1 Kings 18:18

New Century Version

Elijah answered, “I have not made trouble in Israel. You and your father’s family have made all this trouble by not obeying the Lord’s commands. You have gone after the Baals.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:2

Azariah went to meet Asa and said, “Listen to me, Asa and all you people of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you obey him, you will find him, but if you leave him, he will leave you.

1 Kings 9:9

People will answer, ‘This happened because they left the Lord their God. This was the God who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, but they decided to follow other gods. They worshiped and served those gods, so the Lord brought all this disaster on them.’ ”

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will bring punishment to you, and the wrong you have done will teach you a lesson. Think about it and understand that it is a terrible evil to turn away from the Lord your God. It is wrong not to fear me,” says the Lord God All-Powerful.

1 Kings 16:31

He sinned in the same ways as Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he did even worse things. He married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Sidon. Then Ahab began to serve Baal and worship him.

1 Kings 21:25

There was no one like Ahab who had chosen so often to do what the Lord said was wrong, because his wife Jezebel influenced him to do evil.

Acts 24:20

Or ask these people here if they found any wrong in me when I stood before the council in Jerusalem.

Acts 24:13

They cannot prove the things they are saying against me now.

Matthew 14:4

John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to be married to Herodias.”

Ezekiel 3:8

See, I now make you as stubborn and as hard as they are.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have done two evils: They have turned away from me, the spring of living water. And they have dug their own wells, which are broken wells that cannot hold water.

Isaiah 3:11

But how terrible it will be for the wicked! They will be punished for all the wrong they have done.

Proverbs 13:21

Trouble always comes to sinners, but good people enjoy success.

Proverbs 11:19

Those who are truly good will live, but those who chase after evil will die.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die. Then these people will not be loyal to me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will leave me, breaking the Agreement I made with them.

1 Samuel 14:29

Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the land! See how much better I feel after just tasting a little of this honey!

1 Kings 21:26

Ahab sinned terribly by worshiping idols, just as the Amorite people did. And the Lord had taken away their land and given it to the people of Israel.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked, but those who obey what they have been taught are against them.

Jeremiah 23:13

“I saw the prophets of Samaria do something wrong. Those prophets prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel away.

Jeremiah 38:4

Then the officers said to the king, “Jeremiah must be put to death! He is discouraging the soldiers who are still in the city, and all the people, by what he is saying to them. He does not want good to happen to us; he wants to ruin us.”

1 Kings 16:32

He built a temple in Samaria for worshiping Baal and put an altar there for Baal.

2 Chronicles 28:19

The Lord brought trouble on Judah because Ahaz their king led the people of Judah to sin, and he was unfaithful to the Lord.

Proverbs 5:22

An evil man will be caught in his wicked ways; the ropes of his sins will tie him up.