Exodus 5:1-2
Making Bricks Without Straw
1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold aa feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2But Pharaoh said, b“Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, cI will not let Israel go.”Joshua 24:15
15 dAnd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, echoose this day whom you will serve, whether fthe gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or gthe gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. hBut as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”Joshua 24:23-24
23He said, “Then iput away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.” 24And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel Judges Israel
3And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, j“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then kput away the foreign gods and the lAshtaroth from among you and mdirect your heart to the Lord nand serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”1 Kings 18:39
39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, o“The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”1 Chronicles 17:26
26And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.2 Chronicles 33:13
13He prayed to him, and pGod was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. qThen Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
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