Biblical Concept: Other god / gods
Observations:
To believe in other gods, than
the God of the Bible, is to perform a number of spiritual errors. The very purpose of humanities creation is
to choose for / believe in the God of the Bible, their Creator. Belief in other Gods is to repeatedly
volitionally malfunction under the God consciousness provided by the God of the
Bible. These repeated volitional
malfunctions result in greater and greater Divine discipline for individuals
and nations. Eventually, the Lake of
Fire is their final destination. “For
God so loved the world,” but, to the Lake of Fire for those who refuse His Love
in Jesus Christ. John 3:16-20 16 "For God so loved the
world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish, but have eternal life. 17
"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that
the world should be saved through Him. 18
"He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been
judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. 19 "And this
is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the
darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20 "For everyone who does
evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be
exposed.
Compare: Psalm 33:12 12 Blessed is the nation whose God
is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance. See the Heritage Nations concept.
Compare: Ezekiel 23:49 49
'And your lewdness will be requited upon you, and you will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols; thus you will
know that I am the Lord God.'" (The
phrase: “know that
I am the LORD” is found over 60 times in Ezekiel.)
Compare: Summary in God, Jealous.
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(Underlines and explanatory parentheses are mine.)
♠NAS Exodus 22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, other
than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
♠NAS Exodus 34:14 -- for you shall not worship any other god,
for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--
♠35 "To you
it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other
besides Him.
♠ 39 "Know therefore today, and take it to your heart,
that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no
other.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 8:19 "And it shall come about if you ever
forget the LORD your God, and go after other gods and serve them and worship
them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 11:28 and the curse, if you do not listen
to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I
am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.
♠NAS Joshua 23:16 "When you transgress the
covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other
gods, and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn
against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which
He has given you."
♠NAS Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people,
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers
lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the
father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they
served other gods.
♠NAS Judges 2:12 and they forsook the LORD, the God
of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed
other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and
bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger.
♠NAS 1 Kings 9:9 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook
the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and
adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has
brought all this adversity on them.'"
♠NAS 1 Kings 11:4 For it came about when Solomon was old, his
wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not
wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had
been. (See verses 4-11.)
♠NAS 2 Kings 17:7 Now this came about, because the
sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought
them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
and they had feared other gods
♠NAS 2 Chronicles 7:22 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook
the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them from the land of
Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them,
therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.'"
♠NAS 2 Chronicles 28:25 And in every city of Judah he made high
places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of
his fathers, to anger.
♠NAS Isaiah 44:8 'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have
I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses.
Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of
none.'"
♠NAS Isaiah 45:5 "I am the LORD, and there is no
other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not
known Me;
♠14 Thus says
the LORD, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be
yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow
down to you; They will make supplication to you: 'Surely, God is with you, and
there is none else, No other God.'" (Millennium)
♠ 21 "Declare and set forth your case;
Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from
of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no
other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except
Me.
♠22 "Turn
to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no
other.
♠NAS Isaiah 46:9 "Remember the former things long past,
For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like
Me,
♠NAS Jeremiah 22:9 "Then they will answer, 'Because they
forsook the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and
served them.'" (Judgment on Judah.)
♠NAS Daniel 3:29 "Therefore, I make a decree that any
people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of
Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb
from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no
other god who is able to deliver in this way."
♠NAS Daniel 11:37 "And he will show no regard for the
gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor
will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above
them all. (Great Tribulation.)
♠NAS Joel 2:27 "Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I
am the LORD your God And there is no other; And My people will never be put to
shame. (Millennium)
♠NAS Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before
Me.
♠23 'You shall not make other gods besides
Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.
♠NAS Exodus 23:13 "Now concerning everything which I
have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods,
nor let them be heard from your mouth.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 5:7 'You shall have no other gods before Me.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 6:14 "You shall not follow other gods, any
of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
♠NAS Deuteronomy 7:4 "For they will turn your sons away
from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be
kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 8:19 "And it shall come about if you ever
forget the LORD your God, and go after other gods and serve them and worship
them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 11:16 "Beware, lest your hearts be
deceived and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
♠ 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the
commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am
commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 13:2 and the sign or the wonder comes true,
concerning which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods (whom you
have not known) and let us serve them,'
♠NAS Deuteronomy 17:3 and has gone and served other gods and
worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I
have not commanded,
♠NAS Deuteronomy 18:20 'But the prophet who shall speak a word
presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he
shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'
♠NAS Deuteronomy 28:14 and do not turn aside from any of the words
which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them.
♠36 "The
LORD will bring you and your king, whom you shall set over you, to a nation
which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other
gods, wood and stone.
♠64
"Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end
of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other
gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 29:26 'And they went and served other gods and
worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to
them.
♠NAS Deuteronomy 30:17 "But if your heart turns away and you
will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,
♠NAS Deuteronomy 31:18 "But I will surely hide My face in
that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to
other gods.
♠20 "For
when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to
their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous,
then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My
covenant.
