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2 Chronicles 24:18

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And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
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  1. Joshua 22:20Rank 1 from verse 18
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    20Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

  2. 2 Chronicles 19:2Rank 2 from verse 18
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    2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.

  3. 2 Chronicles 24:4Rank 3 from verse 18
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    4¶ And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.

  4. Ephesians 5:6Rank 4 from verse 18
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    6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

  5. 1 Kings 14:23Rank 5 from verse 18
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    23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

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2 Chronicles 24:18

COMBINED MEANING

left

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Sense 1: Past tense and past participle of leave: departed, abandoned, allowed to remain, or caused to remain. Sense 2: The direction or side opposite the right.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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served

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of serve, meaning to work for, obey, attend, minister to, worship, or fulfil a purpose.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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groves

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1. Groups of trees. 2. Objects or places connected with idolatrous worship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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idols

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False objects of worship or devotion; images treated as gods.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wrath

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Fierce anger, indignation, displeasure, rage, or the punitive judgment and destructive action that proceed from it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

trespass

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Sense 1: A transgression, offense, or wrongful crossing of a boundary. Sense 2: As a verb, to offend or sin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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24:15¶ But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

24:16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

24:17Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

24:18And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

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24:19Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

24:20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

24:21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

24:22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.

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