6 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Israel Exanples

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will remove from the desert of Sin, according to their removings by the mouth of Jehovah; and they will encamp in Rephidim; and no water for the people to drink. And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah? And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?read more.
And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Pass over before the people and take with thee from the old men of Israel; and thy rod which thou didst strike with it the river, take in thy hand and go. And behold, I stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and strike upon the rock, and waters shall come forth from it, and the people drank. And Moses will do so before the eyes of the old men of Israel. And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?

And the people will see that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, and the people will assemble to Aaron, and will say to him, Arise, make to us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egyt, we shall not know what was to him. And Aaron will say to them, Break off the gold ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters, and bring to me. And all the people will break off the gold ear-rings which are in their ears, and they will bring to Aaron.read more.
And he will take from their hand, and will form it with a graver, and he will make it a molten calf: and they will say, These thy gods, Israel, who brought thee up from the land of Egypt And Aaron will see, and he will build an altar before it; and Aaron will call and say, A festival to Jehovah tomorrow. And they will rise early early on the morrow, and they will raise up a burnt-offering, and they will bring near peace; and the people will sit down to eat and drink, and they will rise up to play. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, Go, descend: for thy people were corrupted whom thou didst bring up out of the land of Egypt For they turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they made for them a molten calf, and worship to it, and will sacrifice to it, and will say, These thy gods, Israel, which raised thee up out of the land of Egypt And Jehovah will say to Moses, I saw this people, and behold, it a people of a hard neck And thou be at rest to me, and my wrath shall kindle against them, and I will consume them: and I will make thee into a great nation. And Moses will supplicate the face of Jehovah, his God, and will say, For what will thy wrath kindle against thy people which thou didst bring forth out of the land of Egypt by thy great power and with a strong hand? Lest the Egyptians shall speak, saying, With evil he brought them forth to kill them in the mountains, and to finish them from the face of the earth. Turn back from the heat of thy wrath, and repent concerning evil towards thy people Remember Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear to them by thyself, and thou wilt speak to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land which I said, I will give to your seed and they inherited forever. And Jehovah repented concerning the evil which he spake to do to his people. And Moses will turn and will go down from the mount, and the two tables of testimony in his hand: the tables were written from the two opposite sides; from hence and from thence they were written. And the tables they the work of God, and the writing the writing of God, it being cut in the tables. And Joshua will hear the voice of the people in making a loud noise, and he will say to Moses, A voice of war in the camp. And he will say, Not the voice of the shouting of victory, and not the voice of the shouting of defeat: the voice of shouting I heard. And it will be when he drew near to the camp, and he will see the calf and the lute: and the wrath of Moses will kindle, and he will cast the tables out of his hand, and he will break them under the mount And he will take the calf which they made, and will burn it in fire, and which he will crush even to small dust, and will scatter upon the face of the water, and will give the sons of Israel to drink. And Moses will say to Aaron, What did this people to thee that thou didst bring upon it a great sin? And Aaron will say, The wrath of my lord shall not kindle: thou knowest the people that it is in sin. And they will say to me; Make to us gods which shall go before us: for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we knew not what was to him. And I said to them, To whom is gold, he shall break it off. And they will give it to me, and I shall cast it into the fire and this calf will come out And Moses will see the people that it was uncovered (for Aaron uncovered it for overthrow among their enemies). And Moses will stand in the gate of the camp, and will say, Who for Jehovah? to me. And all the sons of Levi will assemble together to him. And he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, Put ye each his sword upon his thigh, and pass ye through and turn ye back from gate to gate in the camp, and slay ye each his brother, and each his friend, and each his near one. And the sons of Levi will do according to the word of Moses: and there will fall from the people in that day about three thousand men. And Moses will say, Fill your hand this day to Jehovah, for each upon his son and upon his brother, to give to you a blessing this day. And it shall be from the morrow, and Moses will say to the people, Ye sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I shall expiate for your sin. And Moses will turn back to Jehovah, and say, Ah, now, this people sinned a great sin, and they will make to them golden gods. And now if thou wilt, lift up their sin; and if not, wipe me off from thy book which thou didst write. And Jehovah will say to Moses, whoever that sinned against me I will wipe him off from my book' And now go, lead the people to where I spake to thee: behold, my messenger shall go before thee: and in the day of my reviewing, and I reviewed upon them their sin. And Jehovah will smite the people for their making the calf which Aaron made.

