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 has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
Hosea 14:4
"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my 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 unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
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 for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

They called them

Hosea 11:2
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 30:1
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalm 81:11
But my people did not listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Amos 5:4
For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;