2 Chronicles 7:20 “then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will…”

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

World English Bible

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 cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

American Standard Version

then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then will I plucke them vp out of my lande, which I haue giuen them, and this house which I haue sanctified for my Name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a prouerbe and a common talke among all people.

Darby Translation

then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Young's Literal Translation

and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.

Bible in Basic English

Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

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Cross references

“I pluck”

2 Kings 17:20 Jeremiah 45:4 Jeremiah 31:28 Psalm 52:5 Jeremiah 12:17 Jeremiah 18:7

2 Kings 17:20 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 45:4 · BSB

Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

Jeremiah 31:28 · BSB

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Psalm 52:5 · BSB

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Jeremiah 12:17 · BSB

But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 18:7 · BSB

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

“a proverb”

Deuteronomy 28:37 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 24:9 Psalm 44:14 Nehemiah 4:1–4 Lamentations 2:15

Deuteronomy 28:37 · BSB

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

1 Kings 9:7 · BSB

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

Jeremiah 24:9 · BSB

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

Psalm 44:14 · BSB

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Nehemiah 4:1–4 · BSB

Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Also

Deuteronomy 29:28 1 Kings 14:15

Deuteronomy 29:28 · BSB

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

1 Kings 14:15 · BSB

For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

21And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

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