gSee Deut. 16:21
1 Kings 11:5
5For Solomon went after aAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after bMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites.1 Kings 12:28
28So the king took counsel and cmade two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. dBehold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”2 Kings 17:7
Exile Because of Idolatry
7And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ewho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods2 Kings 21:3
3For he rebuilt the high places fthat Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made gan Asherah, has Ahab king of Israel had done, iand worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.Psalms 106:35
35but they jmixed with the nationsand learned to do as they did.
Isaiah 1:21
The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful citykhas become a whore, ▼
▼Or become unchaste
mshe who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
Isaiah 57:8
8Behind the door and the doorpostyou have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, nyou have uncovered your bed,
you have gone up to it,
oyou have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on nakedness. ▼
Jeremiah 2:20
20 “For long ago I qbroke your yokeand burst your bonds;
but you said, r‘I will not serve.’
Yes, son every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down tlike a whore.
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