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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Exodus 17:7

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Numbers 14:43

For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Deuteronomy 4:25–31

After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger— / I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. / Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Deuteronomy 31:16–30

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them. / On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’ / And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Deuteronomy 32:5, 6, 15, 18

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. / Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you? / But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Judges 2:12

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Judges 10:12–14

Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands? / But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. / Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel 2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel 2 Kings 18:1, 12

In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah. / This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel 2 Chronicles 13:11

Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel 2 Chronicles 27:2

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel 2 Chronicles 29:6, 8

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him. / Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezra 9:10, 13, 14

And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments / After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this), / shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Psalm 78:10, 11, 40–43, 56–64

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law. / They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them. / How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Psalm 106:13, 14

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. / They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 1:4–7, 21, 22

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. / Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. / From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 2:6

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 5:12–30

At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands. / Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst. / Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 9:13–21

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. / So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. / The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 17:10, 11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 24:5, 6

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. / Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 30:9, 15

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 31:6

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 43:22, 24

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel. / You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 50:1

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 51:17–20

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger. / Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand. / These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 63:17

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Isaiah 65:2, 3

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, / to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 2:5, 11–13, 17, 19, 21, 27, 31, 32

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves? / Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. / “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 3:1–25

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. / “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. / Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 5:1–31

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city. / Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.” / O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 6:30

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 7:12–34

But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. / And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, / therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 8:1–22

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. / They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground. / And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 10:17–22

Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege. / For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.” / Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 11:9–17

And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. / They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 13:24, 25

“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind. / This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 14:7, 10

Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You. / This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 15:1–14

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go. / If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’ / I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 18:13–15

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. / Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry? / Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 32:30, 31

For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD. / For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Jeremiah 50:6

My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 2:3–8

“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. / They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ / And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 5:1–17

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. / When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them. / But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 11:1–21

Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people. / And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city. / They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 15:1

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 16:43

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Ezekiel 23:1

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 1:1–9

This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel. / When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.” / So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 2:1

“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 3:1

Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 4:6, 10, 16

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. / They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD. / For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 5:1–15

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. / The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all. / I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 6:4–11

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes. / Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning. / For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 9:1–17

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. / The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them. / They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 11:2, 7

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images. / My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 13:16

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Amos 2:4

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Malachi 3:7

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

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Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Hebrews 3:16–18

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

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