Deuteronomy 8:20

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Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

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  • Dan 9:11-12 : 11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice. So the curse and oath written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him. 12 He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and our rulers who governed us, bringing on us a great disaster. Nothing like it has ever been done under the entire heaven as what has been done in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:16-17 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy. 17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their sanctuary and showed no mercy to young men, young women, the elderly, or the infirm; God delivered them all into his hand.

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  • Deut 8:19
    83%

    19If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

  • Lev 26:38
    80%

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Deut 28:62-64
    3 verses
    79%

    62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

    63Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

    64Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

  • Josh 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

    16If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.

  • Deut 4:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely be quickly destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not extend your days there but will be utterly destroyed.

    27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • Deut 30:18
    77%

    18I declare to you today that you shall surely perish and will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

  • Deut 31:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3The LORD your God himself will cross ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall take possession of them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

    4And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he destroyed.

    5The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must act toward them according to the entire commandment I have instructed you.

  • Isa 60:12
    76%

    12For any nation or kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.

  • Deut 28:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    21The LORD will cause pestilence to cling to you until He has consumed you from the land that you are entering to possess.

  • Deut 7:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great panic until they are destroyed.

    24He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under the heavens. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

  • Deut 28:45
    76%

    45All these curses will come upon you, pursue you, and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that He commanded you.

  • Deut 20:15-18
    4 verses
    75%

    15This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not part of the cities of these nations.

    16But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

    17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Jer 12:17
    75%

    17'But if they do not obey, I will completely uproot and destroy that nation,' declares the LORD.

  • Deut 12:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29When the Lord your God cuts off the nations before you, the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

    30be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

  • Lev 20:23
    74%

    23Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    74%

    15But if you do not obey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.

  • Jer 5:19
    74%

    19And when you ask, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you are to tell them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.'

  • Deut 28:15
    74%

    15But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

  • Deut 11:28
    74%

    28and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside from the way I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

  • Isa 1:20
    74%

    20But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  • Deut 4:3
    74%

    3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for every man who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God destroyed him from among you.

  • Deut 7:16
    73%

    16You shall destroy all the nations the LORD your God is giving over to you. Do not look on them with pity, and do not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

  • Jer 7:28
    73%

    28So you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept discipline; truth has perished and is cut off from their lips.'

  • Deut 11:17
    73%

    17Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no produce. Then you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.

  • Num 14:43
    73%

    43For the Amalekites and Canaanites are there to confront you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.

  • Deut 9:3
    73%

    3But understand today that the LORD your God is the one crossing ahead of you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and subdue them before you, so you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

  • Deut 28:51
    73%

    51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

  • Josh 23:13
    73%

    13then you can be certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 7:2
    73%

    2and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy.

  • Deut 28:25
    73%

    25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Judg 2:2
    73%

    2But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • Josh 24:20
    73%

    20If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring harm to you and destroy you, after He has been good to you.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    72%

    7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • Jer 42:22
    72%

    22Now therefore be certain of this: You will die by the sword, famine, and plague in the place where you desire to go to settle.

  • Deut 28:37
    72%

    37You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    72%

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

  • Deut 30:8
    72%

    8And you will again obey the LORD and follow all His commandments that I am giving you today.

  • Num 32:15
    72%

    15If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."