2 Kings 17:20

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Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali. He took the people into exile to Assyria.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.
  • 2 Kgs 13:3 : 3 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He handed them over to Hazael, king of Aram, and to Ben-Hadad son of Hazael, for all their days.
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Nothing was left for Jehoahaz's army except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust to be trampled.
  • 2 Kgs 15:18-20 : 18 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. During all his days, he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit. 19 Then Pul, king of Assyria, invaded the land, and Menahem gave him a thousand talents of silver to gain his support and strengthen his hold on the kingdom. 20 Menahem exacted the silver from Israel, from all the wealthy men, demanding fifty shekels of silver from each to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
  • Deut 11:12 : 12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; His eyes are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
  • 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.
  • 1 Sam 15:26 : 26 But Samuel replied to Saul, 'I will not go back with you, because you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.'
  • 1 Sam 16:1 : 1 The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."
  • Jer 31:36-37 : 36 Only if these decrees vanish from my sight, declares the LORD, will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me. 37 This is what the LORD says: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation. 25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, declares the Lord, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you justly, but I will not leave you entirely unpunished.
  • Jonah 1:3 : 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
  • Jonah 1:10 : 10 Then the men were terrified, and they said to him, "What have you done?" For they knew he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them so.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.
  • 2 Kgs 17:18 : 18 So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
  • 1 Chr 16:13 : 13 You descendants of Israel, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • 2 Chr 28:5-6 : 5 Therefore, the LORD his God allowed him to fall into the hands of the king of Aram. They defeated him, took a great number of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who inflicted a heavy defeat on him. 6 Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah in one day because they had abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
  • Neh 9:2 : 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, stood, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.
  • Neh 9:27-28 : 27 So You handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But in their time of distress, they cried out to You, and You heard from heaven. In Your great mercy, You gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies. 28 But as soon as they had rest, they returned to doing evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to their enemies, who ruled over them. Yet when they again cried out to You, You heard from heaven and rescued them many times in Your abundant mercy.
  • Isa 45:25 : 25 But in the LORD all the descendants of Israel will be justified and will boast.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:21-23
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    21For when Israel was torn from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and led them into great sin.

    22The Israelites persisted in all the sins Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

    23Finally, the Lord removed Israel from His presence as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So the Israelites were exiled from their own land to Assyria, and they remain there to this day.

  • Jer 7:15
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    15And I will cast you out of my presence, just as I cast out all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.

  • 2 Kgs 17:18-19
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    18So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

    19But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • Judg 2:14-15
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    14The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, and they could no longer stand before their enemies.

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring disaster on them, as the LORD had said and sworn to them. And they were in great distress.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15-16
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    15The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

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  • Hos 8:3
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    3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
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    7This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods.

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • Deut 29:28
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    28The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

  • Jer 31:37
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    37This is what the LORD says: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done, declares the LORD.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16The LORD Himself has scattered them; He will no longer watch over them. The priests are not honored, and the elders receive no favor.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
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    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
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    15They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • Deut 29:21
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    21Future generations—your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country—will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.

  • Lam 2:7
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    7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15Indeed, the LORD's hand was against them, eliminating them from within the camp until they were all destroyed.

  • Ps 106:27
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    27to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

  • Deut 32:19
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    19The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Deut 28:20
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    20The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • 2 Kgs 23:27
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    27The LORD said, 'I will also remove Judah from my presence as I removed Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’'

  • Jer 23:39
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    39therefore I will surely forget you and cast you out of My presence along with the city I gave to you and your fathers.

  • Zech 7:14
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    14'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • Jer 33:24
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    24Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Lam 2:2
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    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.

  • Hos 8:8
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    8Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.

  • Jer 7:29
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    29Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

  • Jer 33:26
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    26then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
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    7This command was evil in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

  • Jer 44:22
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    22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Judg 2:20
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    20Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • 2 Kgs 14:26
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    26For the LORD saw how bitter the suffering of Israel was; there was no one to help, neither slave nor free.

  • Amos 9:8
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    8'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • Jer 3:20
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    20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

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    2The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength!

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    19So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

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    24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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    34This response became a sin to the house of Jeroboam, leading to its downfall and destruction from the face of the earth.

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    9I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.