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Exodus 23:24
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Exodus 23:24
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24 Do not bow in worship to their gods, and do not serve them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them[a] and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.(A)
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- 23:24 Probably the idols
Exodus 23:24
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Exodus 23:24
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24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship(A) them or follow their practices.(B) You must demolish(C) them and break their sacred stones(D) to pieces.
Exodus 23:24
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Exodus 23:24
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24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
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Deuteronomy 18:9
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Deuteronomy 18:9
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Occult Practices versus Prophetic Revelation
9 “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.(A)
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Deuteronomy 18:9
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Deuteronomy 18:9
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Occult Practices
9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate(A) the detestable ways(B) of the nations there.
Deuteronomy 18:9
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Deuteronomy 18:9
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9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
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2 Kings 16:3
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2 Kings 16:3
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3 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.(A) He even sacrificed his son in the fire,[a] imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(B)
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- 16:3 Lit even made his son pass through the fire
2 Kings 16:3
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2 Kings 16:3
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3 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel(A) and even sacrificed his son(B) in the fire, engaging in the detestable(C) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 16:3
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2 Kings 16:3
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3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
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2 Kings 17:15
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2 Kings 17:15
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15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors(A) and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves,(B) following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.(C)
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2 Kings 17:15
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2 Kings 17:15
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15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant(A) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols(B) and themselves became worthless.(C) They imitated the nations(D) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
2 Kings 17:15
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2 Kings 17:15
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15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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2 Kings 21:2
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2 Kings 21:2
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2 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight,(A) imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(B)
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2 Kings 21:2
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2 Kings 21:2
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2 He did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices(B) of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:2
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2 Kings 21:2
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2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
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3 John 11
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3 John 11
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11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil,(A) but what is good. The one who does good is of God;(B) the one who does evil has not seen God.(C)
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3 John 11
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3 John 11
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11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.(A) Anyone who does what is good is from God.(B) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.(C)
3 John 11
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3 John 11
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11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
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