1 Kings 14:9

New American Bible - revised edition

You have done more evil than all who were before you: you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

The king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 14:16

He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and caused Israel to commit.”

1 Kings 14:22

Judah did evil in the Lord’s sight and they angered him even more than their ancestors had done.

1 Kings 15:29

Once he was king, he killed the entire house of Jeroboam, not leaving a single soul but destroying Jeroboam utterly, according to the word of the Lord spoken through his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite,

1 Kings 15:30

because of the sins Jeroboam committed and caused Israel to commit, by which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger.

1 Kings 15:34

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, walking in the way of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 16:25

But Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, more than any of his predecessors.

1 Kings 16:30

Ahab, son of Omri, did what was evil in the Lord’s sight more than any of his predecessors.

1 Kings 16:31

It was not enough for him to follow the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat. He even married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal, and worship him.

1 Kings 16:33

and also made an asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than any of the kings of Israel before him.

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He set up altars to Baal and also made an asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet the Lord did not turn from his fiercely burning anger against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had given.

2 Kings 3:3

but he still held fast unceasingly to the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, caused Israel to commit. War Against Moab: Drought.

2 Chronicles 11:15

In their place, he himself appointed priests for the high places as well as for the satyrs and calves he had made.

2 Chronicles 33:6

It was he, too, who immolated his children by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all good things, Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate and had their fill, fattened and feasted on your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Psalm 106:29

They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 50:17

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Psalm 78:56

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High, his decrees they did not observe.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Exodus 34:17

You shall not make for yourselves molten gods.

Jeremiah 32:18

You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: You have forgotten me and cast me behind your back; now suffer for your depravity and prostitution.

Ezekiel 8:17

He said: Do you see, son of man? Are the abominable things the house of Judah has done here so slight that they should also fill the land with violence, provoking me again and again? Now they are putting the branch to my nose!

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the hair of my head. The spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in divine vision to Jerusalem to the entrance of the inner gate facing north where the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy stood.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I, the Lord, am your God.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.

Judges 5:8

New gods were their choice; then war was at the gates. No shield was to be found, no spear, among forty thousand in Israel!