100 Bible Verses About Rejection

Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the Lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.

Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.