Verse 29

Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 24:16 : 16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
  • Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see: 14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.
  • Josh 22:23 : 23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;
  • Josh 22:26 : 26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:
  • Gen 44:7 : 7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
  • Gen 44:17 : 17 Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • Rom 9:14 : 14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.