2 Chronicles 7:20

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Summary

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

I pluck

Jude 1:12

A proverb

General references

Bible References

I pluck

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

But God will break you down forever;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it,” declares the Lord.

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord.

Thus you are to say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land.”

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

A proverb

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry and mocked the Jews.

You make us a byword among the nations,
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laughingstock among the peoples.

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

All who pass along the way

Clap their hands in derision at you;

They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,

A joy to all the earth’?”

General references

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’

All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”’”

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!