Wherefore

2 Chronicles 24:18
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

2 Chronicles 34:24, 25
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah, . . .

2 Chronicles 36:14-16
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:15-20
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: . . .

2 Chronicles 28:6-8
For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120, 000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. . . .

trouble [heb] commotion

Deuteronomy 28:25
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

to astonishment

Leviticus 26:32
And I will lay waste to the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

Deuteronomy 28:59
He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

1 Kings 9:8
And this temple will now become a heap of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'

Jeremiah 18:15, 16
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways on the ancient roads and walk on bypaths instead of the highway. . . .

Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be horrified, and will scoff because of all its wounds.

Jeremiah 25:9, 18
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. . . .

Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth--a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.