Apostasy

How Nave’s arranged it

• DescribedDeuteronomy 13:13Hebrews 3:12
• Caused by persecutionMatthew 24:9Matthew 24:10Luke 8:13
• Caused by worldliness2 Timothy 4:10
• Guilt and punishment ofZephaniah 1:4–6Hebrews 10:25–31Hebrews 10:392 Peter 2:172 Peter 2:20–22
• Cautions againstHebrews 3:122 Peter 3:17
• Shall abound in the latter daysMatthew 24:122 Thessalonians 2:31 Timothy 4:1–3
• See Antichrist
• UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO Jude 1:4-6Deuteronomy 32:151 Chronicles 28:9Isaiah 1:28Isaiah 65:11–16Jeremiah 17:5Jeremiah 17:6Ezekiel 3:20Ezekiel 18:24Ezekiel 18:26Ezekiel 33:12Ezekiel 33:13Ezekiel 33:18Matthew 13:20Matthew 13:21Matthew 24:10Matthew 24:12Mark 4:5–17Luke 8:13Luke 11:24–26John 15:6
• INSTANCES OF
• IsraelitesExodus 32Numbers 14
• Saul1 Samuel 15:26–291 Samuel 18:121 Samuel 28:151 Samuel 28:18
• Amaziah2 Chronicles 25:142 Chronicles 25:27

The passages, in Bible order (64)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 32:1

   Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

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2. Numbers 14:1

   Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

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3. Deuteronomy 13:13

   that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 13:131 voice

   “In Deu 15:9 and in Nah 1:11 the word “Belial” is rendered in our translation by the adjective “wicked.” The word means “worthlessness.” (from Barnes’ Notes)

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4. Deuteronomy 32:15

   But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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   “Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

   “Jeshurun - ישרון the upright. This appellative is here put for Israel, and as it comes from ישר yashar, he was right, straight, may be intended to show that the people who once not only promised fair, but were really upright, walking in the paths of righteousness, should, in the time signified by the prophet, not only revolt from God, but actually fight against him; like a full fed horse, who not only will not bear the harness, but breaks away from his master, and endeavors to kick him as he struggles to get loose.

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5. 1 Samuel 15:26–29

   “I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”

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   “And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee,.... Not being satisfied with his repentance and confession, he still extenuating his sin, and laying the blame of it on the people.

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6. 1 Samuel 18:12

   So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

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7. 1 Samuel 28:15

   Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:151 voice

   “If the prophets, the forerunners of Christ, all went down into hades before the Christ, so too Samuel has gone down there. For he does not merely go down, but he goes down as a holy man. Wherever the holy man may be, he is holy. Is Christ no longer Christ, since he was once in hades? Was he no longer Son of God, since he existed in an underworld place, "that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus Christ in heaven and on earth and under the earth"?

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8. 1 Samuel 28:18

   Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

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   “Is a little demon capable of prophesying concerning the entire people of God that the Lord is about to deliver Israel?…Can also a little demon know this, that after a king has been appointed with the anointing oil of a prophet, that tomorrow Saul and his sons with him will forfeit their lives?… But I cannot give to a little demon such a great power that he can prophesy concerning Saul and the people of God and he can prophesy concerning David that he will become king.

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9. 1 Chronicles 28:9

   As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

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   "Do you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy." And in another place: "The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you abandon him, he also will abandon you."

   “Know thou the God of thy father - “Knowing God,” in the sense of having a religious trust in Him, is an unusual phrase in the earlier Scriptures. It scarcely occurs elsewhere in the historical books. David, however, uses the phrase in his Psalms Psa 36:10; and its occurrence here may be accepted as evidence that the entire speech is recorded in the actual words of the monarch.

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10. 2 Chronicles 25:14

    When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.

    ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 25:141 voice

    “The practice of carrying off the images of the gods from a conquered country, or city, as trophies of victory, was common among the nations of the East. Sometimes as with the Romans, the object was worship, especially when the gods were previously among those of the conquering country, and the images had the reputation of special sanctity.

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11. 2 Chronicles 25:27

    From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

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    “After the time ... - The writer means that the violent death of Amaziah followed on his apostasy, not closely in point of time - for it must have been at least 15 years after 2Ch 25:25 - nor as, humanly speaking, caused by it; but, in the way of a divine judgment, his death was a complete fulfillment of the prophecy of 2Ch 25:16.

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12. Isaiah 1:28

    But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

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    “Moreover, who can agree with the thesis that you [the Pelagians] set down as your next heading: "In the day of judgment, no leniency shall be shown to the ungodly and to sinners, but they shall be consumed in eternal fires," for you prevent God from showing mercy, and you pass judgment on the sentence of the judge before judgment day, so that if he wanted to spare the unjust and the sinner, he could not, in view of your prescription?

    “And the destruction - Hebrew שׁבר sheber - the breaking, or crushing, that is, the punishment which was about to come upon them; compare Lam 2:11; Lam 3:47; Pro 16:18. Of the transgressors - “Revolters,” or those that rebel against God. And of the sinners - Of all the sinners in the nation, of all kinds and degrees. Together - At the same time with the redemption of Zion. Shall be consumed - יכלוּ yı̂kelû, from כלה kâlâh, to be completed, or finished; to be consumed, wasted away; to vanish, or disappear.

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13. Isaiah 65:11–16

    But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

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    “But ye are they that forsake the Lord - Or rather, ‘Ye who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.’ The design of this verse is to remind them of their idolatries, and to assure them that they should not escape unpunished. That forget my holy mountain - Mount Moriah, the sacred mountain on which the temple was built.

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14. Jeremiah 17:5

    This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

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    “Referring to the Jews' proneness to rely on Egypt, in its fear of Assyria and Babylon (Isa 31:1, 3). trusteth--This word is emphatic. We may expect help from men, so far as God enables them to help us, but we must rest our trust in God alone (Ps 62:5).

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15. Jeremiah 17:6

    He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

    ›Commentary on Jeremiah 17:62 voices

    “Hab 3:9, the Hebrew is translated, "bare," "naked," "destitute"; but as the parallel in Jer 17:8 is "tree," some plant must be meant of which this is the characteristic epithet (Jer 48:6, Margin), "a naked tree." ROBINSON translates, "the juniper tree," found in the Arabah or Great Valley, here called "the desert," south of the Dead Sea.

    A person who relies on himself, however, or even on the person whose duty it is to provide for his needs, and thinks that his own activity or that of his associate is a sufficient resource for his livelihood runs the risk, as he places his hope in humankind, of falling under the curse that reads, "Cursed is the one that trusts in humankind and makes flesh his arm and whose soul departs from the Lord."

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16. Ezekiel 3:20

    Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

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    “When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness - Which these words plainly state he may do, and commit iniquity and die in his sin; and consequently die eternally, which is also here granted; if he have not been warned, though he die in his sin, the blood - the life and salvation, of this person also will God require at the watchman’s hand. Pastor hunc occidit, quia eum tacendo morti tradidit. “This man the pastor kills; for in being silent, he delivers him over to death.” - Gregory.

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