Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Iconoclasm » Destroyed by » Jews
They arose and removed the altars in Jerusalem. They also removed all the incense altars and cast them into the Kidron Brook.
Idolatry » Other customs of » Incense burned on altars
a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick.
He went to his altar in Bethel to burn an offering on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the festival he invented for the Israelites.
You sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set my incense and my oil.
But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence.
I will pronounce judgment against my people because of all their wickedness. They abandoned me. They burned incense to other gods. They worshiped what their hands have made.
They arose and removed the altars in Jerusalem. They also removed all the incense altars and cast them into the Kidron Brook.
I will do this because they have abandoned me. They have sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my anger will be poured on this place and it will not be extinguished.'
Then the cities of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem will cry to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. But these gods will never rescue them in a time of distress.
Jehovah of Hosts planted you. He has pronounced disaster on you. This is because of the evil things that Israel and Judah have done. They have made him infuriated by burning incense as an offering to Baal.
This is because their people had done evil and had made me angry. They offered sacrifices to other gods and served gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever worshiped.
I will stop Moab from making burnt offerings at the places of worship. I will stop Moab from burning incense to their gods, says Jehovah.