5770 abandonment
Dictionary of Bible Themes

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The state and experience of being forsaken, shared by God as well as by human beings.

God is abandoned

God's people deliberately abandon him

Jeremiah 2:13 See also Deuteronomy 32:15; Judges 2:12; 1 Kings 9:9 pp 2 Chronicles 7:22; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Isaiah 1:4; Jeremiah 17:13

God's people abandon his law

Jeremiah 9:12-14 See also 1 Kings 18:18; 2 Chronicles 12:1; Psalm 89:30; Psalm 119:53; Proverbs 4:2,6; Hebrews 10:28

God's people abandon his covenant

Deuteronomy 29:25 See also Jeremiah 22:9; Jeremiah 31:32; Daniel 11:30

God's people abandon his temple

2 Chronicles 24:18; 2 C 6

Those who abandon the gospel

1 Timothy 4:1 See also Hebrews 10:26,29; Revelation 2:4

God abandons those who forsake him

2 Chronicles 24:20 See also Numbers 32:15 Moses warns the Transjordan tribes; Deuteronomy 31:17 Israel's rebellion predicted; Deuteronomy 32:30

The LORD abandoned Saul:

1 Samuel 18:12; Samuel 28:15 1 Kings 9:7 pp 2 Chronicles 7:20; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Nehemiah 9:28; Isaiah 2:6; Jeremiah 12:7; Lamentations 2:7

God shows mercy to those who have been justly abandoned

Isaiah 54:7 See also Nehemiah 9:19,28,31; Jeremiah 51:5

Those who feel abandoned by God

God's people

Lamentations 5:20 See also Psalm 22:1; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 71:11; Psalm 74:1; Psalm 89:38

Their prayers

Psalm 38:21-22 See also 1 Kings 8:57; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 71:9,18; Psalm 119:8; Jeremiah 14:9

Jesus Christ's feelings of abandonment

Matthew 27:46 pp Mark 15:34 See also Psalm 22:1; Acts 2:27; Psalm 16:10

God promises never to abandon his people

Deuteronomy 31:8 See also Leviticus 26:44; Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 31:6; 1 Samuel 12:22; Psalm 37:25,28; Psalm 94:14; Isaiah 49:14-16; Matthew 28:20; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Hebrews 13:5

Examples of people who were abandoned

Genesis 16:7-8 Hagar; 1 Samuel 30:13 a slave; Isaiah 49:15 a newborn baby; Ezekiel 16:3-6 Jerusalem; Acts 14:19 Paul

See also

1035  God, faithfulness
1055  God, grace & mercy
2570  Christ, suffering
5689  friendlessness
5831  depression
5901  loneliness
6233  rejection, experience
8602  prayer
8704  apostasy
8743  faithlessness
9614  hope, results of absence



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