Deuteronomy 17:4
and it hath been declared to thee, and thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in Israel --
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- Deut 13:12-14 : 12 `When thou hearest, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to dwell there, `one' saying, 13 Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of thy midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known -- 14 and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:
- Deut 19:18 : 18 and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness `is' a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:
- John 7:51 : 51 `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'
- Prov 25:2 : 2 The honour of God `is' to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.
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14and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:
- Deut 17:1-33 verses82%
1`Thou dost not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God ox or sheep in which there is a blemish -- any evil thing; for it `is' the abomination of Jehovah thy God.
2`When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah thy God by transgressing His covenant,
3and he doth go and serve other gods, and doth bow himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded --
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5`Then thou hast brought out that man, or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates -- the man or the woman -- and thou hast stoned them with stones, and they have died.
- Deut 13:11-122 verses79%
11and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.
12`When thou hearest, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to dwell there, `one' saying,
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27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who `are' before you, and the land is defiled),
- Deut 22:20-223 verses75%
20`And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --
21then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring `in' her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
22`When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.
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26and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it `is' devoted.
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16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
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13Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done.
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12`For the abomination of Jehovah `is' every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.
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9`When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:
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15and it hath been, he who is captured with the devoted thing is burnt with fire, he and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he hath done folly in Israel.'
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24`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
- 2 Kgs 17:11-122 verses74%
11and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,
12and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'
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13And He saith unto me, `Again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing.'
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17and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;
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10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There `is' the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
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15Though a harlot thou `art', O Israel, Let not Judah become guilty, And come not ye in to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear ye, Jehovah liveth.
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1If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
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11Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses73%
10The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.
11And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.
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17and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which `are' with them,
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13`And if the whole company of Israel err ignorantly, and the thing hath been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done `something against' one of all the commands of Jehovah `concerning things' which are not to be done, and have been guilty;
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18so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.
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8`And unto them thou sayest: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who sojourneth in your midst, who causeth burnt-offering or sacrifice to ascend,
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25`When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: --
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9Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.
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13`Rise, sanctify the people, and thou hast said, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow; for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, A devoted thing `is' in thy midst, O Israel, thou art not able to stand before thine enemies till your turning aside of the devoted thing out of your midst;
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11For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
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30and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do `any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I `am' Jehovah your God.'
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4Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know,
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24then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, `being' in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
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15And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? again thou dost turn, thou dost see greater abominations than these.'
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2Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
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22`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it `is'.
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18and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness `is' a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:
- 2 Kgs 17:8-92 verses72%
8and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;
9and the sons of Israel do covertly things that `are' not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city,
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18`And unto the king of Judah, who is sending you to seek Jehovah, thus do ye say unto him, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The words that thou hast heard --
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12And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there Jehovah thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel,
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21and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.
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31`Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.
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11Israel hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put `it' among their vessels,