Bible Cross References
in the twelfth
Ezekiel 1:2
(It was the fifth year since King Jehoiachin had been taken into exile.)
one
Ezekiel 24:26
On the day that I do this, some who escape the destruction will come and tell you about it.
Ezekiel 24:27
That same day you will get back the power of speech which you had lost, and you will talk with them. In this way you will be a sign to the people, and they will know that I am the LORD."
The city
Ezekiel 24:26
On the day that I do this, some who escape the destruction will come and tell you about it.
2 Kings 24:4-7
4
and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The LORD could not forgive Manasseh for that.
5
Everything that Jehoiakim did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.
6
Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.
7
The king of Egypt and his army never marched out of Egypt again, because the king of Babylonia now controlled all the territory that had belonged to Egypt, from the Euphrates River to the northern border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:17-21
17
So the LORD brought the king of Babylonia to attack them. The king killed the young men of Judah even in the Temple. He had no mercy on anyone, young or old, man or woman, sick or healthy. God handed them all over to him.
18
The king of Babylonia looted the Temple, the Temple treasury, and the wealth of the king and his officials, and took everything back to Babylon.
19
He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
20
He took all the survivors to Babylonia, where they served him and his descendants as slaves until the rise of the Persian Empire.
21
And so what the LORD had foretold through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: "The land will lie desolate for seventy years, to make up for the Sabbath rest that has not been observed."
Jeremiah 39:2-8
2
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
3
(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. )
4
When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers saw what was happening, they tried to escape from the city during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and escaped in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
5
But the Babylonian army pursued them and captured Zedekiah in the plains near Jericho. Then they took him to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
6
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on, and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
7
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylonia.
8
Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:4-14
4
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,
5
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
6
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,
7
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.
8
But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
9
Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
10
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
11
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
12
On the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.
13
He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem;
14
and his soldiers tore down the city walls.