Isaiah 2:6 God, you’ve walked out on your family Jacob because their world is full of hokey religion, Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, a world rolling in w...

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The Message - God, you’ve walked out on your family Jacob because their world is full of hokey religion, Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, a world rolling in wealth, Stuffed with things, no end to its machines and gadgets, And gods—gods of all sorts and sizes. These people make their own gods and worship what they make. A degenerate race, facedown in the gutter. Don’t bother with them! They’re not worth forgiving!
新标点和合本 - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。
当代译本 - 耶和华啊，你离弃了你的子民雅各的后代，因为他们当中充满了东方的恶俗，像非利士人一样占卜，跟外族人同流合污。
圣经新译本 - 耶和华啊！你离弃了你的子民雅各家，是因为他们充满了东方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一样，并且与外族人击掌交易。
中文标准译本 - 耶和华啊，你撇弃了你的子民雅各家，因为他们中遍满了来自东方的恶俗，又像非利士人那样遍满了算命者；他们还与外族人击掌订交。
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，做观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
New International Version - You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
New International Reader's Version - Lord, you have deserted the people of Jacob. They are your people. The land is full of false beliefs from the east. The people practice evil magic, just as the Philistines do. They do what ungodly people do.
English Standard Version - For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
New Living Translation - For the Lord has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do. They have made alliances with pagans.
Christian Standard Bible - For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.
New American Standard Bible - For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines. They also strike bargains with the children of foreigners.
New King James Version - For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
Amplified Bible - Most certainly [Lord] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines; Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).
American Standard Version - For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
King James Version - Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
New English Translation - Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.
World English Bible - For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
新標點和合本 - 耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，作觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。
當代譯本 - 耶和華啊，你離棄了你的子民雅各的後代，因為他們當中充滿了東方的惡俗，像非利士人一樣占卜，跟外族人同流合污。
聖經新譯本 - 耶和華啊！你離棄了你的子民雅各家，是因為他們充滿了東方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一樣，並且與外族人擊掌交易。
呂振中譯本 - 因為他擯棄了他的人民，是因為他們充滿了占筮和算命、像非利士人一樣，並且跟外族人拍掌交易。
中文標準譯本 - 耶和華啊，你撇棄了你的子民雅各家，因為他們中遍滿了來自東方的惡俗，又像非利士人那樣遍滿了算命者；他們還與外族人擊掌訂交。
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，做觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。
文理和合譯本 - 蓋爾民雅各家、充乎東方之俗、效非利士人為巫覡、且與異邦結盟、故爾棄之、
文理委辦譯本 - 維昔雅各家、與異邦修睦、惟尚術數、較諸非利士人、東方之民、初無或異、故上帝棄之。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主棄主之民雅各家、因東方人之惡俗、充滿其中、尚術數如非利士人、與異邦之人結盟、結盟原文作擊掌
Nueva Versión Internacional - Has abandonado a tu pueblo, a los descendientes de Jacob, porque están llenos de astrólogos de Oriente, de adivinos como los filisteos, y hacen tratos con extranjeros.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 자기 백성인 야곱의 후손들을 버리신 것은 그들이 동방 사람들의 미신에 젖어 블레셋 사람들처럼 점을 치고 이방 사람들의 풍속을 따르기 때문이었다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Ты отверг Свой народ, дом Иакова, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tu as abandonné ton peuple, ╵la communauté de Jacob, car il est envahi ╵par les superstitions ╵qui viennent de l’Orient ; les devins y pullulent ╵autant qu’en Philistie. On pactise avec l’étranger.
リビングバイブル - 主はあなたがたを捨てました。あなたがたがペリシテ人の習慣にならい、魔術や悪魔礼拝をする東方の外国人を迎えたからです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Certamente abandonaste o teu povo, os descendentes de Jacó, porque eles se encheram de superstições dos povos do leste, praticam adivinhações como os filisteus e fazem acordos com pagãos.
