Deuteronomy 12:30

Tree of Life Version

be careful not to be trapped into imitating them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.’

Cross References

2 Kings 16:10

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria and saw the altar that was at Damascus. So King Ahaz sent to Urijah the kohen the pattern of the altar and its model needed for its construction.

2 Kings 17:15

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

Exodus 23:24

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says Adonai: “Do not learn the way of the nations or be frightened by signs of the heavens—though the nations are terrified by them.

Ezekiel 11:12

So you will know that I am Adonai, whose laws you did not follow and whose ordinances you did not obey. Instead, you have acted in accord with the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land, which I lifted up My hand to give to them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree. There they slaughtered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offering. There they made their soothing aroma and poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20:32

What comes up in your mind will not happen at all, when you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the families of the countries, worshiping wood and stone.’

Leviticus 18:3

You are not to act as they do in the land of Egypt, where you used to live. Nor are you to act as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, nor are you to walk in their customs.

Leviticus 18:30

Therefore you are to keep My charge, so that you do not practice any of these detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Adonai your God.”

Numbers 33:52

You must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Watch yourselves, so your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 12:29

“When Adonai your God cuts off before you the nations that you are going in to dispossess, when you have dispossessed them and settled in their land,

Deuteronomy 12:31

You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God! For every abomination of Adonai, which He hates, they have done to their gods—they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land Adonai your God is giving you, you are not to learn to do the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

You are to do this so they will not teach you to do all the abominations as they have done for their gods, and so you would sin against Adonai your God.

Deuteronomy 7:16

“You will devour all the peoples Adonai your God gives over to you. Your eye is not to pity them. You are not to serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.