Jeremiah 19:13
19:13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies
just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars
and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”
Jeremiah 44:17-19
44:17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do.
We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven
just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
44:18 But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.”
44:19 The women added,
“We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her.”
Deuteronomy 4:19
4:19 When you look up
to the sky
and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation
– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them,
for the
Lord your God has assigned
them to all the people
of the world.
Deuteronomy 17:3
17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun,
moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.
Deuteronomy 17:2
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 17:16
17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,
for the
Lord has said you must never again return that way.
Deuteronomy 21:3
21:3 Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse
must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –
Deuteronomy 21:5
21:5 Then the Levitical priests
will approach (for the
Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name,
and to decide
every judicial verdict
)
Deuteronomy 23:5
23:5 But the
Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed
the curse to a blessing, for the
Lord your God loves
you.
Deuteronomy 23:2
23:2 A person of illegitimate birth
may not enter the assembly of the
Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.
Deuteronomy 33:3-5
33:3 Surely he loves the people;
all your holy ones are in your power.
And they sit at your feet,
each receiving your words.
33:4 Moses delivered to us a law,
an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
33:5 The Lord was king over Jeshurun,
when the leaders of the people assembled,
the tribes of Israel together.
Ezekiel 8:16
8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, facing east – they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
Zephaniah 1:5
1:5 I will remove those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops,
those who swear allegiance to the Lord while taking oaths in the name of their ‘king,’
Acts 7:42
7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over
to worship the host
of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘
It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?