2 Chronicles 25:16
But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
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2 Chronicles 25:16
But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
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2 Chronicles 25:1
Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 25:13
But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.
2 Chronicles 25:14
Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.
2 Chronicles 25:15
And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?
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2 Chronicles 24:20
Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.
2 Chronicles 24:21
But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.
2 Chronicles 24:22
So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.
1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Exodus 10:28
And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that you come not again before me; for the day when you see my face again will be your last.
1 Kings 18:17
And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
1 Kings 22:27
And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew 14:4
Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.
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2 Chronicles 25:17
Then Amaziah, king of Judah, acting on the suggestion of his servants, sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.
2 Chronicles 25:18
And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
2 Chronicles 25:19
You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.
1 Kings 12:24
The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back, every man to his house, because this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the word of the Lord, and went back, as the Lord had said.
Judges 20:13
Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 10:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 22:7
Now by the purpose of God, Ahaziah's journey to see Jehoram was the cause of his downfall: for when he came there, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu, the son of Nimshi, who had been marked out by the Lord for the destruction of the family of Ahab.
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Acts 2:23
Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
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Proverbs 29:1
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Genesis 19:9
And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.
2 Chronicles 33:10
And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.
2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
Proverbs 1:30
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
Proverbs 5:12
And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
Proverbs 15:10
There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
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Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.
2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:31
And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.
1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
Exodus 9:16
But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.
Judges 14:4
Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.
1 Kings 22:23
And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Exodus 4:21
And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
Joshua 11:20
For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
1 Kings 22:20
And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
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Proverbs 9:7
He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.
Proverbs 9:8
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
Proverbs 9:9
Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
2 Chronicles 10:8
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.
Psalms 141:5
Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.
Proverbs 1:5
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Proverbs 25:12
Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.
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2 Chronicles 25:27
Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.
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Isaiah 30:9
For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
Amos 7:10
Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.
Amos 7:11
For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.
Amos 7:12
And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:
Amos 7:13
But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
Matthew 21:23
And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?
Acts 4:17
But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name.
Acts 4:18
And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
Acts 5:28
We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
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Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
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1 Kings 18:18
Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.
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Psalms 81:11
But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
Romans 1:32
Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
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Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Acts 28:25
And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,
Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
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Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
Jeremiah 29:27
So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?
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