Deuteronomy 32:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 5:8 : 8 God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
  • Isa 44:8 : 8 Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”
  • 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything? 20 No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

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  • Deut 29:26
    81%

    26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

  • Deut 32:16
    78%

    16They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

  • Ps 106:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

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

    37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

  • Judg 2:11-13
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    76%

    11A Monotonous Cycle The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals.

    12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

    13They abandoned the LORD and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

  • 2 Kgs 17:31-36
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    76%

    31the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

    32At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

    33They were worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

    34To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the LORD; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

    35The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

    36Instead you must worship the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    75%

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

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Deut 32:18
    75%

    18You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

  • Jer 44:3
    74%

    3This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifice to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

    17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.

  • Deut 12:31
    73%

    31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

  • Judg 2:17
    72%

    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Lev 17:7
    72%

    7So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

  • Exod 32:8
    72%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
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    40But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

    41These nations are worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

  • Num 25:2
    71%

    2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

  • 1 Cor 10:20
    71%

    20No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

  • Deut 17:3
    70%

    3by serving other gods and worshiping them– the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

  • Gal 4:8
    70%

    8Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

  • Acts 7:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

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

    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    70%

    22Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors, who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

  • Deut 29:17
    70%

    17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

  • Jer 32:35
    70%

    35They built places of worship for the god Baal in the valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.’

  • 1 Chr 5:25
    69%

    25But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    33They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

  • Judg 2:19
    69%

    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    69%

    7A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History This happened because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;

  • Judg 3:7
    69%

    7Othniel: A Model Leader The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight. They forgot the LORD their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

  • Exod 34:15
    69%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Isa 37:19
    69%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    69%

    9Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    69%

    29But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

  • Neh 9:18
    69%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.