Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
To gods
To new gods
General references
Bible References
Sacrificed
Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
Psalm 106:37
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,
1 Corinthians 10:20
Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.
1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they would not worship the demons, and the golden and silver and brass and stone and wooden idols, which can neither
Not to god
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?
To gods
Deuteronomy 28:64
And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Isaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, nor be afraid. Have I not declared to thee of old, and shown it? And ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no Rock. I know not any.
To new gods
Judges 5:8
They chose new gods, then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
General references
Amos 5:25
Did ye bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?