Psalms 106:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

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  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Rom 1:22-23 : 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
  • Exod 20:4-5 : 4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 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 upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Ps 89:17 : 17 For you are the glory of their strength, and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
  • Isa 40:18-25 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him? 19 The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains. 20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved. 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in; 23 Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One.

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  • Ps 106:18-19
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    85%

    18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

    19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

  • Ps 106:21
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    21They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;

  • Rom 1:21-25
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    77%

    21Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

    22Professing to be wise, they became fools,

    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

    24Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

    25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations,

  • Exod 32:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

    8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

  • Acts 7:40-42
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    40Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

    41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

    42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  • Hos 13:6
    74%

    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

  • Hos 13:2
    72%

    2And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Ps 106:39
    71%

    39Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions.

  • Hos 4:7
    71%

    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.

  • Ps 106:36
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    36And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.

  • Exod 32:4
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    4He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

  • Jer 2:11
    70%

    11Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
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    16They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • Exod 32:23-24
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    69%

    23For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

    24And I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."

  • Exod 32:20
    69%

    20He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their carved images.

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    29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them.

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    3He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

  • Ps 106:13-14
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    69%

    13They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

  • Isa 2:8
    69%

    8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • Hos 10:5
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

  • Deut 9:16
    68%

    16And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made for yourselves a molten calf: you had quickly turned aside out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

  • Ps 78:11
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    11And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

  • Ps 115:4
    68%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Ps 78:30
    68%

    30They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

  • Ezek 7:20
    68%

    20As for the beauty of his ornaments, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein; therefore, have I set it far from them.

  • Deut 32:16
    68%

    16They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

  • Ps 135:18
    68%

    18Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

  • Num 25:2
    67%

    2And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • Deut 9:12
    67%

    12And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people which you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.

  • Deut 31:20
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    20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

  • Hos 8:5
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    5Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence?

  • Judg 2:12
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    12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • Ps 78:40
    67%

    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • Gen 41:20
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    20And the thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

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    8Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

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    17And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.