Hoffnung für alle - Herr, du hast dich von deinem Volk Israel abgewandt, weil sie die heidnischen Bräuche aus dem Osten übernommen haben. Sie treiben Zauberei wie ihre Nachbarn im Westen, die Philister. Bedenkenlos haben sie sich anderen Völkern angepasst.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vì Chúa Hằng Hữu đã bỏ dân Ngài, là con cháu của Gia-cốp, vì họ đầy mê tín dị đoan của phương Đông, và bói khoa cũng như người Phi-li-tin. Họ còn kết ước với con cái các dân ngoại.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์ได้ทรงทอดทิ้งพงศ์พันธุ์ยาโคบ ซึ่งเป็นประชากรของพระองค์ พวกเขาเล่นไสยศาสตร์จากตะวันออก มีหมอดู คนทรงเหมือนชาวฟีลิสเตีย และสนิทสนมกับผู้ที่ไม่นับถือพระเจ้า
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะพระองค์ได้ทอดทิ้งชนชาติของพระองค์ คือพงศ์พันธุ์ยาโคบ เพราะพวกเขาใช้ชีวิตตามชาวตะวันออก และเชื่อการทำนายตามชาวฟีลิสเตีย และร่วมงานกับลูกหลานของชนชาติอื่น

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Deuteronomy 31:16 - God spoke to Moses: “You’re about to die and be buried with your ancestors. You’ll no sooner be in the grave than this people will be up and lusting after the foreign gods of this country that they are entering. They will abandon me and violate my Covenant that I’ve made with them. I’ll get angry, oh so angry! I’ll walk off and leave them on their own, won’t so much as look back at them. Then many calamities and disasters will devastate them because they are defenseless. They’ll say, ‘Isn’t it because our God wasn’t here that all this evil has come upon us?’ But I’ll stay out of their lives, keep looking the other way because of all their evil: they took up with other gods!
Isaiah 8:19 - When people tell you, “Try out the fortunetellers. Consult the spiritualists. Why not tap into the spirit-world, get in touch with the dead?” Tell them, “No, we’re going to study the Scriptures.” People who try the other ways get nowhere—a dead end! Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out they get angry, cursing first this god and then that one, Looking this way and that, up, down, and sideways—and seeing nothing, A blank wall, an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing.
Romans 11:1 - Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he’ll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can’t get much more Semitic than that! So we’re not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them.
Romans 11:2 - Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I’m the only one left and now they’re after me! And do you remember God’s answer? I still have seven thousand who haven’t quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It’s the same today. There’s a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They’re holding on, not because of what they think they’re going to get out of it, but because they’re convinced of God’s grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.
Nehemiah 13:23 - Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Half the children couldn’t even speak the language of Judah; all they knew was the language of Ashdod or some other tongue. So I took those men to task, gave them a piece of my mind, even slapped some of them and jerked them by the hair. I made them swear to God: “Don’t marry your daughters to their sons; and don’t let their daughters marry your sons—and don’t you yourselves marry them! Didn’t Solomon the king of Israel sin because of women just like these? Even though there was no king quite like him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel, foreign women were his downfall. Do you call this obedience—engaging in this extensive evil, showing yourselves faithless to God by marrying foreign wives?”
Proverbs 6:1 - Dear friend, if you’ve gone into hock with your neighbor or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger, If you’ve impulsively promised the shirt off your back and now find yourself shivering out in the cold, Friend, don’t waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess. You’re in that man’s clutches! Go, put on a long face; act desperate. Don’t procrastinate— there’s no time to lose. Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper!
Leviticus 20:6 - “I will resolutely reject persons who dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums, prostituting themselves in their practices. I will cut them off from their people.
Deuteronomy 18:13 - Be completely loyal to God, your God. These nations that you’re about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. God, your God, forbids it.
1 Kings 11:1 - King Solomon was obsessed with women. Pharaoh’s daughter was only the first of the many foreign women he loved—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite. He took them from the surrounding pagan nations of which God had clearly warned Israel, “You must not marry them; they’ll seduce you into infatuations with their gods.” Solomon fell in love with them anyway, refusing to give them up. He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines—a thousand women in all! And they did seduce him away from God. As Solomon grew older, his wives beguiled him with their alien gods and he became unfaithful—he didn’t stay true to his God as his father David had done. Solomon took up with Ashtoreth, the whore goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the horrible god of the Ammonites.
Leviticus 19:31 - “Don’t dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you’ll pollute your souls. I am God, your God.
Exodus 22:18 - “Don’t let a sorceress live.
1 Chronicles 10:13 - Saul died in disobedience, disobedient to God. He didn’t obey God’s words. Instead of praying, he went to a witch to seek guidance. Because he didn’t go to God for help, God took his life and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
2 Chronicles 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God moved Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest to speak up: “God’s word: Why have you deliberately walked away from God’s commandments? You can’t live this way! If you walk out on God, he’ll walk out on you.”
2 Kings 16:7 - Ahaz sent envoys to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria with this message: “I’m your servant and your son. Come and save me from the heavy-handed invasion of the king of Aram and the king of Israel. They’re attacking me right now.” Then Ahaz robbed the treasuries of the palace and The Temple of God of their gold and silver and sent them to the king of Assyria as a bribe.
Numbers 25:1 - While Israel was camped at Shittim (Acacia Grove), the men began to have sex with the Moabite women. It started when the women invited the men to their sex-and-religion worship. They ate together and then worshiped their gods. Israel ended up joining in the worship of the Baal of Peor. God was furious, his anger blazing out against Israel.
2 Kings 1:2 - One day Ahaziah fell through the balcony railing on the rooftop of his house in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, “Am I going to recover from this accident?”

