Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, alon
Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping fo
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, betwe
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and prie
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own
This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses t
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominat
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominat
Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominat
But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me,
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent
They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked th
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have
This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though th
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on th
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out befor
and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the p
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out befor
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,