Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
After the gods
Bible References
Went
Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
2 Kings 17:7
And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
Hosea 1:2
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD."
Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors.
Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."
After the gods
Judges 2:12
And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.
2 Chronicles 25:14
After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.
Psalm 106:34
They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,