Deuteronomy 32:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.

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  • Judg 5:8 : 8 They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Isa 44:8 : 8 Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
  • 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything? 20 What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

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  • Deut 29:26
    81%

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

  • Deut 32:16
    78%

    16The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

  • Ps 106:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

    36And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

    37They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

  • Judg 2:11-13
    3 verses
    76%

    11And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

    12And 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:31-36
    6 verses
    76%

    31The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

    32So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

    33They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

    34So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

    35And 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:

    36But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

    11Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

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

  • Deut 32:18
    75%

    18You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

  • Jer 44:3
    74%

    3Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

    16And 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.

    17And 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 12:31
    73%

    31Do 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.

  • Judg 2:17
    72%

    17But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Lev 17:7
    72%

    7And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

  • Exod 32:8
    72%

    8Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

    41So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

  • Num 25:2
    71%

    2For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28There 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.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

  • 1 Cor 10:20
    71%

    20What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.

  • Deut 17:3
    70%

    3By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

  • Gal 4:8
    70%

    8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

  • Acts 7:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

    42But 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?

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    70%

    22And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

  • Deut 29:17
    70%

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

  • Jer 32:35
    70%

    35And 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.

  • 1 Chr 5:25
    69%

    25And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Judg 2:19
    69%

    19But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    69%

    7And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

  • Judg 3:7
    69%

    7And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

  • Exod 34:15
    69%

    15So 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,

  • Isa 37:19
    69%

    19And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    69%

    9And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    69%

    29And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

  • Neh 9:18
    69%

    18Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;