Do not bring any of these idols into your homes, or the same curse will be on you that is on them. You must hate and despise these idols, because they are under the LORD's curse.

and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."

This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They retreat from them because they themselves have now been condemned to destruction! I will not stay with you any longer unless you destroy the things you were ordered not to take!

So hand over seven of his male descendants, and we will hang them before the LORD at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the LORD's chosen king." "I will hand them over," the king answered.

for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ.

But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."

Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!

Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

Their actions made the land unclean, and so the LORD is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there.

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Do not defile the land where you are living, because I am the LORD and I live among the people of Israel."