2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them.¹ He extended his favor to them² because of the promise he had made³ to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.⁴

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah,⁵ just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.”⁶

Deuteronomy 29:20-28

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger⁷ will rage⁸ against that man; all the curses⁹ written in this scroll will fall upon him¹⁰ and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.¹¹ 29:21 The Lord will single him out¹² for judgment¹³ from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. 29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see¹⁴ the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it. 29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.¹⁵ 29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger¹⁶ all about?” 29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.¹⁷ 29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses¹⁸ written in this scroll. 29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Deuteronomy 32:21-26

32:21 They have made me jealous¹⁹ with false gods,²⁰

enraging me with their worthless gods;²¹

so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,²²

with a nation slow to learn²³ I will enrage them.

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol;²⁴

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

32:23 I will increase their²⁵ disasters,

I will use up my arrows on them.

32:24 They will be starved by famine,

eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;²⁶

I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,

along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,

and terror will do so inside;

they will destroy²⁷ both the young man and the virgin,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

The Weakness of Other Gods

32:26 “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces.²⁸

I want to make people forget they ever existed.

Joshua 23:13

23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you;²⁹ they will be a whip that tears³⁰ your sides and thorns that blind³¹ your eyes until you disappear³² from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua 23:15

23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized,³³ it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment³⁴ until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Jeremiah 15:1

15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for³⁵ these people, I would not feel pity for them!³⁶ Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!³⁷

Hosea 9:3

Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus

9:3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land.

Ephraim will return to Egypt;

they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

¹tn Or “showed them compassion.”

²tn Heb “he turned to them.”

³tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

⁴tn Heb “until now.”

⁵tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

⁶tn Heb “My name will be there.”

⁷tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁸tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁹tn Heb “the entire oath.”

¹⁰tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

¹¹tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

¹²tn Heb “set him apart.”

¹³tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

¹⁴tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.

¹⁵tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.

¹⁶tn Heb “this great burning of anger”; KJV “the heat of this great anger.”

¹⁷tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”

¹⁸tn Heb “the entire curse.”

¹⁹sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.

²⁰tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”

²¹tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).

²²tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).

²³tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”

²⁴tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

²⁵tn Heb “upon them.”

²⁶tn The Hebrew term קֶטֶב (qetev) is probably metaphorical here for the sting of a disease (HALOT 1091-92 s.v.).

²⁷tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.

²⁸tc The LXX reads “I said I would scatter them.” This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT, CEV).

²⁹tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

³⁰tn Heb “in.”

³¹tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

³²tn Or “perish.”

³³tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

³⁴tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

³⁵tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.

³⁶tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.

³⁷tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”