Jeremiah 32:30
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30 because the children of Israel and the children of Judah (A)have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,’ says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 7:22-26
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22 (A)For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. 23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, (B)‘Obey My voice, and (C)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 (D)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (E)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (F)went[c] backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even (G)sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 (H)Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but (I)stiffened their neck. (J)They did worse than their fathers.
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- Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
- Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were
Jeremiah 25:7
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7 Yet you have not listened to Me,” says the Lord, “that you might (A)provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
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Jeremiah 22:21
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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
(A)This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
Jeremiah 3:25
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25 We lie down in our shame,
And our [a]reproach covers us.
(A)For we have sinned against the Lord our God,
We and our fathers,
From our youth even to this day,
And (B)have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
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- Jeremiah 3:25 disgrace
Jeremiah 2:7
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7 I brought you into (A)a bountiful country,
To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you (B)defiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.
Isaiah 63:10
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10 But they (A)rebelled and (B)grieved His Holy Spirit;
(C)So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
And He fought against them.
Deuteronomy 9:7-12
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7 “Remember! Do not forget how you (A)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (B)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also (C)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9 (D)When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and (E)forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 (F)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire (G)in[a] the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 “Then the Lord said to me, (H)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have (I)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’
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- Deuteronomy 9:10 when you were all gathered together
Acts 7:51-53
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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 (E)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”
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- Acts 7:51 stubborn
Ezekiel 23:43-44
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43 Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’ 44 Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.
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Ezekiel 23:3
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3 (A)They committed harlotry in Egypt,
They committed harlotry in (B)their youth;
Their breasts were there embraced,
Their virgin bosom was there pressed.
Ezekiel 20:28
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28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and (A)they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their (B)sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
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Ezekiel 20:8
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8 But they rebelled against Me and would not [a]obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, ‘I will (A)pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.’
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- Ezekiel 20:8 Lit. listen to
Ezekiel 16:15-22
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Jerusalem’s Harlotry
15 (A)“But you trusted in your own beauty, (B)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. 16 (C)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored [a]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. 19 Also (D)My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as [b]sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.
20 (E)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, 21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (F)fire? 22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your (G)youth, (H)when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
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- Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:19 Or a sweet aroma
Jeremiah 8:19
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19 Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From (A)a far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
Psalm 106:6-7
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6 (A)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
(B)But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.
Nehemiah 9:16-37
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16 “But(A) they and our fathers acted [a]proudly,
(B)Hardened[b] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
17 They refused to obey,
And (C)they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.
But they hardened their necks,
And [c]in their rebellion
They appointed (D)a leader
To return to their bondage.
But You are God,
Ready to pardon,
(E)Gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger,
Abundant in kindness,
And did not forsake them.
18 “Even (F)when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
19 Yet in Your (G)manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The (H)pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.
20 You also gave Your (I)good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your (J)manna from their mouth,
And gave them (K)water for their thirst.
21 (L)Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their (M)clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell.
22 “Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
And divided them into [d]districts.
So they took possession of the land of (N)Sihon,
[e]The land of the king of Heshbon,
And the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 You also multiplied (O)their children as the stars of heaven,
And brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers
To go in and possess.
24 So (P)the [f]people went in
And possessed the land;
(Q)You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
The Canaanites,
And gave them into their hands,
With their kings
And the people of the land,
That they might do with them as they wished.
25 And they took strong cities and a (R)rich land,
And possessed (S)houses full of all goods,
Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves,
And [g]fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate and were filled and (T)grew fat,
And delighted themselves in Your great (U)goodness.
26 “Nevertheless they (V)were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
(W)Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your (X)prophets, who [h]testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.
27 (Y)Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
Who oppressed them;
And in the time of their trouble,
When they cried to You,
You (Z)heard from heaven;
And according to Your abundant mercies
(AA)You gave them deliverers who saved them
From the hand of their enemies.
28 “But after they had rest,
(AB)They again did evil before You.
Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies,
So that they had dominion over them;
Yet when they returned and cried out to You,
You heard from heaven;
And (AC)many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,
29 And [i]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted [j]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
(AD)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
[k]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And [l]testified (AE)against them by Your Spirit (AF)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
(AG)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy
(AH)You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.
32 “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the (AI)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the [m]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
(AJ)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33 However (AK)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (AL)we have done wickedly.
34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.
35 For they have (AM)not served You in their kingdom,
Or in the many good things that You gave them,
Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;
Nor did they turn from their wicked works.
36 “Here (AN)we are, servants today!
And the land that You gave to our fathers,
To eat its fruit and its bounty,
Here we are, servants in it!
37 And (AO)it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have (AP)dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.
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- Nehemiah 9:16 presumptuously
- Nehemiah 9:16 Stiffened their necks, became stubborn
- Nehemiah 9:17 So with MT, Vg.; LXX in Egypt
- Nehemiah 9:22 Lit. corners
- Nehemiah 9:22 So with MT, Vg.; LXX omits The land of
- Nehemiah 9:24 Lit. sons
- Nehemiah 9:25 Lit. trees for eating
- Nehemiah 9:26 admonished or warned them
- Nehemiah 9:29 admonished them
- Nehemiah 9:29 presumptuously
- Nehemiah 9:29 Became stubborn
- Nehemiah 9:30 admonished or warned them
- Nehemiah 9:32 hardship
2 Kings 17:9-20
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9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, (A)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 (B)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and (C)wooden images[b] (D)on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, 12 for they served idols, (E)of which the Lord had said to them, (F)“You shall not do this thing.”
13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His (G)prophets, (H)every seer, saying, (I)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but (J)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who (K)did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 And they (L)rejected His statutes (M)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed (N)idols, (O)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should (P)not do like them. 16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (Q)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (R)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (S)host of heaven, (T)and served Baal. 17 (U)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, (V)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and (W)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left (X)but the tribe of Judah alone.
19 Also (Y)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and (Z)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His (AA)sight.
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- 2 Kings 17:9 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 17:10 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Deuteronomy 9:22-24
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22 “Also at (A)Taberah and (B)Massah and (C)Kibroth Hattaavah you [a]provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 Likewise, (D)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and (E)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 (F)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
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- Deuteronomy 9:22 caused the Lord to be angry
Genesis 8:21
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21 And the Lord smelled (A)a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again (B)curse the ground for man’s sake, although the (C)imagination[a] of man’s heart is evil from his youth; (D)nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
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- Genesis 8:21 intent or thought
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