Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

Bible References

They have forsaken

1 Kings 19:10
He said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’”
Jeremiah 31:32
not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
Hebrews 8:9
Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.

General references

Jeremiah 22:8
“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 20:48
All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”’”
Ezekiel 36:34
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Luke 17:29
but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.