Jeremiah 44:23

Tree of Life Version

Because you have burned incense, because you have sinned against Adonai and have not listened to the voice of Adonai, nor walked in His Torah, nor in His statutes, nor in His testimonies—that is why this calamity has befallen you, as it is this day.”

Cross References

1 Kings 9:9

They will be told: ‘Because they forsook Adonai their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshipped them and served them, therefore Adonai has brought all this evil on them.’”

2 Kings 17:15

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Adonai rose against His people, until there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 13:18

Didn’t your ancestors do exactly the same causing our God to bring all this evil upon us and upon this city? So now you are bringing even more wrath upon Israel by profaning Yom Shabbat.”

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water run down from my eyes, because they do not observe Your Torah.

Psalm 119:150

Pursuers of wicked schemes draw near— they are far from Your Torah.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek after Your decrees.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to walk in His Torah.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested and rebelled against El Elyon, and did not keep His decrees.

Jeremiah 26:4

Then you will say to them, thus says Adonai: “If you will not listen to Me, by walking in My Torah, which I have set before you,

Jeremiah 40:3

and Adonai brought it about and did just as He said. Because you have sinned against Adonai and have not listened to His voice, this thing has happened to you.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My Torah, My statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.”

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.

Jeremiah 44:2

thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “You have seen all the calamity that I brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a ruin, and no one lives in them,

Jeremiah 44:21

“The incense-burning that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you and your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—Adonai did remember them, they did come into His heart.

Jeremiah 44:3

because of their wickedness which they committed to provoke Me, by continuing to burn sacrifices for and serve other gods, whom they had not known—not they, nor you, nor your fathers.

Jeremiah 44:8

You are provoking Me with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to dwell, so that you will be cut off and become a curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has greatly sinned— therefore, she has become niddah . All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans, and turns away.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the Torah of Moses, all this calamity came on us, yet we have not sought the favor of Adonai Eloheinu by turning away from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.

1 Corinthians 10:20

No, I’m saying that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God, and I don’t want you to become partners with demons.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement does God’s Temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God—just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.