2 Kings 17:11

Good News Translation

and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land. They aroused the Lord's anger with all their wicked deeds

Cross References

1 Kings 13:1

At the Lord's command a prophet from Judah went to Bethel and arrived there as Jeroboam stood at the altar to offer the sacrifice.

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.

2 Kings 12:4

Joash called the priests and ordered them to save up the money paid in connection with the sacrifices in the Temple, both the dues paid for the regular sacrifices and the money given as freewill gifts.

2 Kings 17:10

On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,

2 Kings 17:12

and disobeyed the Lord's command not to worship idols.

2 Kings 21:6

He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the Lord and stirred up his anger.

2 Chronicles 28:25

In every city and town in Judah he built pagan places of worship, where incense was to be burned to foreign gods. In this way he brought on himself the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

Exodus 23:24

Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars.

Jeremiah 44:17

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

Hosea 9:10

The Lord says, “When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved.

Deuteronomy 12:2

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

Deuteronomy 18:9

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don't follow the disgusting practices of the nations that are there.

Deuteronomy 32:16

Their idolatry made the Lord jealous; the evil they did made him angry.

Deuteronomy 32:21

With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.