Isaiah 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob! Because they are filled with diviners, and soothsayers, like the Philistines; with foreigners they clasp hands.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his roof terrace at Samaria and was injured. So he sent out messengers with the instructions: “Go and inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

2 Kings 17:20

So the Lord rejected the entire people of Israel: he afflicted them and delivered them over to plunderers, finally casting them from his presence.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Thus Saul died because of his treason against the Lord in disobeying his word, and also because he had sought counsel from a ghost,

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went forth to meet Asa and said to him: “Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are with him, and if you seek him he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the spirit of God clothed Zechariah, son of Jehoiada the priest. He took his stand above the people and said to them: “Thus says God, Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, he has abandoned you.”

Nehemiah 13:23

Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

Psalm 106:35

But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways.

Exodus 22:18

Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death.

Exodus 34:16

And when you take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they will make your sons do the same.

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if you have become surety to your neighbor, given your hand in pledge to another,

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, Philistia, not one of you, that the rod which struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s root shall come an adder, its offspring shall be a flying saraph.

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, “Inquire of ghosts and soothsayers who chirp and mutter; should not a people inquire of their gods, consulting the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the ways of the nations, and have no fear of the signs in the heavens, even though the nations fear them.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have abandoned my house, cast off my heritage; The beloved of my soul I have delivered into the hand of her foes.

Lamentations 5:20

Why have you utterly forgotten us, forsaken us for so long?

Leviticus 19:31

Do not turn to ghosts or consult spirits, by which you will be defiled. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 20:6

Should anyone turn to ghosts and spirits and prostitute oneself with them, I will turn against that person and cut such a one off from among the people.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the sorcery you practice, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you.

Micah 5:12

I will destroy your carved figures and the sacred stones from your midst; And you shall no longer worship the works of your hands.

Zephaniah 1:8

On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king’s sons, and all who dress in foreign apparel.

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam recited his poem: From Aram Balak has led me here, Moab’s king, from the mountains of Qedem: “Come, curse for me Jacob, come, denounce Israel.”

Romans 11:20

That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.

1 Samuel 6:2

when they summoned priests and diviners to ask, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us what we should send back with it.”