2 Chronicles 30:7

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Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

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  • 2 Chr 29:8 : 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.
  • Ezek 20:13-18 : 13 But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them. 14 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out. 15 And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands; 16 Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images. 17 But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land. 18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
  • Zech 1:3-4 : 3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you. 4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

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  • 2 Chr 30:8
    82%

    8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

  • Zech 1:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

    5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

  • Ps 78:8
    77%

    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • Jer 16:11-12
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    76%

    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

    12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

  • Num 32:14-15
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    76%

    14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Lam 5:7
    75%

    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

  • 2 Chr 30:6
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    6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    75%

    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

  • Jer 44:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

    15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • Jer 7:26
    74%

    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
    74%

    19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

  • Jer 11:10
    74%

    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 2:5
    74%

    5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • Isa 31:6
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    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
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    22 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

  • Isa 7:17
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    17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

  • Zech 1:2
    73%

    2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

    11 And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    73%

    6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    73%

    9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • Deut 12:30
    73%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

  • Jer 3:20
    73%

    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:19
    73%

    19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    73%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Ezek 20:30
    72%

    30 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?

  • Deut 8:20
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    20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Jer 7:6
    72%

    6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

  • Deut 7:4
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    4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Jer 25:5-6
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    5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • 1 Chr 5:25
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    25 And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

  • Neh 9:35
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    35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

  • Lev 26:39
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    39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    72%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Deut 11:16
    72%

    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • Judg 2:2
    72%

    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Deut 12:4
    72%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.