Bible Cross References
Forasmuch
Isaiah 10:6
I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."
Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah: You swear by the name of the LORD and claim to worship the God of Israel--- but you don't mean a word you say.
Isaiah 48:2
And yet you are proud to say that you are citizens of the holy city and that you depend on Israel's God, whose name is the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 58:2
They worship me every day, claiming that they are eager to know my ways and obey my laws. They say they want me to give them just laws and that they take pleasure in worshiping me."
Isaiah 58:3
The people ask, "Why should we fast if the LORD never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?" The LORD says to them, "The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.
Psalm 17:1
Listen, O LORD, to my plea for justice; pay attention to my cry for help! Listen to my honest prayer.
Jeremiah 3:10
And after all this, Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, only pretended to return to me; she was not sincere. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 5:2
Even though you claim to worship the LORD, you do not mean what you say.
Jeremiah 12:2
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bear fruit. They always speak well of you, yet they do not really care about you.
Jeremiah 42:2-4
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and said to me, "Please do what we ask you! Pray to the LORD our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us; but now only a few of us are left, as you can see.
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Pray that the LORD our God will show us the way we should go and what we should do."
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I answered, "Very well, then. I will pray to the LORD our God, just as you have asked, and whatever he says, I will tell you. I will not keep back anything from you."
Jeremiah 42:20-4
Ezekiel 33:31-33
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So my people crowd in to hear what you have to say, but they don't do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.
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To them you are nothing more than an entertainer singing love songs or playing a harp. They listen to all your words and don't obey a single one of them.
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But when all your words come true---and they will come true---then they will know that a prophet has been among them."
Matthew 15:7-9
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You hypocrites! How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you!
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'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "
their fear
2 Chronicles 29:1-31
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Hezekiah became king of Judah at the age of twenty-five, and he ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
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Following the example of his ancestor King David, he did what was pleasing to the LORD.
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In the first month of the year after Hezekiah became king, he reopened the gates of the Temple and had them repaired.
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He assembled a group of priests and Levites in the east courtyard of the Temple
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and spoke to them there. He said, "You Levites are to consecrate yourselves and purify the Temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove from the Temple everything that defiles it.
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Our ancestors were unfaithful to the LORD our God and did what was displeasing to him. They abandoned him and turned their backs on the place where he dwells.
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They closed the doors of the Temple, let the lamps go out, and failed to burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the Temple of the God of Israel.
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Because of this the LORD has been angry with Judah and Jerusalem, and what he has done to them has shocked and frightened everyone. You know this very well.
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Our fathers were killed in battle, and our wives and children have been taken away as prisoners.
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"I have now decided to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that he will no longer be angry with us.
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My sons, do not lose any time. You are the ones that the LORD has chosen to burn incense to him and to lead the people in worshiping him."
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The following Levites were there: From the clan of Kohath, Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah From the clan of Merari, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel From the clan of Gershon, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah From the clan of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel From the clan of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah From the clan of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei From the clan of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel
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(SEE 29:12)
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(SEE 29:12)
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These men assembled their fellow Levites, and they all made themselves ritually clean. Then, as the king had commanded them to do, they began to make the Temple ritually clean, according to the Law of the LORD.
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The priests went inside the Temple to purify it, and they carried out into the Temple courtyard everything that was ritually unclean. From there the Levites took it all outside the city to Kidron Valley.
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The work was begun on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day they had finished it all, including the entrance room to the Temple. Then they worked for the next eight days, until the sixteenth of the month, preparing the Temple for worship.
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The Levites made the following report to King Hezekiah: "We have completed the ritual purification of the whole Temple, including the altar for burnt offerings, the table for the sacred bread, and all their equipment.
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We have also brought back all the equipment which King Ahaz took away during those years he was unfaithful to God, and we have rededicated it. It is all in front of the LORD's altar."
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Without delay King Hezekiah assembled the leading men of the city, and together they went to the Temple.
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As an offering to take away the sins of the royal family and of the people of Judah and to purify the Temple, they took seven bulls, seven sheep, seven lambs, and seven goats. The king told the priests, who were descendants of Aaron, to offer the animals as sacrifices on the altar.
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The priests killed the bulls first, then the sheep, and then the lambs, and sprinkled the blood of each sacrifice on the altar.
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Finally they took the goats to the king and to the other worshipers, who laid their hands on them.
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Then the priests killed the goats and poured their blood on the altar as a sacrifice to take away the sin of all the people, for the king had commanded that burnt offerings and sin offerings be made for all Israel.
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The king followed the instructions that the LORD had given to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan; he stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals,
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instruments like those that King David had used. The priests also stood there with trumpets.
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Hezekiah gave the order for the burnt offering to be presented; and as the offering began, the people sang praise to the LORD, and the musicians began to play the trumpets and all the other instruments.
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Everyone who was there joined in worship, and the singing and the rest of the music continued until all the sacrifices had been burned.
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Then King Hezekiah and all the people knelt down and worshiped God.
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The king and the leaders of the nation told the Levites to sing to the LORD the songs of praise that were written by David and by Asaph the prophet. So everyone sang with great joy as they knelt and worshiped God.
31
Hezekiah said to the people, "Now that you are ritually clean, bring sacrifices as offerings of thanksgiving to the LORD." They obeyed, and some of them also voluntarily brought animals to be sacrificed as burnt offerings.
Proverbs 30:6
If you claim that he said something that he never said, he will reprimand you and show that you are a liar."
Matthew 15:2-6
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"Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"
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Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?
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For God said, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This belongs to God,'
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they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.
Mark 7:2-13
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They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean---that is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should.
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(For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way;
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nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )
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So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, "Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"
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Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: 'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
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"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
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And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
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For Moses commanded, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and, 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),
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they are excused from helping their father or mother.
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In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."
Colossians 2:22
All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.