2 Chronicles 15:2
15:2 He met
Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The
Lord is with you when you are loyal to him.
If you seek him, he will respond to you,
but if you reject him, he will reject you.
Deuteronomy 29:25-26
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.
Deuteronomy 29:1
Narrative Interlude
29:1 (28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 28:9
28:9 The
Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments
and obey him.
Jeremiah 2:19
2:19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment.
Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you.
Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful
it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God,
to show no respect for me,”
says the Lord God who rules over all.
Jeremiah 4:18
4:18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done
will bring this on you.
This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed.
The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
Jeremiah 5:19
5:19 “So then, Jeremiah,
when your people
ask, ‘Why has the
Lord our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So
you must serve foreigners
in a land that does not belong to you.’
Jeremiah 5:25
5:25 Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming.
Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’