'Abandon' in the Bible

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon commit adultery with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Don’t abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, for all the Amorite kings living in the hill country have joined forces against us.”

The people replied, “We will certainly not abandon the Lord to worship other gods!

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, He will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after He has been good to you.”

The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people.

I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel.”

May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our ancestors. May He not abandon us or leave us

I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

I did this because I was ashamed to ask the king for infantry and cavalry to protect us from enemies during the journey, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who abandon Him.”

They refused to listenand did not remember Your wondersYou performed among them.They became stiff-necked and appointed a leaderto return to their slavery in Egypt.But You are a forgiving God,gracious and compassionate,slow to anger and rich in faithful love,and You did not abandon them.

You did not abandon them in the wildernessbecause of Your great compassion.During the day the pillar of cloudnever turned away from them,guiding them on their journey.And during the night the pillar of fireilluminated the way they should go.

However, in Your abundant compassion,You did not destroy them or abandon them,for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

For You will not abandon me to Sheol;You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.

Do not hide Your face from me;do not turn Your servant away in anger.You have been my helper;do not leave me or abandon me,God of my salvation.

Even if my father and mother abandon me,the Lord cares for me.

For the Lord loves justiceand will not abandon His faithful ones.They are kept safe forever,but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

Lord, do not abandon me;my God, do not be far from me.

Don’t discard me in my old age;as my strength fails, do not abandon me.

Even when I am old and gray,God, do not abandon me.Then I will proclaim Your powerto another generation,Your strength to all who are to come.

Return to us, God of our salvation,and abandon Your displeasure with us.

The Lord will not forsake His peopleor abandon His heritage,

I will keep Your statutes;never abandon me.

They almost ended my life on earth,but I did not abandon Your precepts.

The Lord swore an oath to David,a promise He will not abandon:“I will set one of your descendantson your throne.

The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me.Lord, Your love is eternal;do not abandon the work of Your hands.

from those who abandon the right pathsto walk in ways of darkness,

for I am giving you good instruction.Don’t abandon my teaching.

Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you;love her, and she will guard you.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,and don’t go to your brother’s housein your time of calamity;better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

But both rebels and sinners will be destroyed,and those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Let the wicked one abandon his wayand the sinful one his thoughts;let him return to the Lord,so He may have compassion on him,and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

They seek Me day after dayand delight to know My ways,like a nation that does what is rightand does not abandon the justice of their God.They ask Me for righteous judgments;they delight in the nearness of God.”

But you who abandon the Lord,who forget My holy mountain,who prepare a table for Fortuneand fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

If only I had a traveler’s lodging placein the wilderness,I would abandon my peopleand depart from them,for they are all adulterers,a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

He who makes a fortune unjustlyis like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.In the middle of his dayshis riches will abandon him,so in the end he will be a fool.

Lord, the hope of Israel,all who abandon Youwill be put to shame.All who turn away from Mewill be written in the dirt,for they have abandonedthe Lord, the fountain of living water.

Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,residents of Moab!Be like a dovethat nests inside the mouth of a cave.

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;let your widows trust in Me.

We tried to heal Babylon,but she could not be healed.Abandon her!Let each of us go to his own land,for her judgment extends to the skyand reaches as far as the clouds.

I will abandon you on the landand hurl you on the open field.I will cause all the birds of the skyto settle on youand let the beasts of the entire eartheat their fill of you.

Ships of Kittim will come against him, and being intimidated, he will withdraw. Then he will rage against the holy covenant and take action. On his return, he will favor those who abandon the holy covenant.

Therefore, He will abandon them until the timewhen she who is in labor has given birth;then the rest of His brothers will returnto the people of Israel.