1 Kings 14:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

Hast done

1 Kings 16:31

Thou hast gone

Jeremiah 10:14

To provoke

Cast me

Nehemiah 9:26

Ezekiel 23:35

Bible References

Hast done

And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

Thou hast gone

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

To provoke

And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

Cast me

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.