Judges 2:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

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  • Judg 2:14 : 14 The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.
  • Josh 23:16 : 16 If 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.”
  • Josh 24:21-25 : 21 The people said to Joshua,“No! We really will worship the LORD. 22 Joshua said to the people,“Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?” They replied,“We are witnesses!” 23 Joshua said,“Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the LORD God of Israel.” 24 The people said to Joshua,“We will worship the LORD our God and obey him.” 25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.
  • Judg 3:8 : 8 The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Armon-Haraim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.
  • Judg 10:7 : 7 The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to the Philistines and Ammonites.
  • Jer 31:32 : 32 It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.
  • Ezek 20:37 : 37 I will make you pass under the shepherd’s staff, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
  • Exod 24:3-8 : 3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,” 4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones– according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar. 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.” 8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
  • Exod 32:10-11 : 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.” 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
  • Deut 29:10-13 : 10 You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God– the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, 11 your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water– 12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today. 13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

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  • Jer 11:10
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    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

  • Judg 2:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11A Monotonous Cycle The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals.

    12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

  • Deut 29:27-28
    2 verses
    78%

    27That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

    28So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

  • Judg 2:14-15
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    78%

    14The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.

    15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

  • Zech 1:2
    78%

    2The LORD was very angry with your ancestors.

  • Num 32:13-14
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    78%

    13So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

    14Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.

  • Num 32:10
    77%

    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

  • Deut 1:34
    77%

    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Ps 78:21
    77%

    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Num 25:3
    77%

    3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

  • Ps 78:59
    77%

    59God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    77%

    12This happened because they did not obey the LORD their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the LORD’s servant, had commanded.

  • Judg 2:2
    77%

    2but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

  • 2 Kgs 21:15
    76%

    15because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

  • Josh 23:16
    76%

    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.”

  • Judg 10:7
    76%

    7The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to the Philistines and Ammonites.

  • Jer 9:13
    76%

    13The LORD answered,“This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.

  • Ps 106:40
    76%

    40So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

  • Judg 2:19
    75%

    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

  • Deut 29:25
    75%

    25Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 4:21
    75%

    21But the LORD became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

  • 2 Kgs 13:3
    75%

    3The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years.

  • Judg 2:17
    75%

    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Deut 1:37
    75%

    37As for me, the LORD was also angry with me on your account. He said,“You also will not be able to go there.

  • 2 Kgs 22:17
    75%

    17This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

  • Heb 8:9
    74%

    9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    74%

    22Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors, who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

  • Jer 32:32
    74%

    32I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness– they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have done this wickedness.

  • Jer 16:11
    74%

    11Then tell them that the LORD says,‘It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.

  • 2 Kgs 17:18
    74%

    18So the LORD was furious with Israel and rejected them; only the tribe of Judah was left.

  • Jer 32:30
    74%

    30This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me from their earliest history until now and because they have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. I, the LORD, affirm it!

  • Ezek 20:13
    74%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

  • 1 Kgs 11:9
    74%

    9The LORD was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions

  • Ezek 20:8
    74%

    8But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Lam 4:16
    74%

    16פ(Pe) The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; they did not show favor to the elders.

  • Josh 22:18
    74%

    18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

  • Josh 7:11
    73%

    11Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.

  • Deut 32:19
    73%

    19A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

  • Judg 2:21
    73%

    21So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died,

  • Jer 44:3
    73%

    3This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifice to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.

  • Exod 32:8
    73%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
    73%

    15They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 2 Chr 34:25
    73%

    25This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

  • Ezek 20:21
    73%

    21“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15
    73%

    15The LORD will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the LORD by making Asherah poles.

  • Deut 9:8
    73%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.