Jeremiah 44:15

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.

Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;

Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

“When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.