Quotes about Worship
Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
— 1 Kings 22:53
“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
— 2 Kings 5:17
Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
— 2 Kings 5:18
Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.
— 2 Kings 10:18
And Jehu commanded, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they announced it.
— 2 Kings 10:20
Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
— 2 Kings 10:21
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
— 2 Kings 10:26
They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
— 2 Kings 10:27
Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,
— 2 Kings 10:28
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
— 2 Kings 10:29
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
— 2 Kings 12:3
The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
— 2 Kings 12:16