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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship Judges 6:25

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship 1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship 1 Kings 16:32

First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship 1 Kings 18:26

And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship 2 Kings 16:10

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship 2 Kings 23:12, 15

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley. / He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship Isaiah 27:9

Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship Isaiah 65:3

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship Hosea 8:11

Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

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Altar used in Idolatrous Worship Acts 17:23

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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