Quotes about Worship
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
- 2 Kings 17:7
The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
- 2 Kings 17:9
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:10
They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
- 2 Kings 17:12
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 17:16
and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
- 2 Kings 17:19
Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
- 2 Kings 17:25
Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
- 2 Kings 17:28
Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
- 2 Kings 17:29
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
- 2 Kings 17:30
So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
- 2 Kings 17:32
They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
- 2 Kings 17:33