Bible Cross References
Wherefore
2 Chronicles 24:18
And so the people stopped worshiping in the Temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and began to worship idols and the images of the goddess Asherah. Their guilt for these sins brought the LORD's anger on Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:24
the following message from the LORD: "I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people with the curses written in the book that was read to the king.
2 Chronicles 34:25
They have rejected me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and so have stirred up my anger by all they have done. My anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down.
2 Chronicles 36:14-16
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In addition, the leaders of Judah, the priests, and the people followed the sinful example of the nations around them in worshiping idols, and so they defiled the Temple, which the LORD himself had made holy.
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The LORD, the God of their ancestors, had continued to send prophets to warn his people, because he wanted to spare them and the Temple.
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But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.
Deuteronomy 28:15-20
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"But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
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"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
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"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
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"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
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"The LORD will curse everything you do.
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"If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.
trouble
Deuteronomy 28:25
"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
to astonishment
Leviticus 26:32
I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
Deuteronomy 28:59
he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
1 Kings 9:8
This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. 'Why did the LORD do this to this land and this Temple?' they will ask.
Jeremiah 18:15
Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to idols. They have stumbled in the way they should go; they no longer follow the old ways; they walk on unmarked paths.
Jeremiah 18:16
They have made this land a thing of horror, to be despised forever. All who pass by will be shocked at what they see; they will shake their heads in amazement.
Jeremiah 19:8
I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.
Jeremiah 25:9
'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse---as they still do.
Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with war, starvation, and disease, and all the nations of the world will be horrified at what they see. Everywhere I scatter them, people will be shocked and terrified at what has happened to them. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.