Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

An hundred

Bible References

An hundred

2 Chronicles 13:17
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

Because

2 Chronicles 15:2
and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
Deuteronomy 31:16
The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 32:20
“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end shall be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom is no faithfulness.
Joshua 23:16
When you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”
Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”
Isaiah 1:28
But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together,
And those who forsake the Lord will come to an end.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15:6
“You who have forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,
“You keep going backward.
So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am tired of relenting!