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2 Chronicles 12:2It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,2 Chronicles 13:11and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.2 Chronicles 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.2 Chronicles 15:3Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.2 Chronicles 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.2 Chronicles 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand.2 Chronicles 16:8Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.”2 Chronicles 24:20The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”2 Chronicles 24:24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.2 Chronicles 25:27Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.2 Chronicles 27:2He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn’t enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people still did corruptly.2 Chronicles 29:6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you 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 30:4The 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 Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, 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 couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.2 Chronicles 30:7Don’t be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.2 Chronicles 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”2 Chronicles 30:10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, 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 on 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 Yahweh.Ezra 6:16The 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 6:17They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.Ezra 6:18They 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 6:19The children of the captivity kept the Passover on 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 brothers the priests, and for themselves.Ezra 6:21The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,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 to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”Ezra 9:10“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,Ezra 9:13“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,Ezra 9:14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?Nehemiah 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.Nehemiah 13:26Didn’t 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 foreign women caused even him to sin.Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.Job 22:25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.Job 22:26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.Job 22:27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.Job 22:28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.Job 22:29When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.Job 22:30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”Job 34:26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;Job 34:27because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,Psalm 17:5My steps have held fast to your 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 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.Psalm 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.Psalm 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.Psalm 78:10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.Psalm 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.Psalm 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!Psalm 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.Psalm 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Psalm 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,Psalm 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;Psalm 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.