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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
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel following the dedication of the temple, delivering a conditional warning that directly follows the covenant stipulations in 2 Chronicles 7:19. The speaker is the Lord, responding to the threat of idolatry and covenant abandonment.
The words — נְתַשְׁתִּים (ne.tash.ti/m) translates literally as "I will pluck up them," and אַדְמָתִי ('ad.ma.ti) means "my land." These terms establish the physical removal of the people from their allotted territory.
The thread — The motif of divine uprooting and national judgment resurfaces in Deuteronomy 28:37, 2 Kings 17:20, and Deuteronomy 29:28. Each passage records the Lord executing the promised removal of Israel after repeated covenant violations.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that covenant blessings are reversible and that sacred spaces hold no inherent protection against disobedience. It requires a reader to treat divine warnings as precise legal conditions rather than abstract threats.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- 2 Kings 17:20 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 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 9:7 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.
- 1 Kings 14:15 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 poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
- Jeremiah 24:9 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.
- Jeremiah 45:4 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.
- Psalms 44:14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
- Jeremiah 31:28 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.
- Lamentations 2:15 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?”