You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bea
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, w
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you
You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not kn
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they a
Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places fr
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Ashe
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and co
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israe
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of