Quotes About Judgment

So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your fatherís house, so that no older man will be left in your house.

You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ëThe iniquity of Eliís house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.í”

The ark of God was captured, and Eliís two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORDís hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”