Bible Cross References
Why
Exodus 20:5
Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 5:9
Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, for I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
2 Kings 23:26
But the LORD's fierce anger had been aroused against Judah by what King Manasseh had done, and even now it did not die down.
2 Kings 24:3
This happened at the LORD's command, in order to banish the people of Judah from his sight because of all the sins that King Manasseh had committed,
2 Kings 24:4
and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The LORD could not forgive Manasseh for that.
Jeremiah 15:4
I will make all the people of the world horrified at them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh did in Jerusalem when he was king of Judah."
Lamentations 5:7
Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.
When
Ezekiel 20:18-20
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Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.
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I am the LORD your God. Obey my laws and my commands.
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Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 20:24-20
Ezekiel 20:30-20
Zechariah 1:3-6
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but now I say to you, 'Return to me, and I will return to you.
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Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.
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Your ancestors and those prophets are no longer alive.
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Through my servants the prophets I gave your ancestors commands and warnings, but they disregarded them and suffered the consequences. Then they repented and acknowledged that I, the LORD Almighty, had punished them as they deserved and as I had determined to do.' "