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Deuteronomy 16:21
“ Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,
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Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky— which I have forbidden—
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2 Chronicles 31 1
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.
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2 Chronicles 30 14
They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
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Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.
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2 Kings 18 4
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.
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Zephaniah 1:5
those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the heavenly host; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;
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Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth— all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
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2 Kings 23 5-2 Kings 23 6
Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars— all the array of heaven— do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
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Judges 2:11-13
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baalsand abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They infuriated the Lord,for they abandoned Him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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2 Chronicles 32 12
Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem,“ You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?
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1 Kings 14 23
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
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Jeremiah 17:2
while their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, by the green trees on the high hills—
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Jeremiah 8:2
They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.
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Acts 7:42
Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices 40 years in the wilderness?
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2 Kings 21 3
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.
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Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
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2 Kings 23 11
He did away with the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They had been at the entrance of the Lord’s temple in the precincts by the chamber of Nathan-melech the court official, and he burned up the chariots of the sun.
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2 Chronicles 28 2-2 Chronicles 28 4
for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.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.He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.