2 Chronicles 36:13

Zedekiah rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, breaking a sworn oath, and hardens his heart against returning to God. Stubborn unbelief and broken faith bring judgment.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
• Jer 52:2–3And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
• Ezek 17:11–20Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
• Josh 9:19–20But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
• Josh 9:15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
• 2 Kgs 24:20For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 17:4And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
• 2 Sam 21:2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
• Neh 9:16–17But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
• Neh 9:29And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
• Isa 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
• Heb 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
• Heb 3:8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
• Exod 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
• Rom 2:4–5Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Exod 9:17As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
• Exod 8:32And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

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