Deuteronomy 17:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

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  • Job 31:26-27 : 26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
  • Jer 7:31 : 31 And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
  • Jer 19:5 : 5 And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
  • Jer 32:35 : 35 And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.
  • Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

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  • Deut 4:19
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    19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    79%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Deut 30:17
    79%

    17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

  • Deut 17:2
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    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Deut 29:26
    78%

    26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

  • Deut 6:14
    78%

    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • 2 Chr 7:19
    78%

    19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    77%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Deut 13:2
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    2 And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;

  • Deut 11:16
    76%

    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
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    16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Deut 17:4
    76%

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • Deut 13:6-7
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    76%

    6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

    7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    75%

    6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    74%

    3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

  • Jer 8:2
    74%

    2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • Jer 25:6
    74%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Exod 20:3
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    3 You are to have no other gods but me.

  • Deut 28:14
    74%

    14 Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • Josh 23:16
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    16 If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.

  • Deut 12:30-31
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    73%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Deut 4:28
    73%

    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Josh 23:7
    73%

    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • 1 Kgs 11:10
    73%

    10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Exod 34:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Deut 5:7
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    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

  • Exod 34:17
    73%

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Judg 2:12-13
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    73%

    12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

    13 And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

  • Acts 7:42
    73%

    42 But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Deut 11:28
    72%

    28 And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

  • Exod 23:24
    72%

    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 8:19
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    19 And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

  • Deut 13:13
    72%

    13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

  • Deut 7:4
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    4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • 2 Kgs 23:5
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    5 And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

  • Jer 22:9
    72%

    9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.

  • Exod 20:5
    72%

    5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

  • 2 Kgs 17:38
    72%

    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Jer 16:11
    72%

    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    72%

    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • Lev 19:4
    72%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.