In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves wi
that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole gene
Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance