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Exodus 20:5
You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected— even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.
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Jeremiah 18:23
Lord, you know all about their murderous plots against me. Don’t forgive their crimes and blot out their sins. Let them die before you. Deal with them in your anger.
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Nehemiah 4:5
Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in front of the builders.”
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2 Kings 10 13-2 Kings 10 14
he met some relatives of King Ahaziah of Judah.“ Who are you?” he asked them. And they replied,“ We are relatives of King Ahaziah. We are going to visit the sons of King Ahab and the sons of the queen mother.”“ Take them alive!” Jehu shouted to his men. And they captured all forty two of them and killed them at the well of Beth eked. None of them escaped.
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Matthew 23:31-36
“ But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?“ Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time— from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar.I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
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2 Samuel 21 1
There was a famine during David’s reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said,“ The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”
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2 Samuel 21 8-2 Samuel 21 9
But he gave them Saul’s two sons Armoni and Mephibosheth, whose mother was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. He also gave them the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, the wife of Adriel son of Barzillai from Meholah.The men of Gibeon executed them on the mountain before the Lord. So all seven of them died together at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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Leviticus 26:39
Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
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2 Chronicles 22 3-2 Chronicles 22 4
Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as Ahab’s family had done. They even became his advisers after the death of his father, and they led him to ruin.
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2 Samuel 3 29
Joab and his family are the guilty ones. May the family of Joab be cursed in every generation with a man who has open sores or leprosy or who walks on crutches or dies by the sword or begs for food!”
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Isaiah 43:25
“ I— yes, I alone— will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.
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2 Kings 8 27
Ahaziah followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as Ahab’s family had done, for he was related by marriage to the family of Ahab.
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2 Kings 9 27
When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what was happening, he fled along the road to Beth haggan. Jehu rode after him, shouting,“ Shoot him, too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot at the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam. He was able to go on as far as Megiddo, but he died there.
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2 Kings 11 1
When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family.