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[Deu 28:1 ESV] {1} “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

[Deu 28:15-57 ESV] {15} “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. {16} Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. {17} Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. {18} Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. {19} Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. {20} “The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. {21} The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. {22} The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. {23} And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. {24} The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed. {25} “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. {26} And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. {27} The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. {28} The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, {29} and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. {30} You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. {31} Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. {32} Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. {33} A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, {34} so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. {35} The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. {36} “The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. {37} And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away. {38} You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. {39} You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. {40} You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. {41} You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. {42} The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. {43} The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. {44} He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. {45} “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. {46} They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. {47} Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, {48} therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. {49} The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, {50} a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. {51} It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. {52} “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. {53} And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. {54} The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, {55} so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. {56} The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, {57} her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

[Deu 28:63-65 ESV] {63} And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. {64} “And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. {65} And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.

[2Ki 15:29 ESV] {29} In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

[2Ki 17:1-23 ESV] {1} In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years. {2} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. {3} Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. {4} But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. {5} Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it. {6} In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. {7} And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods {8} and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. {9} And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. {10} They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, {11} and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger, {12} and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this.” {13} Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.” {14} But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God. {15} They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them. {16} And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. {17} And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. {18} Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only. {19} Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. {20} And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight. {21} When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin. {22} The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, {23} until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

[Lev 11:1-47 ESV] {1} And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, {2} “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. {3} Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. {4} Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. {5} And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. {6} And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. {7} And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. {8} You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. {9} “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. {10} But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. {11} You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. {12} Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you. {13} “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, {14} the kite, the falcon of any kind, {15} every raven of any kind, {16} the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, {17} the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, {18} the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture, {19} the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. {20} “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. {21} Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. {22} Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. {23} But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you. {24} “And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening, {25} and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. {26} Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. {27} And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening, {28} and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you. {29} “And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind, {30} the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. {31} These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. {32} And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean. {33} And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it. {34} Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean. {35} And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you. {36} Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean. {37} And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean, {38} but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. {39} “And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening, {40} and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. {41} “Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten. {42} Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable. {43} You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them. {44} For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. {45} For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” {46} This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground, {47} to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

[Deu 6:1-25 ESV] {1} “Now this is the commandment–the statutes and the rules–that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, {2} that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. {3} Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. {4} “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. {5} You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. {6} And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. {7} You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. {8} You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. {9} You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. {10} “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build, {11} and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant–and when you eat and are full, {12} then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. {13} It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. {14} You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you– {15} for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God–lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. {16} “You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. {17} You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. {18} And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers {19} by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised. {20} “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ {21} then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. {22} And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. {23} And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. {24} And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. {25} And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’

[2Ki 24:1 ESV] {1} In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

[2Ch 36:5-8 ESV] {5} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. {6} Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. {7} Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon. {8} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

[Jer 25:1-11 ESV] {1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), {2} which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: {3} “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. {4} You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, {5} saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. {6} Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ {7} Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. {8} “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, {9} behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. {10} Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. {11} This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

[2Ki 24:8-17 ESV] {8} Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. {9} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. {10} At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. {11} And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, {12} and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign {13} and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold. {14} He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land. {15} And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. {16} And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. {17} And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

[Jer 24:1 ESV] {1} After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.

[Jer 27:16-22 ESV] {16} Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. {17} Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation? {18} If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. {19} For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, {20} which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem– {21} thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: {22} They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”

[Eze 1:1-2 ESV] {1} In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. {2} On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),

[Eze 5:1-17 ESV] {1} “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. {2} A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. {3} And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. {4} And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel. {5} “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. {6} And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. {7} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, {8} therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. {9} And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. {10} Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. {11} Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. {12} A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them. {13} “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD–that I have spoken in my jealousy–when I spend my fury upon them. {14} Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. {15} You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD; I have spoken– {16} when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread. {17} I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken.”

