Deuteronomy 31:17

God warns that His anger will be kindled, He will forsake them and hide His face, and many evils will come, leading them to recognize His absence. It matters because turning from God brings the withdrawal of His protective presence.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Chr 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
• Ps 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
• Judg 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
• Num 14:42Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
• Deut 29:24–27So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
• 1 Chr 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• Jer 23:33“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
• Isa 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
• Ps 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
• Hos 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
• Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
• Ezek 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Job 34:11For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
• 2 Chr 24:20Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
• Neh 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
• Isa 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
• Jer 23:39therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
• Ps 27:9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
• Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
• Ezek 39:23–24And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
• Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
• Judg 2:14–15Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
• Deut 32:20–22He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
• Ps 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

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