Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

The people

Bible References

Be

1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
1 Corinthians 5:11
but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
1 Corinthians 8:7
Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
Deuteronomy 9:12
And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Psalm 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
1 John 5:21
My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

The people

Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

General references

Psalm 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
Proverbs 5:14
I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
Ezekiel 20:36
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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