2 Kings 17:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; But we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
  • 1 Kgs 13:32 : 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak; They have eyes, but they don't see; 6 They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell; 7 They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths, but they can't speak; They have eyes, but they can't see; 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; Neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed. 10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together. 12 The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it. 16 He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. 17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god. 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. 5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
  • Hos 8:5-6 : 5 Let Samaria throw out his calf-idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be before the are capable of purity? 6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:30-33
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    30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

    31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

    32 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

    33 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

  • 2 Kgs 17:27-28
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    27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

    28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-12
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    7 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

    8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

    9 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

    10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

    11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

    12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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    19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
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    24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Judg 17:5
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    5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  • Judg 18:31
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    31 So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
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    17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Deut 29:26
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    26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

  • Jer 16:20
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    20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
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    23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • 2 Chr 13:9
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    9 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
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    29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
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    26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Yahweh made the heavens.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
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    15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
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    41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
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    7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:

  • Ps 96:5
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    5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But Yahweh made the heavens.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
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    16 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
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    19 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • Jer 2:28
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    28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
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    22 They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • Zeph 2:11
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    11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
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    12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?

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    3 However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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    6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
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    9 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.

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