[2Ki 24:18-20 ESV] {18} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {19} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. {20} For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

[2Ki 25:1-12 ESV] {1} And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. {2} So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. {3} On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. {4} Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. {5} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. {6} Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. {7} They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon. {8} In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. {9} And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. {10} And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. {11} And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile. {12} But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

[2Ch 36:17-21 ESV] {17} Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. {18} And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. {19} And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. {20} He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, {21} to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

[Jer 52:12-16 ESV] {12} In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. {13} And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. {14} And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. {15} And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. {16} But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

[Deu 28:1 ESV]
1               “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

[Deu 28:15-57 ESV]
15            “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
16            Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
17            Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18            Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
19            Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20            “The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
21            The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
22            The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
23            And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
24            The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25            “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26            And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.
27            The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
28            The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,
29            and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
30            You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
31            Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.
32            Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
33            A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,
34            so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.
35            The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36            “The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
37            And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
38            You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
39            You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
40            You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
41            You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
42            The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43            The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44            He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45            “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
46            They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
47            Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
48            therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49            The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
50            a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
51            It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52            “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
53            And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
54            The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
55            so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
56            The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,
57            her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

[Deu 28:63-65 ESV]
63            And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64            “And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
65            And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.

[2Ki 15:29 ESV]
29            In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

[2Ki 17:1-23 ESV]
1               In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.
2               And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
3               Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
4               But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
5               Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
6               In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7               And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
8               and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
9               And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
10            They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
11            and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
12            and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this.”
13            Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14            But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
15            They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
16            And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
17            And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
18            Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.
19            Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
20            And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21            When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.
22            The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them,
23            until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

[Lev 11:1-47 ESV]
1               And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,
2               “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
3               Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
4               Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
5               And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
6               And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
7               And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
8               You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9               “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
10            But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.
11            You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.
12            Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.
13            “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
14            the kite, the falcon of any kind,
15            every raven of any kind,
16            the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,
17            the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,
18            the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,
19            the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20            “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.
21            Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground.
22            Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
23            But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.
24            “And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
25            and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
26            Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
27            And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
28            and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
29            “And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind,
30            the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
31            These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
32            And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
33            And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
34            Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.
35            And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you.
36            Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean.
37            And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,
38            but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39            “And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
40            and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41            “Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten.
42            Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.
43            You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.
44            For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
45            For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
46            This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,
47            to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

[Deu 6:1-25 ESV]
1               “Now this is the commandment–the statutes and the rules–that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
2               that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
3               Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4               “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
5               You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6               And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
7               You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
8               You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9               You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10            “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build,
11            and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant–and when you eat and are full,
12            then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
13            It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
14            You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you–
15            for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God–lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16            “You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
17            You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
18            And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers
19            by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.
20            “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’
21            then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22            And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.
23            And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.
24            And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.
25            And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’

[2Ki 24:1 ESV]
1               In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

[2Ch 36:5-8 ESV]
5               Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
6               Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
7               Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.
8               Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

[Jer 25:1-11 ESV]
1               The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
2               which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
3               “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.
4               You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,
5               saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
6               Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
7               Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8               “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
9               behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
10            Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
11            This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

[2Ki 24:8-17 ESV]
8               Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9               And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
10            At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11            And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
12            and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign
13            and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.
14            He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
15            And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16            And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.
17            And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

[Jer 24:1 ESV]
1               After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.

[Jer 27:16-22 ESV]
16            Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
17            Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
18            If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.
19            For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
20            which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem–
21            thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
22            They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”

[Eze 1:1-2 ESV]
1               In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2               On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),

[Eze 5:1-17 ESV]
1               “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
2               A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
3               And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
4               And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
5               “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
6               And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
7               Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
8               therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
9               And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
10            Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
11            Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
12            A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13            “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD–that I have spoken in my jealousy–when I spend my fury upon them.
14            Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
15            You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD; I have spoken–
16            when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.
17            I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken.”