♠NAS Joshua 23:16 "When you transgress the covenant of
the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow
down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall
perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you."
♠NAS Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people,
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers
lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the
father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they
served other gods.
♠ 16 And the people answered and said, "Far be it
from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;
♠NAS Judges 2:12 and they forsook the LORD, the God of their
fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods
from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed
themselves down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger.
♠ 17 And yet they did not listen to their judges, for
they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They
turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying
the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.
♠ 19 But it came about when the judge died, that they
would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other
gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices
or their stubborn ways.
♠NAS Judges 10:13 "Yet you have forsaken Me and served
other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.
♠NAS 1 Samuel 8:8 "Like all the deeds which they have
done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day-- in that
they have forsaken Me and served other gods-- so they are doing to you also.
♠NAS 1 Samuel 26:19 "Now therefore, please let my lord the
king listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against
me, let Him accept an offering; but if it is men, cursed are they before the
LORD, for they have driven me out today that I should have no attachment with
the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'
♠NAS 1 Kings 9:6 "But if you or your sons shall indeed
turn away from following Me, and shall not keep My commandments and My statutes
which I have set before you and shall go and serve other gods and worship them,
♠ 9 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the
LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted
other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought
all this adversity on them.'"
♠NAS 1 Kings 11:4 For it came about when Solomon was old, his
wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly
devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
♠ 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that
he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what the LORD had
commanded.
♠NAS 1 Kings 14:9 you also have done more evil than all who
were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images
to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back--
♠NAS 2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said,
"If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules' load of
earth; for your servant will no more offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice
to other gods, but to the LORD.
♠NAS 2 Kings 17:7 Now this came about, because the
sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up
from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they
had feared other gods
♠ 35 with whom the LORD made a covenant and commanded
them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to
them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them.
♠ 37 "And the statutes and the ordinances and the
law and the commandment, which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do
forever; and you shall not fear other gods.
♠38 "And the covenant that I have made with you,
you shall not forget, nor shall you fear other gods.
♠NAS 2 Kings 22:17 "Because they have forsaken Me and
have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all
the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it
shall not be quenched."'
♠NAS 2 Chronicles 7:19 "But if you turn away and forsake My
statutes and My commandments which I have set before you and shall go and serve
other gods and worship them,
♠ 22 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the
LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them from the land of Egypt, and
they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore He has
brought all this adversity on them.'"
NAS 2 Chronicles 13:9
"Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron and
the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands?
Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he
may become a priest of what are no gods.
♠NAS 2 Chronicles 28:25 And in every city of Judah he made high
places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his
fathers, to anger.
♠NAS 2 Chronicles 34:25 "Because they have forsaken Me and
have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all
the works of their hands, therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place,
and it shall not be quenched."'
♠NAS Jeremiah 1:16 "And I will pronounce My judgments on
them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have
offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
♠NAS Jeremiah 7:6 if you do not oppress the alien, the
orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk
after other gods to your own ruin,
♠ 9 "Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that
you have not known,
♠ 18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers
kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of
heaven; and they pour out libations to other gods in order to spite
Me. (Other god worship is an act of spiritual rebellion.)
♠NAS Jeremiah 11:10 "They have turned back to the
iniquities of their ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have gone
after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
broken My covenant which I made with their fathers."
♠NAS Jeremiah 13:10 'This wicked people, who refuse to listen
to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after
other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this
waistband, which is totally worthless.
♠NAS Jeremiah 16:11 "Then you are to say to them, 'It
is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have
followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have
forsaken and have not kept My law.
♠13 'So I will hurl you out of this land into
the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you
will serve other gods day and night, for I shall grant you no favor.'
♠NAS Jeremiah 19:4 "Because they have forsaken Me and
have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods
that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known,
and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
♠ 13 "And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of
the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth,
because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the
heavenly host and poured out libations to other gods."'"
♠NAS Jeremiah 22:9 "Then they will answer, 'Because they
forsook the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and
served them.'"
♠NAS Jeremiah 25:6 and do not go after other gods to serve
them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your
hands, and I will do you no harm.'
♠NAS Jeremiah 32:29 "And the Chaldeans who are fighting
against this city shall enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the
houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and
poured out libations to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
♠NAS Jeremiah 35:15 "Also I have sent to you all My
servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: 'Turn now
every man from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other
gods to worship them, then you shall dwell in the land which I have given to
you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to
Me.
♠NAS Jeremiah 44:3 because of their wickedness which they
committed so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn sacrifices and to
serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your
fathers.
♠5 'But they did
not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as
not to burn sacrifices to other gods.
♠ 8 provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering
to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a curse and a reproach among
all the nations of the earth?
♠ 15 Then all the men who were aware that their wives
were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were
standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were
living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to
Jeremiah, saying,
♠NAS Daniel 11:37 "And he will show no regard for the
gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor
will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above
them all.
♠NAS Hosea 3:1 Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is
loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even
as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love
raisin cakes."