Amos 2:4
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Judgment on Judah
4 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (A)Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
(B)Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
(C)Their lies lead them astray,
Lies (D)which their fathers followed.
Ezekiel 20:24
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24 (A)because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and (B)their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.
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Ezekiel 20:16
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16 (A)because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for (B)their heart went after their idols.
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Ezekiel 20:13
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13 Yet the house of Israel (A)rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they (B)despised My judgments, (C)‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly (D)defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the (E)wilderness, to consume them.
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Habakkuk 2:18
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18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
Hosea 12:2
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2 “The(A) Lord also brings a [a]charge against Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
According to his deeds He will recompense him.
Footnotes
- Hosea 12:2 A legal complaint
Jeremiah 16:19-20
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19 O Lord, (A)my strength and my fortress,
(B)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and (C)unprofitable things.”
20 Will a man make gods for himself,
(D)Which are not gods?
Isaiah 28:15
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15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
(A)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
Romans 1:25
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25 who exchanged (A)the truth of God (B)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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Amos 3:2
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2 “You(A) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(B)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Ezekiel 20:18
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18 “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Jeremiah 9:14
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14 but they have (A)walked according to the [a]dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, (B)which their fathers taught them,”
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- Jeremiah 9:14 stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 8:9
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9 (A)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So (B)what wisdom do they have?
Isaiah 9:15-16
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15 The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For (A)the leaders of this people cause them to err,
And those who are led by them are destroyed.
Isaiah 5:24-25
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24 Therefore, (A)as the [a]fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So (B)their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 (C)Therefore the anger of the Lord is aroused against His people;
He has stretched out His hand against them
And stricken them,
And (D)the hills trembled.
Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets.
(E)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:24 Lit. tongue of fire
Nehemiah 1:7
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7 (A)We have acted very corruptly against You, and have (B)not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
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2 Kings 22:11-17
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11 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes. 12 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, (A)Ahikam the son of Shaphan, [a]Achbor the son of Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying, 13 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is (B)the wrath of the Lord that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of (C)Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.) And they spoke with her. 15 Then she said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to Me, 16 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, (D)I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read— 17 (E)because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched.’ ” ’
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- 2 Kings 22:12 Abdon the son of Micah, 2 Chr. 34:20
2 Kings 17:19
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19 Also (A)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
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Leviticus 26:14-15
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14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
1 Peter 1:18
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18 knowing that you were not redeemed with [a]corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
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- 1 Peter 1:18 perishable
1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, (B)who[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 NU who also gives
Hosea 6:11
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11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,
When I return the captives of My people.
Hosea 5:12-13
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12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah (A)like rottenness.
13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his (B)wound,
Then Ephraim went (C)to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.
Daniel 9:5-12
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5 (A)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 (B)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, (C)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 (D)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, (E)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (F)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (G)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (H)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 23:11-21
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The Younger Sister, Jerusalem
11 “Now (A)although her sister Oholibah saw this, (B)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.
12 “She lusted for the neighboring (C)Assyrians,
(D)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of (E)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 (F)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent (G)messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 “Then the [a]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, (H)and alienated herself from them.
18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then (I)I (J)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.
19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(K)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she lusted for her [b]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the (L)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
- Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers
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