Bible Cross References
our God
Nehemiah 1:5
" LORD God of Heaven! You are great, and we stand in fear of you. You faithfully keep your covenant with those who love you and do what you command.
Deuteronomy 7:21
So do not be afraid of these people. The LORD your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared.
Psalm 47:2
The LORD, the Most High, is to be feared; he is a great king, ruling over all the world.
Psalm 66:3
Say to God, "How wonderful are the things you do! Your power is so great that your enemies bow down in fear before you.
Psalm 66:5
Come and see what God has done, his wonderful acts among people.
keepest
Deuteronomy 7:9
Remember that the LORD your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands,
1 Kings 8:23
and prayed, " LORD God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You keep your covenant with your people and show them your love when they live in wholehearted obedience to you.
Daniel 9:4
I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed the sins of my people. I said, "Lord God, you are great, and we honor you. You are faithful to your covenant and show constant love to those who love you and do what you command.
Micah 7:18-20
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There is no other god like you, O LORD; you forgive the sins of your people who have survived. You do not stay angry forever, but you take pleasure in showing us your constant love.
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You will be merciful to us once again. You will trample our sins underfoot and send them to the bottom of the sea!
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You will show your faithfulness and constant love to your people, the descendants of Abraham and of Jacob, as you promised our ancestors long ago.
little before thee
Leviticus 26:18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
Leviticus 26:28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
Ezra 9:13
Even after everything that has happened to us in punishment for our sins and wrongs, we know that you, our God, have punished us less than we deserve and have allowed us to survive.
on our kings
2 Kings 23:29
While Josiah was king, King Neco of Egypt led an army to the Euphrates River to help the emperor of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the Egyptian army at Megiddo and was killed in battle.
2 Kings 23:33
His reign ended when King Neco of Egypt took him prisoner in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and made Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.
2 Kings 23:34
King Neco made Josiah's son Eliakim king of Judah as successor to Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Joahaz was taken to Egypt by King Neco, and there he died.
2 Kings 25:7
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.
2 Kings 25:18-21
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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
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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.
2 Kings 25:25-21
2 Kings 25:26-21
2 Chronicles 36:1-23
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The people of Judah chose Josiah's son Joahaz and anointed him king in Jerusalem.
2
Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months.
3
King Neco of Egypt took him prisoner and made Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.
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Neco made Joahaz' brother Eliakim king of Judah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Joahaz was taken to Egypt by Neco.
5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. He sinned against the LORD his God.
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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah, captured Jehoiakim, and took him to Babylonia in chains.
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Nebuchadnezzar carried off some of the treasures of the Temple and put them in his palace in Babylon.
8
Everything that Jehoiakim did, including his disgusting practices and the evil he committed, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah.His son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months and ten days. He too sinned against the LORD.
10
When spring came, King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner and carried off the treasures of the Temple. Then Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.
11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years.
12
He sinned against the LORD and did not listen humbly to the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke the word of the LORD.
13
Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to swear in God's name that he would be loyal. He stubbornly refused to repent and return to the LORD, the God of Israel.
14
In addition, the leaders of Judah, the priests, and the people followed the sinful example of the nations around them in worshiping idols, and so they defiled the Temple, which the LORD himself had made holy.
15
The LORD, the God of their ancestors, had continued to send prophets to warn his people, because he wanted to spare them and the Temple.
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But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.
17
So the LORD brought the king of Babylonia to attack them. The king killed the young men of Judah even in the Temple. He had no mercy on anyone, young or old, man or woman, sick or healthy. God handed them all over to him.
18
The king of Babylonia looted the Temple, the Temple treasury, and the wealth of the king and his officials, and took everything back to Babylon.
19
He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
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He took all the survivors to Babylonia, where they served him and his descendants as slaves until the rise of the Persian Empire.
21
And so what the LORD had foretold through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: "The land will lie desolate for seventy years, to make up for the Sabbath rest that has not been observed."
22
In the first year that Cyrus of Persia was emperor, the LORD made what he had said through the prophet Jeremiah come true. He prompted Cyrus to issue the following command and send it out in writing to be read aloud everywhere in his empire:
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"This is the command of Cyrus, Emperor of Persia. The LORD, the God of Heaven, has made me ruler over the whole world and has given me the responsibility of building a temple for him in Jerusalem in Judah. Now, all of you who are God's people, go there, and may the LORD your God be with you."
Jeremiah 8:1-3
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"At that time the bones of the kings and of the officials of Judah, as well as the bones of the priests, of the prophets, and of the other people who lived in Jerusalem, will be taken out of their graves.
