Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



These people continually provoke Me
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
Verse ConceptsBricksGarden, NaturalSacrifice, In OtBurning SacrificesIdolatryGrieving God

He offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own. He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense. Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8Building AltarsIncense Offered Amiss

You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and oil. Verse ConceptsTables

The more they called them,
the more they departed from Me.
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.
Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistorySuperstitionGrowth Of EvilPeople Going AstrayIdolatryHow Not To WorshipOthers Summoning

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

“I will pronounce My judgments against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands. Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeForsaking GodMonotheismRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodIdol WorshipDifferent GodsIdolatry

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley. Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's Works

because they have abandoned Me and burned incense to other gods in order to provoke Me with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. 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 harm the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.” Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PlantingGod Will Bring Harm

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because of their evil ways that provoked Me to anger, going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your fathers did not know. Verse ConceptsProvoking GodUnknown GodsDifferent Gods

In Moab, I will stop”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods. Verse ConceptsShrinesNo IncensePeople EndedSacrificing On The High Places

They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.
Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

"Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not hear them. Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame-altars to burn incense to Baal-as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem. read more.
"As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster.

And He said to me, "Do you see [this], son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these." So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord's house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord's temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord's temple and their faces [turned] to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun. And He said to me, "Do you see [this], son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly provoke Me to anger, even putting the branch to their nose? read more.
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare [them]. Though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them."

“Come, gather together,
and draw near, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols,
and pray to a god who cannot save,
have no knowledge.
Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse ReligionemptinessGod, Uniqueness OfPredestinationReligionUnreliabilityWoodCarrying IdolsSurvivors Of The NationsIdolatryNature Of IdolatryPraying AmissThose Who Were IgnorantSolar Eclipse

But where are your gods you made for yourself?
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.
Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorMany Spiritual BeingsSalvation By Other Things

The Lord said to the Israelites, "When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to Me, did I not deliver you from their power? But you have abandoned Me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again. read more.
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression."

You are worn out with your many consultations.
So let them stand and save you—
the astrologers, who observe the stars,
who predict monthly
what will happen to you.
Verse ConceptsBabylonAstrologyDivination, Practiced ByStarsOccultismfate

He will say: "Where are their gods, the 'rock' they found refuge in? Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be a shelter for you.

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales- they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it. They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn't answer; it saves no one from his trouble.

I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, and no Savior exists besides Me. I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot Me. read more.
So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path. I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open. I will destroy you, Israel; you have no help but Me. Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying: Give me a king and leaders? I give you a king in My anger and take away [a king] in My wrath.

They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.
Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.
Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.
Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople