Thematic Bible: They who practice
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » They who practice » Provoke God
The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:
and I bring them in unto the ground which I have sworn to their fathers -- flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned unto other gods, and they have served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant.
And ye do not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow yourselves to them, nor do ye provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I do no evil to you;
Idolatry » They who practice » Forget God
But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,
And it hath been -- if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;
Idolatry » They who practice » Forsake God
because that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger with every work of their hands, and My wrath hath been kindled against this place, and it is not quenched.
Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,
Idolatry » They who practice » Look to idols for deliverance
Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god that saveth not.
And its remnant for a god he hath made -- For his graven image, He falleth down to it, and worshippeth, And prayeth unto it, and he saith, 'Deliver me, for my god thou art.'
Idolatry » They who practice » Hate God
and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, 'To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee is wrath from before Jehovah, but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'
Idolatry » They who practice » Carried away by it
ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;
Idolatry » They who practice » Are ignorant and foolish
because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, professing to be wise, they were made fools,
Idolatry » They who practice » Are mad upon it
A sword is on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it is a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.
Idolatry » They who practice » Pollute the name of God
And ye, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Each his idols -- go -- serve ye, And, afterwards, if ye are not hearkening to me, And My holy name ye do not pollute any more by your gifts, and by your idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go after it in heart
Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go astray from God
but -- the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.
Idolatry » They who practice » Defile the sanctuary of God
Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?
Idolatry » They who practice » Are estranged from God
in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them.
Idolatry » They who practice » Hold fast their deceit
Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are vain in their imaginations
because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,
Idolatry » They who practice » Inflame themselves
Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.
Idolatry » They who practice » Have fellowship with devils
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Ask counsel of their idols
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Boast of it
Ashamed are all servants of a graven image, Those boasting themselves in idols, Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'