2Ki 17:29 Cross References
2 Kings 17:29
29: But these various groups of foreigners also continued to worship their own gods. In town after town where they lived, they placed their idols at the pagan shrines that the people of Israel had built.
Micah 4:5
- Even though the nations around us worship idols, we will follow the LORD our God forever and ever.
1 Kings 12:31
- Jeroboam built shrines at the pagan high places and ordained priests from the rank and file of the people--those who were not from the priestly tribe of Levi.
Hosea 8:5
- "O Samaria, I reject this calf--this idol you have made. My fury burns against you. How long will you be incapable of innocence?
- This calf you worship was crafted by your own hands! It is not God! Therefore, it must be smashed to bits.
Jeremiah 10:3
- Their ways are futile and foolish. They cut down a tree and carve an idol.
- They decorate it with gold and silver and then fasten it securely with hammer and nails so it won't fall over.
- There stands their god like a helpless scarecrow in a garden! It cannot speak, and it needs to be carried because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of such gods, for they can neither harm you nor do you any good."
Isaiah 44:9
- How foolish are those who manufacture idols to be their gods. These highly valued objects are really worthless. They themselves are witnesses that this is so, for their idols neither see nor know. No wonder those who worship them are put to shame.
- Who but a fool would make his own god--an idol that cannot help him one bit!
- All who worship idols will stand before the LORD in shame, along with all these craftsmen--mere humans--who claim they can make a god. Together they will stand in terror and shame.
- The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a sharp tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might. His work makes him hungry and thirsty, weak and faint.
- Then the wood-carver measures and marks out a block of wood, takes the tool, and carves the figure of a man. Now he has a wonderful idol that cannot even move from where it is placed!
1 Kings 13:32
- For the message the LORD told him to proclaim against the altar in Bethel and against the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria will surely come true."
Romans 1:23
- And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.
Psalms 135:15
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
- And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
Psalms 115:4
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
- or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
- And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.