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Abandonment MacArthur Topical RSV


1 Kings 9:6-9 But if you you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statues which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

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, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

And this house will become a heap of ruins; every one passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

Then they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this evil upon them.'"

1 Kings 11:1-13 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women; the daughter of Pharaoh, and Mo'ab-ite, Am'mo-nite, E'-dom-ite, Si-do'ni-an, and Hit'tite women,

from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

For Solomon went after Ash'to-reth the goddess of the Si-do'ni-ans, and after Mil'com the abomination of the Am'mo-nites.

So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.

Then Solomon built a high place for Che'mosh the abomination of Mo-ab, and for Mo'lech the abomination of the Am'mo-nites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD commanded.

Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenants and my statues which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.

Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will teat it out of the hand of your son.

However I will not away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

Judges 10:12-14 The Si-do'ni-ans also, and the A-mal'-e-kites, and the Ma'o-nites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

Go and cry to the gods you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."