I Kings 21:26
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He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
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“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.