Bible Cross References
I contended
Nehemiah 13:11
So I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
Nehemiah 13:25
So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 5:7
After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.
Psalm 82:1
i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.
Psalm 82:2
How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but those who keep the Law strive against them.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear the Word of Jehovah, you rulers of Sodom. Give heed to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves; sit down, for your dominion has come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 22:2-23
2
and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
3
Thus says Jehovah, Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong, do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
4
For if indeed you do this thing, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, his servants, and his people.
5
But if you will not heed these Words, I swear by Myself, says Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.
6
For thus says Jehovah to the house of the king of Judah, You are Gilead to Me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness; cities which are not inhabited.
7
And I will prepare destroyers against you, each one with his weapons. And they shall cut down your choice cedars, and throw them into the fire.
8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?
9
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and bowed down to other gods, and served them.
10
Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
11
For thus says Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place: he shall not return there any more.
12
But he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and is given nothing for his work;
14
who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and has cut out windows for himself, and the ceiling is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15
Shall you reign, because you lust after cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not knowledge of Me? says Jehovah.
17
But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.
18
Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not mourn for him, saying, Alas, my brother! or, Alas, sister! They shall not mourn for him, saying, Alas, master! or, Alas, his majesty!
19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry out; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.
21
I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed My voice.
22
The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness.
23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nesting in the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman giving birth!
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know justice.
Micah 3:9
Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,