Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Forsake’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Forsake’ occurs 69 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 28:20 The Lord will send famine and hunger upon you, and a rebuke upon all the works that you do, until he quickly crushes and perishes you, because of your very wicked innovations, by which you have forsaken me.Deuteronomy 28:20
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up and will fornicate after foreign gods, in the land which they will enter so that they may live in it. In that place, they will forsake me, and they will make void the covenant that I have formed with them.Deuteronomy 31:16
Deuteronomy 32:18 You have forsaken the God who conceived you, and you have forgotten the Lord who created you.Deuteronomy 32:18
Number of the word / term Forsake in Deuteronomy: 3
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 1:5 No one will be able to resist you during all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so will I be with you. I will not leave you, nor will I forsake you.Joshua 1:5
Joshua 22:3 Neither have you forsaken your brothers during this long time, even to the present day, keeping the orders of the Lord your God.Joshua 22:3
Joshua 22:16 “All the people of the Lord declare this: What is this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord, the God of Israel, by building a sacrilegious altar, and by withdrawing from the worship of him?Joshua 22:16
Joshua 22:18 And yet you have forsaken the Lord today, and tomorrow his wrath will rage against all of Israel.Joshua 22:18
Joshua 22:29 May this wickedness be far from us, such that we would withdraw from the Lord, and would forsake his paths, by constructing an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, contrary to the altar of the Lord our God, which was built before his tabernacle.”Joshua 22:29
Joshua 24:16 And the people responded, and they said: “Far be it from us that we would forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods.Joshua 24:16
Number of the word / term Forsake in Joshua: 6
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Judges
Judges 6:13 And Gideon said to him: “I beg you, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why have these things happened to us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers described when they said, ‘The Lord led us away from Egypt.’ But now the Lord has forsaken us, and he has delivered us into the hand of Midian.”Judges 6:13
Judges 10:10 And crying out to the Lord, they said: “We have sinned against you. For we have forsaken the Lord our God, and we have served the Baals.”Judges 10:10
Judges 10:13 And yet you have forsaken me, and you have worshipped foreign gods. For this reason, I will not continue to free you any more.Judges 10:13
Number of the word / term Forsake in Judges: 3
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 8:8 In accord with all their works, which they have done from the day when I led them away from Egypt, even to this day: just as they have forsaken me, and served foreign gods, so now they also do to you.1 Samuel 8:8
1 Samuel 12:10 But afterward, they cried out to the Lord, and they said: ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and we have served the Baals and Ashtaroth. Now therefore, rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’1 Samuel 12:10
1 Samuel 15:11 “It displeases me that I have appointed Saul as king. For he has forsaken me, and he has not fulfilled the work of my words.” And Samuel was greatly saddened, and he cried out to the Lord, all night long1 Samuel 15:11
Number of the word / term Forsake in 1 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”1 Kings 6:13
1 Kings 19:10 And he responded: “I have been very zealous on behalf of the Lord, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone remain. And they are seeking my life, so that they may take it away.”1 Kings 19:10
1 Kings 19:14 “I have been very zealous on behalf of the Lord, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone remain. And they are seeking my life, so that they may take it away.”1 Kings 19:14
Number of the word / term Forsake in 1 Kings: 3
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha: “Remain here. For the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” And Elisha said to him, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” And when they had descended to Bethel,2 Kings 2:2
2 Kings 2:4 Then Elijah said to Elisha: “Remain here. For the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” And when they had arrived at Jericho,2 Kings 2:4
2 Kings 2:6 Then Elijah said to him: “Remain here. For the Lord has sent me as far as the Jordan.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” And so, the two of them continued on together.2 Kings 2:6
2 Kings 10:29 Yet truly, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. Neither did he forsake the golden calves, which were in Bethel and Dan.2 Kings 10:29
Number of the word / term Forsake in 2 Kings: 4
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you will have turned away, and will have forsaken my justices and my precepts, which I have set before you, and going astray, you serve strange gods, and you adore them,2 Chronicles 7:19
2 Chronicles 13:10 But the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. And the priests who minister to the Lord are from the sons of Aaron. And the Levites are in their proper order.2 Chronicles 13:10
2 Chronicles 13:11 Also, they offer holocausts to the Lord, each and every day, morning and evening, and incense composed according to the precept of the law, and the bread of the presence on a very pure table. And there is with us the gold lampstand with its lamps, so that they may burn continually in the evening. For certainly, we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.2 Chronicles 13:11
2 Chronicles 21:10 Even so, Edom rebelled, so as not to be under the authority of Judah, even to this day. Also at that time, Libnah withdrew, so as not to be under his hand. For he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers.2 Chronicles 21:10
2 Chronicles 24:24 And although certainly there had arrived a very small number of Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an immense multitude. For they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Also, against Joash they executed disgraceful judgments.2 Chronicles 24:24
2 Chronicles 28:6 And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed, on one day, one hundred twenty thousand, all of them men of war from Judah, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.2 Chronicles 28:6
Number of the word / term Forsake in 2 Chronicles: 6
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to petition the king for assistance and for horsemen, who would defend us from the enemy along the way. For we had said to the king: “The hand of our God is over all those who seek him in goodness. And his authority, and his strength and fury, is over all those who forsake him.”Ezra 8:22
Ezra 9:9 For we are servants, yet in our servitude our God has not forsaken us, but he has inclined mercy upon us in the sight of the king of the Persians, so that he may give us life, and may raise up the house of our God, and repair its desolations, and give us a hedge in Judah and Jerusalem.Ezra 9:9
Number of the word / term Forsake in Ezra: 2
