Quotes about Religion

So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said, “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.