Jeremiah 10:2

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This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

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  • Lev 20:23 : 23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.
  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 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.
  • Isa 47:12-14 : 12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers. 13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you. 14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
  • Ezek 20:32 : 32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
  • Luke 21:25-28 : 25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; 26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved. 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. 28 But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.

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    3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

  • Jer 10:1
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    1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

  • Jer 2:10-12
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    75%

    10 For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

    11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

  • 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.

  • Isa 8:11-12
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    11 For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,

    12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Isa 17:8
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    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Deut 12:30
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    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.

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

  • Jer 13:15
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    15 Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Jer 10:11
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    11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

  • Deut 11:16
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    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 17:12
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    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Jer 8:2
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    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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    4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

  • Isa 2:6
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    6 For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

  • Lev 19:31
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    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34-35
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    34 So 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;

    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:

  • Josh 23:7
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    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:

  • Hag 1:10
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    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • Ezek 11:12
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    12 And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

  • Isa 30:11
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    11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

  • Jer 7:17
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    17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Deut 17:3
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    3 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;

  • Jer 25:6
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    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.

  • Hag 1:7
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    7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

  • Deut 13:7
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    7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

  • Ps 106:35
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    35 But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:3
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    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

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    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

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    8 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;

  • Jer 16:5
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    5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

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    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

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    8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

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    5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

  • Jer 5:10
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    10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.