Thematic Bible: Incense burned on altars
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These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.
But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.
You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.
In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands."
They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!'"
Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means be able to save them when disaster strikes them.
For though I, the Lord who rules over all, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal."
This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifice to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.
I will put an end in Moab to those who make offerings at her places of worship. I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods. I, the Lord, affirm it!
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