Zechariah 1:4

New Living Translation

Don’t be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.’

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

At the king’s command, runners were sent throughout Israel and Judah. They carried letters that said: “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he will return to the few of us who have survived the conquest of the Assyrian kings.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your ancestors and relatives who abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and became an object of derision, as you yourselves can see.

2 Chronicles 34:21

“Go to the Temple and speak to the Lord for me and for all the remnant of Israel and Judah. Inquire about the words written in the scroll that has been found. For the Lord’s great anger has been poured out on us because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the Lord. We have not been doing everything this scroll says we must do.”

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our ancestors until now, we have been steeped in sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.

Nehemiah 9:16

“But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands.

Nehemiah 9:26

“But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They turned their backs on your Law, they killed your prophets who warned them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:30

In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn’t listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them.

Psalm 78:8

Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

Isaiah 31:6

Though you are such wicked rebels, my people, come and return to the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:11

“Therefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am planning disaster for you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.’”

Jeremiah 23:22

If they had stood before me and listened to me, they would have spoken my words, and they would have turned my people from their evil ways and deeds.

Jeremiah 25:8

And now the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Because you have not listened to me,

Jeremiah 26:5

and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets—for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them—

Jeremiah 3:12

Therefore, go and give this message to Israel. This is what the Lord says: “O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.

Jeremiah 3:14

“Return home, you wayward children,” says the Lord, “for I am your master. I will bring you back to the land of Israel— one from this town and two from that family— from wherever you are scattered.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time after time I sent you prophets, who told you, “Turn from your wicked ways, and start doing things right. Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you would not listen to me or obey me.

Jeremiah 4:1

“O Israel,” says the Lord, “if you wanted to return to me, you could. You could throw away your detestable idols and stray away no more.

Jeremiah 44:16

“We will not listen to your messages from the Lord!

Ezekiel 14:6

“Therefore, tell the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent and turn away from your idols, and stop all your detestable sins.

Ezekiel 20:18

“Then I warned their children not to follow in their parents’ footsteps, defiling themselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 33:11

As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

Ezekiel 33:4

Then if those who hear the alarm refuse to take action, it is their own fault if they die.

Daniel 9:6

We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Amos 5:24

Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.

Micah 2:6

“Don’t say such things,” the people respond. “Don’t prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!”

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore, say to the people, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.’

Zechariah 7:7

Isn’t this the same message the Lord proclaimed through the prophets in years past when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah were well populated?’”

Acts 26:20

I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must repent of their sins and turn to God—and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

Acts 3:19

Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value.