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Cain
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Gen 4:8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's
go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked
his brother Abel and killed him.
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Esau
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Gen 25:33 But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So
he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some
lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau
despised his birthright.
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Sons
of Eli
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1Sa 2:12 Eli's sons were wicked men; they had no
regard for the LORD.
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Sons
of Samuel
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1Sa 8:3 But his sons did not walk in his ways. They
turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted
justice.
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Absalom
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2Sa 15:6 Absalom behaved in this way toward all
the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he
stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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Rehoboam
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1Ki 12:8-14 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the
elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with
him and were serving him. He asked them, "What is your advice? How
should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your
father put on us'?" The young men who had grown up with him replied,
"Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy
yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter" tell them, 'My little
finger is thicker than my father's waist. My father laid on you
a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you
with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.'" Three days later
Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had
said, "Come back to me in three days."
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Jeroboam
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1Ki 13:33 Even after this, Jeroboam did not change
his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places
from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest
he consecrated for the high places.
1Ki 13:34 This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam
that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face
of the earth.
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Manasseh
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2Ki 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he
became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His
mother's name was Hephzibah.
2Ki 21:2 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD,
following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had
driven out before the Israelites.
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The
Prodigal Son
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Luke 15:13 – 21 "Not long after that, the younger
son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there
squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything,
there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to
be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that
country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill
his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one
gave him anything. "When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many
of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving
to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him:
Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer
worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.'
So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long
way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him;
he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. "The
son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against
you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
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