Jeremiah 7:18-19
7:18 Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven.
They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just
to trouble me.
7:19 But I am not really the one being troubled!”
says the
Lord. “Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!
Jeremiah 32:30-33
32:30 This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me
from their earliest history until now
and because they
have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done.
I, the
Lord, affirm it!
32:31 This will happen because
the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now.
They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove
it from my sight.
32:32 I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness – they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem
have done this wickedness.
32:33 They have turned away from me instead of turning to me.
I tried over and over again
to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.
Deuteronomy 32:21
32:21 They have made me jealous with false gods,
enraging me with their worthless gods;
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,
with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 32:2
32:2 My teaching will drop like the rain,
my sayings will drip like the dew,
as rain drops upon the grass,
and showers upon new growth.
Deuteronomy 17:17
17:17 Furthermore, he must not marry many
wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 21:15
Laws Concerning Children
21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Nehemiah 9:26
9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
Proverbs 8:36
8:36 But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself;
all who hate me love death.”