Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » Other customs of » Incense burned on altars
A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.
And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.
When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.
And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.
Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.
Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.
For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.
Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.
And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.