But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jew
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains an
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep M
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because the
My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your chil
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not lis
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great ass
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compas
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘
Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hu
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sid
Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had s
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
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherah
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now