Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 2:18
What do you think you will gain by going to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? What do you think you will gain by going to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say you have not defiled yourself, that you have never worshiped Baal? Look how you sinned in the valley; see what you have done. You are like a wild camel in heat, running around loose,
Jeremiah 2:33
You certainly know how to chase after lovers. Even the worst of women can learn from you.
Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man."
Hosea 5:13
"When Israel saw how sick she was and when Judah saw her own wounds, then Israel went to Assyria to ask the great emperor for help, but he could not cure them or heal their wounds.
Hosea 7:11
Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!
Hosea 12:1
Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with Assyria and do business with Egypt."
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Jeremiah 37:7
to say to Zedekiah, "The Egyptian army is on its way to help you, but it will return home.
Isaiah 20:5
Those who have put their trust in Ethiopia and have boasted about Egypt will be disillusioned, their hopes shattered.
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.
4
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."
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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 31:1-3
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Those who go to Egypt for help are doomed! They are relying on Egypt's vast military strength---horses, chariots, and soldiers. But they do not rely on the LORD, the holy God of Israel, or ask him for help.
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He knows what he is doing! He sends disaster. He carries out his threats to punish evil people and those who protect them.
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The Egyptians are not gods---they are only human. Their horses are not supernatural. When the LORD acts, the strong nation will crumble, and the weak nation it helped will fall. Both of them will be destroyed.
Lamentations 4:17
For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.
Lamentations 5:6
To get food enough to stay alive, we went begging to Egypt and Assyria.
Ezekiel 29:7
When they leaned on you, you broke, pierced their armpits, and made them wrench their backs.
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2 Chronicles 28:16
The Edomites began to raid Judah again and captured many prisoners, so King Ahaz asked Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, to send help.
2 Chronicles 28:20
The Assyrian emperor, instead of helping Ahaz, opposed him and caused him trouble.
2 Chronicles 28:21
So Ahaz took the gold from the Temple, the palace, and the homes of the leaders of the people, and gave it to the emperor, but even this did not help.
Hosea 5:13
"When Israel saw how sick she was and when Judah saw her own wounds, then Israel went to Assyria to ask the great emperor for help, but he could not cure them or heal their wounds.
Hosea 10:6
The idol will be carried off to Assyria as tribute to the great emperor. The people of Israel will be disgraced and put to shame because of the advice they followed.
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."