Bible Cross References
shepherds
Nahum 3:18
Emperor of Assyria, your governors are dead, and your noblemen are asleep forever! Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to bring them home again.
they shall
Jeremiah 4:16
They have come to warn the nations and to tell Jerusalem that enemies are coming from a country far away. These enemies will shout against the cities of Judah
Jeremiah 4:17
and will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field, because her people have rebelled against the LORD. The LORD has spoken.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
1
In the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia came with his whole army and attacked Jerusalem.
2
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
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(When Jerusalem was captured, all the high officials of the king of Babylonia came and took their places at the Middle Gate, including Nergal Sharezer, Samgar Nebo, Sarsechim, and another Nergal Sharezer. )
2 Kings 24:2
The LORD sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the LORD had said through his servants the prophets that he would do.
2 Kings 24:10-12
10
It was during his reign that the Babylonian army, commanded by King Nebuchadnezzar's officers, marched against Jerusalem and besieged it.
11
During the siege Nebuchadnezzar himself came to Jerusalem,
12
and King Jehoiachin, along with his mother, his sons, his officers, and the palace officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign he took Jehoiachin prisoner
2 Kings 25:1-4
1
Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,
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and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
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On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
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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.
Luke 19:43
The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.