1 Kings 14:15
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15 For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will (A)uproot Israel from this (B)good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them (C)beyond [a]the River, (D)because they have made their [b]wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
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- 1 Kings 14:15 The Euphrates
- 1 Kings 14:15 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Psalm 52:5
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5 God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Joshua 23:15-16
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15 (A)Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you (B)all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. 16 [a]When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the (C)anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”
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- Joshua 23:16 Or if ever
2 Kings 15:29
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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, [a]Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria (A)came and took (B)Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he (C)carried them captive to Assyria.
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- 2 Kings 15:29 A later name of Pul, v. 19
Proverbs 2:22
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- Proverbs 2:22 destroyed
- Proverbs 2:22 land
Deuteronomy 12:3-4
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3 And (A)you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their [a]wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4 You shall not (B)worship the Lord your God with such things.
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- Deuteronomy 12:3 Heb. Asherim
Acts 7:43
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43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And (A)I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
Luke 7:24
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24 (A)When the messengers of John had departed, He began to speak to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
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Matthew 15:13
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13 But He answered and said, (A)“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
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Matthew 11:7
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7 (A)As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? (B)A reed shaken by the wind?
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Zephaniah 2:4
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Judgment on Nations
4 For (A)Gaza shall be forsaken,
And Ashkelon desolate;
They shall drive out Ashdod (B)at noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted.
Amos 5:27
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27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (A)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (B)whose name is the God of hosts.
Amos 2:9
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9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the (A)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the (B)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I (C)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
Isaiah 1:28-29
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28 The (A)destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For [a]they shall be ashamed of the [b]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.
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- Isaiah 1:29 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; some Heb. mss., Tg. you
- Isaiah 1:29 Sites of pagan worship
2 Kings 18:11-12
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11 (A)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them (B)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they (C)did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them.
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2 Kings 17:23
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23 until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, (A)as He had said by all His servants the prophets. (B)So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
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2 Kings 17:6-7
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6 (A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and (B)carried Israel away to Assyria, (C)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For (D)so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had (E)feared other gods,
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1 Kings 14:23-24
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23 For they also built for themselves (A)high[a] places, (B)sacred pillars, and (C)wooden images on every high hill and (D)under every green tree. 24 (E)And there were also [b]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the (F)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of (G)Israel.
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- 1 Kings 14:23 Places for pagan worship
- 1 Kings 14:24 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
1 Kings 14:9
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9 but you have done more evil than all who were before you, (A)for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and (B)have cast Me behind your back—
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1 Samuel 12:25
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25 But if you still do wickedly, (A)you shall be swept away, (B)both you and your king.”
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Deuteronomy 29:24-28
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24 All nations would say, (A)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, (B)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord (C)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
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Deuteronomy 28:63-68
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63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord (A)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord (B)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be (C)plucked[a] from off the land which you go to possess.
64 “Then the Lord (D)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (E)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. 65 And (F)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; (G)but there the Lord will give you a [b]trembling heart, failing eyes, and (H)anguish of soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67 (I)In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and (J)because of the sight which your eyes see.
68 “And the Lord (K)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, (L)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
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- Deuteronomy 28:63 torn
- Deuteronomy 28:65 anxious
Deuteronomy 28:36
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36 “The Lord will (A)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (B)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
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Deuteronomy 4:26-27
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26 (A)I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not [a]prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord (B)will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
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- Deuteronomy 4:26 live long on it
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