Micah 5:12

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I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.

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  • Deut 18:10-12 : 10 There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer, 11 one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer. 12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.
  • Isa 2:6-8 : 6 The Lord’s Day of Judgment Indeed, O LORD, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around. 7 Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots. 8 Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
  • Isa 2:18 : 18 The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,
  • Isa 8:19-20 : 19 Darkness Turns to Light as an Ideal King Arrives They will say to you,“Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?” 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
  • Zech 13:2-4 : 2 And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. 4 “Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment of a prophet to deceive the people.
  • Rev 19:20 : 20 Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf– signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

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    13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

    14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

  • Mic 5:9-11
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    9Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!

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  • Deut 18:9-12
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    9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

    10There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

    11one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.

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  • Zech 13:2
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    2And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

  • Lev 20:5-6
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    5I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

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    23Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Exod 22:18
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    18“You must not allow a sorceress to live.

  • Ezek 12:24
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    24For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

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    13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Deut 12:3-4
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    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Nah 1:13-15
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    13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

    14Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”

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  • Lev 26:30
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    30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

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    4“I will attack Judah and all who live in Jerusalem. I will remove from this place every trace of Baal worship, as well as the very memory of the pagan priests.

  • Deut 7:5
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    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

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    31Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the LORD your God.

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    31In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

  • Num 33:52
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    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

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    12Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.

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    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

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

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    9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

  • Ezek 14:8
    69%

    8I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 5:9
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    9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

  • Mic 2:5
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    5Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.

  • Ezek 13:9
    69%

    9My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.

  • Hos 2:17
    69%

    17For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”

  • Isa 19:3
    69%

    3The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

  • Isa 17:8
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    8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

  • Exod 9:15
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    15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Jer 7:15
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    15And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’”

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    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Jer 16:13
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    13So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”

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    25I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

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    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.

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    24“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.