2 Kings 17:15
They refused to obey his instructions. They did not keep the covenant he made with their ancestors. They disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying Jehovah's command not to imitate them.
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
Be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, for they will be destroyed. Do not inquire after their gods, saying: How do these nations serve their gods that I also may do likewise?
Deuteronomy 32:21
They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.
Jeremiah 2:5
Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.
Romans 1:21-23
for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.
Exodus 24:6-8
Moses took half of the blood of the animals and put it in bowls. The other half he threw against the altar.
1 Kings 16:13
This happened because of the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, and because of all the sins they led Israel to commit. It aroused the anger of Jehovah the God of Israel.
Jeremiah 8:9
Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.
Deuteronomy 6:17-18
Obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. Obey his testimonies and statutes for he commanded you.
Deuteronomy 29:10-15
You stand today, all of you, before Jehovah your God: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel.
Deuteronomy 29:25-26
Then men will say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:31
Their rock is not like our rock! Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God.
1 Samuel 12:21
Do not go after false gods and empty things. They cannot help you or save you. They are useless.
2 Kings 17:8
They lived by the rules of the nations whom Jehovah sent out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:11-12
They burned their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom Jehovah sent away from them. They did evil things, moving Jehovah to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:2
He did what Jehovah considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:9
Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Jehovah destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.
Nehemiah 9:29-30
You admonished them so that you might make them come back again to your law. Their hearts were lifted up, and they paid no attention to your orders. They went against your life giving decisions and turned their backs on you. They were stubborn and did not listen.
Psalm 115:8
Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.
Jeremiah 10:8
They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!
Jeremiah 10:15
They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 44:4
I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.
Jeremiah 44:23
This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against Jehovah by not obeying all his commandments.
John 2:8
Draw some out, he said, and take it to the master of the feast. So they drew some out.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.