Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Defilement » Moral, caused by » Making and serving idols
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!
She offered her sexual favors to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols.
God » Leader » Longsuffering of
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.
And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.
The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Longsuffering » Of God
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.
And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.
The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Longsuffering Of God » Exercised toward » His people
and is rising up to show you compassion,
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.