[2Ki 24:18-20 ESV]
18            Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19            And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20            For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

[2Ki 25:1-12 ESV]
1               And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
2               So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3               On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
4               Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
5               But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
6               Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
7               They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
8               In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
9               And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
10            And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11            And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
12            But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

[2Ch 36:17-21 ESV]
17            Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
18            And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
19            And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.
20            He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
21            to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

[Jer 52:12-16 ESV]
12            In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
13            And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
14            And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
15            And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.
16            But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

[Exo 20:1-6 ESV] {1} And God spoke all these words, saying, {2} “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. {3} “You shall have no other gods before me. {4} “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. {5} You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, {6} but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

[Deu 4:1-31 ESV] {1} “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. {2} You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you. {3} Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. {4} But you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. {5} See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. {6} Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ {7} For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? {8} And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? {9} “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children– {10} how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ {11} And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. {12} Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. {13} And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. {14} And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess. {15} “Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, {16} beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, {17} the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, {18} the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. {19} And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. {20} But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. {21} Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. {22} For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land. {23} Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you. {24} For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. {25} “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger, {26} I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. {27} And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. {28} And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {29} But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. {30} When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. {31} For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

[Eze 6:9 ESV] {9} then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

[Eze 23:1-49 ESV] {1} The word of the LORD came to me: {2} “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. {3} They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled. {4} Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. {5} “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors {6} clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. {7} She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. {8} She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. {9} Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. {10} These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her. {11} “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. {12} She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. {13} And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. {14} But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, {15} wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. {16} When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. {17} And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust. {18} When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. {19} Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt {20} and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. {21} Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.” {22} Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: {23} the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. {24} And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. {25} And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. {26} They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. {27} Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore. {28} “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, {29} and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring {30} have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. {31} You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand. {32} Thus says the Lord GOD: “You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much; {33} you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria; {34} you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. {35} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.” {36} The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. {37} For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. {38} Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. {39} For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. {40} They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. {41} You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil. {42} The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads. {43} “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’ {44} For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women! {45} But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.” {46} For thus says the Lord GOD: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder. {47} And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. {48} Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done. {49} And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”

[Gal 5:19-21 ESV] {19} Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, {20} idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, {21} envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

[Col 3:5-11 ESV] {5} Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. {6} On account of these the wrath of God is coming. {7} In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. {8} But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. {9} Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices {10} and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. {11} Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

[1Co 10:19 ESV] {19} What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

[1Co 8:4-6 ESV] {4} Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” {5} For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth–as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”– {6} yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

[Rev 13:11-18 ESV] {11} Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. {12} It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. {13} It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, {14} and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. {15} And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. {16} Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, {17} so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. {18} This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

[Jhn 16:13 ESV] {13} When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

[Gen 14:19-22 ESV] {19} And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; {20} and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. {21} And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.” {22} But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

[Deu 32:8 ESV] {8} When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

[Psa 46:4 ESV] {4} There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

[Psa 47:2 ESV] {2} For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

[Psa 57:2 ESV] {2} I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

[Psa 83:18 ESV] {18} that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

[Dan 3:26 ESV] {26} Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

[Dan 4:17, 24-25, 32, 34 ESV] {17} The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’ … {24} this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, {25} that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will. … {32} and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.” … {34} At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

[Dan 5:18, 21 ESV] {18} O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. … {21} He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.

[Dan 7:18, 22, 25 ESV] {18} But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’ … {22} until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. … {25} He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

[Hos 11:7 ESV] {7} My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

[Psa 59:13 ESV] {13} consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah

[Psa 66:7 ESV] {7} who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations– let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

[Psa 103:19 ESV] {19} The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

[Isa 14:24, 27 ESV] {24} The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, … {27} For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

[Job 42:2 ESV] {2} “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

[Psa 139:13-16 ESV] {13} For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. {14} I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. {15} My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. {16} Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

[Job 14:5 ESV] {5} Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

[Deu 32:39 ESV] {39} “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

[Isa 46:9-10 ESV] {9} remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, {10} declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

[Eze 14:12-23 ESV] {12} And the word of the LORD came to me: {13} “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, {14} even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD. {15} “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, {16} even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. {17} “Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, {18} though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. {19} “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, {20} even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness. {21} “For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! {22} But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it. {23} They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD.”

