Jeremiah 44:4

Good News Translation

I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord, the God of their ancestors, had continued to send prophets to warn his people, because he wanted to spare them and the Temple.

Nehemiah 9:30

Year after year you patiently warned them. You inspired your prophets to speak, but your people were deaf, so you let them be conquered by other nations.

Nehemiah 9:34

Our ancestors, our kings, leaders, and priests have not kept your Law. They did not listen to your commands and warnings.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will make them pay double for their sin and wickedness, because they have defiled my land with idols that are as lifeless as corpses, and have filled it with their false gods.”

Jeremiah 26:5

and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.

Jeremiah 29:19

This will happen to them because they did not obey the message that I kept on sending to them through my servants the prophets. They refused to listen.

Jeremiah 32:33

They turned their backs on me; and though I kept on teaching them, they would not listen and learn.

Jeremiah 32:34

They even placed their disgusting idols in the Temple built for my worship, and they have defiled it.

Jeremiah 32:35

They have built altars to Baal in Hinnom Valley, to sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I did not command them to do this, and it did not even enter my mind that they would do such a thing and make the people of Judah sin.”

Jeremiah 35:15

I have continued to send you all my servants the prophets, and they have told you to give up your evil ways and to do what is right. They warned you not to worship and serve other gods, so that you could go on living in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or pay any attention to me.

Jeremiah 35:17

So now, I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, will bring on you people of Judah and of Jerusalem all the destruction that I promised. I will do this because you would not listen when I spoke to you, and you would not answer when I called you.”

Jeremiah 7:13

You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.

Jeremiah 7:17

Don't you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather firewood, the men build fires, and the women mix dough to bake cakes for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They also pour out offerings of wine to other gods, in order to hurt me.

Jeremiah 7:25

From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.

Ezekiel 16:36

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You stripped off your clothes, and like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.

Ezekiel 16:47

Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.

Ezekiel 18:31

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked. The walls were covered with drawings of snakes and other unclean animals, and of the other things which the Israelites were worshiping.

Daniel 9:6

We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers, our ancestors, and our whole nation.

Zechariah 7:7

This is what the Lord said through the earlier prophets at the time when Jerusalem was prosperous and filled with people and when there were many people living not only in the towns around the city but also in the southern region and in the western foothills.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.