Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 2:28
"Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you---if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
Jeremiah 44:17-27
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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."
19
And the women added, "When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing."
20
Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way,
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"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.
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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."
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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!
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(SEE 44:24)
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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!'
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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.
Deuteronomy 32:37
Then the LORD will ask his people, 'Where are those mighty gods you trusted?
Judges 10:14
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."
2 Chronicles 28:22
When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the LORD more than ever.
Isaiah 45:20
The LORD says, "Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them--- those people know nothing at all!