Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good
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Praise the LORD!
a Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
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Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
Who can declare all His praise?
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Blessed are those who keep justice,
And he who b does righteousness at c all times!
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d Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
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That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.
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e We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
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Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
f But rebelled by the sea - the Red Sea.
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Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake,
g That He might make His mighty power known.
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h He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So i He led them through the depths,
As through the wilderness.
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He j saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
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k The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
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l Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.
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m They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
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n But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
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o And He gave them their request,
But p sent leanness into their soul.
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When q they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the LORD,
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r The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
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s A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.
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t They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
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Thus u they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
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They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
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Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
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v Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one w stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
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Then they despised x the pleasant land;
They y did not believe His word,
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z But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the LORD.
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a Therefore He raised up His hand in an oath against them,
b To overthrow them in the wilderness,
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c To overthrow their descendants among the nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.
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d They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
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Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
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e Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
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And that was accounted to him f for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.
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g They angered Him also at the waters of strife,
h So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
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i Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.
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j They did not destroy the peoples,
k Concerning whom the LORD had commanded them,
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l But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
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m They served their idols,
n Which became a snare to them.
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o They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to p demons,
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And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And q the land was polluted with blood.
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Thus they were r defiled by their own works,
And s played the harlot by their own deeds.
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Therefore t the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred u His own inheritance.
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And v He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
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Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
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w Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.
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Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When x He heard their cry;
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y And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And z relented a according to the multitude of His mercies.
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b He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.
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c Save us, O LORD our God,
And gather us from among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.
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d Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, "Amen!"
Praise the LORD!
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1 Chronicles 16:34
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:41
And with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were designated by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because His mercy endures forever.
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Psalms 15:2
He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart.
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Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
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Psalms 119:132
Look upon me and be merciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.
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1 Kings 8:47
Yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness'.
Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to humiliation, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 1:7
We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
Jeremiah 3:25
We lie down in our shame, And our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
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Exodus 14:11
Then they said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12
" Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness."
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Exodus 9:16
But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.
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Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered At Your rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Isaiah 51:10
Are You not the One who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a road For the redeemed to cross over?
Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
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Isaiah 63:11 - 13
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea With the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them.
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Exodus 14:30
So the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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Exodus 14:27
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:28
Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.
Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.
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Exodus 15:1 - 21
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
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Exodus 15:24
And the people complained against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?
Exodus 16:2
Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, "Give us water, that we may drink." So Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?
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Numbers 11:4
Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
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Numbers 11:31
Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
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Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Will send leanness among his fat ones; And under his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire.
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Numbers 16:1 - 3
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.
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Numbers 16:31
Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them.
Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods.
Deuteronomy 11:6
And what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel -
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Numbers 16:35
And a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.
Numbers 16:46
So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.
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Exodus 32:1 - 4
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Deuteronomy 9:8
Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.
Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
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Exodus 32:10
"Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."
Deuteronomy 9:19
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.
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Ezekiel 22:30
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills.
Jeremiah 3:19
"But I said: 'How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?' "And I said: 'You shall call Me, "My Father," And not turn away from Me.'
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands.
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Deuteronomy 1:32
Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.
Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:27
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.
Deuteronomy 1:27
And you complained in your tents, and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
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Ezekiel 20:15
So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands.
Ezekiel 20:16
Because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Hebrews 3:11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
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Numbers 14:28 - 30
Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
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Leviticus 26:33
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Ezekiel 20:23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout the countries.
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Numbers 25:3
So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
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Numbers 25:7
Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand.
Numbers 25:8
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Numbers 25:11 - 13
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.
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Numbers 20:3 - 13
And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Psalms 81:7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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Deuteronomy 1:37
The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'Even you shall not go in there.
Deuteronomy 3:26
But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: 'Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.
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Numbers 20:3
And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers 20:10
And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?
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Judges 1:21
But the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; so the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
Deuteronomy 7:16
Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Judges 2:2
And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.' But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
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Judges 3:5
Thus the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Judges 3:6
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.
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Judges 2:12
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
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Deuteronomy 7:16
Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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Deuteronomy 12:31
You shall not worship the LORD your God in that...
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods ...
Deuteronomy 32:18
Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, A...
2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel...
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pas...
Ezekiel 16:20
Moreover you took your sons and your daughters,...
Ezekiel 16:21
That you have slain My children and offered the...
1 Corinthians 10:20
Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacr...
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Leviticus 17:7
"They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations."'
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Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, 'If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man's, May he return to her again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.
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Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
Ezekiel 20:18
But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Leviticus 17:7
"They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations."'
Numbers 15:39
And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined.
Judges 2:17
Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.
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Judges 2:14
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
Psalms 78:59
When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel.
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Deuteronomy 9:29
'Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.'
Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
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Judges 2:14
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, Who oppressed them; And in the time of their trouble, When they cried to You, You heard from heaven; And according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them From the hand of their enemies.
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Judges 2:16
Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, Who oppressed them; And in the time of their trouble, When they cried to You, You heard from heaven; And according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them From the hand of their enemies.
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Judges 3:9
When the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the children of Israel, who delivered them: Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 6:7
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the LORD because of the Midianites.
Judges 10:10
And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!
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Leviticus 26:41
And that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt -
Leviticus 26:42
Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.
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Judges 2:18
And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
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Psalms 69:16
Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
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1 Kings 8:50
And forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them
2 Chronicles 30:9
"For if you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will be treated with compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him."
Ezra 9:9
For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." For I was the king's cupbearer.
Jeremiah 42:12
'And I will show you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.'
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1 Chronicles 16:35
And say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise.
1 Chronicles 16:36
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.
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Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
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