Bible Cross References
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Psalm 119:176
I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.
Psalm 73:5-28
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They do not suffer as other people do; they do not have the troubles that others have.
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And so they wear pride like a necklace and violence like a robe;
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their hearts pour out evil, and their minds are busy with wicked schemes.
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They laugh at other people and speak of evil things; they are proud and make plans to oppress others.
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They speak evil of God in heaven and give arrogant orders to everyone on earth,
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so that even God's people turn to them and eagerly believe whatever they say.
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They say, "God will not know; the Most High will not find out."
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That is what the wicked are like. They have plenty and are always getting more.
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Is it for nothing, then, that I have kept myself pure and have not committed sin?
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O God, you have made me suffer all day long; every morning you have punished me.
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If I had said such things, I would not be acting as one of your people.
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I tried to think this problem through, but it was too difficult for me
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until I went into your Temple. Then I understood what will happen to the wicked.
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You will put them in slippery places and make them fall to destruction!
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They are instantly destroyed; they go down to a horrible end.
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They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.
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When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt,
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I was as stupid as an animal; I did not understand you.
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Yet I always stay close to you, and you hold me by the hand.
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You guide me with your instruction and at the end you will receive me with honor.
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What else do I have in heaven but you? Since I have you, what else could I want on earth?
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My mind and my body may grow weak, but God is my strength; he is all I ever need.
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Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.
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But as for me, how wonderful to be near God, to find protection with the Sovereign LORD and to proclaim all that he has done!
Deuteronomy 32:15
"The LORD's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
2 Samuel 10:19
When the kings who were subject to Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelites, they made peace with them and became their subjects. And the Syrians were afraid to help the Ammonites any more.
2 Samuel 11:2-27
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One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.
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So he sent a messenger to find out who she was, and learned that she was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.
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David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home.
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Afterward she discovered that she was pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him.
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David then sent a message to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.
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When Uriah arrived, David asked him if Joab and the troops were well, and how the fighting was going.
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Then he said to Uriah, "Go on home and rest a while." Uriah left, and David had a present sent to his home.
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But Uriah did not go home; instead he slept at the palace gate with the king's guards.
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When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he asked him, "You have just returned after a long absence; why didn't you go home?"
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Uriah answered, "The men of Israel and Judah are away in battle, and the Covenant Box is with them; my commander Joab and his officers are camping out in the open. How could I go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife? By all that's sacred, I swear that I could never do such a thing!"
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So David said, "Then stay here the rest of the day, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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David invited him to supper and got him drunk. But again that night Uriah did not go home; instead he slept on his blanket in the palace guardroom.
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The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah.
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He wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed."
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So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong.
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The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.
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Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,
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and he instructed the messenger, "After you have told the king all about the battle,
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he may get angry and ask you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight them? Didn't you realize that they would shoot arrows from the walls?
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Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?' If the king asks you this, tell him, 'Your officer Uriah was also killed.' "
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So the messenger went to David and told him what Joab had commanded him to say.
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He said, "Our enemies were stronger than we were and came out of the city to fight us in the open, but we drove them back to the city gate.
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Then they shot arrows at us from the wall, and some of Your Majesty's officers were killed; your officer Uriah was also killed."
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David said to the messenger, "Encourage Joab and tell him not to be upset, since you never can tell who will die in battle. Tell him to launch a stronger attack on the city and capture it."
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When Bathsheba heard that her husband had been killed, she mourned for him.
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When the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to the palace; she became his wife and bore him a son. But the LORD was not pleased with what David had done.
2 Chronicles 33:9-13
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Manasseh led the people of Judah to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.
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Although the LORD warned Manasseh and his people, they refused to listen.
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So the LORD let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.
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In his suffering he became humble, turned to the LORD his God, and begged him for help.
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God accepted Manasseh's prayer and answered it by letting him go back to Jerusalem and rule again. This convinced Manasseh that the LORD was God.
Proverbs 1:32
Inexperienced people die because they reject wisdom. Stupid people are destroyed by their own lack of concern.
Jeremiah 22:21
The LORD spoke to you when you were prosperous, but you refused to listen. That is what you've done all your life; you never would obey the LORD.
but now
Psalm 119:71
My punishment was good for me, because it made me learn your commands.
Psalm 119:75
I know that your judgments are righteous, LORD, and that you punished me because you are faithful.
Jeremiah 31:18
"I hear the people of Israel say in grief, ' LORD, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back; we are ready to return to you, the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 31:19
We turned away from you, but soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us, we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.'
Hosea 2:6
So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.
Hosea 2:7
She will run after her lovers but will not catch them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, "I am going back to my first husband---I was better off then than I am now."
Hosea 5:15
"I will abandon my people until they have suffered enough for their sins and come looking for me. Perhaps in their suffering they will try to find me."
Hosea 6:1
The people say, "Let's return to the LORD! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he?
Hebrews 12:10
Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11
When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth.