1 Kings 18:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

Cross References

1 Kings 16:31

And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he took as his wife Jezebel daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

1 Kings 16:32

He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria.

1 Kings 21:25

(Indeed, there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

1 Kings 21:26

He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)

1 Kings 9:9

Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshiping them and serving them; therefore the Lord brought this disaster upon them.’ ”

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 28:19

For the Lord brought Judah low because of King Ahaz of Israel, for he had behaved without restraint in Judah and had been faithless to the Lord.

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Jeremiah 2:13

for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 23:13

In the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Jeremiah 38:4

Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city and all the people by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”

Ezekiel 3:8

See, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Matthew 14:4

because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Acts 24:13

Neither can they prove to you the charge that they now bring against me.

Acts 24:20

Or let these men here tell what crime they had found when I stood before the council,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you will lie down with your ancestors. Then this people will begin to prostitute themselves to the foreign gods in their midst, the gods of the land into which they are going; they will forsake me, breaking my covenant that I have made with them.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.