Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 43:9-13
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"Get some large stones and bury them in the mortar of the pavement in front of the entrance to the government building here in the city, and let some of the Israelites see you do it.
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Then tell them that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am going to bring my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to this place, and he will put his throne over these stones that you buried, and will spread the royal tent over them.
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Nebuchadnezzar will come and defeat Egypt. Those people who are doomed to die of disease will die of disease, those doomed to be taken away as prisoners will be taken away as prisoners, and those doomed to be killed in war will be killed in war.
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I will set fire to the temples of Egypt's gods, and the king of Babylonia will either burn their gods or carry them off. As shepherds pick their clothes clean of lice, so the king of Babylonia will pick the land of Egypt clean and then leave victorious.
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He will destroy the sacred stone monuments at Heliopolis in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods."
Jeremiah 46:13-26
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When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia came to attack Egypt, the LORD spoke to me. He said,
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"Proclaim it in the towns of Egypt, in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes: 'Get ready to defend yourselves; all you have will be destroyed in war!
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Why has your mighty god Apis fallen? The LORD has struck him down!'
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Your soldiers have stumbled and fallen; each one says to the other, 'Hurry! Let's go home to our people and escape the enemy's sword!'
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"Give the king of Egypt a new name--- 'Noisy Braggart Who Missed His Chance.'
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I, the LORD Almighty, am king. I am the living God. As Mount Tabor towers above the mountains and Mount Carmel stands high above the sea, so will be the strength of the one who attacks you.
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Get ready to be taken prisoner, you people of Egypt! Memphis will be made a desert, a ruin where no one lives.
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Egypt is like a splendid cow, attacked by a stinging fly from the north.
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Even her hired soldiers are helpless as calves. They did not stand and fight; all of them turned and ran. The day of their doom had arrived, the time of their destruction.
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Egypt runs away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy's army approaches. They attack her with axes, like people cutting down trees
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and destroying a thick forest. Their soldiers are too many to count; they outnumber the locusts.
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The people of Egypt are put to shame; they are conquered by the people of the north. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says, "I am going to punish Amon, the god of Thebes, together with Egypt and its gods and kings. I am going to take the king of Egypt and all who put their trust in him,
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and hand them over to those who want to kill them, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army. But later on, people will live in Egypt again, as they did in times past. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Ezekiel 29:1-30
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On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the king of Egypt. Tell him how he and all the land of Egypt will be punished.
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Say that this is what the Sovereign LORD is telling the king of Egypt: I am your enemy, you monster crocodile, lying in the river. You say that the Nile is yours and that you made it.
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I am going to put a hook through your jaw and make the fish in your river stick fast to you. Then I will pull you up out of the Nile, with all the fish sticking to you.
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I will throw you and all those fish into the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left unburied. I will give it to the birds and animals for food.
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Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD." The LORD says, "The Israelites relied on you Egyptians for support, but you were no better than a weak stick.
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When they leaned on you, you broke, pierced their armpits, and made them wrench their backs.
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Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you that I will have troops attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals.
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Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then you will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it,
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I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty wasteland, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian border.
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No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.
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I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them,
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and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,
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the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will.
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Israel will never again depend on them for help. Egypt's fate will remind Israel how wrong it was to rely on them. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
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On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia launched an attack on Tyre. He made his soldiers carry such heavy loads that their heads were rubbed bald and their shoulders were worn raw, but neither the king nor his army got anything for all their trouble.
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So now this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: I am giving the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar. He will loot and plunder it and carry off all the wealth of Egypt as his army's pay.
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I am giving him Egypt in payment for his services, because his army was working for me. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.
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"When that happens, I will make the people of Israel strong and let you, Ezekiel, speak out where everyone can hear you, so that they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 31:18
"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.
Ezekiel 32:1-32
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On the first day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "give a solemn warning to the king of Egypt. Give him this message from me: You act like a lion among the nations, but you are more like a crocodile splashing through a river. You muddy the water with your feet and pollute the rivers.
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When many nations gather, I will catch you in my net and let them drag the net ashore.
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I will throw you out on the ground and bring all the birds and animals of the world to feed on you.
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I will cover mountains and valleys with your rotting corpse.
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I will pour out your blood until it spreads over the mountains and fills the streams.
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When I destroy you, I will cover the sky and blot out the stars. The sun will hide behind the clouds, and the moon will give no light.
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I will put out all the lights of heaven and plunge your world into darkness. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.
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"Many nations will be troubled when I spread the news of your destruction through countries you never heard of.
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What I do to you will shock many nations. When I swing my sword, kings will shudder with fright. On the day you fall, all of them will tremble in fear for their own lives."
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The Sovereign LORD says to the king of Egypt, "You will face the sword of the king of Babylonia.
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I will let soldiers from cruel nations draw their swords and kill all your people. All your people and everything else that you are proud of will be destroyed.
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I will slaughter your cattle at every water hole. There will be no people or cattle to muddy the water any more.
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I will let your waters settle and become clear and let your rivers run calm. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.
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When I make Egypt a desolate wasteland and destroy all who live there, they will know that I am the LORD.
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This solemn warning will become a funeral song. The women of the nations will sing it to mourn for Egypt and all its people. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."
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On the fifteenth day of the first month of the twelfth year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.
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Say to them: "Do you think you are more beautiful than anyone else? You will go down to the world of the dead and lie there among the ungodly.
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"The people of Egypt will fall with those who are killed in battle. A sword is ready to kill them all.
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The greatest heroes and those who fought on the Egyptian side welcome the Egyptians to the world of the dead. They shout: 'The ungodly who were killed in battle have come down here, and here they lie!'
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"Assyria is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle,
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and their graves are in the deepest parts of the world of the dead. All her soldiers fell in battle, and their graves surround her tomb. Yet once they terrified the land of the living.
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"Elam is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle, and they went down, uncircumcised, to the world of the dead. In life they spread terror, but now they lie dead and disgraced.
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Elam lies down among those killed in battle, and the graves of her soldiers are all around her. They are all uncircumcised, all killed in battle. In life they spread terror, but now they lie dead and disgraced, sharing the fate of those killed in battle.
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"Meshech and Tubal are there, with the graves of their soldiers all around. They are all uncircumcised, all killed in battle. Yet once they terrified the living.
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They were not given honorable burial like the heroes of ancient times, who went fully armed to the world of the dead, their swords placed under their heads and their shields over their bodies. These heroes were once powerful enough to terrify the living.
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"That is how the Egyptians will lie crushed among the uncircumcised who were killed in battle.
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"Edom is there with her kings and rulers. They were powerful soldiers, but now they lie in the world of the dead with the uncircumcised who were killed in battle.
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"All the princes of the north are there, and so are the Sidonians. Their power once spread terror, but now they go down in disgrace with those killed in battle and are laid to rest, uncircumcised. They share the disgrace of those who go down to the world of the dead.
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"The sight of all these who were killed in battle will be a comfort to the king of Egypt and his army," says the Sovereign LORD.
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"I caused the king of Egypt to terrorize the living, but he and all his army will be killed and laid to rest with all the uncircumcised who die in battle." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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Jeremiah 34:21
I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.
Jeremiah 39:5-7
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But the Babylonian army pursued them and captured Zedekiah in the plains near Jericho. Then they took him to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
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At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on, and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
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After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylonia.
Jeremiah 52:8-11
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But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
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Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
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At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
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After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
2 Kings 25:4-7
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the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
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But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
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Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
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While Zedekiah was looking on, his sons were put to death; then Nebuchadnezzar had Zedekiah's eyes put out, placed him in chains, and took him to Babylon.