Daniel 9:6
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6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
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2 Chronicles 36:15-16
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The Fall of Jerusalem
15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place,(A) 16 but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.(B)
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Acts 7:51-52
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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A) 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.(B)
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Luke 20:10-12
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10 When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard, but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 Next he sent another slave; that one also they beat and insulted and sent away empty-handed. 12 And he sent still a third; this one also they wounded and threw out.
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Zechariah 7:8-12
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Punishment for Rejecting God’s Demands
8 The word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying: 9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;(A) 10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.(B) 11 But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.(C) 12 They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.(D)
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Zechariah 1:4-6
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4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.(A) 5 Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, ‘The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.’ ”(B)
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Daniel 9:10
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10 and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
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Jeremiah 44:4-5
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4 Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”(A) 5 But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and make no offerings to other gods.
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Nehemiah 9:34
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34 our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them.
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Ezra 9:7
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7 From the days of our ancestors to this day we have been deep in guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
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15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets[a] and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone(A) 16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[b] has overtaken them at last.[c](B)
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Acts 13:27
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27 Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.(A)
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Matthew 23:37
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The Lament over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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Matthew 21:34-40
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34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce.(A) 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.(B) 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them in the same way. 37 Then he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’(C) 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
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Jeremiah 44:16
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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.(A)
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Jeremiah 32:32-33
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32 because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(A) 33 They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.(B)
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Jeremiah 29:19
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19 because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, when I persistently sent to them my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the Lord.(A)
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Jeremiah 26:5
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5 and to heed the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently—though you have not heeded(A)—
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Jeremiah 25:3-7
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3 For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.(A) 4 And though the Lord persistently sent you all his servants the prophets, you have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear(B) 5 when they said, “Turn now, every one of you, from your evil way and wicked doings, and you will remain on the land that the Lord has given to you and your ancestors from of old and forever;(C) 6 do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.” 7 Yet you did not listen to me, says the Lord, and so you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.(D)
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Jeremiah 7:25-26
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25 From the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day,(A) 26 yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.(B)
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Jeremiah 7:13
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13 And now, because you have done all these things, says the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently, you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,(A)
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Jeremiah 6:16-17
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16 Thus says the Lord:
Stand at the crossroads and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, “We will not walk in it.”(A)
17 Also I raised up sentinels for you:
“Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!”
But they said, “We will not give heed.”(B)
Isaiah 30:10-11
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10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
prophesy illusions;(A)
11 leave the way; turn aside from the path;
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”(B)
Nehemiah 9:32
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32 “Now therefore, our God—the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love—do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.
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2 Chronicles 33:10
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Manasseh Restored after Repentance
10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they gave no heed.
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