And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste. And he will give to them their asking; and he will send leanness into their soul. And they will be jealous. against Moses in the camp, against Aaron the holy of Jehovah.read more.
The earth will open and will swallow down Dathan, and will cover the assembly of Abiram. And a fire will be kindled in their assembly; the flame will burn up the unjust They will make a calf in Horeb, and they will worship to the molten image. And they will change their glory into the likeness of an ox eating grass. They forgat God saving them, doing great things in Egypt Wonders in the land of Ham, terrible things in the sea of sedge. And he will say to destroy them unless Moses his chosen stood in the breaking before him to turn away his wrath from destroying. And they will despise in the land of desire; they trusted not to his word: And they will murmur in their tents; they heard not to the voice of Jehovah. And he will lift up his hand against them: he will cause them to fall in the desert: And to cause their seed to fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. And they will be bound to Baalpeor, and they will eat the sacrifices of the dead. And they will irritate in their doings, and the blow will break upon them. And Phinehas will stand and intercede, and the blow will be restrained. And it will be reckoned to him for justice to generation and generation, even to forever. And they will anger him at the water of strife, and it will be evil to Moses on account of them: For they embittered his spirit, and he talked idly with his lips.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, will die, the son of a hundred and ten years. And they will bury him in the bound of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, in mount Ephraim, from the north to the mount of Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered to its fathers; and another generation will arise after them not knowing Jehovah, and also the works which he did to Israelread more.
And the sons of Israel will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and will serve the Baalims And they will forsake Jehovah the God of their fathers bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about them, and they will worship to them and provoke Jehovah. And they will forsake Jehovah, and will serve Baal and Ashtaroth. And the wrath of Jehovah will kindle against Israel, and he will give them into the hand of plunderers, and they will plunder them; and he will sell them into the hand of their enemies from round about, and they will no more be able to stand before the face of their enemies. In all where they will go forth, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah spake and as Jehovah sware to them: and he will press them greatly. And Jehovah will raise up judges, and they will save them from the hand of their plunderers. And also they will not hear to their judges, for they committed fornications after other gods, and they will worship to them: they turned aside quickly from the way which their fathers went to hear the commands of Jehovah; they did not so. And when Jehovah raised up to them judges, and Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them from the hand of their enemies all of the days of the judge: for Jehovah will grieve from their groaning from the face of those pressing them and thrusting them. And it was in the dying of the judge, they will turn back and be corrupted above their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them: they let nothing fall from their deeds and from their hard way. And the wrath of Jehovah will kindle against Israel; and he will say, Because that this nation passed by my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and heard not to my voice, I also will not add to drive out a man from their face from the nations which Joshua left, and he died, So as to try Israel by them, whether they are watching the way of Jehovah to go in them, as their fathers watched, or not. And Jehovah will leave these nations, not to drive them out quickly, and he gave them not into the hand of Joshua.

They did not destroy the peoples which Jehovah said to them. And they will mingle with the nations, and they will learn their works. And they will serve their images, and they will be for a snare to them.read more.
And they will sacrifice their sons and their daughters to lords. And they will pour out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters which they sacrificed to the images of Canaan: and the land will be polluted with bloods. And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings. And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against his people, and he will abhor his inheritance. And he will give them into the hand of the nations; and they hating them shall rule over them. And their enemies will press them, and they shall be humbled under their hand. Many times he will deliver them, and they will embitter with their counsel, and they will be brought low in their iniquity.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin concerning these? and in many nations was there not a king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God will give him king over all Israel: also him did women strangers cause to sin.