Numbers 25:2

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The women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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  • 1 Cor 10:20 : 20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  • Exod 34:15-16 : 15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices. 16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.
  • Josh 22:17 : 17 Was the sin of Peor not enough for us, even though we have not yet cleansed ourselves of that sin to this very day, and a plague fell upon the congregation of the LORD?
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. 2 These were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, for they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon clung to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been. 5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done. 7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
  • Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
  • Hos 9:10 : 10 Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they went to Baal Peor, consecrated themselves to shame, and became as detestable as the thing they loved.
  • 1 Cor 10:27-28 : 27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.
  • 2 Cor 6:16-17 : 16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.' 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have those there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites—to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
  • 1 Kgs 19:18 : 18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'
  • Josh 23:7 : 7 Do not associate with these nations that remain among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, swear by them, serve them, or bow down to them.
  • Josh 23:16 : 16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.
  • Deut 32:38 : 38 The ones who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your shelter!
  • Exod 23:24 : 24 Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.

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  • Num 25:1
    78%

    1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.

  • Ps 106:28
    77%

    28They joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

  • Num 25:3
    77%

    3Israel yoked itself to Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel.

  • Judg 2:11-13
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    11The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

    12They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.

    13They abandoned the LORD and worshipped Baal and the Ashtaroth.

  • Hos 11:2
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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.

  • Exod 32:6-8
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    6The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry.

    7Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves."

    8They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

  • Exod 34:15-16
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    75%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • 1 Chr 5:25
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    25But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and followed the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    73%

    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 Kgs 17:16-17
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    73%

    16They 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.

    17They 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.

  • Deut 29:26
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    26Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book.

  • Judg 3:6-7
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    6They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

    7The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

  • Acts 7:41-42
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    41At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

    42But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

  • Ezek 20:28
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    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.

  • Amos 2:8
    72%

    8'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

  • Num 23:2
    72%

    2Balak did as Balaam said, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

  • Num 22:40
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    40Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep and gave some to Balaam and the officials who were with him.

  • Ps 106:36-37
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    72%

    36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

    37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

  • Judg 2:17
    72%

    17Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • Deut 32:17
    71%

    17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to new gods that had recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

  • Num 31:16
    71%

    16Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.

  • Exod 24:5
    71%

    5Then he sent young men of the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2Now 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!'

  • Judg 2:5
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    5So they named that place Bochim, and there they offered sacrifices to the LORD.

  • Neh 9:18
    70%

    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • 2 Chr 25:14
    70%

    14After Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them, and burned sacrifices to them.

  • Exod 8:25
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    25Moses answered, "As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people tomorrow. But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD."

  • Judg 10:6
    70%

    6The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.

  • Deut 12:31
    70%

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:30
    70%

    30And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.

  • Judg 2:19
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    19But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, saying, 'Do not fear other gods, do not bow down to them, do not serve them, and do not sacrifice to them.'

  • Num 25:5
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    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, 'Each of you must kill those of your men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.'

  • 1 Kgs 12:28
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    28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33
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    70%

    32They 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.

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

  • Jer 22:9
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    9And the answer will be: 'Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods.'

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.'

  • Exod 32:4
    69%

    4He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."