Bible Cross References
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Exodus 32:11
But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God and said, " LORD, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?
Deuteronomy 9:26
And I prayed, 'Sovereign LORD, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power.
Isaiah 63:16-19
16
You are our father. Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob do not acknowledge us, but you, LORD, are our father, the one who has always rescued us.
17
Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you? Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours.
18
We, your holy people, were driven out by our enemies for a little while; they trampled down your sanctuary.
19
You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people.
Isaiah 64:8-12
8
But you are our father, LORD. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,
9
so do not be too angry with us or hold our sins against us forever. We are your people; be merciful to us.
10
Your sacred cities are like a desert; Jerusalem is a deserted ruin,
11
and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.
12
LORD, are you unmoved by all this? Are you going to do nothing and make us suffer more than we can endure?
Jeremiah 14:20-21
20
We have sinned against you, LORD; we confess our own sins and the sins of our ancestors.
21
Remember your promises and do not despise us; do not bring disgrace on Jerusalem, the place of your glorious throne. Do not break the covenant you made with us.
Shall the women
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Leviticus 26:29
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
56
Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
2 Kings 6:28
What's your trouble?" She answered, "The other day this woman here suggested that we eat my child, and then eat her child the next day.
2 Kings 6:29
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"
Jeremiah 19:9
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."
Ezekiel 5:10
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.
shall the priest
Lamentations 1:19
"I called to my allies, but they refused to help me. The priests and the leaders died in the city streets, Looking for food to keep themselves alive.
Lamentations 4:13
But it happened, because her prophets sinned and her priests were guilty of causing the death of innocent people.
Lamentations 4:16
The LORD had no more concern for them; he scattered them himself. He showed no regard for our priests and leaders.
Psalm 78:64
Priests died by violence, and their widows were not allowed to mourn.
Isaiah 9:14-17
14
In a single day the LORD will punish Israel's leaders and its people; he will cut them off, head and tail.
15
The old and honorable men are the head---and the tail is the prophets whose teachings are lies!
16
Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them.
17
And so the Lord will not let any of the young men escape, and he will not show pity on any of the widows and orphans, because all the people are godless and wicked and everything they say is evil. Yet even so the LORD's anger will not be ended, but his hand will still be stretched out to punish.
Jeremiah 5:31
prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?"
Jeremiah 14:15-18
15
I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.
16
The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them---including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness."
17
The LORD commanded me to tell the people about my sorrow and to say: "May my eyes flow with tears day and night, may I never stop weeping, for my people are deeply wounded and are badly hurt.
18
When I go out in the fields, I see the bodies of men killed in war; when I go into the towns, I see people starving to death. Prophets and priests carry on their work, but they don't know what they are doing."
Jeremiah 23:11-15
11
The LORD says, "The prophets and the priests are godless; I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
12
The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the LORD, have spoken.
13
I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.
14
But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
15
"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."
Ezekiel 9:5
And I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one; have mercy on no one.
Ezekiel 9:6
Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But don't touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple." So they began with the leaders who were standing there at the Temple.