Bible Cross References
the idols
Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and during his absence Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to spy on the country around Laish said to their companions, "Did you know that here in one of these houses there is a wooden idol covered with silver? There are also other idols and an ephod. What do you think we should do?"
Isaiah 44:9
All those who make idols are worthless, and the gods they prize so highly are useless. Those who worship these gods are blind and ignorant---and they will be disgraced.
Isaiah 46:5
"To whom will you compare me?" says the LORD. "Is there anyone else like me?
Jeremiah 10:8
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?
Jeremiah 14:22
None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O LORD our God, because you are the one who does these things.
Hosea 3:4
In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.
Habakkuk 2:18
What's the use of an idol? It is only something that a human being has made, and it tells you nothing but lies. What good does it do for its maker to trust it---a god that can't even talk!
the diviners
Jeremiah 23:25-27
25
I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.
26
How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?
27
They think that the dreams they tell will make my people forget me, just as their ancestors forgot me and turned to Baal.
Jeremiah 27:9
Do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim they can predict the future, either by dreams or by calling up the spirits of the dead or by magic. They all tell you not to submit to the king of Babylonia.
Jeremiah 29:8
I, the LORD, the God of Israel, warn you not to let yourselves be deceived by the prophets who live among you or by any others who claim they can predict the future. Do not pay any attention to their dreams.
Jeremiah 29:21
"The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has spoken about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are telling you lies in his name. He has said that he will hand them over to the power of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, who will put them to death before your eyes.
Jeremiah 29:22
When the people who were taken away as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylonia want to bring a curse on someone, they will say, 'May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylonia roasted alive!'
Lamentations 2:14
Your prophets had nothing to tell you but lies; Their preaching deceived you by never exposing your sin. They made you think you did not need to repent.
Ezekiel 13:6-16
6
Their visions are false, and their predictions are lies. They claim that they are speaking my message, but I have not sent them. Yet they expect their words to come true!
7
I tell them: Those visions you see are false, and the predictions you make are lies. You say that they are my words, but I haven't spoken to you!"
8
So the Sovereign LORD says to them, "Your words are false, and your visions are lies. I am against you.
9
I am about to punish you prophets who have false visions and make misleading predictions. You will not be there when my people gather to make decisions; your names will not be included in the list of the citizens of Israel; you will never return to your land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
10
"The prophets mislead my people by saying that all is well. All is certainly not well! My people have put up a wall of loose stones, and then the prophets have come and covered it with whitewash.
11
Tell the prophets that their wall is going to fall down. I will send a pouring rain. Hailstones will fall on it, and a strong wind will blow against it.
12
The wall will collapse, and everyone will ask you what good the whitewash did."
13
Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "In my anger I will send a strong wind, pouring rain, and hailstones to destroy the wall.
14
I intend to break down the wall they whitewashed, to shatter it, and to leave the foundation stones bare. It will collapse and kill you all. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD.
15
"The wall and those who covered it with whitewash will feel the force of my anger. Then I will tell you that the wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it---
16
those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 13:22-16
Ezekiel 13:23-16
Ezekiel 21:29
The visions that you see are false, and the predictions you make are lies. You are wicked and evil, and your day is coming, the day of your final punishment. The sword is going to fall on your necks.
Micah 3:6-11
6
"Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything."
7
Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.
8
But as for me, the LORD fills me with his spirit and power, and gives me a sense of justice and the courage to tell the people of Israel what their sins are.
9
Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.
10
You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.
11
The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money---and they all claim that the LORD is with them. "No harm will come to us," they say. "The LORD is with us."
they comfort
Job 13:4
You cover up your ignorance with lies; you are like doctors who can't heal anyone.
Job 21:34
And you! You try to comfort me with nonsense! Every answer you give is a lie!
Jeremiah 6:14
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Jeremiah 8:11
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, "Sovereign LORD, you know that the prophets are telling the people that there will be no war or starvation, because you have promised, they say, that there will be only peace in our land."
Jeremiah 23:17
To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them."
Jeremiah 28:4-6
4
I will also bring back the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, along with all of the people of Judah who went into exile in Babylonia. Yes, I will break the power of the king of Babylonia. I, the LORD, have spoken."
5
Then in the presence of the priests and of all the people who were standing in the Temple, I said to Hananiah,
6
"Wonderful! I hope the LORD will do this! I certainly hope he will make your prophecy come true and will bring back from Babylonia all the Temple treasures and all the people who were taken away as prisoners.
Jeremiah 28:15-6
Jeremiah 37:19
What happened to your prophets who told you that the king of Babylonia would not attack you or the country?
therefore
Jeremiah 13:17-20
17
If you will not listen, I will cry in secret because of your pride; I will cry bitterly, and my tears will flow because the LORD's people have been taken away as captives.
18
The LORD said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.
19
The towns of southern Judah are under siege; no one can get through to them. All the people of Judah have been taken away into exile."
20
Jerusalem, look! Your enemies are coming down from the north! Where are the people entrusted to your care, your people you were so proud of ?
Jeremiah 50:17
The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.
Jeremiah 51:23
to slaughter shepherds and their flocks, to slaughter farmers and their plow horses, to crush rulers and high officials."
Micah 2:12
"But I will gather you together, all you people of Israel that are left. I will bring you together like sheep returning to the fold. Like a pasture full of sheep, your land will once again be filled with many people."
troubled, because there
Numbers 27:17
and can command them in battle, so that your community will not be like sheep without a shepherd."
1 Kings 22:17
Micaiah answered, "I can see the army of Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These men have no leader; let them go home in peace.' "
Ezekiel 34:5
Because the sheep had no shepherd, they were scattered, and wild animals killed and ate them.
Ezekiel 34:8
As surely as I am the living God, you had better listen to me. My sheep have been attacked by wild animals that killed and ate them because there was no shepherd. My shepherds did not try to find the sheep. They were taking care of themselves and not the sheep.
Matthew 9:36
As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.