Bible Cross References
he brought
2 Chronicles 33:11
So the LORD let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
2 Kings 24:2
The LORD sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the LORD had said through his servants the prophets that he would do.
2 Kings 24:3
This happened at the LORD's command, in order to banish the people of Judah from his sight because of all the sins that King Manasseh had committed,
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our ancestors until now, we, your people, have sinned greatly. Because of our sins we, our kings, and our priests have fallen into the hands of foreign kings, and we have been slaughtered, robbed, and carried away as prisoners. We have been totally disgraced, as we still are today.
Jeremiah 15:8
There are more widows in your land than grains of sand by the sea. I killed your young men in their prime and made their mothers suffer. I suddenly struck them with anguish and terror.
Jeremiah 32:42
"Just as I have brought this disaster on these people, so I am going to give them all the good things that I have promised.
Jeremiah 40:3
and now he has done what he said he would. All this happened because your people sinned against the LORD and disobeyed him.
Daniel 9:14
You, O LORD our God, were prepared to punish us, and you did, because you always do what is right, and we did not listen to you.
the king
2 Kings 25:1-30
1
Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,
2
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
3
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
4
the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
5
But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
6
Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
7
While Zedekiah was looking on, his sons were put to death; then Nebuchadnezzar had Zedekiah's eyes put out, placed him in chains, and took him to Babylon.
8
On the seventh day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.
9
He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem,
10
and his soldiers tore down the city walls.
11
Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.
12
But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
13
The Babylonians broke in pieces the bronze columns and the carts that were in the Temple, together with the large bronze tank, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
14
They also took away the shovels and the ash containers used in cleaning the altar, the tools used in tending the lamps, the bowls used for catching the blood from the sacrifices, the bowls used for burning incense, and all the other bronze articles used in the Temple service.
15
They took away everything that was made of gold or silver, including the small bowls and the pans used for carrying live coals.
16
The bronze objects that King Solomon had made for the Temple---the two columns, the carts, and the large tank---were too heavy to weigh.
17
The two columns were identical: each one was 27 feet high, with a bronze capital on top, 4 1/2 feet high. All around each capital was a bronze grillwork decorated with pomegranates made of bronze.
18
In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important Temple officials.
19
From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, five of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.
20
Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
21
in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.
22
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, governor of Judah, and placed him in charge of all those who had not been taken away to Babylonia.
23
When the Judean officers and soldiers who had not surrendered heard about this, they joined Gedaliah at Mizpah. These officers were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth from the town of Netophah, and Jezaniah from Maacah.
24
Gedaliah said to them, "I give you my word that there is no need for you to be afraid of the Babylonian officials. Settle in this land, serve the king of Babylonia, and all will go well with you."
25
But in the seventh month of that year, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, a member of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men, attacked Gedaliah, and killed him. He also killed the Israelites and Babylonians who were there with him.
26
Then all the Israelites, rich and poor alike, together with the army officers, left and went to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Babylonians.
27
In the year that Evilmerodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as prisoner.
28
Evilmerodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
29
So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
30
Each day, for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.
Jeremiah 39:1-18
1
In the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia came with his whole army and attacked Jerusalem.
2
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
3
(When Jerusalem was captured, all the high officials of the king of Babylonia came and took their places at the Middle Gate, including Nergal Sharezer, Samgar Nebo, Sarsechim, and another Nergal Sharezer. )
4
When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers saw what was happening, they tried to escape from the city during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and escaped in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
5
But the Babylonian army pursued them and captured Zedekiah in the plains near Jericho. Then they took him to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
6
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on, and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
7
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylonia.
8
Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
9
Finally Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, together with those who had deserted to him.
10
He left in the land of Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and he gave them vineyards and fields.
11
But King Nebuchadnezzar commanded Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, to give the following order:
12
"Go and find Jeremiah and take good care of him. Do not harm him, but do for him whatever he wants."
13
So Nebuzaradan, together with the high officials Nebushazban and Nergal Sharezer and all the other officers of the king of Babylonia,
14
had me brought from the palace courtyard. They put me under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, who was to see that I got home safely. And so I stayed there among the people.
15
While I was still imprisoned in the palace courtyard, the LORD told me
16
to tell Ebedmelech the Ethiopian that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, "Just as I said I would, I am going to bring upon this city destruction and not prosperity. And when this happens, you will be there to see it.
17
But I, the LORD, will protect you, and you will not be handed over to the people you are afraid of.
18
I will keep you safe, and you will not be put to death. You will escape with your life because you have put your trust in me. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 52:1-34
1
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of the Jeremiah who lived in the city of Libnah.
2
King Zedekiah sinned against the LORD, just as King Jehoiakim had done.
3
The LORD became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,
4
and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,
5
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
6
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
7
the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
8
But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
9
Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
10
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
11
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
12
On the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.
13
He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem;
14
and his soldiers tore down the city walls.
