Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 13:1-11
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Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.
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So I procured the sash according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Take the sash that is around your waist, and get up, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
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So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
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And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
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So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord,
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Thus will I ruin the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
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[even] this great pride [of the men] that will not listen to My words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them. And they shall be as this sash, which is profitable for nothing.
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For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.
Jeremiah 18:2-12
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Jeremiah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear My words.
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So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.
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And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell [apart.] So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay [is in] the potter's[hand], so are you in My hands.
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[If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them];
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and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.
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And [if] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant [it];
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and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
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And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
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And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
Jeremiah 19:1-15
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Then the Lord said to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests.
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And you shall go forth to the burial place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there all these words which I shall speak to you.
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And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.
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Because they forsook Me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,
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and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in My heart.
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Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tophet, or the fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but the burial place of slaughter.
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And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth.
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And I will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing: everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plagues.
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And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege with which their enemies shall besiege them.
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And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you,
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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.
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Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.
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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.
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And Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house. And said to all the people, Thus says the Lord:
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Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] hearken to My commands.
Jeremiah 51:63
And it shall come to pass, when you shall cease from reading this book, that you shall bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates;
Jeremiah 51:64
and shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.
1 Kings 11:29-31
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And it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him in the road, and caused him to turn aside out of the way. And Ahijah was clothed with a new garment, and those two [were] alone in the field.
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And Ahijah laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it [into] twelve pieces.
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And he said to Jeroboam, Take to yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes.
Isaiah 20:1-4
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In the year that Tartan came to Azotus, when he was sent by Sargon king of the Assyrians, and warred against Azotus, and took it;
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then the Lord spoke to Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.
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And the Lord said, As My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;
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for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.
Ezekiel 4:1-17
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And you, son of man, take a brick, and set it before your face, and portray on it the city, [even] Jerusalem.
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And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.
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And take to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it [for] an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.
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And you shall lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days [during] which you shall lie upon it; and you shall bear their iniquities.
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For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.
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And you shall accomplish this, and [then] you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquities of the house of Judah for forty days: I have appointed you a day for a year.
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So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm, and shall prophesy against it.
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And behold, I have prepared bonds for you, and you may not turn from your one side to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.
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Take also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and grain; and you shall cast them into one earthen vessel, and shall make them into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days which you sleep on your side.
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And you shall eat your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat them.
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And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.
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And you shall eat them [as] a barley cake; you shall bake them before their eyes in man's dung.
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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.
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Then I said, By no means, Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, nor have I eaten that which has died of itself, or was torn by beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
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And He said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your loaves upon it.
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And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in poverty, and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin;
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that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.
Ezekiel 5:1-17
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And you, son of man, take a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard; and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.
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A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege. And you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it. And a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it. And a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
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And you shall take a few of them, and wrap them in the fold of your garment.
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And you shall take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire. From there shall come forth fire, and you shall say to the whole house of Israel,
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Thus says the Lord: This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.
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And you shall declare My ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and My statutes [to the sinful one] of the countries round about her, because they have rejected My ordinances, and have not walked in My statutes.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because your occasion [for sin has been taken] from the nations round about you, and you have not walked in My statutes, nor kept My ordinances, no, you have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord:
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Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
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And I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all your abominations.
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Therefore the fathers shall eat [their] children in the midst of you, and children shall eat [their] fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter all that are left of you to the four winds.
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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled My holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; My eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
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A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine; and [as for another] fourth part of you, I will scatter them to all the winds; and a fourth part of you shall fall by the sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.
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And My wrath and My anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished My anger upon them.
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And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of everyone that passes through.
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And you shall be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in the vengeance of My wrath. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.
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So I will send forth against you famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon you; and I will bring a sword upon you round about. I, the Lord, have spoken.
Ezekiel 12:3-16
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You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house.
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And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes; and you shall go forth at evening, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.
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Dig for yourself into the wall [of the house], and you shall pass through it in their sight.
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You shall be lifted up on [men's] shoulders, and shall go forth in secret; you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground, because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.
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And I did thus according to all that He commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and I went out secretly; I was taken up on [men's] shoulders before them.
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And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying,
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Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What are you doing?
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Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:
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say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him; they shall go into banishment and captivity.
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And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by [anyone], and he himself shall not see the ground.
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And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
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And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;
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And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them into the countries.
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And I will leave among them [a few] men in number [spared] from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations where they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Hosea 12:10
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
Acts 21:11
And coming to us and taking Paul's belt, and binding his feet and hands, he said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, ' The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way in Jerusalem, and they will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
Revelation 18:21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence Babylon the great city shall be cast down, and shall by no means be found anymore.
in the brick-kiln
Exodus 1:14
And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Nahum 3:14
Draw your water for a siege, and well secure your strongholds: enter into the clay, and thus be trodden in the chaff, make [the fortifications] stronger than brick.