They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. (A)They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and (B)have sacrificed to it and said, ‘[a](C)This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

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  1. Exodus 32:8 Or These are your gods

15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and (A)sacrifice to their gods, and someone (B)might invite you [a]to eat of his sacrifice,

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  1. Exodus 34:15 Lit and you eat

And (A)they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to the [a]goat demons with which they play the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’

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  1. Leviticus 17:7 Or goat idols

For (A)they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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(A)If there is found in your midst, in any of your [a]towns which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by violating His covenant, and that person has gone and (B)served other gods and worshiped them, (C)or the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly [b]lights, (D)which I have commanded not to do,

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  1. Deuteronomy 17:2 Lit gates
  2. Deuteronomy 17:3 Lit host

then you are to bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil deed, that is, the man or the woman, and (A)you shall stone them to [a]death.

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  1. Deuteronomy 17:5 Lit death with stones

40 Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to (A)the brook Kishon, (B)and slaughtered them there.

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25 Then it came about, as soon as he had finished [a]offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the [b](A)guard and to the royal officers, “(B)Go in, [c]kill them; let none come out.” So they [d]killed them with the edge of the sword; and the [e]guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the [f]sanctuary of the house of Baal.

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  1. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit making
  2. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit runners
  3. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit strike
  4. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit struck
  5. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit runners
  6. 2 Kings 10:25 Lit city

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