Bible Verses About Rebellion Against God

After that, Moshe and Aharon came and said to Pharaoh, "Here is what ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, says: 'Let my people go, so that they can celebrate a festival in the desert to honor me.'"

But Pharaoh replied, "Who is ADONAI, that I should obey when he says to let Isra'el go? I don't know ADONAI, and I also won't let Isra'el go."

"I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

Pay attention to him, listen to what he says and do not rebel against him; because he will not forgive any wrongdoing of yours, since my name resides in him

So quickly they have turned aside from the way I ordered them to follow! They have cast a metal statue of a calf, worshipped it, sacrificed to it and said, 'Isra'el! Here is your god, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'"

ADONAI continued speaking to Moshe: "I have been watching these people; and you can see how stiffnecked they are.

"'But if you will not listen to me and obey all these mitzvot,

if you loathe my regulations and reject my rulings, in order not to obey all my mitzvot but cancel my covenant;

then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you -wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops.

I will set my face against you - your enemies will defeat you, those who hate you will hound you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins.

I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze -

you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit.

"'Yes, if you go against me and don't listen to me, I will increase your calamities sevenfold, according to your sins.

I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted.

"'If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me;

then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins.

I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.

I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

"'And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me;

then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins.

You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.

I will destroy your high places, cut down your pillars for sun-worship, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols; and I will detest you.

I will lay waste to your cities and make your sanctuaries desolate, so as not to smell your fragrant aromas.

I will desolate the land, so that your enemies living in it will be astounded by it.