Ezekiel 20:29

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I said to them: What is this high place to which you go? (It is called 'High Place' to this day.)

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  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner. 25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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  • Ezek 20:27-28
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    27Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Yet in this, your fathers blasphemed me by acting treacherously against me.'

    28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.

  • Ezek 20:30-32
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    30Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their detestable things?'

    31When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Shall I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.

    32What you have in mind will never happen. You say, 'We will be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.'

  • Num 21:19-20
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    19From Mattanah they went to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth.

    20From Bamoth to the valley in Moab, the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wasteland.

  • Ezek 24:20
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    20So I said to them, 'The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Jer 32:34-35
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    34They set up detestable idols in the house that bears My name and defiled it.

    35They 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 20:7
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    7And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11There, 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

  • Jer 1:16
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    16I 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.

  • Num 23:27-28
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    27Then Balak said to Balaam, 'Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.'

    28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

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    10and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my name, and say, ‘We are safe,’ only to go on doing all these detestable things?

  • Jer 17:2
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    2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

  • Jer 19:5-6
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    5They have built high places to Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind.

    6So beware! The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

  • Ezek 20:39-40
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    39As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward, you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.

    40For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there the entire house of Israel, all of them in the land, will worship me. There I will accept them, and there I will require their contributions, their choice gifts, and all their holy offerings.

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13For 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.

  • Josh 22:16
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    16'This is what the entire assembly of the LORD says: What is this unfaithful act you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away from following the LORD today and building for yourselves an altar, rebelling against the LORD now?

  • Num 23:3
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    3Balaam said to Balak, 'Stand beside your burnt offering while I go. Perhaps the LORD will meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.' Then he went to a barren height.

  • Ezek 8:13
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    13And He said to me, 'You will see even greater abominations that they are committing.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:30
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    30The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

  • Isa 57:7
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    7You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39When 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.

  • Ezek 36:2
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    2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! Even the ancient high places have become ours as a possession,’

  • Jer 7:12
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    12Now go to my place in Shiloh, where I first caused my name to dwell. See what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
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    23They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • Ezek 8:6
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    6And He said to me, 'Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see even greater abominations.'

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    2But the more they were called, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to the carved images.

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    2Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 2 Chr 7:20-21
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    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

    21This temple, which was so exalted, will be appalling to every passerby who sees it. They will say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'

  • Ezek 20:4
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    4Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Let them know about the detestable practices of their ancestors.

  • Josh 22:23
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    23If we have built an altar to turn away from following the LORD, or to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings, or to offer fellowship sacrifices on it, may the LORD Himself call us to account.

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    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

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    36The LORD said to me: 'Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their abominations.'

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    24Make an altar of earth for Me, and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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    15And He said to me, 'Have you seen this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these.'

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    2Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

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    17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.