But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’ and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’ and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
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But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;
and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
they shall be answered: Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath the LORD brought all this evil upon them.'
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- Psalms 44:14 (v7) You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Jeremiah 24:9 (v7) I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt…
- Deuteronomy 29:24-26 (v8) Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say,…
- Jeremiah 22:8-9 (v8) “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’ Then they will…
- Deuteronomy 4:26 (v7) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to…
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- Deuteronomy 28:37 (v7) You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Jeremiah 2:19 (v9) “Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,…
- Leviticus 18:24-28 (v7) “ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. The land…
- 2 Kings 25:9 (v7) He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- 2 Kings 25:21 (v7) The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 (v8) This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to…
- Jeremiah 5:19 (v9) It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken…
- Luke 21:24 (v7) They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles,…
- Deuteronomy 29:25-28 (v9) Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them…
- Deuteronomy 29:26-28 (v7) and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. Therefore Yahweh’s anger…
- 2 Samuel 7:14-16 (v6) I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the…
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 (v6) You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all…
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 (v7) then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will…
- 2 Chronicles 7:22 (v9) They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other…
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 (v7) They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable…
- Jeremiah 2:10-13 (v9) For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. Has a…
- Jeremiah 19:8 (v8) I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 22:28 (v8) Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast…
- Jeremiah 26:6 (v7) then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
- Lamentations 2:6-7 (v7) He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn…
- Ezekiel 33:27-29 (v7) “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he…
- Joel 2:17 (v7) Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t…
- Micah 3:12 (v7) Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like…
- Joshua 23:15-16 (v6) It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the…
- 1 Samuel 2:30 (v6) “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But…
- 1 Kings 9:3 (v7) Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you…
- 1 Kings 11:4-10 (v6) When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of…
- 2 Kings 17:20-23 (v7) Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of…
- 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 (v6) But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and…
- 2 Chronicles 15:2 (v6) and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if…
- Nehemiah 4:1-4 (v7) But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. He spoke before his…
- Psalms 89:30 (v6) If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
- Psalms 89:32 (v6) then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Isaiah 64:11 (v8) Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
- Isaiah 65:15 (v7) You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
- Jeremiah 7:4-15 (v7) Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’ For if you thoroughly amend your ways…
- Jeremiah 12:7-8 (v9) “I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. My…
- Jeremiah 16:10-13 (v9) It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or…
- Jeremiah 26:18 (v7) “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies…
- Jeremiah 49:17 (v8) “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:7 (v9) All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation…
- Jeremiah 50:13 (v8) Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and…
- Jeremiah 52:13 (v7) He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- Lamentations 2:15-16 (v7) All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men…
- Lamentations 2:16-17 (v9) All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly…
- Lamentations 4:13-15 (v9) It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.…
- Ezekiel 24:21 (v7) ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your…
- Ezekiel 36:17-20 (v9) “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as…
- Daniel 9:12 (v8) He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the…
- Zephaniah 1:4-5 (v9) I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place:…
- Matthew 24:2 (v7) But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another,…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6–7 God declareth that disobedience against him, is the cause…
God declareth that disobedience against him, is the cause of his displeasure, and so of all misery.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–9 1Ki 9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn…
1Ki 9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Ver. 6. But if you shall at all turn.] Heb., Turning turn; utterly and totally turn, sliding back from me by a perpetual backsliding; {Jer 8:5} if ye shall hold fast deceit, and refuse to return (ibid.).
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv6–8 If ye shall at all turn from following me;…
If ye shall at all turn from following me; or rather,
if ye shall wholly turn, & c.; if you shall wilfully and obstinately depart from God, and violate his laws, as the doubling of the word implies. Whereby he also intimates that he would not be so rigid and severe towards them, as to mark every thing that was amiss; but would bear with much, as he did in David &c., only that he would not endure a total defection from him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–9 But if you shall at all turn from following…
But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children,.... From my worship, as the Targum; either Solomon or his successors, or the people of Israel and their posterity; should they turn their backs on God and his worship, meaning not in a single instance, or in some small degree; but as in the original, "if in turning ye turn" (e), that is, utterly, and entirely, or wholly turn from him and his worship to other gods, as follows:
and will not keep my commandments and my statutes, which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: neglecting the will and worship of God, go into idolatrous practices, as Solomon himself did.
