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What is the significance of 2 Chronicles 32:31?
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Verse: Chronicles 32
“God left [Hezekiah] to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.” God tests his covenant partners to discover whether they will choose to remain faithful to him,…
What is the significance of Psalm 106:23?
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Verse: Psalm 106
“Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.” Moses (on several occasions, we have seen) persuaded…
What is the significance of Isaiah 5:3–7?
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Verse: Isaiah 5
The Lord describes Israel as his vineyard. Referring to himself, he says that the owner of the vineyard loved his vineyard and did all he could to care for it. “[H]e expected it to yield…
What is the significance of Isaiah 38:1–5?
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Verse: Isaiah 38
God tells Hezekiah “you shall die: you shall not recover” (vs. 1). Hezekiah pleads with God and God decides to “add fifteen years” to his life. As we noted concerning 2 Kings 20:1–5, if God…
What’s the significance of Isaiah 63:8-10?
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Verse: Jeremiah 63
The Lord said (or “thought”) to himself, “Surely they are my people, chidren who will not deal falsely.” So, the text says, “He became their savior” (Isa. 63: 8). But “they rebelled and grieved his…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 3:6–7?
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Verse: Jeremiah 3
Regarding Israel, the Lord says “I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me’; but she did not return.” If the future is exhaustively settled in God’s mind, the meaning of…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 3:19–20?
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Verse: Jeremiah 3
“I thought how I would set you among my children…And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. Instead, as a faithless wife…you have been faithless to me…”…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 18:7–11?
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Verse: Jeremiah 18
The Lord states that “if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.” But if a nation…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 19:5?
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Verse: Jeremiah 19
The Lord says that Israel has “gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:2–3?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
The Lord tells Jeremiah to prophesy to Israel that they should repent, for “I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on [Israel] because of their evil doings.” It is…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:19?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
“Did [Hezekiah] not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against [Israel]?” As in 2 Kings 20:1–6…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 32:35?
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Verse: Jeremiah 32
As in Jeremiah 19:5, the Lord expresses his dismay over Israel’s paganism by saying they did this “though I did not command them, nor did it enter my mind that they should do this abomination.”…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 36:1-6
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Verse: Jeremiah 36
The Lord has Jeremiah write his prophecy on a scroll, telling him, “Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 38:17–18, 20–21, 23?
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Verse: Jeremiah 38
The Lord prophesies to Zedekiah, “If you will only surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon” the city and his family would be spared, but “if you do not surrender” the city and…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 42:9-16?
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Verse: Jeremiah 42
Through Jeremiah the Lord tells Israel “If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 12:1–3?
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Verse: Ezekiel 12
The Lord has Ezekiel symbolically enact Israel’s exile as a warning and remarks, “Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house” (vs. 3). Though Israel repeatedly surprised God by their persistent rebellion, he…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 22:29–31?
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Verse: Ezekiel 22
The Lord says he “sought for” someone to stand in the breech for Israel “but I found none.” Hence Israel experienced the wrath of God. If everything that shall ever come to pass is eternally…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 33:13–15?
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Verse: Ezekiel 33
“[W]hen I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered…he will die. But when I say…
What is the significance of Hosea 8:5?
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Verse: Hosea 8
The Lord asks, “How long will they [Israel] be incapable of innocence?” The Lord’s continual striving with Israel regarding their lack of innocence suggests that this question was not merely rhetorical. If God knows the…
What is the significance of Hosea 11:8–9?
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Verse: Hosea 11
After plotting severe judgment against Israel (vs. 5–7) the Lord says, “My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger… I will not come in wrath.”…