Jeremiah 44:7
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7 “And now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive—not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.
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Habakkuk 2:10
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10 But by the murders you committed,
you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
Jeremiah 51:22
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22 With you I will shatter men and women,
old people and children,
young men and young women.
Numbers 16:38
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38 Take the incense burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and hammer the metal into a thin sheet to overlay the altar. Since these burners were used in the Lord’s presence, they have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?
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Lamentations 2:11
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11 I have cried until the tears no longer come;
my heart is broken.
My spirit is poured out in agony
as I see the desperate plight of my people.
Little children and tiny babies
are fainting and dying in the streets.
Jeremiah 44:14
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14 Of that remnant who fled to Egypt, hoping someday to return to Judah, there will be no survivors. Even though they long to return home, only a handful will do so.”
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Jeremiah 9:21
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21 For death has crept in through our windows
and has entered our mansions.
It has killed off the flower of our youth:
Children no longer play in the streets,
and young men no longer gather in the squares.
Jeremiah 7:19
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19 Am I the one they are hurting?” asks the Lord. “Most of all, they hurt themselves, to their own shame.”
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Proverbs 15:32
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32 If you reject discipline, you only harm yourself;
but if you listen to correction, you grow in understanding.
1 Samuel 15:3
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3 Now go and completely destroy[a] the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.”
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Judges 21:11
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11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Completely destroy[a] all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.”
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- 21:11 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
Joshua 6:21
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21 They completely destroyed everything in it with their swords—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.
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Deuteronomy 32:25
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25 Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.
Jeremiah 44:27-28
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27 For I will watch over you to bring you disaster and not good. Everyone from Judah who is now living in Egypt will suffer war and famine until all of you are dead. 28 Only a small number will escape death and return to Judah from Egypt. Then all those who came to Egypt will find out whose words are true—mine or theirs!
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Jeremiah 44:11-12
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11 “Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to destroy every one of you! 12 I will take this remnant of Judah—those who were determined to come here and live in Egypt—and I will consume them. They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine. All will die, from the least to the greatest. They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery.
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Jeremiah 44:8
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8 Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt? You will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and mockery for all the nations of the earth.
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Jeremiah 42:20
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20 For you were not being honest when you sent me to pray to the Lord your God for you. You said, ‘Just tell us what the Lord our God says, and we will do it!’
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Jeremiah 26:19
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19 But did King Hezekiah and the people kill him for saying this? No, they turned from their sins and worshiped the Lord. They begged him for mercy. Then the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had pronounced against them. So we are about to do ourselves great harm.”
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Jeremiah 25:7
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7 “But you would not listen to me,” says the Lord. “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer.
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Proverbs 8:36
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36 But those who miss me injure themselves.
All who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 5:22
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22 An evil man is held captive by his own sins;
they are ropes that catch and hold him.
Proverbs 1:18
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18 But these people set an ambush for themselves;
they are trying to get themselves killed.
1 Samuel 22:19
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19 Then he went to Nob, the town of the priests, and killed the priests’ families—men and women, children and babies—and all the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
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