Gen 44:5, 2Ki 18:4, 2Ch 33:6, Isa 2:6, Hos 4:12 | ESV | STEP | Is it not from this that my lord drinks , and by this that he practices divination ? You have done evil in doing this.

Genesis 44:5

5 Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and ^aby this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”

2 Kings 18:4

4 ^bHe removed the high places and broke the ^cpillars and cut down ^dthe Asherah. And he broke in pieces ^ethe bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). ^{▼▼ Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent}

2 Chronicles 33:6

6 ^gAnd he burned his sons as an offering ^hin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and ⁱused fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with ^jmediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Isaiah 2:6

The Day of the Lord

6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things ^kfrom the east
and ^lof fortune-tellers ^mlike the Philistines,
and they ⁿstrike hands with the children of foreigners.

Hosea 4:12

12 My people ^oinquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ^pa spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.