Zephaniah 1:3
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3 “I will sweep away (A)man and beast;
I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
and (B)the fish of the sea,
and (C)the rubble[a] with the wicked.
I will (D)cut off mankind
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:3 Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols)
Hosea 4:3
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3 Therefore (A)the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
(B)and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
(C)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
Ezekiel 7:19
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19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. (A)Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. (B)For it was (C)the stumbling block of their iniquity.
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Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might (B)eat food sacrificed to idols and (C)practice sexual immorality.
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Matthew 23:39
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39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, (A)‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
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Zechariah 13:2
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Idolatry Cut Off
2 “And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
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Micah 5:11-14
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11 (A)and I will cut off the cities of your land
and throw down all your strongholds;
12 and I will cut off (B)sorceries from your hand,
and (C)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
13 and (D)I will cut off your carved images
and (E)your pillars from among you,
(F)and you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your (G)Asherah images from among you
(H)and destroy your cities.
Hosea 14:8
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8 O (A)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.[a]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
(B)from me comes your fruit.
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him
Hosea 14:3
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3 (A)Assyria shall not save us;
(B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Ezekiel 15:6-8
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6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, (B)which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 (C)And I will set my face against them. Though (D)they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, (E)and you will know that I am the Lord, (F)when I set my face against them. 8 (G)And I will make the land desolate, because (H)they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 14:13-21
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13 (A)“Son of man, when a land sins against me (B)by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and (C)break its supply[a] of bread and send famine upon it, and (D)cut off from it man and beast, 14 (E)even if these three men, (F)Noah, (G)Daniel, and (H)Job, were in it, (I)they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
15 (J)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, (K)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, 16 even if these three men were in it, (L)as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but (M)the land would be desolate.
17 “Or (N)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, (O)and I cut off from it man and beast, 18 (P)though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19 “Or (Q)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (R)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (S)sword, (T)famine, (U)wild beasts, and (V)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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- Ezekiel 14:13 Hebrew staff
Ezekiel 14:3-7
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3 (A)“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set (B)the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. (C)Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them? 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, (D)I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 5 (E)that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, (F)who are all estranged from me through their idols.
6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (G)Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, (H)who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, (I)I the Lord will answer him myself.
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Jeremiah 12:4
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4 (A)How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
(C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”
Jeremiah 4:23-29
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23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was (A)without form and void;
(B)and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on (C)the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 (D)I looked, and behold, there was no man,
and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the (E)fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before (F)his fierce anger.
27 For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; (G)yet I will not make a full end.
28 (H)“For this the earth shall mourn,
(I)and the heavens above be dark;
for I have spoken; I have purposed;
(J)I have not relented, nor will I turn back.”
29 At the noise of horseman and archer
every city takes to flight;
they enter thickets; they climb among rocks;
all the cities are forsaken,
and (K)no man dwells in them.
Isaiah 27:9
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9 Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Ezekiel 44:12
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12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became (A)a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have (B)sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
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