2 Kings 17:11

New American Bible - revised edition

They burned incense there, on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the Lord,

Cross References

1 Kings 13:1

A man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the Lord.

2 Kings 12:4

though the high places did not disappear; the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.

2 Kings 17:10

They set up pillars and asherahs for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:12

and served idols, although the Lord had told them: You must not do this.

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. 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.

2 Chronicles 28:25

In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifice to other gods. Thus he provoked the Lord, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

Exodus 23:24

Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

Jeremiah 44:17

Rather we will go on doing what we proposed; we will offer incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we have done, along with our ancestors, our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty to eat, we prospered, and we suffered no misfortune.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen, I looked on your ancestors. But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy entirely all the places where the nations you are to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 32:16

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

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.