Zechariah 1:4 Cross References

Zechariah 1:4

4: Do not be like your ancestors who would not listen when the earlier prophets said to them, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Turn from your evil ways and stop all your evil practices.'

Psalms 78:8

  1. Then they will not be like their ancestors--stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

Psalms 106:6

  1. Both we and our ancestors have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
  2. Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the LORD's miracles. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 35:15

  1. I have sent you prophet after prophet to tell you to turn from your wicked ways and to stop worshiping other gods, so that you might live in peace here in the land I gave to you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or obey.

Ezekiel 33:11

  1. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

2 Chronicles 36:15

  1. The LORD, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his prophets to warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple.
  2. 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.

Jeremiah 11:6

  1. Then the LORD said, "Broadcast this message in the streets of Jerusalem. Go from town to town throughout the land and say, `Remember the covenant your ancestors made, and do everything they promised.
  2. For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, repeating over and over again to this day: "Obey me!"
  3. But your ancestors did not pay any attention; they would not even listen. Instead, they stubbornly followed their own evil desires. And because they refused to obey, I brought upon them all the curses described in our covenant.'"

Zechariah 1:3

  1. Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'

Isaiah 1:16

  1. Wash yourselves and be clean! Let me no longer see your evil deeds. Give up your wicked ways.
  2. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows.
  3. "Come now, let us argue this out," says the LORD. "No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson, I can make you as white as wool.
  4. If you will only obey me and let me help you, then you will have plenty to eat.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

  1. For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone
  2. 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.

Jeremiah 13:9

  1. "The LORD says: This illustrates how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.
  2. These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship idols. Therefore, they will become like this linen belt--good for nothing!

Jeremiah 3:12

  1. Therefore, go and say these words to Israel, `This is what the LORD says: O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.

Jeremiah 36:23

  1. Whenever Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king took his knife and cut off that section of the scroll. He then threw it into the fire, section by section, until the whole scroll was burned up.
  2. Neither the king nor his officials showed any signs of fear or repentance at what they heard.

Jeremiah 7:3

  1. The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Even now, if you quit your evil ways, I will let you stay in your own land.
  2. But do not be fooled by those who repeatedly promise your safety because the Temple of the LORD is here.
  3. I will be merciful only if you stop your wicked thoughts and deeds and are fair to others;
  4. and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.
  5. Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.

Jeremiah 26:5

  1. and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets--for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them--

Jeremiah 44:4

  1. "Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, `Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much.'
  2. But my people would not listen or turn back from their wicked ways. They kept right on burning incense to these gods.

2 Chronicles 24:19

  1. The LORD sent prophets to bring them back to him, but the people would not listen.
  2. Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, "This is what God says: Why do you disobey the LORD's commands so that you cannot prosper? You have abandoned the LORD, and now he has abandoned you!"
  3. Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and by order of King Joash himself, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.
  4. That was how King Joash repaid Jehoiada for his love and loyalty--by killing his son. Zechariah's last words as he died were, "May the LORD see what they are doing and hold them accountable!"

Acts 3:19

  1. Now turn from your sins and turn to God, so you can be cleansed of your sins.

Zechariah 7:11

  1. "Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
  2. They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the law or the messages that the LORD Almighty had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD Almighty was so angry with them.
  3. "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD Almighty.

Ezekiel 3:7

  1. I am sending you to the people of Israel, but they won't listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.
  2. But look, I have made you as hard and stubborn as they are.
  3. I have made you as hard as rock! So don't be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are such rebels."

Isaiah 30:9

  1. For these people are stubborn rebels who refuse to pay any attention to the LORD's instructions.
  2. They tell the prophets, "Shut up! We don't want any more of your reports." They say, "Don't tell us the truth. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies.
  3. Forget all this gloom. We have heard more than enough about your `Holy One of Israel.' We are tired of listening to what he has to say."

Nehemiah 9:26

  1. "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.

Jeremiah 17:19

  1. Then the LORD said to me, "Go and stand in the gates of Jerusalem, first at the gate where the king goes out, and then at each of the other gates.
  2. Say to all the people, `Listen to this message from the LORD, you kings of Judah and all you people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem.
  3. This is what the LORD says: Listen to my warning and live! Stop carrying on your trade at Jerusalem's gates on the Sabbath day.
  4. Do not do your work on the Sabbath, but make it a holy day. I gave this command to your ancestors,
  5. but they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention and would not respond to discipline.

