2 Chronicles 7:20

God's Charge To Solomon

¹⁹ "But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods, ²⁰ then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations. ²¹ As for this temple, which was once majestic, everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, 'Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?'

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

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 29:28

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today."

1 Kings 9:7

then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.

2 Kings 17:20

So the Lord rejected all of Israel's descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

Nehemiah 4:1-4

Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,

Psalm 44:14

You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

Psalm 52:5

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Jeremiah 12:17

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,'" says the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:7

There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

Jeremiah 31:28

In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the Lord, affirm it!"

Jeremiah 45:4

The Lord told Jeremiah, "Tell Baruch, 'The Lord says, "I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.

Lamentations 2:15-16

(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. "Ha! Is this the city they called 'The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!'?"

Jude 1:12

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit -- twice dead, uprooted;