2 Kings 17:25

New American Bible - revised edition

When they first settled there, they did not venerate the Lord, so he sent lions among them that killed some of them.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:24

and he set out. But a lion met him on the road, and killed him. His body lay sprawled on the road, and the donkey remained standing by it, and so did the lion.

1 Kings 20:36

Then he said to him, “Since you did not obey the voice of the Lord, a lion will attack you when you leave me.” When he left him, a lion came upon him and attacked him.

2 Kings 17:26

A report reached the king of Assyria: “The nations you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the proper worship of the god of the land, so he has sent lions among them that are killing them, since they do not know the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the priests who had been deported from Samaria returned and settled in Bethel, and began to teach them how to venerate the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

At the same time, they were venerating the Lord, appointing from their own number priests for the high places to officiate for them in the shrines on the high places.

2 Kings 17:34

To this very day they continue to act according to their former customs, not venerating the Lord nor observing the statutes and regulations, the law and commandment, that the Lord enjoined on the descendants of Jacob, whom he had named Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

But these nations were both venerating the Lord and serving their own idols. Their children and children’s children are still acting like their ancestors, to this very day.

2 Kings 2:24

The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the children to pieces.

Isaiah 15:9

The waters of Dimon are filled with blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon: Lions for those who are fleeing from Moab and for those who remain in the land!

Jeremiah 10:7

Who would not fear you, King of the nations, for it is your due! Among all the wisest of the nations, and in all their domains, there is none like you.

Jeremiah 15:3

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore, lions from the forest slay them, wolves of the desert ravage them, Leopards keep watch round their cities: all who come out are torn to pieces, For their crimes are many, their rebellions numerous.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I summoned wild beasts to prowl the land, depopulating it so that it became a wasteland which no one would cross because of the wild beasts,

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Daniel 6:26

Then King Darius wrote to the nations and peoples of every language, wherever they dwell on the earth: “May your peace abound!

Leviticus 26:22

I will unleash wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.

Jonah 1:9

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

Joshua 22:25

For the Lord has placed the Jordan as a boundary between you and us, you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the Lord.’ Thus your children would prevent ours from revering the Lord.