You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab's house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations." Cross References 1 Kings 16:25 But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him. 1 Kings 16:26 For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols. 1 Kings 16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa's reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years. Psalm 44:13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. Jeremiah 7:24 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. Jeremiah 18:16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. Jeremiah 25:18 to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day--Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials; Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth--a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them. Jeremiah 51:51 "We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD's house." Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols. Hosea 12:14 Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt. Micah 2:6 "Do not preach," they preach. "Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us." Micah 6:13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins. Treasury of Scripture For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people. the statutes of Omri are kept. 1 Kings 16:25-30 Hosea 5:11 the works. 1 Kings 16:30-33 1 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 21:25,26 ye walk. Psalm 1:1 Jeremiah 7:24 that. 1 Kings 9:8 2 Chronicles 29:8,9 2 Chronicles 34:25 desolation. Psalm 44:13 Isaiah 25:8 Jeremiah 51:51 |