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 10:39 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall carry to the storehouse the first-fruits of the grain, of the wine, and of the oil. And the sanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men, and the gatekeepers, and the ministers. And we shall not forsake the house of our God.Nehemiah 10:39
Nehemiah 13:11 And I brought the case before the magistrates, and I said, “Why have we forsaken the house of God?” And I gathered them together, and I caused them to stand at their stations.Nehemiah 13:11
Number of the word / term Forsake in Nehemiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Job
Job 18:4 You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?Job 18:4
Job 19:14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.Job 19:14
Job 20:26 All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.Job 20:26
Job 27:6 I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.Job 27:6
Number of the word / term Forsake in Job: 4
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 22:1 Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David. O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.Psalm 22:1
Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now I am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his offspring seeking bread.Psalm 37:25
Psalm 38:21 Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. Do not depart from me.Psalm 38:21
Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.Psalm 40:12
Psalm 119:87 They have nearly consumed me on earth. Yet I have not forsaken your commandments.Psalm 119:87
Number of the word / term Forsake in Psalm: 5
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,Proverbs 1:8
Number of the word / term Forsake in Proverbs: 1
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 32:14 For the house has been forsaken. The multitude of the city has been abandoned. A darkness and a covering have been placed over its dens, even unto eternity. It will be the gladness of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,Isaiah 32:14
Isaiah 54:6 For the Lord has called you, like a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and like a wife rejected in her youth, said your God.Isaiah 54:6
Isaiah 54:7 For a brief moment, I have forsaken you, and with great pities, I will gather you.Isaiah 54:7
Isaiah 60:15 For though you were forsaken, and held in hatred, and there was no one who would pass near you, I will establish you as an everlasting glory, as a gladness from generation to generation.Isaiah 60:15
Isaiah 62:4 You will no longer called Forsaken. And your land will no longer be called Desolate. Instead, you shall be called My Will within it, and your land shall be called Inhabited. For the Lord has been well pleased with you, and your land will be inhabited.Isaiah 62:4
Isaiah 62:12 And they will call them: The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. Then you will be called: A city sought, and not forsaken.Isaiah 62:12
Isaiah 65:11 And you who have forsaken the Lord, who have forgotten my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune, and who offer libations concerning her:Isaiah 65:11
Number of the word / term Forsake in Isaiah: 7
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 1:16 And I will speak my judgments with them, concerning all the wickedness of those who have forsaken me, and who have offered libations to strange gods, and who have adored the work of their own hands.Jeremiah 1:16
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.Jeremiah 2:13
Jeremiah 2:19 Your own malice will reprove you, and your own apostasy will rebuke you! But know and perceive this: it is an evil and bitter thing for you to forsake the Lord your God, and to be without my fear within you, says the Lord, the God of hosts.Jeremiah 2:19
Jeremiah 2:29 Why do you want to contend against me in judgment? You have all forsaken me, says the Lord.Jeremiah 2:29
Jeremiah 5:7 “Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.Jeremiah 5:7
Jeremiah 8:3 And they will greatly prefer death to life: all those who will have been left from this wicked kindred, in all the forsaken places to which I will cast them out, says the Lord of hosts.Jeremiah 8:3
Jeremiah 9:2 Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.Jeremiah 9:2
Jeremiah 9:19 For a voice of lamentation has been heard from Zion: ‘How is it that we have been devastated and greatly confounded? Our tabernacles have been thrown down because we have forsaken the land.’ ”Jeremiah 9:19
Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, Hope of Israel: all who forsake you will be confounded. Those who withdraw from you will be written into the earth. For they have abandoned the Lord, the Source of living waters.Jeremiah 17:13
Jeremiah 23:39 because of this, behold, I will take you away, like a burden, and I will forsake you, as well as the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, before my face.Jeremiah 23:39
Number of the word / term Forsake in Jeremiah: 10
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 5:20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?Lamentations 5:20
Number of the word / term Forsake in Lamentations: 1
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: “Certainly, son of man, you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each one while hidden in his chamber. For they say: ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the earth.’ ”Ezekiel 8:12
Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Judah, is vast and exceedingly great, and the land has been filled with blood, and the city has been filled with what is abhorrent. For they have said: ‘The Lord has forsaken the earth,’ and, ‘The Lord does not see.’Ezekiel 9:9
Ezekiel 12:20 And cities that are now inhabited will become desolate, and the land will be forsaken. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”Ezekiel 12:20
Ezekiel 24:21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will defile my sanctuary, the pride of your realm, and the desire of your eyes, and the dread of your soul. Your sons and your daughters, whom you have forsaken, will fall by the sword.’Ezekiel 24:21
Ezekiel 36:4 because of this, O mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the torrents, and to the valleys, and to the deserts, and to the ruins, and to the forsaken cities, which have been depopulated and ridiculed by the remainder of the nations all around:Ezekiel 36:4
Number of the word / term Forsake in Ezekiel: 5
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Daniel
Daniel 11:30 And the Greek warships and the Romans will come upon him, and he will be pierced, and will retreat, and will have scorn against the testament of the sanctuary, and he will act. And he will return and will consult their adversaries, who have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.Daniel 11:30
Number of the word / term Forsake in Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 11:16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.Zechariah 11:16
Number of the word / term Forsake in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: “Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”Matthew 27:46
Number of the word / term Forsake in Matthew: 1
Bible passages with ‘Forsake’ in the book Mark
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”Mark 15:34
Number of the word / term ‘Forsake’ in Mark: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 69