Numbers 15:30-31
Deliberate Sin
15:30 “‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the Lord. That person must be cut off from among his people.
15:31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”
Deuteronomy 29:19-21
29:19 When such a person
hears the words of this oath he secretly
blesses himself
and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.”
This will destroy
the watered ground with the parched.
29:20 The
Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger
will rage
against that man; all the curses
written in this scroll will fall upon him
and the
Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
29:21 The
Lord will single him out
for judgment
from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.
Jeremiah 3:3
3:3 That is why the rains have been withheld,
and the spring rains have not come.
Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute.
You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.
Jeremiah 8:12
8:12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things?
No, they are not at all ashamed!
They do not even know how to blush!
So they will die just like others have died.
They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,
says the Lord.
Jeremiah 36:23
36:23 As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns
of the scroll, the king
would cut them off with a penknife
and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire.
Jeremiah 42:15-18
42:15 If you people who remain in Judah do that, then listen to what the
Lord says. The
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘If you are so determined
to go to Egypt that you go and settle there,
42:16 the wars you fear will catch up with you there in the land of Egypt. The starvation you are worried about will follow you there to
Egypt. You will die there.
42:17 All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’
42:18 For
the
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem.
You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.
You will never see this place again.’
Jeremiah 43:4-7
43:4 So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the
Lord’s command to stay in the land.
43:5 Instead Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led off all the Judean remnant who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered.
43:6 They also led off all the men, women, children, and royal princesses
that Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, had left with Gedaliah,
the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. This included the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch son of Neriah.
43:7 They went on to Egypt
because they refused to obey the
Lord, and came to Tahpanhes.
Jeremiah 44:16-17
44:16 “We will not listen to what you claim the
Lord has spoken to us!
44:17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do.
We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven
just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
Jeremiah 44:2
44:2 “The
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem
and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.
Jeremiah 2:13-15
2:13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:
they have rejected me,
the fountain of life-giving water,
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
Israel’s Reliance on Foreign Alliances (not on God)
2:14 “Israel is not a slave, is he?
He was not born into slavery, was he?
If not, why then is he being carried off?
2:15 Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him;
they raise their voices in triumph.
They have laid his land waste;
his cities have been burned down and deserted.
Jude 1:13
1:13 wild sea waves,
spewing out the foam of
their shame;
wayward stars
for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness
have been reserved.