Matthew 3:8

  1. Prove by the way you live that you have really turned from your sins and turned to God.
  2. Don't just say, 'We're safe--we're the descendants of Abraham.' That proves nothing. God can change these stones here into children of Abraham.
  3. Even now the ax of God's judgment is poised, ready to sever your roots. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

Amos 5:13

  1. So those who are wise will keep quiet, for it is an evil time.
  2. Do what is good and run from evil--that you may live! Then the LORD God Almighty will truly be your helper, just as you have claimed he is.
  3. Hate evil and love what is good; remodel your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on his people who remain.

2 Chronicles 29:6

  1. Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned the LORD and his Temple; they turned their backs on him.
  2. They also shut the doors to the Temple's foyer, and they snuffed out the lamps. They stopped burning incense and presenting burnt offerings at the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
  3. That is why the LORD's anger has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem. He has made us an object of dread, horror, and ridicule, as you can so plainly see.
  4. Our fathers have been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
  5. But now I will make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

1 Peter 1:18

  1. For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

Amos 5:24

  1. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, a river of righteous living that will never run dry.

2 Chronicles 34:21

  1. "Go to the Temple and speak to the LORD for me and for all the remnant of Israel and Judah. Ask him about the words written in this scroll that has been found. The LORD's anger has been poured out against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the LORD. We have not been doing what this scroll says we must do."

Jeremiah 18:11

  1. "Therefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, `This is what the LORD says: I am planning disaster against you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.'"

Ezekiel 18:14

  1. "But suppose that sinful son, in turn, has a son who sees his father's wickedness but decides against that kind of life.
  2. Suppose this son refuses to worship idols on the mountains, does not commit adultery,
  3. and does not exploit the poor, but instead is fair to debtors and does not rob them. And suppose this son feeds the hungry, provides clothes for the needy,
  4. helps the poor, does not lend money at interest, and obeys all my regulations and laws. Such a person will not die because of his father's sins; he will surely live.

Jeremiah 6:16

  1. So now the LORD says, "Stop right where you are! Look for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, `No, that's not the road we want!'
  2. I set watchmen over you who said, `Listen for the sound of the trumpet!' But you replied, `No! We won't pay attention!'

Nehemiah 9:16

  1. But our ancestors were a proud and stubborn lot, and they refused to obey your commands.

Nehemiah 9:30

  1. In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who, through the prophets, warned them about their sins. But still they wouldn't listen! So once again you allowed the pagan inhabitants of the land to conquer them.

Ezekiel 18:30

  1. "Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn from your sins! Don't let them destroy you!
  2. Put all your rebellion behind you, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?
  3. I don't want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn back and live!

Acts 7:51

  1. "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
  2. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Jeremiah 44:16

  1. "We will not listen to your messages from the LORD!

Ezra 9:7

  1. Our whole history has been one of great sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.

Hosea 14:1

  1. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Jeremiah 36:2

  1. "Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message you have given, right up to the present time.
  2. Perhaps the people of Judah will repent if they see in writing all the terrible things I have planned for them. Then I will be able to forgive their sins and wrongdoings."
  3. So Jeremiah sent for Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote down all the prophecies that the LORD had given him.
  4. Then Jeremiah said to Baruch, "I am a prisoner here and unable to go to the Temple.
  5. So you go to the Temple on the next day of fasting, and read the messages from the LORD that are on this scroll. On that day people will be there from all over Judah.

Micah 2:6

  1. "Don't say such things," the people say. "Don't prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!"

Acts 26:20

  1. I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must turn from their sins and turn to God--and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

Jeremiah 13:16

  1. Give glory to the LORD your God before it is too late. Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you, causing you to stumble and fall on the dark mountains. For then, when you look for light, you will find only terrible darkness.
  2. And if you still refuse to listen, I will weep alone because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears because the LORD's flock will be led away into exile.
  3. Say to the king and his mother, "Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads."

Isaiah 31:6

  1. Therefore, my people, though you are such wicked rebels, come and return to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:7

  1. Do not be like your ancestors and relatives who abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and became an object of derision, as you yourselves can see.

Jeremiah 25:3

  1. "For the past twenty-three years--from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until now--the LORD has been giving me his messages. I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened.
  2. "Again and again, the LORD has sent you his prophets, but you have not listened or even tried to hear.
  3. Each time the message was this: `Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever.
  4. Do not make me angry by worshiping the idols you have made. Then I will not harm you.'
  5. "But you would not listen to me," says the LORD. "You made me furious by worshiping your idols, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer.
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