1 Samuel 12:25
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25 But if you still do wickedly, (A)you shall be swept away, (B)both you and your king.”
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Joshua 24:20
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20 (A)If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then (B)he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”
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1 Samuel 31:1-5
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The Death of Saul
31 (A)Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain (B)on Mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down (C)Jonathan and (D)Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3 (E)The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. 4 (F)Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these (G)uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, (H)for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword (I)and fell upon it. 5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.
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Hosea 10:3
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3 For now they will say:
(A)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
and a king—what could he do for us?”
Isaiah 3:11
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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
Deuteronomy 28:36
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36 “The Lord will (A)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (B)nor your fathers have known. And (C)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
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Deuteronomy 32:15-44
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15 “But (A)Jeshurun grew fat, and (B)kicked;
(C)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(D)then he forsook God (E)who made him
and scoffed at (F)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (G)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (H)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to (I)new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (J)the Rock that bore[a] you,
and you (K)forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 (L)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of (M)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (N)‘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 (O)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (P)with their idols.
So (Q)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (R)a foolish nation.
22 For (S)a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to (T)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(U)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (V)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (W)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (X)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (Y)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(Z)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (AA)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is (AB)no understanding in them.
29 (AC)If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would (AD)discern their latter end!
30 How could (AE)one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (AF)had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
31 For (AG)their rock is not as our Rock;
(AH)our enemies are by themselves.
32 For their vine (AI)comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of (AJ)poison;
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of (AK)serpents
and the cruel venom of asps.
34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
(AL)sealed up in my treasuries?
35 (AM)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[b]
(AN)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for (AO)the day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.’
36 For (AP)the Lord will vindicate[c] his people
(AQ)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, (AR)bond or free.
37 Then he will say, (AS)‘Where are their gods,
(AT)the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39 “‘See now that (AU)I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
(AV)I kill and I make alive;
(AW)I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For (AX)I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 if I (AY)sharpen my flashing sword[d]
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and (AZ)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the (BA)long-haired heads of the enemy.’
43 (BB)“Rejoice with him, O heavens;[e]
bow down to him, all gods,[f]
for he (BC)avenges the blood of his children[g]
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him[h]
and cleanses[i] his people's land.”[j]
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and (BD)Joshua[k] the son of Nun.
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- Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered
- Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint and I will repay
- Deuteronomy 32:36 Septuagint judge
- Deuteronomy 32:41 Hebrew the lightning of my sword
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text Rejoice his people, O nations
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text lacks bow down to him, all gods
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text servants
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks He repays those who hate him
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Or atones for
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew his land his people
- Deuteronomy 32:44 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew Hoshea
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