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Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Israelites Ezra 9:1, 2

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. / Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

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Covenant of Man with God: Israelites Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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God: Israelites Exodus 5:20–23

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them. / “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!” / So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?

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Ignorance of God: Israelites Psalm 95:10

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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Ignorance of God: Israelites Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

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Obedience to God: Israelites Exodus 12:28

And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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Obedience to God: Israelites Exodus 24:7

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

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Rebellion Against God: Israelites Deuteronomy 9:23, 24

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him. / You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

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