Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
The people
General references
Bible References
The people
Isaiah 1:5
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 26:11
The LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
2 Chronicles 28:22
In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
Job 36:13
"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do your eyes not look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
Ezekiel 24:13
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Neither
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the LORD.
Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days, and in that time,' says the LORD, 'the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek the LORD their God.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
General references
Ezekiel 22:24
"Son of man, tell her, 'You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.'