Acts 7:42

Israel's Rebellion Against God

⁴¹ And so they fell to calf-making in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. ⁴² But God, turned, and delivered them up to be doing divine service unto the host of heaven, - just as it is written in a book of the prophets - Victims and sacrifices did ye offer unto me, forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? ⁴³ Nay! but ye took with you the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, - the forms which ye made to bow down unto them: therefore will I carry you away beyond Babylon.

As It is Written

Book of the Prophets

Forty Years

Heavenly Host

Host of Heaven

House of Israel

In the Wilderness

It is Written

Stars of Heaven

Written in the Book

Heavenly Bodies

In The Desert

O God

Amos

Israel

Israelites

Jeremiah 19:13

Yea, the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall like the place of Topheth, be places defiled, - even all the houses upon whose roofs they burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

Ezekiel 20:39

But as for you, O house of Israel Thus, saith my Lord. Yahweh, Go. serve every man his own manufactured gods, Yet afterwards, surely Ye shall be ready to hearken unto me, - And my holy name, shall ye profane no more, With your gifts, and With your manufactured gods.

Deuteronomy 4:19

or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens and see the sun and the moon, and the stars - all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them and he led to serve them, - the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

Joshua 24:20

When ye forsake Yahweh, and serve the gods of a stranger, then will he turn, and inflict on you calamity, and consume you, after that he hath dealt well with you.

2 Kings 17:16

But they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made for themselves something molten - two calves, and made a Sacred Stem, and bowed themselves down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal;

2 Kings 21:3

He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed, - and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.

Isaiah 63:10

But, they, rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit, - And so he turned against them as an enemy, he himself, fought against them.

Amos 5:25-26

The sacrifices and meal-offering, ye brought near unto me, in the desert, for forty years O house of Israel;

Deuteronomy 17:3

yea hath gone, and served other gods, and bowed down unto them, - whether unto the sun or unto the moon or unto any of the host of the heavens which I have not commanded;

Job 31:26-28

If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;

Psalm 81:11-12

But my people, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.

Psalm 95:10

Forty years, loathed I that generation, So I said - A people going astray in heart, they are, Even they, have not known my ways!

Isaiah 43:23

Thou hast not brought in to me small cattle as thine ascending-offerings, Nor, with thy sacrifices, hast thou honoured me, - I have not oppressed thee with meal-offerings, Nor have I wearied thee with frankincense;

Isaiah 66:4

I, also, will choose the things that vex them. And the things they dread, will I bring upon them, Because - I called and there was none to answer, I spake, and they hearkened not, - But did that which was wicked in mine eyes, And of that wherein I delighted not, made choice.

Ezekiel 8:16

So he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and lo! at the opening of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, - their backs towards the temple of Yahweh and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward unto the Sun.

Ezekiel 14:7-10

For what man soever of the house of Israel Or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, Who shall estrange himself from following me And who shall bring up his manufactured gods, on his heart, And whose stumbling-block of iniquity, he shall set straight before his face, And then come in unto the prophet, to enquire by him of me. Yahweh will myself answer him on my own account;

Ezekiel 20:25

I myself, indeed, suffered them to walk in statutes which were not good, - And regulations in which they could not live.

Hosea 4:17

Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone.

Acts 7:36

The same, led them forth, doing wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert, forty years:

Romans 1:24-28

Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them, -

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

And with all manner of deceit of unrighteousness, in them who are destroying themselves, because, the love of the truth, they did not welcome, that they might be saved; -

Hebrews 3:9

When your fathers tested by proving, and saw my works forty years.

Hebrews 3:15-17

So long as it is said - To-day, if, unto his voice, ye would hearken, do not harden your hearts, - as in the embitterment.