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(e) "si avertendo aversi fueritis", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v8 High - Glorious and renowned. Astonished - At its…
High - Glorious and renowned. Astonished - At its unexpected and wonderful ruin. Hiss - By way of contempt and derision.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv7, 9 Verse 7. A proverb and a by-word among all…
Verse 7. A proverb and a by-word among all people] And so they are to the present; the unbelieving Jews, the stubborn, stiff-necked Jews, are words still in common use. They forsook the Lord, rejected his Christ, and are cast off, their temple destroyed, and they scattered over the face of the earth.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 1Ki 9:6-7. If you shall at all turn from…
1Ki 9:6-7. If you shall at all turn from following me — Hebrew, If in turning you turn from me; that is, if you assuredly, and indeed, or, as some understand it, altogether turn from me; if you forsake my service, desert my altar, and go and serve other gods; (for that was the covenant-breaking sin;) if you or your children break off from me, and knowingly and wilfully violate my laws, this house will not save you. Then will I cut off Israel — By one judgment after another, till they become the most despicable people under the sun, though they be now the most honourable. This implies the destruction of the royal family, though it is not particularly threatened; for the king is of course undone if his kingdom be destroyed. And this house — will I cast out of my sight — I will not regard it, but will take away my presence and protection from it: it shall be abandoned and laid desolate. And Israel shall be a proverb — Their calamities and miseries shall be mentioned proverbially, to express extreme affliction and distress. And a byword among all people — Who would mock at their calamitous and deplorable state.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 At all turn - Rather, “If ye shall wholly…
At all turn - Rather, “If ye shall wholly turn from following Me.” (See 2Ch 7:19.) The Israelites were not to be cut off, except for an entire defection.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6–8 But if. This threat had been denounced by Moses,…
But if. This threat had been denounced by Moses, (Deuteronomy xxix. 24.) and was repeated by Jeremias, (xxii. 8.) when it was on the point of being put in execution. (Menochius)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v8 this house, which is high--"high," either in point of…
this house, which is high--"high," either in point of situation, for it was built on a hill, and therefore conspicuous to every beholder; or "high" in respect to privilege, honor, and renown; or this "house of the Most High," notwithstanding all its beauty and magnificence, shall be destroyed, and remain in such a state of ruin and degradation as to be a striking monument of the just judgment of God. The record of this second vision, in which were rehearsed the conditions of God's covenant with Solomon and the consequences of breaking them, is inserted here as a proper introduction to the narrative about to be given of this king's commercial enterprises and ambitious desire for worldly glory; for this king, by encouraging an influx of foreign people and a taste for foreign luxuries, rapidly corrupted his own mind and that of this subjects, so that they turned from following God, they and their children (Kg1 9:6).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv7–8 7. A proverb and a byword — The very…
7. A proverb and a byword — The very name Israel will become a proverbial expression significant of disastrous failure; nay, more — a byword, a pointed, sarcastic term, ever suggestive of scorn and mockery. Compare Deu_28:37.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–9 6. But if you shall at all turn from…
6. But if you shall at all turn from following me] The insertion of ‘at all’ here is an attempt to give some force to the Hebrew construction. It is a peculiarity of that language to use the infinitive of a verb followed by a finite tense to give emphasis to an expression. But undoubtedly ‘at all’ weakens the sense here. God’s warning is against utter apostasy, going and serving other gods. Hence there is more force in R.V. If ye shall turn away from following me.
and my statutes] There is no conjunction between the two nouns here, but there is in the parallel place in 2 Chronicles and in the versions it is represented. So small a letter as ו could easily drop out.
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which I have set before you] The LXX. has ‘which Moses gave before you.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–9 (7) Then will I cut off.—These warnings were repeated…
(7) Then will I cut off.—These warnings were repeated with terrible force by Jeremiah on the eve of their fulfilment. (See Jer_7:12-14; Jer_24:9; Jer_25:9.) The destruction of the Temple is by him compared with that which fell on Shiloh—no doubt, after the great defeat by the Philistines in the time of Eli (1 Samuel 4, 5), although the history gives no record of it. The continued existence of the people, as a people, to be “a proverb and a byword,” through the Babylonish captivity, and through their present dispersion, is a fact to which the history of the world undoubtedly furnishes no parallel.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6–9 But if ye shall at all rather altogether, or…
But if ye shall at all rather altogether, or assuredly turn from following me The A.V entirely misrepresents the force of the Hebraism, If to turn, ye shall turn, which must mean complete, not partial, apostasy. Cf. 2Ch_7:19, and, 2Sa_7:14, 15 ye or your children as the promises of God are to us and our children, (Act_2:39) so are His threatenings, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I LXX Mwushv; Qui facit per allure, etc. have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them (Exo_20:5; Deu_5:9 Deu_13:2)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v6 But if ye shall at all turn from following…
1Ki_9:6-9
But if ye shall at all turn from following Me.
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A note of warning
A druggist in Ansonia, Conn., has an electric bell in a cabinet containing poisons. When the door is opened the bell rings, reminding the compounder he is handling poisons. What a grand thing it would be were it possible to sound an alarm every time a man puts forth his hand to touch that which will kill the soul. True, God in His great love has provided such an alarm, but, alas, men are prone to disregard its notes of alarm, and by and by it tolls forth its notes only to fall upon closed ears, and finally the bell, like that spoken of in the legend, is cut loose by the hand of a ruthless pirate, and its warning notes no longer are heard.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv6, 8 my commandments and my statutes
my commandments and my statutes
Here the words "commandments" and "statutes" mean basically the same thing and emphasize all that Yahweh has commanded. (See: Doublet)
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worship other gods and bow down to them
These two phrases mean basically the same thing and are combined for emphasis. (See: Parallelism)
set apart to my name
Here the word "name" is a metonym for the person who possesses something. AT: "set apart for myself" (See: Metonymy)
I will cast it out of my sight
The abstract noun "sight" can be expressed with the verb "see." Looking at something is a metaphor for protecting it. AT: "I will put it where I no longer have to see it" or "I will get rid of it so I no longer have to protect it" (See: Abstract Nouns and Metaphor)
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turn
worship
false god
bow
cut off
house
set apart
name
cast out
mock
people group
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