Deuteronomy 32:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.”
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“They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To newgodsthat came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They sacrifice to demons--no god! Gods they have not known--New ones--from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 32:17 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 17:7They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
- Deuteronomy 13:8you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- Judges 5:8When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
- Psalms 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Isaiah 44:8Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
- Jeremiah 10:15They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
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