Nehemiah 13:18

Nehemiah Begins Sabbath Reforms

¹⁷ Then I contended with the ranking men of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ¹⁸ Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? Yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ¹⁹ And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath. And I set some of my servant

Fierce Wrath

People of Israel

Profane the Sabbath

Wrath to Come

Profaning The Sabbath

Israel

Jeremiah 17:21-23

Thus says LORD: Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Leviticus 26:18

And if for these things ye will not yet hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath, and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of LORD toward Israel.

Joshua 22:17-18

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of LORD,

Ezra 9:13-15

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Jeremiah 17:27

But if ye will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusa

Jeremiah 44:9

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and

Jeremiah 44:22

So that LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as i

Ezekiel 23:8

Neither has she left her whoredoms since Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity, and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

Ezekiel 23:26

They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

Zechariah 1:4-6

Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.