Acts 7:42

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:39

And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts and with your idols;

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roots they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods.

Deuteronomy 4:19

Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

Isaiah 63:10

But they provoked to wrath and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Acts 7:36

He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert forty years.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord and their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.

Isaiah 66:4

Wherefore, I also will choose their mockeries and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called and there was none that would answer, I have spoken and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes and have chosen the things that displease me.

Joshua 24:20

If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

Ezekiel 20:25

Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

Psalm 95:10

Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

2 Kings 21:3

And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed. And he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done. And he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Kings 17:16

And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God. And made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven. And they served Baal.

Deuteronomy 17:3

So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

Isaiah 43:23

Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims. I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense.

Hebrews 3:9

Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them abroad to the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought and adored. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

John 6:45

It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

Acts 13:40

Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: