Bible Cross References
possessed
Nehemiah 9:15
"When they were hungry, you gave them bread from heaven, and water from a rock when they were thirsty. You told them to take control of the land which you had promised to give them.
Nehemiah 9:22-25
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"You let them conquer nations and kingdoms, lands that bordered their own. They conquered the land of Heshbon, where Sihon ruled, and the land of Bashan, where Og was king.
23
You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky, and let them conquer and live in the land that you had promised their ancestors to give them.
24
They conquered the land of Canaan; you overcame the people living there. You gave your people the power to do as they pleased with the people and kings of Canaan.
25
Your people captured fortified cities, fertile land, houses full of wealth, cisterns already dug, olive trees, fruit trees, and vineyards. They ate all they wanted and grew fat; they enjoyed all the good things you gave them.
Psalm 44:2
how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
Psalm 44:3
Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
Psalm 78:54
He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.
Psalm 78:55
He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.
Psalm 105:44
He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,
Psalm 105:45
so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the LORD!
but
Jeremiah 7:23
But I did command them to obey me, so that I would be their God and they would be my people. And I told them to live the way I had commanded them, so that things would go well for them.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they did not obey or pay any attention. Instead, they did whatever their stubborn and evil hearts told them to do, and they became worse instead of better.
Jeremiah 11:7
When I brought their ancestors out of Egypt, I solemnly warned them to obey me, and I have kept on warning the people until this day.
Jeremiah 11:8
But they did not listen or obey. Instead, everyone continued to be as stubborn and evil as ever. I had commanded them to keep the covenant, but they refused. So I brought on them all the punishments described in it."
Judges 2:11-13
11
Then the people of Israel sinned against the LORD and began to serve the Baals.
12
They stopped worshiping the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God who had brought them out of Egypt, and they began to worship other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and made the LORD angry.
13
They stopped worshiping the LORD and served the Baals and the Astartes.
Judges 10:6-18
6
Once again the Israelites sinned against the LORD by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of Philistia. They abandoned the LORD and stopped worshiping him.
7
So the LORD became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.
8
For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.
9
The Ammonites even crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was in great distress.
10
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD and said, "We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshiped the Baals."
11
The LORD gave them this answer: "The Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
12
the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you in the past, and you cried out to me. Did I not save you from them?
13
But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.
14
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."
15
But the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned. Do whatever you like, but please, save us today."
16
So they got rid of their foreign gods and worshiped the LORD; and he became troubled over Israel's distress.
17
Then the Ammonite army prepared for battle and camped in Gilead. The people of Israel came together and camped at Mizpah in Gilead.
18
There the people and the leaders of the Israelite tribes asked one another, "Who will lead the fight against the Ammonites? Whoever does will be the leader of everyone in Gilead."
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our ancestors until now, we, your people, have sinned greatly. Because of our sins we, our kings, and our priests have fallen into the hands of foreign kings, and we have been slaughtered, robbed, and carried away as prisoners. We have been totally disgraced, as we still are today.
Nehemiah 9:26-30
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"But your people rebelled and disobeyed you; they turned their backs on your Law. They killed the prophets who warned them, who told them to turn back to you. They insulted you time after time,
27
so you let their enemies conquer and rule them. In their trouble they called to you for help, and you answered them from heaven. In your great mercy you sent them leaders who rescued them from their foes.
28
When peace returned, they sinned again, and again you let their enemies conquer them. Yet when they repented and asked you to save them, in heaven you heard, and time after time you rescued them in your great mercy.
29
You warned them to obey your teachings, but in pride they rejected your laws, although keeping your Law is the way to life. Hard-headed and stubborn, they refused to obey.
30
Year after year you patiently warned them. You inspired your prophets to speak, but your people were deaf, so you let them be conquered by other nations.
Ezekiel 20:8
But they defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:18
Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:21
"But that generation also defied me. They broke my laws and did not keep my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to kill them all.
Daniel 9:4-6
4
I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed the sins of my people. I said, "Lord God, you are great, and we honor you. You are faithful to your covenant and show constant love to those who love you and do what you command.
5
"We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.
6
We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers, our ancestors, and our whole nation.
Daniel 9:10-14
10
We did not listen to you, O LORD our God, when you told us to live according to the laws which you gave us through your servants the prophets.
11
All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.
12
You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,
13
giving us all the punishment described in the Law of Moses. But even now, O LORD our God, we have not tried to please you by turning from our sins or by following your truth.
14
You, O LORD our God, were prepared to punish us, and you did, because you always do what is right, and we did not listen to you.
Zechariah 1:2-4
2
The LORD Almighty told Zechariah to say to the people, "I, the LORD, was very angry with your ancestors,
3
but now I say to you, 'Return to me, and I will return to you.
4
Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.
they have
Luke 17:10
It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, 'We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.' "
John 15:14
And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
Galatians 3:10
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, "Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!"
James 2:10
Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all.
therefore
Leviticus 26:14-46
14
The LORD said, "If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished.
15
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
16
I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
17
I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
19
I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.
20
All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
22
I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
23
"If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,
24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
25
I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
26
I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
27
"If after all of this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
29
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
30
I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
31
I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
32
I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
33
I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
34
Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
35
(SEE 26:34)
36
"I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
37
You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
38
You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
39
The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
40
"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
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and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
42
I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
43
First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
44
But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God.
45
I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God."
46
All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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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:
16
"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
17
"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
18
"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
19
"The LORD will curse everything you do.
20
"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.
21
He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
22
The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
23
No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
24
Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
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.
26
When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
27
The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
28
The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
29
You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
30
"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
31
Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
32
Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
34
Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
35
The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
36
"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
37
In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
38
"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
39
You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
40
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
41
You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
42
All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
43
"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
44
They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
45
"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
46
They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
47
The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
48
So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
49
The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
50
They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
51
They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
52
They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
55
(SEE 28:54)
56
Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
57
(SEE 28:56)
58
"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
59
he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
60
He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
61
He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
62
Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63
Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
64
"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
65
You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
66
Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
67
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
68
The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Joshua 23:16
If you do not keep the covenant which the LORD your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given you."
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our ancestors until now, we, your people, have sinned greatly. Because of our sins we, our kings, and our priests have fallen into the hands of foreign kings, and we have been slaughtered, robbed, and carried away as prisoners. We have been totally disgraced, as we still are today.
Lamentations 1:8
Her honor is gone; she is naked and held in contempt. She groans and hides her face in shame. Jerusalem made herself filthy with terrible sin.
Lamentations 1:18
"But the LORD is just, for I have disobeyed him. Listen to me, people everywhere; look at me in my pain. My young men and women have been taken away captive.
Lamentations 5:16
Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.
Lamentations 5:17
We are sick at our very hearts and can hardly see through our tears,
Daniel 9:11
All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.
Daniel 9:12
You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,