Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 13:1-11
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The LORD told me to go and buy myself some linen shorts and to put them on; but he told me not to put them in water.
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So I bought them and put them on.
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Then the LORD spoke to me again and said,
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"Go to the Euphrates River and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks."
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So I went and hid them near the Euphrates.
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Some time later the LORD told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts.
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So I went back, and when I found the place where I had hidden them, I saw that they were ruined and were no longer any good.
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Then the LORD spoke to me again. He said,
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"This is how I will destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
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These evil people have refused to obey me. They have been as stubborn and wicked as ever, and have worshiped and served other gods. So then, they will become like these shorts that are no longer any good.
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Just as shorts fit tightly around the waist, so I intended all the people of Israel and Judah to hold tightly to me. I did this so that they would be my people and would bring praise and honor to my name; but they would not obey me."
Jeremiah 18:2-12
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"Go down to the potter's house, where I will give you my message."
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So I went there and saw the potter working at his wheel.
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Whenever a piece of pottery turned out imperfect, he would take the clay and make it into something else.
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Then the LORD said to me,
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"Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands.
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If at any time I say that I am going to uproot, break down, or destroy any nation or kingdom,
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but then that nation turns from its evil, I will not do what I said I would.
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On the other hand, if I say that I am going to plant or build up any nation or kingdom,
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but then that nation disobeys me and does evil, I will not do what I said I would.
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Now then, tell the people of Judah and of Jerusalem that I am making plans against them and getting ready to punish them. Tell them to stop living sinful lives---to change their ways and the things they are doing.
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They will answer, 'No, why should we? We will all be just as stubborn and evil as we want to be.' "
Jeremiah 19:1-15
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The LORD told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests,
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and to go through Potsherd Gate out to Hinnom Valley. There I was to proclaim the message that he would give me.
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The LORD told me to say, "Kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem, listen to what I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.
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I am going to do this because the people have abandoned me and defiled this place by offering sacrifices here to other gods---gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people,
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and they have built altars for Baal in order to burn their children in the fire as sacrifices. I never commanded them to do this; it never even entered my mind.
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So then, the time will come when this place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. Instead, it will be known as Slaughter Valley.
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In this place I will frustrate all the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will let their enemies triumph over them and kill them in battle. I will give their corpses to the birds and the wild animals as food.
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I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.
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The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."
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Then the LORD told me to break the jar in front of those who had gone with me
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and to tell them that the LORD Almighty had said, "I will break this people and this city, and it will be like this broken clay jar that cannot be put together again. People will bury their dead even in Topheth because there will be nowhere else to bury them.
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I promise that I will make this city and its inhabitants like Topheth.
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The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods---they will all be as unclean as Topheth."
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Then I left Topheth, where the LORD had sent me to proclaim his message. I went and stood in the court of the Temple and told all the people
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that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, "I am going to bring on this city and on every nearby town all the punishment that I said I would, because you are stubborn and will not listen to what I say."
Jeremiah 51:63
Seraiah, when you finish reading this book to the people, then tie it to a rock and throw it into the Euphrates River
Jeremiah 51:64
and say, 'This is what will happen to Babylonia---it will sink and never rise again because of the destruction that the LORD is going to bring on it.' " The words of Jeremiah end here.
1 Kings 11:29-31
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One day, as Jeroboam was traveling from Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him alone on the road in the open country.
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Ahijah took off the new robe he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,
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and said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, because the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, 'I am going to take the kingdom away from Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
Isaiah 20:1-4
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Under the orders of Emperor Sargon of Assyria, the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army attacked the Philistine city of Ashdod.
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Three years earlier the LORD had told Isaiah son of Amoz to take off his sandals and the sackcloth he was wearing. He obeyed and went around naked and barefoot.
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When Ashdod was captured, the LORD said, "My servant Isaiah has been going around naked and barefoot for three years. This is a sign of what will happen to Egypt and Ethiopia.
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The emperor of Assyria will lead away naked the prisoners he captures from those two countries. Young and old, they will walk barefoot and naked, with their buttocks exposed, bringing shame on Egypt.
Ezekiel 4:1-17
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God said, "Mortal man, get a brick, put it in front of you, and scratch lines on it to represent the city of Jerusalem.
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Then, to represent a siege, put trenches, earthworks, camps, and battering rams all around it.
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Take an iron pan and set it up like a wall between you and the city. Face the city. It is under siege, and you are the one besieging it. This will be a sign to the nation of Israel.
