Thematic Bible: Incense burned on altars


Thematic Bible



a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks; Verse ConceptsBricksGarden, NaturalSacrifice, In OtBurning SacrificesIdolatryGrieving God

He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings. Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8Building AltarsIncense Offered Amiss

You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil. Verse ConceptsTables

The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistorySuperstitionGrowth Of EvilPeople Going AstrayIdolatryHow Not To WorshipOthers Summoning

And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. Verse ConceptsOil On SacrificesIncense Offered Amiss

And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands. Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeForsaking GodMonotheismRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodIdol WorshipDifferent GodsIdolatry

They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron Valley. Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal." Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PlantingGod Will Bring Harm

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because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. Verse ConceptsProvoking GodUnknown GodsDifferent Gods

And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god. Verse ConceptsShrinesNo IncensePeople EndedSacrificing On The High Places

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