Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.

Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.

Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the Lord God of Israel.

The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

The ship’s captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!”

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.