Bible Cross References
the land
Ezekiel 29:10-12
10
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.
11
No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.
12
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."
Ezekiel 30:7
The land will be the most desolate in the world, and its cities will be left totally in ruins.
Ezekiel 30:13-17
13
The Sovereign LORD says, "I will destroy the idols and the false gods in Memphis. There will be no one to rule Egypt, and I will terrify all the people.
14
I will make southern Egypt desolate and set fire to the city of Zoan in the north. I will punish the capital city of Thebes.
15
I will let the city of Pelusium, Egypt's great fortress, feel my fury. I will destroy the wealth of Thebes.
16
I will set fire to Egypt, and Pelusium will be in agony. The walls of Thebes will be broken down, and the city will be flooded.
17
The young men of the cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in the war, and the other people will be taken prisoner.
Jeremiah 43:10-13
10
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.
11
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.
12
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.
13
He will destroy the sacred stone monuments at Heliopolis in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods."
because
Ezekiel 29:3
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.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall.
Proverbs 18:12
No one is respected unless he is humble; arrogant people are on the way to ruin.
Proverbs 29:23
Arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.