I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

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.

During Pekah's reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people to Assyria.

In the ninth year of Hoshea's reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

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.

He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power.

For

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.'"

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Because

"'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

"'You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

They shed innocent blood -- the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

"Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

It shall

For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail, 'We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.'"

For the Lord says, "I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it."

I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.

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for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.