2 Kings 17:25

Modern English Version

Right at the beginning of their settling there, they did not fear the Lord, so the Lord sent lions among them, and behold, they killed some of them.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:24

As he was going, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown in the road, and both the donkey and lion stood by it.

1 Kings 20:36

Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you leave me, a lion will kill you.” And as soon as he left him, a lion found and killed him.

2 Kings 17:26

So they said to the king of Assyria, “The nations which you have exiled and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them; they are killing them, because they do not know the requirements of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

Then one of the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria came and lived in Bethel. He taught them how they should fear the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

They feared the Lord and made from amongst themselves priests of the high places, who were working for them in the houses of the high places.

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not fear the Lord, nor are they doing according to the statutes, requirements, the law or commandment that the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord and were serving their carved images, both their children and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, and so they are doing to this day.

2 Kings 2:24

He turned around, saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and ripped open forty-two of the boys.

Isaiah 15:9

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; for I will bring more woes on Dimon, lions on the fugitives of Moab, and on the remnant of the land.

Jeremiah 10:7

Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed, it is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like You.

Jeremiah 15:3

I will appoint over them four kinds of disaster, says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the birds of the heaven, the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they destroy it so that it becomes desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts,

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send My four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it.

Daniel 6:26

“I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel. “For He is the living God, enduring forever; His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and His dominion shall be forever.

Leviticus 26:22

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. And your roads shall be desolate.

Jonah 1:9

Jonah replied, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Joshua 22:25

The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, the descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the Lord!’ In this way your descendants might make our descendants to stop worshipping the Lord.