Isaiah 2:6

New Revised Standard Version

For you have forsaken the ways of your people, O house of Jacob. Indeed they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay injured; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

2 Kings 17:20

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord; moreover, he had consulted a medium, seeking guidance,

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the spirit of God took possession of Zechariah son of the priest Jehoiada; he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you.”

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

Exodus 22:18

You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.

Exodus 34:16

And you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.

Proverbs 6:1

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Isaiah 8:19

Now if people say to you, “Consult the ghosts and the familiar spirits that chirp and mutter; should not a people consult their gods, the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations, or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my heart into the hands of her enemies.

Lamentations 5:20

Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?

Leviticus 19:31

Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:6

If any turn to mediums and wizards, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them, and will cut them off from the people.

Micah 5:11

and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

Micah 5:12

and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;

Zephaniah 1:8

And on the day of the Lord's sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who dress themselves in foreign attire.

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me; Come, denounce Israel!’

Romans 11:20

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.

1 Samuel 6:2

Then the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us what we should send with it to its place.”