15
Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.
16
But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and he put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
17
The Babylonians broke in pieces the bronze columns and the carts that were in the Temple, together with the large bronze tank, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
18
They also took away the shovels and the ash containers used in cleaning the altar, the tools used in tending the lamps, the bowls used for catching the blood from the sacrifices, the bowls used for burning incense, and all the other bronze articles used in the Temple service.
19
They took away everything that was made of gold or silver: the small bowls, the pans used for carrying live coals, the bowls for holding the blood from the sacrifices, the ash containers, the lampstands, the bowls used for incense, and the bowls used for pouring out wine offerings.
20
The bronze objects that King Solomon had made for the Temple---the two columns, the carts, the large tank, and the twelve bulls that supported it---were too heavy to weigh.
21
The two columns were identical: each one was 27 feet high and 18 feet around. They were hollow, and the metal was 3 inches thick. On top of each column was a bronze capital 7 1/2 feet high, and all around it was a grillwork decorated with pomegranates, all of which was also made of bronze.
22
(SEE 52:21)
23
On the grillwork of each column there were a hundred pomegranates in all, and ninety-six of these were visible from the ground.
24
In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important Temple officials.
25
From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.
26
Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
27
in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.
28
This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;
29
in his eighteenth year, 832 from Jerusalem;
30
and in his twenty-third year, 745---taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.
31
In the year that Evil-merodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as a prisoner.
32
Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
33
So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
34
Each day for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.
who slew
Leviticus 26:14-46
14
The LORD said, "If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished.
15
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
16
I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
17
I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
19
I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.
20
All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
22
I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
23
"If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,
24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
25
I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
26
I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
27
"If after all of this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
29
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
30
I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
31
I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
32
I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
33
I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
34
Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
35
(SEE 26:34)
36
"I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
37
You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
38
You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
39
The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
40
"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
41
and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
42
I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
43
First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
44
But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God.
45
I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God."
46
All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
15
"But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
16
"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
17
"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
18
"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
19
"The LORD will curse everything you do.
20
"If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.
21
He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
22
The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
23
No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
24
Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
25
"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
26
When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
27
The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
28
The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
29
You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
30
"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
31
Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
32
Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
34
Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
35
The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
36
"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
37
In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
38
"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
39
You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
40
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
41
You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
42
All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
43
"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
44
They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
45
"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
46
They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
47
The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
48
So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
49
The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
50
They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
51
They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
52
They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
55
(SEE 28:54)
56
Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
57
(SEE 28:56)
58
"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
59
he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
60
He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
61
He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
62
Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63
Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
64
"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
65
You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
66
Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
67
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
68
The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Deuteronomy 29:18-28
18
Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the LORD our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
19
Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.
20
The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.
21
The LORD will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the LORD's teachings.
22
"In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the LORD has brought on your land.
23
The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.
24
Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'
25
And the answer will be, 'It is because the LORD's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.
26
They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the LORD had forbidden them to worship.
27
And so the LORD became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.
28
The LORD became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'
Deuteronomy 30:18
you will be destroyed---I warn you here and now. You will not live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy.
Deuteronomy 31:16-18
16
The LORD said to Moses, "You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.
17
When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.
18
And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.
Deuteronomy 32:15-28
15
"The LORD's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
16
Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry.
17
They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.
18
They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.
19
"When the LORD saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.
20
'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.
21
With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
22
My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.
23
" 'I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.
24
They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.
25
War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26
I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
27
But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'
28
"Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.
Psalm 74:20
Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.
Psalm 79:2
They left the bodies of your people for the vultures, the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
Psalm 79:3
They shed your people's blood like water; blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem, and no one was left to bury the dead.
Jeremiah 15:9
The mother who lost her seven children has fainted, gasping for breath. Her daylight has turned to darkness; she is disgraced and sick at heart. I will let your enemies kill those of you who are still alive. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 18:21
But now, LORD, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle.
Lamentations 2:21
Young and old alike lie dead in the streets, Young men and women, killed by enemy swords. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.
Lamentations 2:22
You invited my enemies to hold a carnival of terror all around me, And no one could escape on that day of your anger. They murdered my children, whom I had raised and loved.
in the house
2 Chronicles 24:21
King Joash joined in a conspiracy against Zechariah, and on the king's orders the people stoned Zechariah in the Temple courtyard.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !
Ezekiel 9:5-7
5
And I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one; have mercy on no one.
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Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But don't touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple." So they began with the leaders who were standing there at the Temple.
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God said to them, "Defile the Temple. Fill its courtyards with corpses. Get to work!" So they began to kill the people in the city.
Luke 13:1
At that time some people were there who told Jesus about the Galileans whom Pilate had killed while they were offering sacrifices to God.
Luke 13:2
Jesus answered them, "Because those Galileans were killed in that way, do you think it proves that they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?
no compassion
Deuteronomy 28:50
They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
Psalm 74:20
Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.