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2 Kings 24:3

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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,

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You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened.

The Lord was angry with the Israelites and banished them from his sight, leaving only the kingdom of Judah.

The Lord rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.

until at last the Lord banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live.

Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the Lord's help? The Lord himself told me to attack it and destroy it.”

Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the Lord.

The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight.

The Syrian army was small, but the Lord let them defeat a much larger Judean army because the people had abandoned him, the Lord God of their ancestors. In this way King Joash was punished.

“Since when,” Amaziah interrupted, “have we made you adviser to the king? Stop talking, or I'll have you killed!” The prophet stopped, but not before saying, “Now I know that God has decided to destroy you because you have done all this and have ignored my advice.”

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.

I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.

The people of this city have made me angry and furious from the day it was built. I have decided to destroy it

This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;

Tell the city what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “The city of murderers is doomed! It is like a corroded pot that is never cleaned. Piece after piece of meat is taken out, and not one is left.

Does the war trumpet sound in a city without making the people afraid? Does disaster strike a city unless the Lord sends it?

Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.

Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.

The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’

But just as he kept every promise that he made to you, so he will carry out every threat.




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