Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

Bible References

Are bent

Hosea 4:16
For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
Psalm 78:57
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man'shall be satisfied from himself.
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

They called them

Hosea 11:2
The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to him that is on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 30:1
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Psalm 81:11
But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.
Amos 5:4
For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

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