Deuteronomy 8:20

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Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Dan 9:11-12 : 11 “All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. 12 He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us– what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
  • 2 Chr 36:16-17 : 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. 17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.

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    19Now if you forget the LORD your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

  • Lev 26:38
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    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Deut 28:62-64
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    62There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

    63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

    64The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

  • Josh 23:15-16
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    15But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.

    16If you violate the covenantal laws of the LORD your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the LORD will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

  • Deut 4:26-27
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    26I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

    27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

  • Deut 30:18
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    18I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

  • Deut 31:3-5
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    3As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

    5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • Isa 60:12
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    12Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will definitely be destroyed.

  • Deut 28:20-21
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    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

    21The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

  • Deut 7:23-24
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    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

    24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

  • Deut 28:45
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    45All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.

  • Deut 20:15-18
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    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

    16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

    18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Jer 12:17
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    17But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” says the LORD.

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    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

    30After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
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    15But if you don’t obey the LORD and rebel against what the LORD says, the hand of the LORD will be against both you and your king.

  • Jer 5:19
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    19“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask,‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ tell them,‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’

  • Deut 28:15
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    28and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

  • Isa 1:20
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    20But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.

  • Deut 4:3
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    3You have witnessed what the LORD did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.

  • Deut 7:16
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    16Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

  • Jer 7:28
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    28So tell them:‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the LORD their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Num 14:43
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    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”

  • Deut 9:3
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    3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.

  • Deut 28:51
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    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Josh 23:13
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    13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Deut 28:25
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    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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    22So now be very sure of this: You will die from war, starvation, or disease in the place where you want to go and live.”

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    18Since you did not obey the LORD and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this thing to you today.

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    8You will return and obey the LORD, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today.

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    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”