Micah 6:16

God's Word

You have kept Omri’s laws and all the practices of the descendants of Ahab, and you have followed their advice. That is why I will ruin you. Your people will be ridiculed. You will bear the disgrace of my people.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

(When Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had hidden 100 prophets in caves. He put 50 prophets in each cave and kept them alive by providing bread and water for them.)

1 Kings 9:8

Everyone passing by this temple, as impressive as it is, will be appalled. They will gasp and ask, ‘Why did the Lord do these things to this land and this temple?’

2 Kings 16:3

He followed the example of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son by burning him alive. Sacrificing ⌞children⌟ was one of the disgusting things done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites’ way.

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He set up altars dedicated to Baal and made a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven.

2 Chronicles 22:4

He did what the Lord considered evil, as Ahab’s family had done. After his father died, they advised him to do what Ahab’s family had done. They did this to destroy him.

2 Chronicles 34:25

I will do this because they have abandoned me and sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my anger will be poured on this place and will never come to an end.’ ”

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the person who does not follow the advice of wicked people, take the path of sinners, or join the company of mockers.

Psalm 44:13

You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

Psalm 44:14

You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death forever. The Almighty Lord will wipe away tears from every face, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from the whole earth. The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will devastate this city. It will become something to hiss at. Everyone who goes by it will be stunned and hiss with contempt at all the disasters that happen to it.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

Jeremiah 25:9

so I’m going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, declares the Lord. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I’m going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will chase them with wars, famines, and plagues. I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms on the earth. They will become something cursed, ridiculed, and hissed at, and they will be a disgrace among all the nations where I scatter them.

Jeremiah 51:51

We have been put to shame, and we have been disgraced. Shame covers our faces, because foreigners have gone into the holy places of the Lord’s temple.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own plans and their stubborn, evil ways. They went backward and not forward.

Lamentations 5:1

“Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace!

Ezekiel 39:26

When they live safely in a land where no one will frighten them, they will forget their shame and all the unfaithful things they have done against me.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, since you are very righteous, turn your anger and fury away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Jerusalem and your people are insulted by everyone around us because of our sins and the wicked things our ancestors did.

Hosea 12:14

The people of Ephraim made the Lord bitter. He will hold them guilty of murder. The Lord will pay them back for their insults.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed—crushed by punishment, because its people are determined to chase idols.

Micah 2:6

Your prophets say, “Don’t prophesy! Don’t prophesy such things! Disgrace will never overtake us.”

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins.

Revelation 2:20

But I have something against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. She teaches and misleads my servants to sin sexually and to eat food sacrificed to idols.