Verse 14

Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 29:10 : 10 Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
  • Num 25:4 : 4 God’s Punishment The LORD said to Moses,“Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the LORD in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.”
  • Deut 13:17 : 17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
  • Deut 17:9 : 9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
  • Deut 17:18-19 : 18 When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests. 19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
  • Josh 7:26 : 26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day) and the LORD’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.
  • 2 Chr 19:5-7 : 5 He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah. 6 He told the judges,“Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions. 7 Respect the LORD and make careful decisions, for the LORD our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.”
  • Ps 78:38 : 38 Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.
  • Isa 12:1 : 1 At that time you will say:“I praise you, O LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.