Bible Cross References
to them
Isaiah 30:1-7
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The LORD has spoken: "Those who rule Judah are doomed because they rebel against me. They follow plans that I did not make, and sign treaties against my will, piling one sin on another.
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They go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice. They want Egypt to protect them, so they put their trust in Egypt's king.
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But the king will be powerless to help them, and Egypt's protection will end in disaster.
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Although their ambassadors have already arrived at the Egyptian cities of Zoan and Hanes,
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the people of Judah will regret that they ever trusted that unreliable nation, a nation that fails them when they expect help."
6
This is God's message about the animals of the southern desert: "The ambassadors travel through dangerous country, where lions live and where there are poisonous snakes and flying dragons. They load their donkeys and camels with expensive gifts for a nation that cannot give them any help.
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The help that Egypt gives is useless. So I have nicknamed Egypt, 'The Harmless Dragon.' "
Isaiah 36:6
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."
Isaiah 57:9
You put on your perfumes and ointments and go to worship the god Molech. To find gods to worship, you send messengers far and wide, even to the world of the dead.
Ezekiel 17:15
But the king of Judah rebelled and sent agents to Egypt to get horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can he get away with that? He cannot break the treaty and go unpunished!
Hosea 11:5
"They refuse to return to me, and so they must return to Egypt, and Assyria will rule them.
stay on horses
Isaiah 30:16
Instead, you plan to escape from your enemies by riding fast horses. And you are right---escape is what you will have to do! You think your horses are fast enough, but those who pursue you will be faster!
Isaiah 36:9
You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and horsemen.
Deuteronomy 17:16
The king is not to have a large number of horses for his army, and he is not to send people to Egypt to buy horses, because the LORD has said that his people are never to return there.
Psalm 20:7
Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the LORD our God.
Psalm 33:16
A king does not win because of his powerful army; a soldier does not triumph because of his strength.
Psalm 33:17
War horses are useless for victory; their great strength cannot save.
the look
Isaiah 5:12
At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes---and wine. But you don't understand what the LORD is doing,
Isaiah 17:7
When that day comes, people will turn for help to their Creator, the holy God of Israel.
Isaiah 17:8
They will no longer rely on the altars they made with their own hands, or trust in their own handiwork---symbols of the goddess Asherah and altars for burning incense.
Isaiah 22:11
you built a reservoir inside the city to hold the water flowing down from the old pool. But you paid no attention to God, who planned all this long ago and who caused it to happen.
2 Chronicles 16:7
At that time the prophet Hanani went to King Asa and said, "Because you relied on the king of Syria instead of relying on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Israel has escaped from you.
Jeremiah 2:13
for my people have committed two sins: they have turned away from me, the spring of fresh water, and they have dug cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.
Jeremiah 17:5
The LORD says, "I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can never save us, and war horses cannot protect us. We will never again say to our idols that they are our God. O LORD, you show mercy to those who have no one else to turn to."
neither
Isaiah 9:13
The people of Israel have not repented; even though the LORD Almighty has punished them, they have not returned to him.
Isaiah 64:7
No one turns to you in prayer; no one goes to you for help. You have hidden yourself from us and have abandoned us because of our sins.
Daniel 9:13
giving us all the punishment described in the Law of Moses. But even now, O LORD our God, we have not tried to please you by turning from our sins or by following your truth.
Hosea 7:7
"In the heat of their anger they murdered their rulers. Their kings have been assassinated one after another, but no one prays to me for help."
Hosea 7:13-16
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"They are doomed! They have left me and rebelled against me. They will be destroyed. I wanted to save them, but their worship of me was false.
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They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!
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Even though I was the one who brought them up and made them strong, they plotted against me.
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They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh."
Amos 5:4-8
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The LORD says to the people of Israel, "Come to me, and you will live.
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Do not go to Beersheba to worship. Do not try to find me at Bethel---Bethel will come to nothing. Do not go to Gilgal---her people are doomed to exile."
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Go to the LORD, and you will live. If you do not go, he will sweep down like fire on the people of Israel. The fire will burn up the people of Bethel, and no one will be able to put it out.
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You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!
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The LORD made the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into daylight and day into night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD.