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…and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

…but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”

“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

…who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.

May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.