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• Leviticus 26:14

  “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

• Leviticus 26:15

  and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

• Leviticus 26:16

  I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

• Leviticus 26:17

  I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

• Leviticus 26:18

  “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:19

  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

• Leviticus 26:20

  Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

• Leviticus 26:21

  “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

• Leviticus 26:22

  I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

• Leviticus 26:23

  “‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

• Leviticus 26:24

  then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:25

  I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

• Leviticus 26:27

  “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

• Leviticus 26:28

  then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:29

  You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

• Leviticus 26:30

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Leviticus 26:31

  I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

• Leviticus 26:32

  I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

• Leviticus 26:33

  I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

• Leviticus 26:34

  Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

• Leviticus 26:35

  As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

• Leviticus 26:36

  “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

• Leviticus 26:37

  They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

• Leviticus 26:38

  You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

• Leviticus 26:39

  Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Leviticus 26:42

  then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

• Deuteronomy 8:11

  Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

• Deuteronomy 8:12

  lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;

• Deuteronomy 8:13

  and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

• Deuteronomy 8:14

  then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

• Deuteronomy 28:15

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.

• Deuteronomy 28:16

  You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

• Deuteronomy 28:17

  Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:18

  The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:19

  You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

• Deuteronomy 28:21

  Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:22

  Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:23

  Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

• Deuteronomy 28:24

  Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:25

  Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 28:26

  Your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Deuteronomy 28:27

  Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

• Deuteronomy 28:28

  Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 28:31

  Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:32

  Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  A nation which you don’t know eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;

• Deuteronomy 28:34

  so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

• Deuteronomy 28:35

  Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

• Deuteronomy 28:36

  Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:37

  You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

• Deuteronomy 28:41

  You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go into captivity.

• Deuteronomy 28:42

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• Deuteronomy 28:43

  The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

• Deuteronomy 28:44

  He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

• Deuteronomy 28:45

  All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 28:46

  They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

• Deuteronomy 28:47

  Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

• Deuteronomy 28:49

  Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;

• Deuteronomy 28:50

  a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,

• Deuteronomy 28:51

  and they will eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:52

  They will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

• Deuteronomy 28:54

  The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:58

  If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;

• Deuteronomy 28:59

  then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

• Deuteronomy 28:60

  He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.

• Deuteronomy 28:61

  Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

• Deuteronomy 28:63

  It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:64

  Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:65

  Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

• Deuteronomy 28:66

  Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

• Deuteronomy 28:67

  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

• Deuteronomy 28:68

  Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

• Deuteronomy 29:19

  and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

• Deuteronomy 29:20

  Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

• Deuteronomy 29:21

  Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

• Deuteronomy 29:22

  The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;

• Deuteronomy 29:24

  even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

• Deuteronomy 29:25

  Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

• Deuteronomy 29:26

  and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them.

• Deuteronomy 29:27

  Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.

• Deuteronomy 29:28

  Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

• Deuteronomy 32:16

  They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

• Deuteronomy 32:17

  They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

• Deuteronomy 32:18

  Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

• Deuteronomy 32:19

  Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

• Deuteronomy 32:20

  He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

• Deuteronomy 32:21

  They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

• Deuteronomy 32:22

  For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

• Deuteronomy 32:23

  “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

• Deuteronomy 32:24

  They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

• Deuteronomy 32:26

  I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

• Deuteronomy 32:27

  were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”

• Deuteronomy 32:28

  For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Deuteronomy 32:30

  How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

• Joshua 24:20

  If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

• Joshua 24:21

  The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”

• Joshua 24:22

  Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

• Joshua 24:23

  “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

• Joshua 24:24

  The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

• Joshua 24:25

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

• Joshua 24:26

  Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

• Joshua 24:27

  Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:27

  As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

• 1 Kings 9:6

  But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• 1 Kings 9:7

  then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

• 1 Kings 9:8

  Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

• 1 Kings 9:9

  and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 1 Kings 11:9

  Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

• 1 Kings 11:10

  and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.

• 1 Kings 11:11

  Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

• 1 Kings 11:12

  Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

• 1 Kings 11:13

  However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

• 1 Kings 11:14

  Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.

• 1 Kings 11:15

  For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

• 1 Kings 11:16

  (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

• 1 Kings 11:17

  Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.

• 1 Kings 11:18

  They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.

• 1 Kings 11:19

  Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

• 1 Kings 11:20

  The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

• 1 Kings 11:21

  When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

• 1 Kings 11:22

  Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?” He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”

• 1 Kings 11:23

  God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

• 1 Kings 11:24

  He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.

• 1 Kings 11:25

  He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

• 1 Kings 11:26

  Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

• 1 Kings 11:27

  This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

• 1 Kings 11:28

  The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

• 1 Kings 11:29

  At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

• 1 Kings 11:31

  He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

• 1 Kings 11:32

  (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

• 1 Kings 11:33

  because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:34

  “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

• 1 Kings 11:35

  but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

• 1 Kings 11:36

  To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

• 1 Kings 11:37

  I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

• 1 Kings 11:38

  It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

• 1 Kings 11:39

  I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”

• 1 Kings 11:40

  Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

• 2 Kings 21:22

  and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 21:23

  The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

• 2 Chronicles 12:1

  When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.

• 2 Chronicles 12:2

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

• 2 Chronicles 15:2

  and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

• 2 Chronicles 15:3

  Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

• 2 Chronicles 15:4

  But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

• 2 Chronicles 16:7

  At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.

• 2 Chronicles 16:8

  Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.

• 2 Chronicles 16:9

  For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:24

  For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

• 2 Chronicles 25:27

  Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Job 34:26

  He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

• Job 34:27

  because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

• Psalms 44:20

  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;

• Psalms 44:21

  won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Psalms 73:27

  For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

• Psalms 85:8

  I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

• Psalms 125:5

  But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

• Proverbs 2:17

  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

• Proverbs 14:14

  The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

• Proverbs 24:16

  for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

• Proverbs 26:11

  As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

• Isaiah 17:10

  For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

• Isaiah 17:11

  In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

• Jeremiah 17:13

  Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

• Ezekiel 3:20

  “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

• Ezekiel 18:24

  “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

• Ezekiel 23:35

  “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:13

  When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:18

  When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

• Hosea 11:7

  My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

• Hosea 11:8

  “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

• Jonah 1:3

  But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

• Jonah 2:4

  I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• Matthew 5:13

  “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

• Matthew 12:45

  Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

• Matthew 24:12

  Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

• Matthew 26:31

  Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

• Matthew 26:70

  But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

• Matthew 26:71

  When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

• Matthew 26:72

  Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

• Matthew 26:73

  After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

• Matthew 26:74

  Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

• Matthew 26:75

  Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.

• Mark 4:7

  Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 4:18

  Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Mark 8:38

  For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

• Mark 9:50

  Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 11:21

  “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

• Luke 11:22

  But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

• Luke 11:23

  “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

• Luke 11:24

  The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

• Luke 11:25

  When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

• Luke 11:26

  Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

• Luke 17:32

  Remember Lot’s wife!

• John 6:66

  At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

• John 6:67

  Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

• John 15:6

  If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• 1 Corinthians 5:1

  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

• 1 Corinthians 5:3

  For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

• 1 Corinthians 10:1

  Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

• 1 Corinthians 10:2

  and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

• 1 Corinthians 10:3

  and all ate the same spiritual food;

• 1 Corinthians 10:4

  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 10:5

  However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• 1 Corinthians 10:6

  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

• 1 Corinthians 10:7

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

• 1 Corinthians 10:9

  Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

• 1 Corinthians 10:10

  Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

• 1 Corinthians 10:12

  Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13

  No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

• 2 Corinthians 12:21

  that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

• Galatians 1:6

  I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

• Galatians 1:7

  and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

• Galatians 3:1

  Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

• Galatians 4:9

  But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

• Galatians 4:11

  I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

• Galatians 5:7

  You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

• 1 Timothy 1:19

  holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

• 1 Timothy 5:15

  For already some have turned aside after Satan.

• 1 Timothy 6:10

  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;

• 1 Timothy 6:21

  which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

• 2 Timothy 1:8

  Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

• 2 Timothy 2:12

  If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

• 2 Timothy 4:10

  for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

• Hebrews 3:12

  Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

• Hebrews 3:13

  but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

• Hebrews 4:1

  Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

• Hebrews 4:11

  Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

• Hebrews 5:11

  About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

• Hebrews 5:12

  For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

• Hebrews 6:4

  For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

• Hebrews 6:5

  and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

• Hebrews 6:6

  and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

• Hebrews 6:7

  For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

• Hebrews 6:8

  but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

• Hebrews 10:27

  but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

• Hebrews 10:28

  A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Hebrews 10:38

  But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

• Hebrews 10:39

  But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

• Hebrews 11:14

  For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

• Hebrews 11:15

  If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

• Hebrews 12:15

  looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

• 2 Peter 1:9

  For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

• 2 Peter 2:21

  For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

• 2 John 1:9

  Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

• Revelation 2:4

  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

• Revelation 2:5

  Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

• Revelation 2:21

  I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

• Revelation 3:2

  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

• Revelation 21:8

  But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”