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

He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin."

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

After this thing Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

Thou hast gone

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

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

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

To provoke

Judah did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums, and spiritists: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Cast me

"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.'"