2Ki 22:17 Cross References
2 Kings 22:17
17: For my people have abandoned me and worshiped pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. My anger is burning against this place, and it will not be quenched.'
Ezekiel 20:47
- Give the southern wilderness this message from the Sovereign LORD: Hear the word of the LORD! I will set you on fire, O forest, and every tree will be burned--green and dry trees alike. The terrible flames will not be quenched; they will scorch everything from south to north.
- And all the world will see that I, the LORD, have set this fire. It will not be put out."
Psalms 115:4
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
- or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
- And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
Jeremiah 2:27
- To an image carved from a piece of wood they say, `You are my father.' To an idol chiseled out of stone they say, `You are my mother.' They turn their backs on me, but in times of trouble they cry out for me to save them!
- Why don't you call on these gods you have made? When danger comes, let them save you if they can! For you have as many gods as there are cities and towns in Judah.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
- by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.
1 Kings 9:6
- "But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey my commands and laws, and if you go and worship other gods,
- then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
- And though this Temple is impressive now, it will become an appalling sight for all who pass by. They will scoff and ask, `Why did the LORD do such terrible things to his land and to his Temple?'
- And the answer will be, `Because his people forgot the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters upon them.'"
Isaiah 46:5
- "To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?
- Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
- They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.
- "Do not forget this, you guilty ones.
Micah 5:13
- I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars, so you will never again worship the work of your own hands.
Zephaniah 1:18
- Your silver and gold will be of no use to you on that day of the LORD's anger. For the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. He will make a terrifying end of all the people on earth.
Jeremiah 17:27
- " `But if you do not listen to me and refuse to keep the Sabbath holy, and if on the Sabbath day you bring loads of merchandise through the gates of Jerusalem just as on other days, then I will set fire to these gates. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out the roaring flames.'"
Deuteronomy 32:15
- But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
- They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable acts.
- They offered sacrifices to demons, non-gods, to gods they had not known before, to gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.
- You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth.
- "The LORD saw this and was filled with loathing. He was provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
Exodus 32:34
- Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Look! My angel will lead the way before you! But when I call the people to account, I will certainly punish them for their sins."
Psalms 106:35
- Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.
- They worshiped their idols, and this led to their downfall.
- They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
- They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
- They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.
Deuteronomy 29:24
- The surrounding nations will ask, `Why has the LORD done this to his land? Why was he so angry?'
- "And they will be told, `This happened because the people of the land broke the covenant they made with the LORD, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- They turned to serve and worship other gods that were foreign to them, gods that the LORD had not designated for them.
- That is why the LORD's anger burned against this land, bringing down on it all the curses recorded in this book.
- In great anger and fury the LORD uprooted his people from their land and exiled them to another land, where they still live today!'
Judges 10:6
- Again the Israelites did evil in the LORD's sight. They worshiped images of Baal and Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and Philistia. Not only this, but they abandoned the LORD and no longer served him at all.
- So the LORD burned with anger against Israel, and he handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites,
Jeremiah 7:20
- So the Sovereign LORD says: "I will pour out my terrible fury on this place. Its people, animals, trees, and crops will be consumed by the unquenchable fire of my anger."
Judges 3:7
- The Israelites did what was evil in the LORD's sight. They forgot about the LORD their God, and they worshiped the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.
- Then the LORD burned with anger against Israel, and he handed them over to King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim. And the Israelites were subject to Cushan-rishathaim for eight years.
Isaiah 33:14
- The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. "Which one of us," they cry, "can live here in the presence of this all-consuming fire?"
Nehemiah 9:26
- "But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.
- So you handed them over to their enemies. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In great mercy, you sent them deliverers who rescued them from their enemies.
Jeremiah 2:11
- Has any nation ever exchanged its gods for another god, even though its gods are nothing? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!
- The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay, says the LORD.
- For my people have done two evil things: They have forsaken me--the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
Deuteronomy 32:22
- For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
Judges 10:10
- Finally, they cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal."
- The LORD replied, "Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
- the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I rescued you.
- Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.
- Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!"
Isaiah 44:17
- Then he takes what's left and makes his god: a carved idol! He falls down in front of it, worshiping and praying to it. "Rescue me!" he says. "You are my god!"
- Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
- The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?"
- The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"
Judges 2:12
- They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They chased after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the LORD.
- They abandoned the LORD to serve Baal and the images of Ashtoreth.
- This made the LORD burn with anger against Israel, so he handed them over to marauders who stole their possessions. He sold them to their enemies all around, and they were no longer able to resist them.
2 Kings 21:22
- He abandoned the LORD, the God of his ancestors, and he refused to follow the LORD's ways.
2 Chronicles 36:16
- But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be restrained and there was no remedy.
Isaiah 2:8
- The land is filled with idols. The people bow down and worship these things they have made.
- So now everyone will be humbled and brought low. The LORD cannot simply ignore their sins!