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

Psalm 50:17

Ezekiel 23:35

Bible References

Hast done

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who has made Israel sin.

And having taken counsel, the king made two calves of gold and said unto the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

After this thing Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places; whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin with which he caused Israel to sin.

for it was as a light thing unto him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him.

Thou hast gone

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.

When they chose new gods, the war was at the gates. Was there a shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

And he ordained himself priests for the high places and for the demons and for the calves which he had made.

They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image.

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

Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.

Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.

To provoke

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to anger more than all that their fathers had done in their sins which they committed.

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah, his father, had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal and made a grove, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; and he worshipped all the host of heaven and served those things.

Even with all this the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him to wrath.

And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the sons of Hinnom; he also observed times, used enchantments, and was given over to witchcraft, consulting with spiritists and with diviners; he multiplied in doing much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

How often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert!

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions; and the plague broke in upon them.

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not,

And that likeness put forth his hand and took me by the locks of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the heaven and the earth and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north where the habitation of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Cast me

Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.

Seeing thou dost hate chastening and dost cast my words behind thee.

Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.