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For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant. Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTHusbandsKnowing God, Effects OfMarriage, Between God And His PeopleRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodUnion With Christ, Nature OfUnity, God's Goal OfBreaking The CovenantMarriage To GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod As A Husband

And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication. And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it. And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Do ye defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and do ye commit fornication after their abominations? Verse ConceptsAbominations, Idolatry IsImitating Wicked PeoplePeople Polluting ThemselvesThe Great Prostitute

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols. Verse ConceptsBad ParentsFalse ReligionExamples, Badevil, warnings againstChildren, attitudes towardsNot Imitating EvilPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryParents Being Wrongstatues

but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil. Verse ConceptsRoadsSelf Delusion



Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying, This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me; but in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings commandments of men.

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass; Verse ConceptsGrassMan As GrassFear Of ManFear, Overcome ByThe Spirit Of GodGod Will ComfortLike GrassMere Men

And Pharaoh approached; and the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and the children of Israel were much afraid, and cried out to Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfCrying To GodFearing Other People

And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt? Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?



For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesProfitsCovetousness, Example OfWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallCovetousnessGreedpractice

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God. Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked PeopleAvoid Immorality

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free? Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsPride, Examples OfSecurityTrust, Lack OfMisunderstood Truth

Thus saith Jehovah: After this manner will I spoil the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfDestruction Of JerusalemGod Opposes The Proudarrogance

and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled. But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled. But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, by judging him. Verse ConceptsIgnorance, Of ChristRulersNot Knowing About ChristReading The ScripturesCondemning JesusOn The SabbathScriptures FulfilledWritten In The Prophets

Remember, forget not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfPainful Memories

Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you. Verse ConceptsRebellion against God

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye are all this day; Verse ConceptsEducation, Examples OfPaul, Life OfSelf ConfidenceLegalismSitting At The FeetSchoolsTaking The Law To HeartEducationSchoolzealots

And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs. Verse ConceptsCustomPersecution, Forms OfUncircumcisionApostasy, Types OfMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionThe Gospel To Jew And Gentileapostasy

for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us. Verse ConceptsAbolitionDestruction Of The Temple

Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy

Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be amazed very much, saith Jehovah. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.

Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me. Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionLordship, Human And DivinePay Attention To God!Rebellion against GodRaising ChildrenListening To GodTaking Care Of The Earth

Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Verse ConceptsFatnessAbandonmentGod, The RockPerils Of LuxuryRiches, Dangers OfIngratitude To GodRiches, Can Lead ToSalvation, Illustrations OfInfidelity To GodFat PeopleKicking

And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them? Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstMiracles, Responses ToQuestionsUnbelieversNot Believing SignsBefore People ActDoubting God


who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Verse ConceptsHypocrisy, Description OfNosesPrejudicePride, Examples OfSmokeHypocrites, Description OfFire Of EvilAll DayHolier Than ThouChanging YourselfsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. Verse ConceptsHypocrisy, Description OfLegalismSelf Righteousness, Nature OfSelf Righteousness, And The GospelSpiritual IgnoranceTrusting In WorksSeeking For Abstract ThingsIgnorance of GodignoranceFutile Faith

inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeOaksKilling Sons And Daughters

And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made. Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Verse ConceptsNecksStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleSelf WillGod Seeing The Wicked

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he turned this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses; but as to this man, we know not whence he is.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Verse ConceptsTongueThings Stuck TogetherForgetting Things