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Beer-sheba » The most southern city of palestine » Became a seat of idolatrous worship
And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing.
They swearing by the trespass of Shomeron, and they said, Thy God lives, O Dan, and the way of the well of the oath lives, and they fell, and they shall rise no more.
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Prophecies against
And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing.
Gilgal » Place of the first encampment of the israelites west of the jordan river » Prophecies concerning
And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing.
If thou Israel commit fornication Judah shall not transgress; and ye shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall not go up to the house of vanity, and ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives.
Come to the house of God and transgress: at Gilgal multiply to transgress; and bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tenths for three days:
If Gilead nothing? Surely they were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed oxen; also their altars as heaps upon the furrows of the field.
All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the evil of their doings I will drive them out from my house, I will not add to love them: all their chiefs are turning away.
Repentance » Exhortation to
And saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.
Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending; And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs: read more.
Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress. Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs. And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them. And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.
Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress. Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs. And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them. And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.
Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Make good your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
For if making good, ye shall make good your ways and your doings; if doing, ye shall do judgment between man and between his neighbor;
Perhaps they will hear and turn back a man from his evil way, and I lamented for the evil which I purposed to do to them from the face of the evil of their doings.
Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity. Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips. Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.
For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye me and live: And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing. Seek ye Jehovah and live, lest he shall break through the house of Joseph as fire, and devour, and none quenching to the house of God.