Zechariah 1:4

Tree of Life Version

Do not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried out saying, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘Turn back now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me.’ It is a declaration of Adonai.

Cross References

Psalm 78:8

So they will not be like their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart, whose spirit was not loyal to God.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: ‘As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Return, return from your evil ways. Why will you die, O house of Israel?’

Jeremiah 35:15

“I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers; but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore tell them, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘Return to Me’—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—‘and I will return to you,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

Acts 26:20

Rather, I kept declaring—first to those in Damascus, and then Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also the Gentiles—that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with that repentance.

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and return—so your sins might be blotted out,

Micah 2:6

“Do not prophesy,” they prophesy. Unless they prophesy about such things, He will not turn back reproaches.”

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.

Hosea 14:1

Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants dashed to pieces, their pregnant women ripped open.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you spoke to us in the Name of Adonai, we are not going to listen to you!

Jeremiah 26:5

and by listening to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you, early and often—but you have not listened—

Jeremiah 18:11

So now, speak to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, thus says Adonai: “I am about to bring calamity against you, and devise disaster against you. Turn back now—everyone from his evil way—and amend your ways and your doings.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go! Proclaim these words toward the north, saying: “Return backsliding Israel,” says Adonai. “I will no longer frown on you, for I am merciful,” says Adonai. “I will not keep a grudge forever.

Isaiah 31:6

Return to the One from whom rebellion is so deep, Bnei-Yisrael.

Nehemiah 9:30

You bore with them for many years and admonished them by Your Ruach through the hand of Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:16

“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant. They stiffened their neck and did not obey Your mitzvot.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our fathers to this day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, our kings and our kohanim have been subjected to the sword, to captivity, to plunder and to humiliation at the hand of the kings of the lands, as it is today.

2 Chronicles 34:21

“Go! Inquire of Adonai for me and for the remnant in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of Adonai that will be poured out upon us—because our fathers did not observe the word of Adonai to do according to all that is written in this scroll.”

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your fathers and brothers who acted unfaithfully against Adonai, the God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror as you see.

Jeremiah 4:1

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares Adonai. “If you will put your detestable things out of My sight. Then you will not waver.

Jeremiah 23:22

If they have stood in My council, then they would have announced My words to My people, and turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.”

Ezekiel 20:18

“I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, do not keep their ordinances, do not defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 33:4

then whoever hears the sound of the shofar but ignores the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Zechariah 7:7

Are not these the words that Adonai proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem with its surrounding cities were inhabited and prosperous, when the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?’”

2 Chronicles 30:6

At the king’s command, the couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials saying: “You men of Israel, turn back to Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:14

“Return, O backsliding children,” declares Adonai. “For I am your Husband. I will choose you—one from a city and two from a clan— and will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 25:8

Therefore thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Since you have not heard My words,

Ezekiel 14:6

Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: “Return, turn away from your idols; turn your faces from all your abominations.

Daniel 9:6

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