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交叉引用

The Message - God, you’ve walked out on your family Jacob because their world is full of hokey religion, Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, a world rolling in wealth, Stuffed with things, no end to its machines and gadgets, And gods—gods of all sorts and sizes. These people make their own gods and worship what they make. A degenerate race, facedown in the gutter. Don’t bother with them! They’re not worth forgiving!
新标点和合本 - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。
当代译本 - 耶和华啊，你离弃了你的子民雅各的后代，因为他们当中充满了东方的恶俗，像非利士人一样占卜，跟外族人同流合污。
圣经新译本 - 耶和华啊！你离弃了你的子民雅各家，是因为他们充满了东方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一样，并且与外族人击掌交易。
中文标准译本 - 耶和华啊，你撇弃了你的子民雅各家，因为他们中遍满了来自东方的恶俗，又像非利士人那样遍满了算命者；他们还与外族人击掌订交。
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，做观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。
New International Version - You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
New International Reader's Version - Lord, you have deserted the people of Jacob. They are your people. The land is full of false beliefs from the east. The people practice evil magic, just as the Philistines do. They do what ungodly people do.
English Standard Version - For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
New Living Translation - For the Lord has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do. They have made alliances with pagans.
Christian Standard Bible - For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.
New American Standard Bible - For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines. They also strike bargains with the children of foreigners.
New King James Version - For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
Amplified Bible - Most certainly [Lord] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines; Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).
American Standard Version - For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
King James Version - Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
New English Translation - Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.
World English Bible - For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
新標點和合本 - 耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，作觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。
當代譯本 - 耶和華啊，你離棄了你的子民雅各的後代，因為他們當中充滿了東方的惡俗，像非利士人一樣占卜，跟外族人同流合污。
聖經新譯本 - 耶和華啊！你離棄了你的子民雅各家，是因為他們充滿了東方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一樣，並且與外族人擊掌交易。
呂振中譯本 - 因為他擯棄了他的人民，是因為他們充滿了占筮和算命、像非利士人一樣，並且跟外族人拍掌交易。
中文標準譯本 - 耶和華啊，你撇棄了你的子民雅各家，因為他們中遍滿了來自東方的惡俗，又像非利士人那樣遍滿了算命者；他們還與外族人擊掌訂交。
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，做觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。
文理和合譯本 - 蓋爾民雅各家、充乎東方之俗、效非利士人為巫覡、且與異邦結盟、故爾棄之、
文理委辦譯本 - 維昔雅各家、與異邦修睦、惟尚術數、較諸非利士人、東方之民、初無或異、故上帝棄之。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主棄主之民雅各家、因東方人之惡俗、充滿其中、尚術數如非利士人、與異邦之人結盟、結盟原文作擊掌
Nueva Versión Internacional - Has abandonado a tu pueblo, a los descendientes de Jacob, porque están llenos de astrólogos de Oriente, de adivinos como los filisteos, y hacen tratos con extranjeros.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 자기 백성인 야곱의 후손들을 버리신 것은 그들이 동방 사람들의 미신에 젖어 블레셋 사람들처럼 점을 치고 이방 사람들의 풍속을 따르기 때문이었다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Ты отверг Свой народ, дом Иакова, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Ты отверг Свой народ, потомков Якуба, ведь у них полно суеверий с Востока; они гадают, как филистимляне, и общаются с чужаками.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tu as abandonné ton peuple, ╵la communauté de Jacob, car il est envahi ╵par les superstitions ╵qui viennent de l’Orient ; les devins y pullulent ╵autant qu’en Philistie. On pactise avec l’étranger.
リビングバイブル - 主はあなたがたを捨てました。あなたがたがペリシテ人の習慣にならい、魔術や悪魔礼拝をする東方の外国人を迎えたからです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Certamente abandonaste o teu povo, os descendentes de Jacó, porque eles se encheram de superstições dos povos do leste, praticam adivinhações como os filisteus e fazem acordos com pagãos.
