Backsliders

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningLeviticus 26:14–42Deuteronomy 4:9Deuteronomy 8:11–14Deuteronomy 28:15–68Deuteronomy 29:18–28Deuteronomy 32:15–30Joshua 24:20–271 Kings 9:6–92 Chronicles 15:2–4Ezra 8:22Job 34:26Job 34:27Psalms 44:20Psalms 44:21Psalms 73:27Psalms 85:8Psalms 125:5Proverbs 2:17Proverbs 14:14Proverbs 24:16
• See Apostasy
• See Backsliding of Israel, below
• See Church, Backslidden
• See Reprobacy
• INSTANCES OF
• Saul1 Samuel 15:111 Samuel 15:26–28
• Solomon1 Kings 11:4–40Nehemiah 13:26
• Amon2 Kings 21:222 Kings 21:23
• Rehoboam2 Chronicles 12:12 Chronicles 12:2
• Asa2 Chronicles 16:7–9
• Joash2 Chronicles 24:24

The passages, in Bible order (253)

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 17:1–7

   Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

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   “And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin,....

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2. Exodus 17:7

   He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

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   “And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,....

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3. 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!”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:11 voice

   “For he was of the sons of Israel, whom terrible signs accompanied up to the sea, that they might fear; and blessed miracles surrounded in the waste desert, that they might be reconciled; but through lack of faith, for a slight cause, they rejected them, …

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4. Leviticus 26:14–42

   If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

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   “But if ye will not hearken unto me,....

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5. Leviticus 26:40–42

   But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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   “If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,....

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6. Numbers 14:43

   For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

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   “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,....

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7. Deuteronomy 4:9

   Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

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   “Only take heed to thyself,....

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8. Deuteronomy 4:25–31

   After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—

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   “When thou shall beget children, and children's children,....

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9. Deuteronomy 4:29

   But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:291 voice

   “But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God,.... By prayer and supplication, acknowledging and confessing sin, and desiring that God would be gracious and forgive it, and bring them out of their miserable condition; even if out of those depths of affliction and distress, and though scattered about in the world, and in the uttermost parts of it: thou shalt find him; to be a God hearing and answering prayer, gracious and merciful, ready to help and deliver: if they seek him with all their heart and with all their soul; sincerely and affectionately.

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10. Deuteronomy 4:30

    When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

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    “When thou art in tribulation,....

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11. Deuteronomy 8:11–14

    Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

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    “Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God,.... The Father of mercies and fountain of goodness, the author and donor of every good and perfect gift. Plenty is apt to induce a forgetfulness of God, when on the contrary one would think it should keep him in continual remembrance, and engage to daily thankfulness to him: in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day; gave a repetition of, and in the name of God afresh enjoined them, even laws moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which, when not observed, God is forgotten.

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12. Deuteronomy 28:15–68

    If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15–681 voice

    “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,.... As directed, exhorted, and encouraged to, Deu 28:1, &c. to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day; both moral and ceremonial: that all these curses shall come upon thee; from the hand of God, certainly, suddenly, and unawares: and overtake thee; pursuing after thee, will come up to thee, and seize upon thee, though they may seem to move slowly; see Zec 5:3; namely, the curses which follow.

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13. Deuteronomy 29:18–28

    Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

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    “Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe,....

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14. Deuteronomy 30:1–10

    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

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    “And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,....

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15. Deuteronomy 31:16–30

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

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    “And the Lord said unto Moses,....

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16. Deuteronomy 32:5

    His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

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    “They have corrupted themselves,....

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