Micah 6:16
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16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri[a]
and all the works of the house of Ahab,
and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your[b] inhabitants an object of hissing,
so you shall bear the scorn of my people.(A)
Jeremiah 51:51
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51 We are put to shame, for we have heard insults;
dishonor has covered our faces,
for aliens have come
into the holy places of the Lord’s house.(A)
Jeremiah 7:24
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24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(A)
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1 Kings 16:25-33
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25 Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did more evil than all who were before him. 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in the sins that he caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.(A) 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did and the power that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? 28 Omri slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria; his son Ahab succeeded him.
Ahab Reigns over Israel
29 In the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, Ahab son of Omri began to reign over Israel; Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. 30 Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him.(B)
Ahab Marries Jezebel and Worships Baal
31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he took as his wife Jezebel daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians and went and served Baal and worshiped him.(C) 32 He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria.(D) 33 Ahab also made a sacred pole.[a] Ahab did more to provoke the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than had all the kings of Israel who were before him.(E)
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- 16.33 Or Asherah
Jeremiah 19:8
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8 And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.(A)
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Isaiah 25:8
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8 he will swallow up death forever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.(A)
Psalm 44:13
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13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.(A)
1 Kings 21:25-26
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25 (Indeed, there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 26 He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)(A)
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Revelation 2:20
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20 But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality[a] and to eat food sacrificed to idols.(A)
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- 2.20 Or prostitution
Hosea 5:11
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11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after vanity.[a]
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- 5.11 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Daniel 9:16
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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A)
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Ezekiel 39:26
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26 They shall bear their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to make them afraid,(A)
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!(A) 18 Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”(B)
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Lamentations 5:1
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A Plea for Mercy
5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!(A)
Jeremiah 25:9
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9 I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.[a](A)
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- 25.9 Gk Compare Syr: Heb and everlasting desolations
Jeremiah 21:8-9
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8 And to this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.(A) 9 Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but those who go out and surrender to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have their lives as a prize of war.(B)
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Jeremiah 18:15-16
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15 But my people have forgotten me;
they burn offerings to a delusion;
they have stumbled[a] in their ways,
in the ancient roads,
and have gone into bypaths,
not the highway,(A)
16 making their land a horror,
a thing to be hissed at forever.
All who pass by it are horrified
and shake their heads.(B)
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- 18.15 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they made them stumble
Isaiah 9:16
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16 for those who led this people led them astray,
and those who were led by them were left in confusion.(A)
Psalm 1:1
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Book I
(Psalms 1–41)
Psalm 1
The Two Ways
1 Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked
or take the path that sinners tread
or sit in the seat of scoffers,(A)
2 Chronicles 34:25
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25 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the works of their hands, my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’(A)
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2 Chronicles 29:8-9
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8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord came upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.(A) 9 Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.(B)
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2 Kings 21:3
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3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he erected altars for Baal, made a sacred pole,[a] as King Ahab of Israel had done, worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.(A)
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- 21.3 Or Asherah
2 Kings 16:3
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3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even made his son pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.(A)
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1 Kings 18:4
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4 when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)(A)
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1 Kings 9:8
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8 This house will become a heap of ruins;[a] everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’(A)
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- 9.8 Syr OL: Heb will become high
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