Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Sins mentioned in the Bible - 16

Burning incense to gods

2 Kings 17:11 

At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger.

Refusal to hear God

2 Kings 17:14 

But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not trust in the LORD their God.

Causing division among God’s people

1 Samuel 22:1-4 

1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there. 

2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

3 From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” 

4 So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

Hardheartedness

2 Kings 17:14 

But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not trust in the LORD their God.

Ezra 3:7 

Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Vanity

2 Kings 17:15 

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their fathers and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, “Do 

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