Bible Cross References
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Ezekiel 12:10-12
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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.
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."
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 27:2
to make myself a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and to put it on my neck.
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Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 32:29
They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.
Psalm 81:13
How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!
Jeremiah 18:11
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.
Jeremiah 25:4-7
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You would not listen or pay attention, even though the LORD has continued to send you his servants the prophets.
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They told you to turn from your wicked way of life and from the evil things you are doing, so that you could go on living in the land that the LORD gave you and your ancestors as a permanent possession.
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They told you not to worship and serve other gods and not to make the LORD angry by worshiping the idols you had made. If you had obeyed the LORD, then he would not have punished you.
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But the LORD himself says that you refused to listen to him. Instead, you made him angry with your idols and have brought his punishment on yourselves.
Jeremiah 26:3
Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do, then I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds."
Jeremiah 36:3
Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the destruction that I intend to bring on them, they will turn from their evil ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins."
Jeremiah 36:7
Perhaps they will pray to the LORD and turn from their evil ways, because the LORD has threatened this people with his terrible anger and fury."
Luke 13:8
But the gardener answered, 'Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig around it and put in some fertilizer.
Luke 13:9
Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.' "
Luke 13:34
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Luke 20:13
Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my own dear son; surely they will respect him!'
2 Timothy 2:25
who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.