Exodus 22:20
20 a“Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Deuteronomy 13:5
5But cthat prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. dSo you shall purge the evil ▼▼Or evil person
from your midst. 1 Kings 13:2
2 fAnd the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, gJosiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”1 Kings 18:40
40And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to hthe brook Kishon and islaughtered them there.2 Kings 10:25
25So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, j“Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,2 Kings 11:18
18Then all the people of the land went to kthe house of Baal and tore it down; lhis altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the Lord.Isaiah 34:6
6The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
mFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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