Hoffnung für alle - Herr, du hast dich von deinem Volk Israel abgewandt, weil sie die heidnischen Bräuche aus dem Osten übernommen haben. Sie treiben Zauberei wie ihre Nachbarn im Westen, die Philister. Bedenkenlos haben sie sich anderen Völkern angepasst.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vì Chúa Hằng Hữu đã bỏ dân Ngài, là con cháu của Gia-cốp, vì họ đầy mê tín dị đoan của phương Đông, và bói khoa cũng như người Phi-li-tin. Họ còn kết ước với con cái các dân ngoại.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระองค์ได้ทรงทอดทิ้งพงศ์พันธุ์ยาโคบ ซึ่งเป็นประชากรของพระองค์ พวกเขาเล่นไสยศาสตร์จากตะวันออก มีหมอดู คนทรงเหมือนชาวฟีลิสเตีย และสนิทสนมกับผู้ที่ไม่นับถือพระเจ้า
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะพระองค์ได้ทอดทิ้งชนชาติของพระองค์ คือพงศ์พันธุ์ยาโคบ เพราะพวกเขาใช้ชีวิตตามชาวตะวันออก และเชื่อการทำนายตามชาวฟีลิสเตีย และร่วมงานกับลูกหลานของชนชาติอื่น

Deuteronomy 31:16 - God spoke to Moses: “You’re about to die and be buried with your ancestors. You’ll no sooner be in the grave than this people will be up and lusting after the foreign gods of this country that they are entering. They will abandon me and violate my Covenant that I’ve made with them. I’ll get angry, oh so angry! I’ll walk off and leave them on their own, won’t so much as look back at them. Then many calamities and disasters will devastate them because they are defenseless. They’ll say, ‘Isn’t it because our God wasn’t here that all this evil has come upon us?’ But I’ll stay out of their lives, keep looking the other way because of all their evil: they took up with other gods!
Isaiah 8:19 - When people tell you, “Try out the fortunetellers. Consult the spiritualists. Why not tap into the spirit-world, get in touch with the dead?” Tell them, “No, we’re going to study the Scriptures.” People who try the other ways get nowhere—a dead end! Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out they get angry, cursing first this god and then that one, Looking this way and that, up, down, and sideways—and seeing nothing, A blank wall, an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing.
Romans 11:1 - Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he’ll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can’t get much more Semitic than that! So we’re not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them.
Romans 11:2 - Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I’m the only one left and now they’re after me! And do you remember God’s answer? I still have seven thousand who haven’t quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It’s the same today. There’s a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They’re holding on, not because of what they think they’re going to get out of it, but because they’re convinced of God’s grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.
Nehemiah 13:23 - Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Half the children couldn’t even speak the language of Judah; all they knew was the language of Ashdod or some other tongue. So I took those men to task, gave them a piece of my mind, even slapped some of them and jerked them by the hair. I made them swear to God: “Don’t marry your daughters to their sons; and don’t let their daughters marry your sons—and don’t you yourselves marry them! Didn’t Solomon the king of Israel sin because of women just like these? Even though there was no king quite like him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel, foreign women were his downfall. Do you call this obedience—engaging in this extensive evil, showing yourselves faithless to God by marrying foreign wives?”
Proverbs 6:1 - Dear friend, if you’ve gone into hock with your neighbor or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger, If you’ve impulsively promised the shirt off your back and now find yourself shivering out in the cold, Friend, don’t waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess. You’re in that man’s clutches! Go, put on a long face; act desperate. Don’t procrastinate— there’s no time to lose. Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper!
Leviticus 20:6 - “I will resolutely reject persons who dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums, prostituting themselves in their practices. I will cut them off from their people.
Deuteronomy 18:13 - Be completely loyal to God, your God. These nations that you’re about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. God, your God, forbids it.
1 Kings 11:1 - King Solomon was obsessed with women. Pharaoh’s daughter was only the first of the many foreign women he loved—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite. He took them from the surrounding pagan nations of which God had clearly warned Israel, “You must not marry them; they’ll seduce you into infatuations with their gods.” Solomon fell in love with them anyway, refusing to give them up. He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines—a thousand women in all! And they did seduce him away from God. As Solomon grew older, his wives beguiled him with their alien gods and he became unfaithful—he didn’t stay true to his God as his father David had done. Solomon took up with Ashtoreth, the whore goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the horrible god of the Ammonites.
Leviticus 19:31 - “Don’t dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you’ll pollute your souls. I am God, your God.
Exodus 22:18 - “Don’t let a sorceress live.
1 Chronicles 10:13 - Saul died in disobedience, disobedient to God. He didn’t obey God’s words. Instead of praying, he went to a witch to seek guidance. Because he didn’t go to God for help, God took his life and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
2 Chronicles 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God moved Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest to speak up: “God’s word: Why have you deliberately walked away from God’s commandments? You can’t live this way! If you walk out on God, he’ll walk out on you.”
2 Kings 16:7 - Ahaz sent envoys to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria with this message: “I’m your servant and your son. Come and save me from the heavy-handed invasion of the king of Aram and the king of Israel. They’re attacking me right now.” Then Ahaz robbed the treasuries of the palace and The Temple of God of their gold and silver and sent them to the king of Assyria as a bribe.
Numbers 25:1 - While Israel was camped at Shittim (Acacia Grove), the men began to have sex with the Moabite women. It started when the women invited the men to their sex-and-religion worship. They ate together and then worshiped their gods. Israel ended up joining in the worship of the Baal of Peor. God was furious, his anger blazing out against Israel.
2 Kings 1:2 - One day Ahaziah fell through the balcony railing on the rooftop of his house in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, “Am I going to recover from this accident?”