Quotes About Consequence

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

So all the nations will ask, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?í

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.í

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”

If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”

“Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

“Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

The Danites said to him, “Do not raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”

Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israelís inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.

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.