Bible Cross References
Because
Ezekiel 25:8
Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the houses of Israel and Judah like all the [other] nations?
Ezekiel 35:1-15
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.
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And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:
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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it [both] men and cattle;
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and I will fill your hills and your valleys with the slain, and in all your plains there shall fall in you men slain with the sword.
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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there.
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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;
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and you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of your blasphemies, whereas you have said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;
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and you have spoken swelling words against Me with your mouth: I have heard [them].
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Thus says the Lord: When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make you desolate.
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You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed; and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.
2 Chronicles 28:17
because the Edomites had attacked [him] and attacked Judah, and taken a number of prisoners.
2 Chronicles 28:18
Also the Philistines had made an attack on the cities of the plain country, and the cities of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, and (the things in the house of the Lord, and the things in the house of the king, and of the princes, and they gave [these] to the king) Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh and her villages, Timnah and her villages, and Gimzo and her villages. And they dwelt there.
Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze [it], raze [it], even to its foundations.
Jeremiah 49:7-22
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Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,
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their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you that inhabit Dedan, for he has wrought grievously. I have brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.
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For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [your possessions].
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For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished, [each] by the hand of his brother, My neighbor, and it is impossible
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for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.
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For thus says the Lord: They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk; and you shall by no means be cleared.
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For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.
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I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent messengers to the nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise up to war.
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I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
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Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high; from there will I bring you down.
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And Edom shall be a desert; everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.
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As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.
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Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?
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Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which He has framed against Edom, and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.
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For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
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Behold, He shall look [upon her] as an eagle, and spread forth [His] wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
taking vengeance
Genesis 27:41
And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw near, that I may kill my brother Jacob.
Genesis 27:42
And the words of Esau her elder son were reported to Rebecca, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, Esau your brother threatens you, to kill you.
Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
Amos 1:12
And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.
Obadiah 1:10-16
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Because of the slaughter and the sin [committed against] your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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From the day that you stood in opposition [to him], in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.
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And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of their affliction.
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Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
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Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
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For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be done to you: your recompense shall be returned on your own head.
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For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.