1 Samuel 15:11
11 a“I regret ▼▼See also verses 29, 35
that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and chas not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night. 2 Chronicles 34:30-33
30And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord. 31And the king dstood in his place eand made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 32Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 33And Josiah took away fall the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.Jeremiah 3:10
10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me gwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”Hosea 6:4
4 What shall I do with you, hO iEphraim?What shall I do with you, O jJudah?
Your love is klike a morning cloud,
llike the dew that goes early away.
Hosea 7:16
16They mreturn, but not upward; ▼▼Or to the Most High
they are olike a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of pthe insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision qin the land of Egypt.
Zephaniah 1:6
6 rthose who have turned back from following the Lord,swho do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”
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