Through their dreams that they tell one another, they plan to cause My people to forget My name as their fathers forgot My name through Baal worship.

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.

“If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,

But Elymas the sorcerer (this is the meaning of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

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Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

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“If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
But Elymas the sorcerer (this is the meaning of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.
For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

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The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

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