Idolatry: Other Customs of Incense Burned on Altars

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Verses

12 references
  1. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
  2. They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
  3. …because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’
  4. …to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
  5. I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  6. Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
  7. The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
  8. …because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
  9. In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
  10. You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.
  11. You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
  12. But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.