1 Kings 9:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

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  • Jer 22:8-9 : 8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town? 9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
  • Deut 29:24-26 : 24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath? 25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt: 26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:
  • 2 Chr 7:21 : 21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?
  • Jer 49:17 : 17 And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
  • Jer 50:13 : 13 Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
  • Dan 9:12 : 12 And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.
  • Isa 64:11 : 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

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  • 2 Chr 7:20-21
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    92%

    20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

    21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    82%

    7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Jer 18:16
    80%

    16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • Jer 19:8
    79%

    8 And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    78%

    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • Jer 22:8
    78%

    8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

  • Amos 6:11
    78%

    11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Hag 1:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

    9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

  • Isa 5:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

    9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Amos 9:8
    74%

    8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

  • Jer 7:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

    11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

  • Jer 13:9
    74%

    9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 9:8-9
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    74%

    8 For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.

    9 I will make the family of Ahab like that of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and Baasha, the son of Ahijah.

  • Amos 3:15
    74%

    15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    74%

    9 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

  • Jer 26:6
    74%

    6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

  • Lam 2:7
    74%

    7 The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

  • Jer 22:5
    73%

    5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

  • Jer 26:9
    73%

    9 Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

  • Jer 7:14
    73%

    14 For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

  • Mic 6:16
    73%

    16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

  • Mic 3:12
    73%

    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Jer 2:12
    73%

    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

  • Lev 14:45
    73%

    45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    73%

    30 For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

  • Jer 9:19
    72%

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Jer 21:11
    72%

    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Jer 16:10
    72%

    10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Jer 49:17
    72%

    17 And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

  • Hag 1:4
    72%

    4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

  • Jer 45:4
    72%

    4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Isa 3:8
    72%

    8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

  • Jer 44:22
    72%

    22 And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • Deut 29:24
    72%

    24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

  • Ezek 9:9
    72%

    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

  • Jer 5:11
    72%

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Zech 8:6
    72%

    6 This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.

  • Amos 8:8
    72%

    8 Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
    72%

    22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

  • Amos 6:9
    72%

    9 Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.

  • Jer 9:12
    72%

    12 Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

  • Jer 7:30
    72%

    30 For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

  • 1 Kgs 8:42
    72%

    42 (For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm;) when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house: