2 Chronicles 7:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jeremiah 19:8

Jeremiah 22:8

Ezekiel 20:48

Bible References

I pluck

And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.

Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land.

These are hidden reefsat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

A proverb

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?"

General references

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."