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
But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord's commands, but they did not.
Judges 8:33
After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.
2 Kings 17:7
This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;
Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, he said to him, "Go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the Lord."
Hosea 9:1
O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.
Revelation 17:5
On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: "Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."
After the gods
Judges 2:12
They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods -- the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.
2 Chronicles 25:14
When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and made them his personal gods. He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.
Psalm 106:34
They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them to do.