Thematic Bible: Curses entailed


Thematic Bible



You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.


Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

"'Observe -- everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."


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