Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 37:4
The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the LORD your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."
Isaiah 36:15-20
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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---
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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.
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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?
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Where are they now, the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Did anyone save Samaria?
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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?"
2 Kings 19:22
Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.
2 Kings 19:23
You sent your messengers to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.
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Isaiah 10:13
The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there.
Isaiah 10:14
The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"
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.
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, 'I will pursue them and catch them; I will divide their wealth and take all I want; I will draw my sword and take all they have.'
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.
Daniel 4:30
he said, "Look how great Babylon is! I built it as my capital city to display my power and might, my glory and majesty."
tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof
Isaiah 10:18
The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone.
Isaiah 14:8
The cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over the fallen king, because there is no one to cut them down, now that he is gone!
Ezekiel 31:3-18
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You are like a cedar in Lebanon, With beautiful, shady branches, A tree so tall it reaches the clouds.
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There was water to make it grow, And underground rivers to feed it. They watered the place where the tree was growing And sent streams to all the trees of the forest.
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Because it was well-watered, It grew taller than other trees. Its branches grew thick and long.
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Every kind of bird built nests in its branches; The wild animals bore their young in its shelter; The nations of the world rested in its shade.
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How beautiful the tree was--- So tall, with such long branches. Its roots reached down to the deep-flowing streams.
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No cedar in God's garden could compare with it. No fir tree ever had such branches, And no plane tree such limbs. No tree in God's own garden was so beautiful.
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I made it beautiful, with spreading branches. It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.
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"Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, will tell you what is going to happen to that tree that grew until it reached the clouds. As it grew taller it grew proud;
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so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.
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Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken limbs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away.
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The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches.
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And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "On the day when the tree goes to the world of the dead, I will make the underground waters cover it as a sign of mourning. I will hold back the rivers and not let the many streams flow out. Because the tree has died, I will bring darkness over the Lebanon Mountains and make all the trees of the forest wither.
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When I send it down to the world of the dead, the noise of its downfall will shake the nations. All the trees of Eden and all the choice, well-watered trees of Lebanon who have gone to the world below will be pleased at its downfall.
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They will go with it to the world of the dead to join those that have already fallen. And all who live under its shadow will be scattered among the nations.
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"The tree is the king of Egypt and all his people. Not even the trees in Eden were so tall and impressive. But now, like the trees of Eden, it will go down to the world of the dead and join the ungodly and those killed in battle. I have spoken," says the Sovereign LORD.
Daniel 4:8-14
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Then Daniel came in. (He is also called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god.) The spirit of the holy gods is in him, so I told him what I had dreamed. I said to him:
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Belteshazzar, chief of the fortunetellers, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that you understand all mysteries. This is my dream. Tell me what it means.
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"While I was asleep, I had a vision of a huge tree in the middle of the earth.
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It grew bigger and bigger until it reached the sky and could be seen by everyone in the world.
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Its leaves were beautiful, and it was loaded down with fruit---enough for the whole world to eat. Wild animals rested in its shade, birds built nests in its branches, and every kind of living being ate its fruit.
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"While I was thinking about the vision, I saw coming down from heaven an angel, alert and watchful.
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He proclaimed in a loud voice, 'Cut the tree down and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Drive the animals from under it and the birds out of its branches.
Daniel 4:20-22
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The tree, so tall that it reached the sky, could be seen by everyone in the world.
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Its leaves were beautiful, and it had enough fruit on it to feed the whole world. Wild animals rested under it, and birds made their nests in its branches.
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"Your Majesty, you are the tree, tall and strong. You have grown so great that you reach the sky, and your power extends over the whole world.
Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn down your cedar trees!
Zechariah 11:2
Weep and wail, cypress trees--- the cedars have fallen; those glorious trees have been destroyed! Weep and wail, oaks of Bashan--- the dense forest has been cut down!
of his Carmel
Isaiah 29:17
As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.