Bible Cross References
Why
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,
Deuteronomy 5:9
You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,
2 Kings 23:26
Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of His great anger, wherewith He was wroth in His anger against Judah, because of the provocations, with which Manasseh provoked Him.
2 Kings 24:3
Moreover it was the purpose of the Lord concerning Judah, to remove them from His presence, because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did.
2 Kings 24:4
Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].
Jeremiah 15:4
And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
When
Ezekiel 20:18-20
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And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves [with them].
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I [am] the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them;
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and hallow My Sabbaths, and let them be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:24-20
Ezekiel 20:30-20
Zechariah 1:3-6
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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to Me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.
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And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.
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Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live forever?
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But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.