Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, th
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; t
“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
for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, c
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I w
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did gr
At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials,
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Ashera
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of
Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings o