22 Judah(A) did evil in the eyes of the Lord. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger(B) more than those who were before them had done.

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Shishak Attacks Jerusalem(A)

12 After Rehoboam’s position as king was established(B) and he had become strong,(C) he and all Israel[a](D) with him abandoned(E) the law of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:1 That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles

58 They angered him(A) with their high places;(B)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(C)

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a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(A)
offering sacrifices in gardens(B)
    and burning incense(C) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(D)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(E)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

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19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.(A)

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30 Ahab son of Omri did more(A) evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.

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You have done more evil(A) than all who lived before you.(B) You have made for yourself other gods, idols(C) made of metal; you have aroused(D) my anger and turned your back on me.(E)

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Deborah

Again the Israelites did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord,(B) now that Ehud(C) was dead.

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Ehud

12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord,(A) and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab(B) power over Israel.

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Othniel

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord(A) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.(B)

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16 They made him jealous(A) with their foreign gods
    and angered(B) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(C) to false gods,(D) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(E)
    gods that recently appeared,(F)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(G) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(H)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(I)
20 “I will hide my face(J) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(K)
    children who are unfaithful.(L)
21 They made me jealous(M) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(N)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(O)

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28 In furious anger and in great wrath(A) the Lord uprooted(B) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

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24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire,(A) a jealous God.(B)

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47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(A) 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign(B) Lord, your sister Sodom(C) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.(D)

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I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(A) Judah saw it.(B) I gave faithless Israel(C) her certificate of divorce(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(E) she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land(F) and committed adultery(G) with stone(H) and wood.(I) 10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return(J) to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,(K)” declares the Lord.(L)

11 The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous(M) than unfaithful(N) Judah.(O)

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11 “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil(A) than the Amorites(B) who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.(C)

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