Leviticus 17:7

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Summary

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Unto devils

Gone a whoring

General references

Amos 5:25

Bible References

Unto devils

They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,

Gone a whoring

then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.

She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,

General references

"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?