2 Chronicles 7:20

God's Charge To Solomon

¹⁹ "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ²¹ And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

Among the Nations

Byword Among All Nations

For My Name

Of the World

People of Israel

Set Apart

All The People Of The World

Israel

Deuteronomy 28:37

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

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the LORDuprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.'

1 Kings 9:7

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.

1 Kings 14:15

the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

2 Kings 17:20

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.

Nehemiah 4:1-4

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

Psalm 44:14

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

Psalm 52:5

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

Jeremiah 12:17

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

Jeremiah 18:7

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

Jeremiah 24:9

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.

Jeremiah 31:28

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.

Jeremiah 45:4

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.

Lamentations 2:15-16

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?"

Jude 1:12

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;