Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Bible References
Vanities
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
2 Kings 17:15
They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
Jeremiah 10:3
for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
Jonah 2:8
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
1 Corinthians 10:19
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?