[Job 36:30-32 ESV] {30} Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea. {31} For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance. {32} He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

[Job 37:10-13 ESV] {10} By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. {11} He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. {12} They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. {13} Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

[Isa 45:5-7 ESV] {5} I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, {6} that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. {7} I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

[2Sa 16:5-14 ESV] {5} When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually. {6} And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. {7} And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! {8} The LORD has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.” {9} Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.” {10} But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?'” {11} And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to. {12} It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today.” {13} So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust. {14} And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.

[Luk 22:31-32 ESV] {31} “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, {32} but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”

[Job 1:8-12 ESV] {8} And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” {9} Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? {10} Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. {11} But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” {12} And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

[Job 2:3-6 ESV] {3} And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.” {4} Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. {5} But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.” {6} And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.”

[Jhn 19:10-11 ESV] {10} So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” {11} Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

[Pro 8:13 ESV] {13} The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

[Pro 11:2 ESV] {2} When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

[Pro 16:18 ESV] {18} Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

[Pro 29:23 ESV] {23} One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

[Psa 10:4 ESV] {4} In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

[Isa 23:9 ESV] {9} The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

[Jer 13:9 ESV] {9} “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

[Dan 4:37 ESV] {37} Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

[Mar 7:21-23 ESV] {21} For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, {22} coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. {23} All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

[1Jo 2:16 ESV] {16} For all that is in the world–the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life–is not from the Father but is from the world.

[Jas 4:6 ESV] {6} But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

[2Ch 32:26 ESV] {26} But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

[Isa 45:1-13 ESV] {1} Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: {2} “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, {3} I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. {4} For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. {5} I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, {6} that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. {7} I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things. {8} “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it. {9} “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? {10} Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?'” {11} Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands? {12} I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. {13} I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.

[Jer 25:1-13 ESV] {1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), {2} which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: {3} “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. {4} You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, {5} saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. {6} Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ {7} Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. {8} “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, {9} behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. {10} Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. {11} This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. {12} Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. {13} I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

[2Ch 36:22-23 ESV] {22} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: {23} “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.'”

[Ezr 1:1-11 ESV] {1} In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: {2} “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. {3} Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel–he is the God who is in Jerusalem. {4} And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.” {5} Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem. {6} And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered. {7} Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. {8} Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. {9} And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers, {10} 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels; {11} all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.

[Ezr 3:1-13 ESV] {1} When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. {2} Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. {3} They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening. {4} And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, {5} and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD. {6} From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. {7} So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia. {8} Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD. {9} And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers. {10} And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel. {11} And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. {12} But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, {13} so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

[Psa 7:6-11 ESV] {6} Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. {7} Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. {8} The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. {9} Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous– you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! {10} My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. {11} God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

[Psa 26:1 ESV] {1} Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

[Pro 11:3 ESV] {3} The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

[Pro 19:1 ESV] {1} Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

[Pro 20:7 ESV] {7} The righteous who walks in his integrity– blessed are his children after him!

[Job 2:3 ESV] {3} And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”

[Job 27:1-6 ESV] {1} And Job again took up his discourse, and said: {2} “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, {3} as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, {4} my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. {5} Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. {6} I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

[Job 31:6 ESV] {6} (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

[Job 31:1-12 ESV] {1} “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? {2} What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? {3} Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? {4} Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? {5} “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; {6} (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) {7} if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, {8} then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. {9} “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door, {10} then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. {11} For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; {12} for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.

[Mat 5:27-28 ESV] {27} “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ {28} But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

[1Ki 9:1-9 ESV] {1} As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build, {2} the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. {3} And the LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. {4} And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, {5} then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ {6} But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, {7} then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. {8} And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ {9} Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.'”

[1Ki 11:1-14 ESV] {1} Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, {2} from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. {3} He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. {4} For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. {5} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. {6} So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. {7} Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. {8} And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. {9} And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice {10} and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded. {11} Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. {12} Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. {13} However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.” {14} And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.

[1Jo 1:9 ESV] {9} If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.