Thematic Bible: Abandonment by God


Thematic Bible



For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Look! Your house is left abandoned!


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?




For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Look! Your house is left abandoned!


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?


For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Look! Your house is left abandoned!


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?


For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Look! Your house is left abandoned!


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?


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