Acts 7:42 Cross References

Acts 7:42

42: Then God turned away from them and gave them up to serve the sun, moon, and stars as their gods! In the book of the prophets it is written, 'Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?

Amos 5:25

  1. "Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
  2. No, your real interest was in your pagan gods--Sakkuth your king god and Kaiwan your star god--the images you yourselves made.

Ezekiel 20:39

  1. "As for you, O people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: If you insist, go right ahead and worship your idols, but then don't turn around and bring gifts to me. Such desecration of my holy name must stop!

Jeremiah 19:13

  1. Yes, all the houses in Jerusalem, including the palace of Judah's kings, will become like Topheth--all the houses where you burned incense on the rooftops to your star gods, and where drink offerings were poured out to your idols.'"

Romans 1:24

  1. So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.
  2. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen.
  3. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
  4. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.
  5. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

Isaiah 63:10

  1. But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. That is why he became their enemy and fought against them.

Psalms 81:11

  1. "But no, my people wouldn't listen. Israel did not want me around.
  2. So I let them follow their blind and stubborn way, living according to their own desires.

Deuteronomy 4:19

  1. And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars--all the forces of heaven--don't be seduced by them and worship them. The LORD your God designated these heavenly bodies for all the peoples of the earth.

Joshua 24:20

  1. If you forsake the LORD and serve other gods, he will turn against you and destroy you, even though he has been so good to you."

Hosea 4:17

  1. Leave her alone because she is married to idolatry.

Isaiah 43:23

  1. You have not brought me lambs for burnt offerings. You have not honored me with sacrifices, though I have not burdened and wearied you with my requests for grain offerings and incense.

2 Kings 21:3

  1. He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. He constructed altars for Baal and set up an Asherah pole, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. He also bowed before all the forces of heaven and worshiped them.

Isaiah 66:4

  1. I will send great troubles against them--all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned--before my very eyes--and chose to do what they know I despise."

Ezekiel 14:7

  1. I, the LORD, will punish all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts so they fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice.
  2. I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, destroying them. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  3. And if a prophet is deceived and gives a message anyway, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet. I will stand against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.
  4. False prophets and hypocrites--evil people who claim to want my advice--will all be punished for their sins.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

  1. He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them.
  2. So God will send great deception upon them, and they will believe all these lies.
  3. Then they will be condemned for not believing the truth and for enjoying the evil they do.

Job 31:26

  1. Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies, or the moon walking down its silver pathway,
  2. and been secretly enticed in my heart to worship them?
  3. If so, I should be punished by the judges, for it would mean I had denied the God of heaven.

Ezekiel 20:25

  1. I gave them over to worthless customs and laws that would not lead to life.

2 Kings 17:16

  1. They defied all the commands of the LORD their God and made two calves from metal. They set up an Asherah pole and worshiped Baal and all the forces of heaven.

Hebrews 3:9

  1. There your ancestors tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.

Acts 7:36

  1. And by means of many miraculous signs and wonders, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and back and forth through the wilderness for forty years.

Deuteronomy 17:3

  1. by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.

Hebrews 3:15

  1. But never forget the warning: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your hearts against him as Israel did when they rebelled."
  2. And who were those people who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Weren't they the ones Moses led out of Egypt?
  3. And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Psalms 95:10

  1. For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, `They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.'

Ezekiel 8:16

  1. Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance, between the foyer and the bronze altar, about twenty-five men were standing with their backs to the LORD's Temple. They were facing eastward, worshiping the sun!
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