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2 Kings 21 3
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.
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2 Kings 17 16
They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They worshiped the whole heavenly host and served Baal.
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Genesis 1:16-18
God made the two great lights— the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night— as well as the stars.God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.
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Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky— which I have forbidden—
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Psalms 136:7-9
He made the great lights: His love is eternal.the sun to rule by day, His love is eternal.the moon and stars to rule by night. His love is eternal.
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Psalms 148:3-5
Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.Praise Him, highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens.Let them praise the name of Yahweh, for He commanded, and they were created.
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Joshua 10:12-13
On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel:“ Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”And the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Isn’t this written in the Book of Jashar? So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed its setting almost a full day.
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Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
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Psalms 74:16-17
The day is Yours, also the night; You established the moon and the sun.You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made summer and winter.
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Acts 7:42
Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices 40 years in the wilderness?
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Matthew 5:45
so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
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Amos 5:25-26
“ House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
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Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are Yahweh. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the heavenly host worships You.
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2 Kings 23 11
He did away with the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They had been at the entrance of the Lord’s temple in the precincts by the chamber of Nathan-melech the court official, and he burned up the chariots of the sun.
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Jeremiah 31:35
This is what the Lord says: The One who gives the sun for light by day, the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar— Yahweh of Hosts is His name:
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Job 31:26-28
if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining or at the moon moving in splendor,so that my heart was secretly enticed and I threw them a kiss,this would also be a crime deserving punishment, for I would have denied God above.
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2 Kings 23 4-2 Kings 23 5
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.
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Zephaniah 1:5
those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the heavenly host; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;
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Jeremiah 8:2
They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.
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Jeremiah 33:25
This is what the Lord says: If I do not keep My covenant with the day and with the night and fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth,
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Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth— all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
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Ezekiel 8:16
So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.