Hosea 8:4
They set up kings, but not from Me [therefore without My blessing];
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and their gold they made idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.
Hosea 2:8
“For she (Israel) has not noticed nor understood nor realized that it was I [the Lord God] who gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal and made into his image.
Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
1 Kings 12:16-20
So when all [the ten northern tribes of] Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people replied to the king, saying,
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;
To your tents, O Israel!
Look now after
1 Kings 12:28
So the king took counsel [and followed bad advice] and made two
1 Kings 13:34
And this thing (idol worship) became the sin of the house of Jeroboam to blot it out and eliminate it from the face of the earth.
1 Kings 16:31
It came about, as if it had been a trivial thing for Ahab to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married
2 Kings 15:10-30
But Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah and struck and killed him in the presence of the people and reigned in his place.
Jeremiah 44:7-8
Therefore now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why did you commit this great evil against yourselves [bringing disaster] that will cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed [against Me], and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why should you die, O house of Israel?
Hosea 13:9-10
It is your destruction, O Israel,
Because you are against Me, [and have rebelled] against your help.
Matthew 25:12
Luke 13:25
Luke 13:27
John 10:14
Galatians 4:9
Now, however, since you have come to know [the true] God [through personal experience], or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elemental principles [of religions and philosophies], to which you want to be enslaved all over again?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;
To your tents, O Israel!
Look now after
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“For she (Israel) has not noticed nor understood nor realized that it was I [the Lord God] who gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal and made into his image.
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
That they
It is your destruction, O Israel,
Because you are against Me, [and have rebelled] against your help.
General references
“Can a man make gods for himself?
Such [things] are not gods!