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"Then lie down on your left side, and I will place on you the guilt of the nation of Israel. For 390 days you will stay there and suffer because of their guilt. I have sentenced you to one day for each year their punishment will last.
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When you finish that, turn over on your right side and suffer for the guilt of Judah for forty days---one day for each year of their punishment.
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"Fix your eyes on the siege of Jerusalem. Shake your fist at the city and prophesy against it.
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I will tie you up so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until the siege is over.
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"Now take some wheat, barley, beans, peas, millet, and spelt. Mix them all together and make bread. That is what you are to eat during the 390 days you are lying on your left side.
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You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day.
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You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.
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You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you."
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The LORD said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries."
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But I replied, "No, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean."
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So God said, "Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that."
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And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
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They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins."
Ezekiel 5:1-17
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The LORD said, "Mortal man, take a sharp sword and use it to shave off your beard and all your hair. Then weigh the hair on scales and divide it into three parts.
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Burn up a third of it in the city when the siege is over. Take another third and chop it up with your sword as you move around outside the city. Scatter the remaining third to the winds, and I will pursue it with my sword.
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Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.
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Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel."
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The Sovereign LORD said, "Look at Jerusalem. I put her at the center of the world, with other countries all around her.
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But Jerusalem rebelled against my commands and showed that she was more wicked than the other nations, more disobedient than the countries around her. Jerusalem rejected my commands and refused to keep my laws.
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Now listen, Jerusalem, to what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying. By not obeying my laws or keeping my commands, you have caused more trouble than the nations around you. You have followed the customs of other nations.
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And so I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you that I am your enemy. I will pass judgment on you where all the nations can see it.
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Because of all the things you do that I hate, I will punish Jerusalem as I have never done before and will never do again.
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As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.
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"Therefore, as I am the living God---this is the word of the Sovereign LORD ---because you defiled my Temple with all the evil, disgusting things you did, I will cut you down without mercy.
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A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.
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"You will feel all the force of my anger and rage until I am satisfied. When all this happens, you will be convinced that I, the LORD, have spoken to you because I am outraged at your unfaithfulness.
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Everyone from the nations around you who passes by will sneer at you and keep their distance.
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"When I am angry and furious with you and punish you, all the nations around you will be terrified. They will look at you with disgust and make fun of you.
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I will cut off your supply of food and let you starve. You will feel the pains of hunger like sharp arrows sent to destroy you.
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I will send hunger and wild animals to kill your children, and will send sickness, violence, and war to kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Ezekiel 12:3-16
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"Now, mortal man, pack a bundle just as a refugee would and start out before nightfall. Let everyone see you leaving and going to another place. Maybe those rebels will notice you.
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While it is still daylight, pack your bundle for exile, so that they can see you, and then let them watch you leave in the evening as if you were going into exile.
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While they are watching, break a hole through the wall of your house and take your pack out through it.
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Let them watch you putting your pack on your shoulder and going out into the dark with your eyes covered, so that you can't see where you are going. What you do will be a warning to the Israelites."
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I did what the LORD told me to do. That day I packed a bundle as a refugee would, and that evening as it was getting dark I dug a hole in the wall with my hands and went out. While everyone watched, I put the pack on my shoulder and left.
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The next morning the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "now that those Israelite rebels are asking you what you're doing,
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tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them. This message is for the prince ruling in Jerusalem and for all the people who live there.
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Tell them that what you have done is a sign of what will happen to them---they will be refugees and captives.
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The prince who is ruling them will shoulder his pack in the dark and escape through a hole that they dig for him in the wall. He will cover his eyes and not see where he is going.
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But I will spread out my net and trap him in it. Then I will take him to the city of Babylon, where he will die without having seen it.
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I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.
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"When I scatter them among the other nations and in foreign countries, they will know that I am the LORD.
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I will let a few of them survive the war, the famine, and the diseases, so that there among the nations they will realize how disgusting their actions have been and will acknowledge that I am the LORD."
Hosea 12:10
"I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions, and through the prophets I gave my people warnings.
Acts 21:11
He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied up his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: The owner of this belt will be tied up in this way by the Jews in Jerusalem, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles."
Revelation 18:21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "This is how the great city Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be seen again.
in the brick-kiln
Exodus 1:14
2 Samuel 12:31
and put its people to work with saws, iron hoes, and iron axes, and forced them to work at making bricks. He did the same to the people of all the other towns of Ammon. Then he and his men returned to Jerusalem.
Nahum 3:14
Draw water to prepare for a siege, and strengthen your fortresses! Trample the clay to make bricks, and get the brick molds ready!