'Abandon' in the Bible
For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”
Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”
But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.
I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
“But as soon as they had rest, they did evil again before You;Therefore You abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them.When they cried again to You, You heard from heaven,And many times You rescued them according to Your compassion,
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol;Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
Do not hide Your face from me,Do not turn Your servant away in anger;You have been my help;Do not abandon me nor forsake me,O God of my salvation!
For the Lord will not abandon His people,Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
For I give you sound teaching;Do not abandon my instruction.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water,So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
If the ruler’s temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses.
“For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young,Because there is no grass.
“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, ‘What is the oracle of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will abandon you.’
‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.
“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades,Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
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- Abandon (107 instances)
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- Empty (146 instances)
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- Relinquish (1 instance)
- Vacate (1 instance)
- Wantonness (8 instances)
- Wildness (1 instance)