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2 Chronicles 12:2And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Jehovah,2 Chronicles 13:11and they burn unto Jehovah every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Jehovah our God; but ye have forsaken him.2 Chronicles 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.2 Chronicles 15:3Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:2 Chronicles 15:4but when in their distress they turned unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.2 Chronicles 16:7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.2 Chronicles 24:20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of Jehovah, so that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken Jehovah, he hath also forsaken you.2 Chronicles 24:24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.2 Chronicles 25:27Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Jehovah they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.2 Chronicles 27:2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.2 Chronicles 29:6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs.2 Chronicles 29:8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.2 Chronicles 30:2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.2 Chronicles 30:3For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 30:4And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.2 Chronicles 30:5So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.2 Chronicles 30:6So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.2 Chronicles 30:7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.2 Chronicles 30:10So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.2 Chronicles 30:11Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 30:12Also upon Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Jehovah.Ezra 6:16And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.Ezra 6:17And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.Ezra 6:18And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.Ezra 6:19And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.Ezra 6:20For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.Ezra 6:21And the children of Israel that were come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, did eat,Ezra 8:22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.Ezra 9:10And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,Ezra 9:14shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.Job 22:24And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;Job 22:25And the Almighty will be thy treasure, And precious silver unto thee.Job 22:26For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And shalt lift up thy face unto God.Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows.Job 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.Job 22:29When they cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up; And the humble person he will save.Job 22:30He will deliver even him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.Job 34:26He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;Job 34:27Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:Psalm 17:5My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.Psalm 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;Psalm 44:21Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.Psalm 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?Psalm 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.Psalm 78:10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;Psalm 78:11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.Psalm 78:40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!Psalm 78:41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.Psalm 78:42They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Psalm 78:43How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,Psalm 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;Psalm 78:57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.