Zechariah 1:4

Modern English Version

Do not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried, “Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Turn away from your evil ways and deeds!” But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, says the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

So couriers ran throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, which read: “Sons of Israel, return to the Lord of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel that He might turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the king of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not act like your fathers and brothers who were faithless before the Lord God of their fathers, and He appointed them for horror, as you observe.

2 Chronicles 34:21

“Go and seek the Lord on my behalf and on the behalf of the remnant in Israel and Judah concerning what is written in the book that was found, for the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us is great because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do everything that is written in this book.”

Ezra 9:7

Since the days of our fathers until this day, we have been in a great guilt. It is because of our iniquities that we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered—by the sword, by captivity, by spoil, and by being shamed—into the hand of the kings of the lands. This day is like that, too.

Nehemiah 9:16

“But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless they became disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who had warned them to turn back to You. But they committed terrible provocations.

Nehemiah 9:30

For many years You endured them and warned them by Your Spirit in Your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore, You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Psalm 78:8

and that they may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn to Him whom you have deeply betrayed, O sons of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:11

Now therefore speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Repent now, everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.

Jeremiah 23:22

But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

Jeremiah 25:8

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Because you have not obeyed My words,

Jeremiah 26:5

to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened,

Jeremiah 3:12

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, backsliding Israel, says the Lord, and I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever.

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, O backsliding sons, says the Lord, for I am married to you. And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 35:15

I also have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Return now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers.” But you have not inclined your ear or obeyed Me.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not be moved.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 14:6

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 20:18

But I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:4

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

Daniel 9:6

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our officials, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Micah 2:6

“Do not prophesy,” they say. “One should not prophesy about these things. Disgrace will not overtake us.”

Zechariah 1:3

so you will say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Zechariah 7:7

Were these not the very words that the former prophets proclaimed when Jerusalem dwelt with ease along with her surrounding cities, and when the Negev and the Lowland were inhabited?

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works proving their repentance.

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold,