Bible Cross References
I contended
Nehemiah 13:11
I reprimanded the officials for letting the Temple be neglected. And I brought the Levites and musicians back to the Temple and put them to work again.
Nehemiah 13:25
I reprimanded the men, called down curses on them, beat them, and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath in God's name that never again would they or their children intermarry with foreigners.
Nehemiah 5:7
and decided to act. I denounced the leaders and officials of the people and told them, "You are oppressing your own relatives!" I called a public assembly to deal with the problem
Psalm 82:1
God presides in the heavenly council; in the assembly of the gods he gives his decision:
Psalm 82:2
"You must stop judging unjustly; you must no longer be partial to the wicked!
Proverbs 28:4
If you have no regard for the law, you are on the side of the wicked; but if you obey it, you are against them.
Isaiah 1:10
Jerusalem, your rulers and your people are like those of Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to what the LORD is saying to you. Pay attention to what our God is teaching you.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the people in power and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do." But all of them have rejected the LORD's authority and refuse to obey him.
Jeremiah 13:18
The LORD said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.
Jeremiah 22:2-23
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(SEE 22:1)
3
"I, the LORD, command you to do what is just and right. Protect the person who is being cheated from the one who is cheating him. Do not mistreat or oppress aliens, orphans, or widows; and do not kill innocent people in this holy place.
4
If you really do as I have commanded, then David's descendants will continue to be kings. And they, together with their officials and their people, will continue to pass through the gates of this palace in chariots and on horses.
5
But if you do not obey my commands, then I swear to you that this palace will fall into ruins. I, the LORD, have spoken.
6
"To me, Judah's royal palace is as beautiful as the land of Gilead and as the Lebanon Mountains; but I will make it a desolate place where no one lives.
7
I am sending men to destroy it. They will all bring their axes, cut down its beautiful cedar pillars, and throw them into the fire.
8
"Afterward many foreigners will pass by and ask one another why I, the LORD, have done such a thing to this great city.
9
Then they will answer that it is because you have abandoned your covenant with me, your God, and have worshiped and served other gods."
10
People of Judah, do not weep for King Josiah; do not mourn his death. But weep bitterly for Joahaz, his son; they are taking him away, never to return, never again to see the land where he was born.
11
The LORD says concerning Josiah's son Joahaz, who succeeded his father as king of Judah, "He has gone away from here, never to return.
12
He will die in the country where they have taken him, and he will never again see this land."
13
Doomed is the one who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty; who makes his people work for nothing and does not pay their wages.
14
Doomed is the one who says, "I will build myself a mansion with spacious rooms upstairs." So he puts windows in his house, panels it with cedar, and paints it red.
15
Does it make you a better king if you build houses of cedar, finer than those of others? Your father enjoyed a full life. He was always just and fair, and he prospered in everything he did.
16
He gave the poor a fair trial, and all went well with him. That is what it means to know the LORD.
17
But you can only see your selfish interests; you kill the innocent and violently oppress your people. The LORD has spoken.
18
So then, the LORD says about Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "No one will mourn his death or say, 'How terrible, my friend, how terrible!' No one will weep for him or cry, 'My lord! My king!'
19
With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."
20
People of Jerusalem, go to Lebanon and shout, go to the land of Bashan and cry; call out from the mountains of Moab, because all your allies have been defeated.
21
The LORD spoke to you when you were prosperous, but you refused to listen. That is what you've done all your life; you never would obey the LORD.
22
Your leaders will be blown away by the wind, your allies taken as prisoners of war, your city disgraced and put to shame because of all the evil you have done.
23
You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.
Micah 3:1
Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
Micah 3:9
Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.