Thematic Bible: They who practice


Thematic Bible



the people {who provoke} me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks, Verse ConceptsBricksGarden, NaturalSacrifice, In OtBurning SacrificesIdolatryGrieving God

For when I bring them into the land that I swore to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, {they will eat their fill}, and they will become fat, and [then] they will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and they will break my covenant. Verse ConceptsFoodRejection Of GodTrust, Lack OfIngratitude To GodThe Promised LandDifferent GodsBreaking The CovenantMilk And Honey

and you must not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, and you must not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will not do something bad to you.' Verse ConceptsMonotheismDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHurthurting

But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, [the] ancient ways, to go [into] {bypaths}, not [one that] is built up. Verse ConceptsForgettingStumblingPaths Of RighteousnessOld ThingsIncense Offered AmissEvil WaysHighwaysPaths

And it will happen [that] if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish. Verse ConceptsWarningIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHinduism

because they have abandoned me and they have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all of the works of their hands. My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.'" Verse ConceptsProvoking GodRenunciationQuenchingIncense Offered AmissDifferent Gods

Then you shall say to them, '{Because} your ancestors have forsaken me,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws. Verse ConceptsBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsThey Do Not Keep Commands

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save. Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse ReligionemptinessGod, Uniqueness OfPredestinationReligionUnreliabilityWoodCarrying IdolsSurvivors Of The NationsIdolatryNature Of IdolatryPraying AmissThose Who Were IgnorantSolar Eclipse

And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you [are] my god!" Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you [be] a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath [has come] against you from Yahweh. Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God."

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the speechless idols, however you were led. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

A drought [will come] against her waters, and they will dry up, for it [is] a land of images, and because of the frightful [objects], they act like madmen. Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalWaters Drying Up

And you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "[Let] each one go serve his idols [now] and after, if you [are] not listening to me, but {my holy name} you will not profane [any] longer with your gifts and with your idols. Verse ConceptsGiftsIrreverenceProfanityProfaning God's NameNot Worshipping IdolsPaying Attention To GodMisusing God's Name

because they despised my judgments, and {they did not walk in my statutes}, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

{But} the Levites who removed themselves from me {at the going astray of Israel}, who went astray from me [and went] after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt. Verse ConceptsEstrangementPeople Going Astray

Therefore {as surely as I live}, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, {Surely} because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I} will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion. Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfGod Without MercyNot SparingPolluting Holy PlacesDefilement

so that [I may] take hold of the house of Israel by their heart, [those] who are estranged from me, all of them, through their idols.' Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodEstrangementSeparation From GodGod Opposes IdolatryStrong Delusion

Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away [in] enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy


who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeOaksKilling Sons And Daughters

My people, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWoodHarlotsCausing People To TurnIdol Worshipwhores

My people, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWoodHarlotsCausing People To TurnIdol Worshipwhores

Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols. Worship him, all you gods. Verse ConceptsFate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryWorship God!

[These are] those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again." Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing