22 (A)And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they (B)provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

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Egypt Plunders Jerusalem

12 (A)When the rule of Rehoboam was established (B)and he was strong, (C)he abandoned the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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22 (A)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than he?

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58 For they (A)provoked him to anger with their (B)high places;
    they (C)moved him to jealousy with their (D)idols.

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a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
(A)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;
who sit in tombs,
    and spend the night in secret places;
(B)who eat pig's flesh,
    and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

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14 And he did evil, (A)for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

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19 (A)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

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30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, (A)more than all who were before him.

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but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and (A)made for yourself other gods and (B)metal images, provoking me to anger, and (C)have cast me behind your back,

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Deborah and Barak

(A)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.

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Ehud

12 (A)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon (B)the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Othniel

(A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and (B)the Asheroth.

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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (C)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (D)the Rock that bore[a] you,
    and you (E)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (F)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (G)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (H)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (I)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (J)with their idols.
So (K)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (L)a foolish nation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

28 and the Lord (A)uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and (B)cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

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47 (A)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time (B)you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister (D)Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

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And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous (A)sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (B)I had sent her away with (C)a decree of divorce. (D)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (E)and played the whore. Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (F)stone and tree. 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (G)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

11 And the Lord said to me, (H)“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things (B)more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, (C)and has made Judah also to sin (D)with his idols,

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