Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

Bible References

Because

Deuteronomy 29:25
And they said, Because they left the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he made with them; in his bringing them forth from the land of Egypt
2 Chronicles 7:22
And they said, Because they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers who brought them forth from the land of Egypt; and they will lay hold upon other gods and worship to them, and serve them: for this he brought upon them all this evil
Jeremiah 2:10
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider greatly, and see whether there was like this.
Jeremiah 5:19
And it was when ye shalt say, For what did Jehovah our God all these things to us? and thou saidst to them, As ye forsook me, and ye will serve a strange god in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not to you.
Jeremiah 16:10
And being when thou shalt announce to this people all these words, and they said to thee, For what did Jehovah speak against us all this great evil? and what our iniquities? and what our sins which we sinned to Jehovah our God?
Jeremiah 50:7
All finding them consumed them: and their adversaries said, We shall not transgress, for they sinned against Jehovah the habitation of justice, and the hope of their fathers, Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:16
All thine enemies opened wide their mouth upon thee: they hissed and they will gnash the teeth: they said, We swallowed down: surely this the day we longed for; we found; we saw.
Lamentations 4:13
From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst,
Ezekiel 36:17
Son of man, the house of Israel dwelling upon their land, and they will defile it with their way and with their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of her set apart.
Zephaniah 1:4
And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests

General references

Deuteronomy 28:59
And Jehovah made thy smiting wonderful, and the smitings of thy seed, great and lasting blows, and evil and lasting diseases.
Deuteronomy 29:24
And all the nations said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?
Jeremiah 22:8
And many nations passed through this city, and they said a man to his neighbor, For what did Jehovah thus to this great city?
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth believed not, and all those dwelling in the habitable globe, that the enemy will come in to the gates of Jerusalem.