2 Kings 17:25

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:32 : 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
  • Jer 10:7 : 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
  • Jer 15:3 : 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
  • Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
  • Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he [is] the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said unto them, I [am] an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry [land].
  • Josh 22:25 : 25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
  • 1 Kgs 20:36 : 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
  • 2 Kgs 17:28 : 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:26-28
    3 verses
    89%

    26Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

    27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

    28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

  • Nah 2:11-13
    3 verses
    79%

    11¶ Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

    13Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    74%

    36Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
    73%

    24¶ And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

  • Jer 5:6
    73%

    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

  • Jer 2:15
    73%

    15The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
    3 verses
    73%

    24And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

    25And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told [it] in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

    26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.

    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    72%

    7¶ For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-34
    3 verses
    72%

    32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

    33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

    34Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:

    8I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

    3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

    38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

  • Judg 14:5
    71%

    5Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

  • Hos 11:10
    71%

    10They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

  • Jer 4:7
    70%

    7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    70%

    12Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Joel 1:6
    70%

    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Prov 30:30
    70%

    30A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

  • Isa 5:29
    70%

    29Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].

  • Dan 6:24
    69%

    24And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

  • Judg 2:15
    69%

    15Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

  • Num 23:24
    69%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    69%

    10¶ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

  • Ps 34:10
    69%

    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    69%

    34And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Amos 5:19
    68%

    19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • Zeph 3:3
    68%

    3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.