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Judges 18:14
The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers,“ Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image overlaid with silver in these houses? Now think about what you should do.”
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Judges 17:5
This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.
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Psalms 106:39
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
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Judges 18:17
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image overlaid with silver, the ephod, and the household idols, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
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Deuteronomy 7:16
You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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Judges 6:24
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it Yahweh Shalom. It is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites until today.
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Exodus 23:33
They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you.”
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Judges 8:32-33
Then Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
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1 Samuel 23 9-1 Samuel 23 10
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest,“ Bring the ephod.”Then David said,“ Lord God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the town because of me.
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Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
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Psalms 73:27
Those far from You will certainly perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.
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Hosea 2:2
Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.
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Hosea 4:12-14
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.
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Judges 6:11
The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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Exodus 28:6-35
“ They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.It must have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges so that it can be joined together.The artistically woven waistband that is on the ephod must be of one piece, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.“ Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel’s sons:six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone, in the order of their birth.Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites. Aaron will carry their names on his two shoulders before the Lord as a reminder.Fashion gold filigree settingsand two chains of pure gold; you will make them of braided cord work, and attach the cord chains to the settings.“ You are to make an embroidered breastpiece for making decisions. Make it with the same workmanship as the ephod; make it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.It must be square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.Place a setting of gemstones on it, four rows of stones: The first row should be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They should be adorned with gold filigree in their settings.The 12 stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the 12 tribes.“ You are to make braided chains of pure gold cord work for the breastpiece.Fashion two gold rings for the breastpiece and attach them to its two corners.Then attach the two gold cords to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece.Attach the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings, and in this way attach them to the ephod’s shoulder pieces in the front.Make two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.Make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam, and above the ephod’s woven waistband.The craftsmen are to tie the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the ephod’s waistband and does not come loose from the ephod.“ Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel’s sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions, as a continual reminder before the Lord.Place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece for decisions, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the Lord. Aaron will continually carry the means of decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord.“ You are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn.There should be an opening at its top in the center of it. Around the opening, there should be a woven collar with an opening like that of body armor so that it does not tear.Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on its lower hem and all around it. Put gold bells between them all the way around,so that gold bells and pomegranates alternate around the lower hem of the robe.The robe must be worn by Aaron whenever he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters the sanctuary before the Lord and when he exits, so that he does not die.