Quotes About Consequence

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

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

But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

“Tell me what you have done,” Saul commanded him. So Jonathan told him, “I only tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. And now I must die?”

And Saul declared, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if you, Jonathan, do not surely die!”

As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your fatherís house!”

Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone.

About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.

Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.

For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ëI killed the LORDís anointed.í”

So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away!

Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his masterís servants, but he did not go home.

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.í

This is what the LORD says: ëI will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.í”