.
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And now you will have to endure your disgrace. Your sins are so much worse than those of your sisters that they look innocent beside you. Now blush and bear your shame, because you make your sisters look pure."
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The LORD said to Jerusalem, "I will make them prosperous again---Sodom and her villages and Samaria and her villages. Yes, I will make you prosperous too.
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You will be ashamed of yourself, and your disgrace will show your sisters how well-off they are.
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They will become prosperous again, and you and your villages will also be restored.
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Didn't you joke about Sodom in those days when you were proud
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and before the evil you did had been exposed? Now you are just like her---a joke to the Edomites, the Philistines, and your other neighbors who hate you.
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You must suffer for the obscene, disgusting things you have done." The LORD has spoken.
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The Sovereign LORD says, "I will treat you the way you deserve, because you ignored your promises and broke the covenant.
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But I will honor the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will make a covenant with you that will last forever.
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You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.
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I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
63
I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 20:21
"But that generation also defied me. They broke my laws and did not keep my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to kill them all.
Ezekiel 23:4-49
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The older one was named Oholah (she represents Samaria), and the younger one was named Oholibah (she represents Jerusalem). I married both of them, and they bore me children.
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Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
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They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
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She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.
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She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.
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So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
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They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
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"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
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She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers---soldiers in bright uniforms---and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.
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I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
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"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
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As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
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The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
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She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
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She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
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She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
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(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)
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"Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.
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I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.
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They will attack you from the north, bringing a large army with chariots and supply wagons. Protected by shields and helmets, they will surround you. I will hand you over to them, and they will judge you by their own laws.
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Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.
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They will tear off your clothes and take your jewels.
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I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I will hand you over to people you hate and are disgusted with.
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And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution
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have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
31
You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.
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It will make you miserable and drunk, that cup of fear and ruin, your sister Samaria's cup.
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You will drink and drain it dry, and with its broken pieces tear your breast. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."
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Now this is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution."
36
The LORD said to me, "Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done.
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They have committed adultery and murder---adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
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And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.
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The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!
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"Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewelry.
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They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.
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The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.
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They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
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Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practice adultery and their hands are stained with blood."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.
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Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.
48
Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.
49
And you two sisters---I will punish you for your immorality and your sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
cast thy law
1 Kings 14:9
You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you. You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship.
Psalm 50:17
You refuse to let me correct you; you reject my commands.
Ezekiel 33:3-5
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When he sees the enemy approaching, he sounds the alarm to warn everyone.
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If someone hears it but pays no attention and the enemy comes and kills him, then he is to blame for his own death.
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His death is his own fault, because he paid no attention to the warning. If he had paid attention, he could have escaped.
slew
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 18:13
Haven't you heard that when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?
1 Kings 19:10
He answered, " LORD God Almighty, I have always served you---you alone. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed all your prophets. I am the only one left---and they are trying to kill me!"
2 Chronicles 24:20
Then the spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood where the people could see him and called out, "The LORD God asks why you have disobeyed his commands and are bringing disaster on yourselves! You abandoned him, so he has abandoned you!"
2 Chronicles 24:21
King Joash joined in a conspiracy against Zechariah, and on the king's orders the people stoned Zechariah in the Temple courtyard.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.
Jeremiah 26:20-23
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(There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the LORD against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.
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When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.
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King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.
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They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)
Matthew 21:35
The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:34-37
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And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
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As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
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I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Acts 7:52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
wrought
Nehemiah 9:18
They made an idol in the shape of a bull-calf and said it was the god who led them from Egypt! How much they insulted you, LORD!
2 Kings 21:11
"King Manasseh has done these disgusting things, things far worse than what the Canaanites did; and with his idols he has led the people of Judah into sin.
Ezekiel 22:25-31
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The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
26
The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
27
The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
28
The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
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The wealthy cheat and rob. They mistreat the poor and take advantage of foreigners.
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I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
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So I will turn my anger loose on them, and like a fire I will destroy them for what they have done." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.