Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
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Amos 2:4 · 47 connections
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But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 16:20The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; …
End of linked passage: Leviticus 26:15Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. …
End of linked passage: 2 Kings 22:17We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 5:25The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 9:16The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. …
End of linked passage: Deuteronomy 31:18But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. …
End of linked passage: Deuteronomy 32:27And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: …
End of linked passage: Judges 2:20And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. …
End of linked passage: 2 Samuel 12:10And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. …
End of linked passage: 2 Chronicles 36:17Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. …
End of linked passage: Nehemiah 9:30He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 9:26And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 23:15I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 23:32Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 28:16They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. …
End of linked passage: Ezekiel 13:16Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, …
End of linked passage: Ezekiel 16:63Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. …
End of linked passage: Ezekiel 23:21We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: …
End of linked passage: Daniel 9:12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. …
End of linked passage: Hosea 5:13Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
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