Deuteronomy 32:16-17
16 aThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 bThey sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to cnew gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
2 Kings 17:15-17
15They despised his statutes dand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after efalse idols fand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the gLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of htwo calves; and they imade an Asherah and jworshiped all the host of heaven and served kBaal. 17 lAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used ndivination and oomens and psold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. Isaiah 3:8
8For Jerusalem has stumbled,and Judah has fallen,
because their qspeech and their deeds are against the Lord,
rdefying his glorious presence. ▼
▼Hebrew the eyes of his glory
Jeremiah 25:6-7
6 tDo not go after other gods to serve and worship them, uor provoke me to anger vwith the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ 7 wYet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, xthat you might provoke me to anger ywith the work of your hands to your own harm.1 Corinthians 10:21-22
21 zYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and aathe cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and abthe table of demons. 22 acShall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? adAre we stronger than he?Hebrews 3:16
16For aewho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not afall those who left Egypt led by Moses?
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