Isaiah 2:6

New Century Version

Lord, you have left your people, the family of Jacob, because they have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East. They try to tell the future like the Philistines, and they have completely accepted those foreign ideas.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah fell down through the wooden bars in his upstairs room in Samaria and was badly hurt. He sent messengers and told them, “Go, ask Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron, if I will recover from my injuries.”

2 Kings 17:20

so the Lord rejected all the people of Israel. He punished them and let others destroy them; he threw them out of his presence.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died because he was not faithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord. He even went to a medium and asked her for advice

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.

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the Spirit of God entered Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. Zechariah stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands? You will not be successful. Because you have left the Lord, he has also left you.’ ”

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Psalm 106:35

Instead, they mixed with the other nations and learned their customs.

Exodus 22:18

“Put to death any woman who does evil magic.

Exodus 34:16

If you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters worship gods, they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

Proverbs 6:1

My child, be careful about giving a guarantee for somebody else’s loan, about promising to pay what someone else owes.

Isaiah 14:29

Country of Philistia, don’t be happy that the king who struck you is now dead. He is like a snake that will give birth to another dangerous snake. The new king will be like a quick, dangerous snake to bite you.

Isaiah 8:19

Some people say, “Ask the mediums and fortune-tellers, who whisper and mutter, what to do.” But I tell you that people should ask their God for help. Why should people who are still alive ask something from the dead?

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what he says: “Don’t live like the people from other nations, and don’t be afraid of special signs in the sky, even though the other nations are afraid of them.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have left Israel; I have left my people. I have given the people I love over to their enemies.

Lamentations 5:20

Why have you forgotten us for so long? Have you left us forever?

Leviticus 19:31

“ ‘Do not go to mediums or fortune-tellers for advice, or you will become unclean. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:6

“ ‘I will be against anyone who goes to mediums and fortune-tellers for advice, because that person is being unfaithful to me. So I will cut him off from his people.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities in your country and tear down all your defenses.

Micah 5:12

I will take away the magic charms you use so you will have no more fortune-tellers.

Zephaniah 1:8

On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, I, the Lord, will punish the princes and the king’s sons and all those who wear foreign clothes.

Numbers 23:7

when Balaam gave them this message: “Balak brought me here from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern mountains. Balak said, ‘Come, put a curse on the people of Jacob for me. Come, call down evil on the people of Israel.’

Romans 11:20

That is true. But those branches were broken off because they did not believe, and you continue to be part of the tree only because you believe. Do not be proud, but be afraid.

1 Samuel 6:2

Then they called for their priests and magicians and said, “What should we do with the Ark of the Lord? Tell us how to send it back home!”