Thematic Bible: Libations
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The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Verse Concepts
The Chaldeans who are going to fight against this city will come, set this city on fire, and burn it along with the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Verse Concepts
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.
And the women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Verse Concepts
who forget My holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.
Verse Concepts
indeed, they are your lot.
You have even poured out a drink offering to them;
you have offered a grain offering;
should I be satisfied with these?
Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food and good things and saw no disaster,
Verse Concepts
This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for you and your wives, you women have spoken with your mouths, and you men fulfilled it by your deeds, saying, “We will keep our vows that we have made to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings for her.” Go ahead, confirm your vows! Pay your vows!’
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Related Topics
- Alcohol
- Altars, Pagan
- Anger Of God, Consequences
- Burning Jerusalem
- Cakes
- Different Gods
- Dough
- False Religion
- Firewood
- Food For Other gods
- Host Of Heaven
- Incense Offered Amiss
- Kneading Dough
- Like Creatures
- Making Cereal Offerings And Libations
- Provoking God
- Queens
- Rejection Of God
- Roads
- Roof
- Rooftop
- Sacrificing On The High Places
- Self Delusion
- Serving Asherah
- Shrines
- Tables
- Trust, Lack Of
- Worship At Trees
- Worshipping Material Things
- Drink offering
- Fate
- Gathering
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