Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 11:19
I was like a trusting lamb taken out to be killed, and I did not know that it was against me that they were planning evil things. They were saying, "Let's chop down the tree while it is still healthy; let's kill him so that no one will remember him any more."
Jeremiah 15:10-21
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What an unhappy man I am! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the land. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.
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LORD, may all their curses come true if I have not served you well, if I have not pleaded with you on behalf of my enemies when they were in trouble and distress.
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(No one can break iron, especially the iron from the north that is mixed with bronze.)
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The LORD said to me, "I will send enemies to carry away the wealth and treasures of my people, in order to punish them for the sins they have committed throughout the land.
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I will make them serve their enemies in a land they know nothing about, because my anger is like fire, and it will burn forever."
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Then I said, " LORD, you understand. Remember me and help me. Let me have revenge on those who persecute me. Do not be so patient with them that they succeed in killing me. Remember that it is for your sake that I am insulted.
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You spoke to me, and I listened to every word. I belong to you, LORD God Almighty, and so your words filled my heart with joy and happiness.
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I did not spend my time with other people, laughing and having a good time. In obedience to your orders I stayed by myself and was filled with anger.
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Why do I keep on suffering? Why are my wounds incurable? Why won't they heal? Do you intend to disappoint me like a stream that goes dry in the summer?"
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To this the LORD replied, "If you return, I will take you back, and you will be my servant again. If instead of talking nonsense you proclaim a worthwhile message, you will be my prophet again. The people will come back to you, and you will not need to go to them.
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I will make you like a solid bronze wall as far as they are concerned. They will fight against you, but they will not defeat you. I will be with you to protect you and keep you safe.
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I will rescue you from the power of wicked and violent people. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 20:1-6
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When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was the chief officer of the Temple, heard me proclaim these things,
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he had me beaten and placed in chains near the upper Benjamin Gate in the Temple.
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The next morning, after Pashhur had released me from the chains, I said to him, "The LORD did not name you Pashhur. The name he has given you is 'Terror Everywhere.'
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The LORD himself has said, 'I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to your friends, and you will see them all killed by the swords of their enemies. I am going to put all the people of Judah under the power of the king of Babylonia; he will take some away as prisoners to his country and put others to death.
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I will also let their enemies plunder all the wealth of this city and seize all its possessions and property, even the treasures of the kings of Judah, and carry everything off to Babylonia.
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As for you, Pashhur, you and all your family will also be captured and taken off to Babylonia. There you will die and be buried, along with all your friends to whom you have told so many lies.' "
Jeremiah 26:11-24
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Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, "This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears."
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Then I said, "The LORD sent me to proclaim everything that you heard me say against this Temple and against this city.
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You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and must obey the LORD your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.
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As for me, I am in your power! Do with me whatever you think is fair and right.
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But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the LORD who sent me to give you this warning."
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Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man spoke to us in the name of the LORD our God; he should not be put to death."
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After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had gathered,
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"When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the LORD Almighty had said, 'Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.'
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King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honored the LORD and tried to win his favor. And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves."
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(There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the LORD against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.
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When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.
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King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.
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They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)
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But because I had the support of Ahikam son of Shaphan, I was not handed over to the people and killed.
Jeremiah 29:25-32
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"The LORD made you a priest in place of Jehoiada, and you are now the chief officer in the Temple. It is your duty to see that every crazy person who pretends to be a prophet is placed in chains with an iron collar around the neck.
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Why haven't you done this to Jeremiah of Anathoth, who has been speaking as a prophet to the people?
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He must be stopped because he told the people in Babylonia that they would be prisoners there a long time and should build houses, settle down, plant gardens, and eat what they grow."
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Zephaniah read the letter to me,
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and then the LORD told me
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to send to all the prisoners in Babylon this message about Shemaiah: "I, the LORD, will punish Shemaiah and all of his descendants. I did not send him, but he spoke to you as if he were a prophet, and he made you believe lies. He will have no descendants among you. He will not live to see the good things that I am going to do for my people, because he told them to rebel against me. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 37:11-21
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The Babylonian army retreated from Jerusalem because the Egyptian army was approaching.
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So I started to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of my share of the family property.
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But when I reached the Benjamin Gate, the officer in charge of the soldiers on duty there, a man by the name of Irijah, the son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah, stopped me and said, "You are deserting to the Babylonians!"
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I answered, "That's not so! I'm not deserting." But Irijah would not listen to me. Instead, he arrested me and took me to the officials.
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They were furious with me and had me beaten and locked up in the house of Jonathan, the court secretary, whose house had been made into a prison.
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I was put in an underground cell and kept there a long time.
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Later on King Zedekiah sent for me, and there in the palace he asked me privately, "Is there any message from the LORD?" "There is," I answered, and added, "You will be handed over to the king of Babylonia."
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Then I asked, "What crime have I committed against you or your officials or this people, to make you put me in prison?
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What happened to your prophets who told you that the king of Babylonia would not attack you or the country?
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And now, Your Majesty, I beg you to listen to me and do what I ask. Please do not send me back to the prison in Jonathan's house. If you do, I will surely die there."
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So King Zedekiah ordered me to be locked up in the palace courtyard. I stayed there, and each day I was given a loaf of bread from the bakeries until all the bread in the city was gone.
Jeremiah 38:6-13
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So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
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However, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
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So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king,
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"Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city."
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Then the king ordered Ebedmelech to take with him three men and to pull me out of the well before I died.
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So Ebedmelech went with the men to the palace storeroom and got some worn-out clothing which he let down to me by ropes.
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He told me to put the rags under my arms, so that the ropes wouldn't hurt me. I did this,
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and they pulled me up out of the well. After that I was kept in the courtyard.
Psalm 129:2
"Ever since I was young, my enemies have persecuted me cruelly, but they have not overcome me.
for I am
Jeremiah 1:8
Do not be afraid of them, for I will be with you to protect you. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
Jeremiah 15:20
I will make you like a solid bronze wall as far as they are concerned. They will fight against you, but they will not defeat you. I will be with you to protect you and keep you safe.
Jeremiah 15:21
I will rescue you from the power of wicked and violent people. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Joshua 1:9
Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the LORD your God, am with you wherever you go."