2 Chronicles 7:20

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Summary

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

I pluck

Jude 1:12

A proverb

General references

Bible References

I pluck

So the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had banished them from His presence.

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

However, if they will not obey, then I will uproot and destroy that nation.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.

Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I be attentive to build and to plant them,” says the Lord.

“This is what you are to say to him: ‘This is what the Lord says: What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot—the whole land!

These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

A proverb

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious. He mocked the Jews

You make us a joke among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.

I will make them an object of horror and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

ס SamekAll who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock

and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?

General references

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.

“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’

Then all people will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be extinguished.”

See, your house is left to you desolate.