2 Chronicles 11:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and for the calves that he had made.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:31

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 13:33

Even after this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who wanted to be priests he consecrated for the high places.

1 Kings 14:9

but you have done evil above all those who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images, provoking me to anger, and have thrust me behind your back,

2 Chronicles 13:8

“And now you think that you can withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made as gods for you.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be consecrated with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

Exodus 32:31

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Hosea 13:2

And now they keep on sinning and make a cast image for themselves, idols of silver made according to their understanding, all of them the work of artisans. “Sacrifice to these,” they say. People are kissing calves!

Leviticus 17:7

so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Revelation 16:14

These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.