Acts 7:39-43
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Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and e in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
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saying to Aaron, f 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
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And g they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and h were rejoicing in i the works of their hands.
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But j God turned away and k gave them over to worship l the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
m "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
n during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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You took up the tent of o Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
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Exodus 16:3
And the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Numbers 11:4 - 5
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
Numbers 14:3 - 4
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:24
Because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
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Exodus 32:1
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exodus 32:23
For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
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Exodus 32:1
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exodus 32:23
For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
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Exodus 32:4 - 6
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Exodus 32:35
Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
Deuteronomy 9:16
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.
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Amos 6:13
You who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?
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Isaiah 2:8
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
Jeremiah 1:16
And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jeremiah 25:6 - 7
Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.
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Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
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Psalms 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God : Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, ...
2 Kings 17:16
And they abandoned all the commandments of the ...
2 Kings 21:3
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah hi...
2 Kings 23:5
And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Ju...
Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the k...
Zephaniah 1:5
Those who bow down on the roofs to the host of ...
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Amos 5:25 - 27
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Acts 7:36
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
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Amos 5:25 - 27
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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