When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
Parallel translations
- KJV When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
- BSB On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
- NKJV When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,
- NASB When God heard them, He was filled with wrath And He utterly rejected Israel;
- NLT When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 106:40Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- Lam 2:7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
- Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Gen 18:20–21Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
- Ps 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Lev 20:23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Ps 14:2–5Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
- Lev 26:44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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