Amos 5:25
Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:42-43
God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. It is written in the book of the prophets: O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Joshua 24:14
Honor Jehovah and serve him sincerely and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only Jehovah.
Nehemiah 9:18
Even when they made for themselves a bull out of metal, and said: 'This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry.'
Nehemiah 9:21
Truly, for forty years you were their support in the wilderness. They needed nothing. Their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.
Leviticus 17:7
The people must stop sacrificing to goat idols (demons) and chasing after them as though they were prostitutes. This is a long lasting law for the people and for future generations.
Deuteronomy 32:17-19
They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.
Isaiah 43:23-24
You did not bring me sheep for your burnt offerings or honor me with your sacrifices. I did not burden you by requiring grain offerings or trouble you by requiring incense offerings.
Ezekiel 20:8
They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:16
They rejected my rules. They did not live by my laws. They dishonored the days to worship me, because their hearts chased disgusting idols.
Ezekiel 20:24
I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.
Hosea 9:9-10
They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.
Zechariah 7:5
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?