Thematic Bible: Idolatrous jews
Thematic Bible
Drink offering » Idolatrous jews » Reproved for offering, to idols
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like Topheth. They burned sacrifices to the heavenly hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the rooftops of all of their houses.'
Verse Concepts
Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Verse Concepts
But as for you who forsake Jehovah and forget my holy mountain, which spread a table for the God of Fortune (Babylonian diety) and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
Verse Concepts
I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.
Verse Concepts
Drink offering » Idolatrous jews » Offered to the queen of heaven
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.
Verse Concepts
We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as our ancestors, our king and our leaders, and we used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles. Ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation. The women added: 'When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing.'
Related Topics
- Alcohol
- Altars, Pagan
- Child sacrifice
- Different Gods
- Dough
- False Religion
- Firewood
- Food For Other gods
- Host Of Heaven
- Killing Sons And Daughters
- Kneading Dough