2 Kings 17:25

World English Bible (2000)

So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:32 : 32 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children's children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
  • Jer 10:7 : 7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.
  • Jer 15:3 : 3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
  • Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
  • Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
  • Josh 22:25 : 25 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh."' So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.
  • 1 Kgs 20:36 : 36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
  • 2 Kgs 17:28 : 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:26-28
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    26Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land."

    27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land."

    28So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    79%

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

    13"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    74%

    36Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
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    24The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Jer 2:15
    73%

    15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

    25Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him."

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    73%

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

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

    7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    73%

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

    11The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    72%

    7It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who 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
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    72%

    32So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

    33They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

    34To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    72%

    7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

    8I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    71%

    2and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

    3She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    71%

    37The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

    38He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Judg 14:5
    71%

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

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Hos 11:10
    71%

    10They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

  • Jer 4:7
    70%

    7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    70%

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Joel 1:6
    70%

    6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Prov 30:30
    70%

    30The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

  • Isa 5:29
    70%

    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Dan 6:24
    69%

    24The king commanded, and they brought those men who 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 broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

  • Judg 2:15
    69%

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

  • Num 23:24
    69%

    24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
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    10The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

  • Ps 34:10
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    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    69%

    34David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Amos 5:19
    68%

    19As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • Zeph 3:3
    68%

    3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.