2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord's command.
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same."
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the Lord says: "What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Exodus 24:6-8
Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.
1 Kings 16:13
This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
Jeremiah 8:9
Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have?
Deuteronomy 6:17-18
Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
Deuteronomy 29:10-15
You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God -- the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,
Deuteronomy 29:25-26
Then people will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:31
For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
1 Samuel 12:21
You should not turn aside after empty things that can't profit and can't deliver, since they are empty.
2 Kings 17:8
they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 17:11-12
They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.
2 Chronicles 33:2
He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:9
But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
The Lord God of their ancestors continually warned them through his messengers, for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
Nehemiah 9:26
"Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9:29-30
And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.
Psalm 115:8
Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
Jeremiah 10:8
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
Jeremiah 10:15
They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 44:4
I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.
Jeremiah 44:23
You have sacrificed to other gods! You have sinned against the Lord! You have not obeyed the Lord! You have not followed his laws, his statutes, and his decrees! That is why this disaster that is evident to this day has happened to you."
John 2:8
Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.
1 Corinthians 8:4
With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."