1 Kings 14:16

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“So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.””

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BSBPD

“So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Kings 14:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
  2. Exodus 32:35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
  3. Deuteronomy 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
  4. 1 Kings 12:30And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
  5. 1 Kings 13:34And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
  6. 1 Kings 15:26And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  7. 1 Kings 15:30because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  8. 1 Kings 15:34And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  9. 1 Kings 16:2“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
  10. 1 Kings 16:13This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
  11. 1 Kings 16:19because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
  12. 1 Kings 16:27As for the rest of the acts of Omri, along with his accomplishments and the might he exercised, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  13. 1 Kings 21:22I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’
  14. 1 Kings 22:53Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
  15. 2 Kings 3:3Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
  16. 2 Kings 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
  17. 2 Kings 13:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
  18. 2 Kings 13:6Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
  19. 2 Kings 14:24And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
  20. 2 Kings 15:9And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
  21. 2 Kings 15:18And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and throughout his reign he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
  22. 2 Kings 17:21When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.
  23. 2 Kings 17:23Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.
  24. 2 Kings 21:16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

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