Lexicon :: Strong's H1115 - biltî

He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what the LORD had commanded.

Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel ​— ​all his great men, close friends, and priests ​— ​leaving him no survivors.

So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage.

They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

He defiled Topheth, which is in Ben Hinnom Valley, so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire[fn] to Molech.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only you would bless me, extend my border, let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not experience pain.”[fn] And God granted his request.

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa, Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

so people lie down never to rise again.

They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;

they will not stir from their sleep.

“Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

There will be nothing to do

except crouch among the prisoners

or fall among the slain.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

It struck the peoples in anger

with unceasing blows.

It subdued the nations in rage

with relentless persecution.

Who makes a god or casts a metal image

that benefits no one?

“I will delay my anger for the sake of my name,

and I will restrain myself for your benefit and for my praise,

so that you will not be destroyed.

The LORD says this:

“As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes,

and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,

for there’s some good[fn] in it,’

so I will act because of my servants

and not destroy them all.

But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

“You did more evil than your ancestors. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

“They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.

“However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.

“This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city ​— ​and on all its cities ​— ​every disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying my words.’ ”

Among the prophets of Jerusalem also

I saw a horrible thing:

They commit adultery and walk in lies.

They strengthen the hands of evildoers,

and none turns his back on evil.

They are all like Sodom to me;

Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.

But Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them intercede with the LORD of Armies not to let the articles that remain in the LORD’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.’

“I will make a permanent covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from me.

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,

As a result, each was to let his male and female Hebrew slaves go free, and no one was to enslave his fellow Judean.

“We have obeyed Jonadab, son of our ancestor Rechab, in all he commanded us. So we haven’t drunk wine our whole life ​— ​we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters.

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he did not listen to them.

“If they do, tell them, ‘I was bringing before the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”

“But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ in order to disobey the LORD your God,

“But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods.

“Say, ‘LORD, you have threatened to cut off this place so that no one will live in it ​— ​people or animals. Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.’

“But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have rescued yourself.”

“This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.

“Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.

“so that the kingdom would be humble and not exalt itself but would keep his covenant in order to endure.

“But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.

“I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

“In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock,

so that it would not be covered.

“Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small they cannot rule over the nations.