Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Sacred’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Sacred’ occurs 46 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 13:5 And when the Lord has brought you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers that he would give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.Exodus 13:5
Exodus 31:10 the holy vestments for the ministry of Aaron the priest, and for his sons, so that they may execute their office of sacred rites,Exodus 31:10
Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.Exodus 34:13
Exodus 39:29 They also made the plate of sacred veneration from the purest gold, and they wrote on it, with the skill of a jeweler: “Holy to the Lord.”Exodus 39:29
Number of the word / term Sacred in Exodus: 4
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 7:5 So instead, you shall do this to them: overturn their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves, and burn up their graven images.Deuteronomy 7:5
Deuteronomy 12:3 Scatter their altars and break their statues. Burn their sacred groves with fire and crush their idols. Abolish their names from those places.Deuteronomy 12:3
Deuteronomy 16:21 You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;Deuteronomy 16:21
Number of the word / term Sacred in Deuteronomy: 3
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Judges
Judges 6:25 that night, the Lord said to him: “Take a bull of your father’s, and another bull of seven years, and you shall destroy the altar of Baal, which is your father’s. And you shall cut down the sacred grove which is around the altar.Judges 6:25
Judges 6:28 And when the men of that town had risen up in the morning, they saw the altar of Baal destroyed, and the sacred grove cut down, and the second bull set upon the altar, which then had been built.Judges 6:28
Judges 6:30 And they said to Joash: “Bring forward your son here, so that he may die. For he has destroyed the altar of Baal, and he has cut down the sacred grove.”Judges 6:30
Number of the word / term Sacred in Judges: 3
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 14:15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel, just as a reed is usually shaken in the water. And he will uproot Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers. And he will winnow them beyond the river. For they have made for themselves sacred groves, so that they have provoked the Lord.1 Kings 14:15
1 Kings 14:23 For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.1 Kings 14:23
1 Kings 15:13 Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacah, from being the leader in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in his sacred grove which she had consecrated. And he destroyed his grotto. And he shattered the very indecent idol, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.1 Kings 15:13
1 Kings 16:33 And he planted a sacred grove. And Ahab added to his works, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, beyond all the kings of Israel who had been before him.1 Kings 16:33
1 Kings 18:19 Yet truly now, send and gather to me all of Israel, on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of the sacred groves, who eat from the table of Jezebel.”1 Kings 18:19
Number of the word / term Sacred in 1 Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 13:6 Yet truly, they did not withdraw from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had caused Israel to sin. Instead, they walked by them. And there was even a sacred grove still remaining in Samaria.2 Kings 13:6
2 Kings 17:10 And they made for themselves statues and sacred groves, on every high hill and under every leafy tree.2 Kings 17:10
2 Kings 17:16 And they abandoned all the precepts of the Lord, their God. And they made for themselves two molten calves and sacred groves. And they adored the entire celestial army. And they served Baal.2 Kings 17:16
2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he broke apart the bronze serpent, which Moses had made. For even until that time, the sons of Israel were burning incense to it. And he called its name Nehushtan.2 Kings 18:4
2 Kings 21:3 And he turned away. And he built up the high places that his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. And he erected altars to Baal, and he made sacred groves, just as Ahab, the king of Israel, had done. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.2 Kings 21:3
2 Kings 21:7 Also, he set up an idol, of the sacred grove that he had made, in the temple of the Lord, about which the Lord said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.2 Kings 21:7
2 Kings 23:4 And the king instructed Hilkiah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, so that they would cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels which had been made for Baal, and for the sacred grove, and for the entire army of heaven. And he burned them outside of Jerusalem, in the steep valley of Kidron. And he carried their dust into Bethel.2 Kings 23:4
2 Kings 23:6 And he caused the sacred grove to be carried away from the house of the Lord, outside of Jerusalem, to the steep valley of Kidron. And he burned it there, and reduced it to dust. And he cast the dust over the graves of the common people.2 Kings 23:6
2 Kings 23:7 Also, he destroyed the small places of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women were weaving something like little houses in the sacred grove.2 Kings 23:7
2 Kings 23:14 And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.2 Kings 23:14
2 Kings 23:15 Then too, the altar which was in Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he tore down, and burned, and reduced to dust. And then he also set fire to the sacred grove.2 Kings 23:15
Number of the word / term Sacred in 2 Kings: 11
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 14:3 And he broke apart the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves.2 Chronicles 14:3
2 Chronicles 15:16 Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.2 Chronicles 15:16
2 Chronicles 17:6 And when his heart had taken courage because of the ways of the Lord, he now also took away the high places and the sacred groves from Judah.2 Chronicles 17:6
2 Chronicles 19:3 But good works have been found in you. For you have taken away the sacred groves from the land of Judah. And you have prepared your heart, so as to seek the Lord, the God of your fathers.”2 Chronicles 19:3
2 Chronicles 24:18 And they abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and they served sacred groves and graven images. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of this sin.2 Chronicles 24:18
2 Chronicles 31:1 And when these things had been celebrated according to ritual, all of Israel who had been found in the cities of Judah went forth, and they broke apart the idols and cut down the sacred groves. They demolished the high places and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Judah and Benjamin, but also out of Ephraim as well as Manasseh, until they utterly destroyed them. And all the sons of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.2 Chronicles 31:1
2 Chronicles 33:3 And turning away, he repaired the high places, which had been demolished by his father, Hezekiah. And he constructed altars to the Baals, and made sacred groves. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.2 Chronicles 33:3
2 Chronicles 33:19 Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.2 Chronicles 33:19
2 Chronicles 34:3 Now in the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David. And in the twelfth year after he had begun to reign, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the sacred groves, and the idols, and the graven images.2 Chronicles 34:3
2 Chronicles 34:4 And in his sight, they destroyed the altars of the Baals, and they demolished the idols which had been set upon them. And then he cut down the sacred groves and crushed the graven images. And he scattered the fragments upon the tombs of those who had been accustomed to immolate to them.2 Chronicles 34:4
2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had destroyed the altars and the sacred groves, and had broken the idols to pieces, and when all the profane shrines had been demolished from the entire land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 34:7
Number of the word / term Sacred in 2 Chronicles: 11
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Esther
Esther 9:17 Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with all of the executions, and on the fourteenth day they ceased the killing. This day they established to be sacred, so that in all times hereafter they would be free for feasting, joyfulness, and celebration.Esther 9:17
Esther 9:18 But, as for those who were carrying out the killings in the city of Susa, they turned to killing on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month. But on the fifteenth day they ceased to attack. And for that reason they established that day as sacred, with feasting and with gladness.Esther 9:18
Esther 9:21 so that they would accept the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always, at the return of the year, would celebrate them with sacred esteem.Esther 9:21
Number of the word / term Sacred in Esther: 3
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 56:1 Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath.Psalm 56:1
Number of the word / term Sacred in Psalm: 1
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 17:8 And he will not bow before the altars that his hands have made. And he will not consider the things that his fingers have made, the sacred groves and the shrines.Isaiah 17:8
Isaiah 27:9 Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand.Isaiah 27:9
Number of the word / term Sacred in Isaiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 17:2 And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains,Jeremiah 17:2
Number of the word / term Sacred in Jeremiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book Micah
Micah 5:14 And I will root out your sacred groves from your midst, and I will crush your cities.Micah 5:14
Number of the word / term Sacred in Micah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Sacred’ in the book 2 Timothy
2 Timothy 3:15 And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.2 Timothy 3:15
Number of the word / term ‘Sacred’ in 2 Timothy: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 46
