Acts 7:42

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Acts 7:42

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Ezekiel 20:39

“As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterward you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

Joshua 24:20

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, He will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after He has been good to you.”

2 Kings 17:16

They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They worshiped the whole heavenly host and served Baal.

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled
and grieved His Holy Spirit.
So He became their enemy
and fought against them.

Amos 5:25-26

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—

Job 31:26-28

if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining
or at the moon moving in splendor,

Psalm 81:11-12

“But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me.

Psalm 95:10

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Isaiah 43:23

You have not brought Me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with incense.

Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose their punishment,
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they didn’t hear;
they did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I didn’t delight in.

Ezekiel 8:16

So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Ezekiel 14:7-10

For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me, setting up idols in his heart and putting a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I, Yahweh, will answer him Myself.

Ezekiel 20:25

I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances they could not live by.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is attached to idols;
leave him alone!

Acts 7:36

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

Romans 1:24-28

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
and saw My works

Hebrews 3:15-17

As it is said:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

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Summary

Acts 7:42

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

And gave

2 Thessalonians 2:10

O ye

Amos 5:25

Have ye

Isaiah 43:23

Of forty

Psalm 95:10

Hebrews 3:9

General references

Amos 5:25

Bible References

And gave

“But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me.

I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances they could not live by.

Ephraim is attached to idols;
leave him alone!

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

O ye

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?

Have ye

You have not brought Me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with incense.

Of forty

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
and saw My works

General references

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?