2 Kings 17:30

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The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the towns of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:31-33
    3 verses
    83%

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

    32 They feared the Lord, but they also appointed for themselves all sorts of priests for the high places, who made sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places.

    33 They feared the Lord, but they also served their own gods according to the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    82%

    29 But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Isa 37:19
    72%

    19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    72%

    18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24 The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the towns of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

  • Isa 2:8
    71%

    8 Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • Jer 16:20
    71%

    20 Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Amos 5:26
    71%

    26 You have carried Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your idols, the stars of your gods that you made for yourselves.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    71%

    19 They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.

  • Jer 7:18
    71%

    18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    70%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    70%

    23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    70%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    70%

    25 In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

    14 He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with human bones.

  • Jer 11:13
    70%

    13 For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 31:7
    70%

    7 For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

  • Ezek 23:39
    69%

    39 When they slaughtered their children as sacrifices to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on the same day to desecrate it. See, this is what they have done in my house.

  • 2 Chr 28:3
    69%

    3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  • Judg 18:31
    69%

    31 They kept the carved image that Micah had made throughout the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Ezek 16:17
    69%

    17 You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • Jer 1:16
    69%

    16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • 2 Kgs 18:34
    69%

    34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?

  • Hos 13:2
    69%

    2 Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    69%

    19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger. He did to them just as he had done at Bethel.

  • Acts 7:43
    69%

    43 'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    69%

    11 'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'

  • Exod 34:17
    69%

    17 Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Deut 29:17
    69%

    17 Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Ps 135:15
    69%

    15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Isa 17:8
    69%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

  • Isa 44:15
    69%

    15 It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

  • Jer 32:35
    69%

    35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, something I never commanded nor even considered in My heart. They committed this detestable act to make Judah sin.

  • Ezek 23:37
    68%

    37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Acts 7:41
    68%

    41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Deut 4:28
    68%

    28 There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Jer 44:19
    68%

    19 And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured drink offerings to her, did we do it without our husbands’ approval? Were they not with us when we made cakes shaped like her and poured drink offerings to her?

  • Jer 32:29
    68%

    29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against the city will enter it, set it on fire, and burn it along with the houses where incense was offered to Baal on their rooftops and drink offerings were poured out to other gods, provoking Me to anger.