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2 Chronicles 28 3
He burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and burned his children in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
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Deuteronomy 18:9
“ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.
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Deuteronomy 12:31
You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practice every detestable thing, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
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2 Kings 17 11
They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the Lord.
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2 Kings 17 15
They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.
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Ezra 9:14
should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?
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2 Kings 21 9
But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
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Ezekiel 11:12
so you will know that I am Yahweh, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
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Leviticus 18:24-30
“ Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things— not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.Any person who does any of these detestable practices must be cut off from his people.You must keep My instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Yahweh your God.”
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Leviticus 20:22-23
“ You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.
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2 Chronicles 36 14
All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 18:14
Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
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Psalms 106:35-40
but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.They served their idols, which became a snare to them.They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; so the land became polluted with blood.They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
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Jeremiah 15:4
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 21 2
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.