Bible Cross References
the kingdom
Ezekiel 17:6
The plant sprouted and became a low, wide-spreading grapevine. The branches grew upward toward the eagle, and the roots grew deep. The vine was covered with branches and leaves.
Ezekiel 29:14
and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,
Deuteronomy 28:43
"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
1 Samuel 2:7
He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.
1 Samuel 2:30
I, the LORD God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.
Nehemiah 9:36
And now we are slaves in the land that you gave us, this fertile land which gives us food.
Nehemiah 9:37
What the land produces goes to the kings that you put over us because we sinned. They do as they please with us and our livestock, and we are in deep distress!"
Lamentations 5:10
Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.
Matthew 22:17-21
17
Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it against our Law to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor, or not?"
18
Jesus, however, was aware of their evil plan, and so he said, "You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?
19
Show me the coin for paying the tax!" They brought him the coin,
20
and he asked them, "Whose face and name are these?"
21
"The Emperor's," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God."
but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand
Jeremiah 27:12-17
12
I said the same thing to King Zedekiah of Judah, "Submit to the king of Babylonia. Serve him and his people, and you will live.
13
Why should you and your people die in war or of starvation or disease? That is what the LORD has said will happen to any nation that does not submit to the king of Babylonia.
14
Do not listen to the prophets who tell you not to surrender to him. They are deceiving you.
15
The LORD himself has said that he did not send them and that they are lying to you in his name. And so he will drive you out, and you will be killed, you and the prophets who are telling you these lies."
16
Then I told the priests and the people that the LORD had said: "Do not listen to the prophets who say that the Temple treasures will soon be brought back from Babylonia. They are lying to you.
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Don't listen to them! Submit to the king of Babylonia and you will live! Why should this city become a pile of ruins?
Jeremiah 38:17
Then I told Zedekiah that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, "If you surrender to the king of Babylonia's officers, your life will be spared, and this city will not be burned down. Both you and your family will be spared.