Back to THE TORAH CONNECTION Table of Contents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nExodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nExo 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nExo 23:13 And in all things<\/i> that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nExo 23:32, 33 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing<\/i> with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be<\/i> upon them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it<\/i> in thine heart, that the LORD he is<\/i> God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is<\/i> none else. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 6:4, 5 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is<\/i> one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 6:13-15 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are<\/i> round about you; (For the LORD thy God is<\/i> a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 8:19, 20 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 10:20, 21 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. He is<\/i> thy praise, and he is<\/i> thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 13:1-5 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 13:6-11 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 13:12-18 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 17:2-5 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 18:9-14 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 18:20-22 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 31:16-21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be<\/i> among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is<\/i> not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nOther gods, spiritualism, etc. in Bible history–<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nGen 35:1-4 Jacob disposed of his family’s strange gods<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJos 22:10+ The trans-Jordan tribes (Reuben, Gad, \u00bd of Manasseh) built an altar by the Jordan river and were suspected of apostasy by the rest of Israel who gathered against them to carry out Moses’ injunction in Deu 13:12-18. They were acquitted.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJos 24:14-24 Joshua exhorted the Israelites to choose God and serve Him faithfully<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJdg 2:11-23<\/span><\/span><\/span>; 3:6, 7; 8:33; 10:6, 11-16 Israel apostatized and served other gods when they lacked a judge<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Sa 7:3, 4 Samuel rebuked the Israelites for idol worship and they repented<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Sa 28 Saul enquired for advice from \u201cSamuel\u201d through a witch<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Ki 11:4-13 Solomon apostatized, God rebuked him and warned that the kingdom would be taken away<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Ki 14:6-10 Ahijah rebuked Jeroboam for idol worship<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Ki 16:28+ Ahab and Jezebel led Israel in Baal worship<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ki 1:2 Ahaziah wanted advice from Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether he would recover from a disease<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ki 17:6-12 Israel apostatized during the time of king Hoshea and the Assyrians deported them<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ki 17:29-33 idol worship of foreign nations<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ki 21:1-9; 2Ch 33:1-9 Manasseh aggressively re-established idolatry in Jerusalem<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ch 14:2-4 Asa brought reformation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ch 28:21-25 Ahaz apostatized and desecrated the house of God<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ch 33:15-17 Manasseh repented and brought reformation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Ch 34:23-25 Huldah rebuked Josiah for apostasy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 8:9-11 Simon, a sorcerer of Samaria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 13:6-12 Barjesus \/ Elymas the sorcerer was struck with blindness by Paul<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 16:16-18 Paul cast a spirit of divination out of a young woman of Philippi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 19:13-16 some vagabond Jews attempted to cast out spirits in Jesus’ name but were attacked and wounded<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 19:19 many spiritualists of Ephesus were converted and burned their books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJob 31:26-28 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in<\/i> brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were<\/i> an iniquity to be punished by<\/i> the judge: for I should have denied the God that is<\/i> above.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPsa 115:4-11 Their idols are<\/i> silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is<\/i> every one that trusteth in them. O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is<\/i> their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is<\/i> their help and their shield. Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is<\/i> their help and their shield. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIsa 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIsa 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIsa 42:8 I am<\/i> the LORD: that is<\/i> my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIsa 47:12, 13 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things<\/i> that shall come upon thee. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJer 3:1, 2 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJer 7:3-10 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are<\/i> these. For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If<\/i> ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJer 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJer 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them,<\/i> saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJer 44:15-23 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, As for<\/i> the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then<\/i> had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things,<\/i> and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that<\/i> answer, saying, The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not<\/i> into his mind? So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and<\/i> because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHos 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her<\/i> friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nZec 13:2, 3 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMar 12:28-34 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,<\/i> Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is<\/i> the first commandment. And the second is<\/i> like, namely<\/i> this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his<\/i> neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.<\/i> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:4-6 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is<\/i> nothing in the world, and that there is<\/i> none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but<\/i> one God, the Father, of whom