Isaiah 44:19
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And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
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‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.