Jeremiah 8:2

New American Bible - revised edition

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:16

They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord, their God: they made for themselves two molten calves; they made an asherah; they bowed down to all the host of heaven; they served Baal.

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 21:5

And he built altars for the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:5

He also put an end to the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the vicinity of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, moon, and signs of the zodiac, and to the whole host of heaven.

Psalm 53:5

Do they not know better, those who do evil, who feed upon my people as they feed upon bread? Have they not called upon God?

Psalm 83:10

Deal with them as with Midian; as with Sisera and Jabin at the wadi Kishon,

Psalm 83:11

Those destroyed at Endor, who became dung for the ground.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Jeremiah 16:11

you shall answer them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me—oracle of the Lord—and followed other gods that they served and worshiped; but me they have forsaken, and my law they did not keep.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 16:6

They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, unburied and unlamented. No one will gash themselves or shave their heads for them.

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, all the houses upon whose roofs they burnt incense to the whole host of heaven and poured out libations to other gods.

Jeremiah 22:19

The burial of a donkey he shall be given, dragged forth and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 25:33

On that day, those whom the Lord has slain will be strewn from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, they will not be gathered, they will not be buried; they shall lie like dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 31:40

The whole valley of corpses and ashes, all the terraced slopes toward the Wadi Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate at the east, shall be holy to the Lord. Never again shall the city be uprooted or demolished.

Jeremiah 36:30

The Lord now says of Jehoiakim, king of Judah: No descendant of his shall sit on David’s throne; his corpse shall be thrown out, exposed to heat by day, frost by night.

Jeremiah 9:20

Death has come up through our windows, has entered our citadels, To cut down children in the street, young people in the squares.

Jeremiah 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Jeremiah 9:22

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

Ezekiel 29:5

I will hurl you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your Nile. You will fall into an open field, you will not be picked up or gathered together. To the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky I give you as food.

Ezekiel 39:5

In the open field you shall fall, for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 6:5

Yes, I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 8:16

Then he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. There at the door of the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces toward the east; they were bowing eastward to the sun.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will hem the people in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their bowels like dung.

Zephaniah 1:5

And those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven, And those who bow down to the Lord but swear by Milcom;

Acts 7:42

Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 17:3

by going to serve other gods, by bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, contrary to my command;

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or the stars, the whole heavenly host, do not be led astray into bowing down to them and serving them. These the Lord, your God, has apportioned to all the other nations under the heavens;