Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
They have forsaken
General references
Bible References
They have forsaken
1 Kings 19:10
He said: I have been zealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts. The children of Israel have not kept your agreement (covenant). They have destroyed your altars. They killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I, am the only one living. Now they seek to take my life too.
Isaiah 24:1
Jehovah lays the earth waste, annihilates it, disfigures its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 22:9
They will answer: 'Because they abandoned the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.'
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah.
Hebrews 8:9
It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.
General references
Jeremiah 22:8
Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?
Lamentations 4:12
To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the enemy would enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 20:48
Then everyone will know that I, Jehovah, started the fire. It will never be put out.'
Ezekiel 36:34
The wasteland will be cultivated. It will no longer remain empty for everyone passing by to see.
Luke 17:29
But when Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.