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Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.
3
And the people of this evil nation who survive, who live in the places where I have scattered them, will prefer to die rather than to go on living. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."
Jeremiah 22:18
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!'
Jeremiah 22:19
With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."
Jeremiah 34:19-22
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I will hand them over to their enemies, who want to kill them, and their corpses will be eaten by birds and wild animals.
21
I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.
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I will give the order, and they will return to this city. They will attack it, capture it, and burn it down. I will make the towns of Judah like a desert where no one lives. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 39:1-18
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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:
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"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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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.
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.
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Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
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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.
Daniel 9:6
We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers, our ancestors, and our whole nation.
Daniel 9:8
Our kings, our rulers, and our ancestors have acted shamefully and sinned against you, Lord.
since the time
2 Kings 15:19
Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, invaded Israel, and Menahem gave him thirty-eight tons of silver to gain his support in strengthening Menahem's power over the country.
2 Kings 15:29
It was while Pekah was king that Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, captured the cities of Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, and the territories of Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali, and took the people to Assyria as prisoners.
2 Kings 17:3
Emperor Shalmaneser of Assyria made war against him; Hoshea surrendered to Shalmaneser and paid him tribute every year.
Isaiah 7:17
"The LORD is going to bring on you, on your people, and on the whole royal family, days of trouble worse than any that have come since the kingdom of Israel separated from Judah---he is going to bring the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:18
"When that time comes, the LORD will whistle as a signal for the Egyptians to come like flies from the farthest branches of the Nile, and for the Assyrians to come from their land like bees.
Isaiah 8:7
I, the Lord, will bring the emperor of Assyria and all his forces to attack Judah. They will advance like the flood waters of the Euphrates River, overflowing all its banks.
Isaiah 8:8
They will sweep through Judah in a flood, rising shoulder high and covering everything." God is with us! His outspread wings protect the land.
Isaiah 10:5-7
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The LORD said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry.
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I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."
7
But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.
Isaiah 36:1-37
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In the fourteenth year that Hezekiah was king of Judah, Sennacherib, the emperor of Assyria, attacked the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
2
Then he ordered his chief official to go from Lachish to Jerusalem with a large military force to demand that King Hezekiah surrender. The official occupied the road where the cloth makers work, by the ditch that brings water from the upper pool.
3
Three Judeans came out to meet him: the official in charge of the palace, Eliakim son of Hilkiah; the court secretary, Shebna; and the official in charge of the records, Joah son of Asaph.
4
The Assyrian official told them that the emperor wanted to know what made King Hezekiah so confident.
5
He demanded, "Do you think that words can take the place of military skill and might? Who do you think will help you rebel against Assyria?
6
You are expecting Egypt to help you, but that would be like using a reed as a walking stick---it would break and would jab your hand. That is what the king of Egypt is like when anyone relies on him."
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The Assyrian official went on, "Or will you tell me that you are relying on the LORD your God? It was the LORD's shrines and altars that Hezekiah destroyed when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship at one altar only.
8
I will make a bargain with you in the name of the emperor. I will give you two thousand horses if you can find that many riders.
9
You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and horsemen.
10
Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the LORD's help? The LORD himself told me to attack it and destroy it."
11
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah told the official, "Speak Aramaic to us. We understand it. Don't speak Hebrew; all the people on the wall are listening."
12
He replied, "Do you think you and the king are the only ones the emperor sent me to say all these things to? No, I am also talking to the people who are sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their excrement and drink their urine, just as you will."
13
Then the official stood up and shouted in Hebrew, "Listen to what the emperor of Assyria is telling you.
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He warns you not to let Hezekiah deceive you. Hezekiah can't save you.
15
And don't let him persuade you to rely on the LORD. Don't think that the LORD will save you and that he will stop our Assyrian army from capturing your city.
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Don't listen to Hezekiah! The emperor of Assyria commands you to come out of the city and surrender. You will all be allowed to eat grapes from your own vines and figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells---
17
until the emperor resettles you in a country much like your own, where there are vineyards to give wine and there is grain for making bread.
18
Don't let Hezekiah fool you into thinking that the LORD will rescue you. Did the gods of any other nations save their countries from the emperor of Assyria?
19
Where are they now, the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Did anyone save Samaria?
20
When did any of the gods of all these countries ever save their country from our emperor? Then what makes you think the LORD can save Jerusalem?"
21
The people kept quiet, just as King Hezekiah had told them to; they did not say a word.
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Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief and went and reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.