Thematic Bible: They who practice
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » They who practice » Provoke God
These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors -- one flowing with milk and honey -- and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.
Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.'
Idolatry » They who practice » Forget God
Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.
Now if you forget the Lord your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.
Idolatry » They who practice » Forsake God
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 tell them that the Lord says, 'It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.
Idolatry » They who practice » Look to idols for deliverance
Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying, 'Rescue me, for you are my god!'
Idolatry » They who practice » Hate God
the prophet Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord."
Idolatry » They who practice » Carried away by it
You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are ignorant and foolish
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Idolatry » They who practice » Are mad upon it
A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
Idolatry » They who practice » Pollute the name of God
"'As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go after it in heart
I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go astray from God
"'But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.
Idolatry » They who practice » Defile the sanctuary of God
"Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are estranged from God
I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.'
Idolatry » They who practice » Hold fast their deceit
Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are vain in their imaginations
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Idolatry » They who practice » Inflame themselves
you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
Idolatry » They who practice » Have fellowship with devils
They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner's staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Ask counsel of their idols
They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner's staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Boast of it
All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or 'As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!' But they will fall down and not get up again."