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 let them no more offer their offerings unto devils, after whom they go an whoring. And this shall be an ordinance forever unto you throughout your generations.'
Psalm 106:37
Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils,
1 Corinthians 10:20
Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.
1 Timothy 4:1
The spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error,
Revelation 9:20
And the remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues repented not of the deeds of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and images, of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, neither hear, neither go.
Not to god
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.
Jeremiah 10:15
The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation.
1 Corinthians 8:4
To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?
To gods
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone.
Isaiah 44:8
yea, and that without any fear or stop. For have not I ever told you hitherto, and warned you? Ye can bear me record yourselves. Is there any God except me? Or any maker, that I should not know him?
To new gods
Judges 5:8
"God chose new fashions of war, for when they had war at their gates: there was not seen, among forty thousand, either shield or spear in Israel.
General references
Amos 5:25
O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness?