Topic
INGRATITUDE
OF MAN TO GOD NUM 16:9,10; DEU 8:12-14; 6:11,12; 28:47,48; 31:16; 32:6,13,15,18; JDG 2:10-12; 8:34,35; 10:11,14; NEH 9:25,35; PSA 106:7,21; JER 2:6,7; 1SA 8:7,8; 10:19; 15:17,19; 2SA 12:7-9; 1KI 16:1-
Passages on this topic · 131
- Genesis 40:23
Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- Exodus 16:3
and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
- Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
- Exodus 17:3
The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
- Exodus 17:4
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
- Numbers 16:9
Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
- Numbers 16:10
and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?
- Numbers 16:12
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
- Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
- Numbers 16:14
Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
- Deuteronomy 6:11
and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
- Deuteronomy 6:12
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- 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 28:47
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 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
- Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
- 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 32:18
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
- Judges 2:10
After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
- Judges 2:11
The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
- Judges 2:12
They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
- Judges 8:34
The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
- Judges 8:35
neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
- Judges 9:17
(for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
- Judges 9:18
and you have risen up against my father’s house today, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- Judges 10:11
Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
- Judges 10:14
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
- 1 Samuel 8:7
Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
- 1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.
- 1 Samuel 10:19
But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
- 1 Samuel 15:17
Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
- 1 Samuel 15:19
Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
- 1 Samuel 23:5
David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
- 1 Samuel 23:6
When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:7
Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
- 1 Samuel 23:8
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
- 1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
- 1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
- 1 Samuel 23:11
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Yahweh said, “He will come down.”
- 1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
- 1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
- 2 Samuel 11:6
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
- 2 Samuel 11:7
When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
- 2 Samuel 11:8
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
- 2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 11:10
When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
- 2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
- 2 Samuel 11:12
David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
- 2 Samuel 11:13
When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 11:14
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- 2 Samuel 11:15
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
- 2 Samuel 11:16
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
- 2 Samuel 11:17
The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
- 2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 12:8
I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
- 2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kings 2:5
“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:6
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
- 1 Kings 16:1
Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
- 1 Kings 16:2
“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
- 1 Kings 16:3
behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
- 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 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
- 2 Chronicles 26:15
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
- 2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 9:25
They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
- Nehemiah 9:35
For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They did not turn from their wicked works.
- Psalms 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
- Psalms 35:12
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
- Psalms 35:15
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
- Psalms 35:16
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Psalms 38:20
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
- Psalms 41:9
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
- Psalms 78:16
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- Psalms 78:17
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- Psalms 78:27
He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
- Psalms 78:28
He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.
- Psalms 78:29
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
- Psalms 78:30
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
- Psalms 78:31
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
- Psalms 78:32
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
- Psalms 106:7
Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
- Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
- Psalms 109:5
They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- Proverbs 17:13
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
- Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
- Isaiah 1:2
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
- Jeremiah 2:6
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
- Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
- Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
- Jeremiah 2:31
Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
- Jeremiah 5:7
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
- Jeremiah 5:9
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh; “and shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 5:24
Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
- Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Ezekiel 16:17
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
- Ezekiel 16:18
You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
- Ezekiel 16:19
My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 16:20
“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
- Ezekiel 16:21
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
- Ezekiel 16:22
In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
- Daniel 5:18
You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
- Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Daniel 5:21
and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
- Hosea 2:8
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
- Hosea 4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
- Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
- Hosea 7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
- Hosea 11:1
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Hosea 11:3
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.
- Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Amos 3:1
Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
- Amos 3:2
“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
- Micah 6:3
My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
- Micah 6:4
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
- Luke 17:17
Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
- Luke 17:18
Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?”
- John 1:11
He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
- Romans 1:21
Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- 2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).