Bible Cross References
Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
Jeremiah 29:3
The letter came by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah the king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,
Jeremiah 24:2
one basket had very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 38:2
Thus says Jehovah, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. But he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.
Jeremiah 38:3
Thus says Jehovah: This city shall be given and bestowed into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall seize it.
Jeremiah 38:17-23
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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says Jehovah the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you will come out and go forth to the rulers of the king of Babylon, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire. And you and your house shall live.
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But if you will not go forth to the rulers of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.
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And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they abuse me.
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But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. I beg of you, obey the voice of Jehovah which I am speaking to you; so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.
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But if you refuse to surrender, this is the Word that Jehovah has shown me:
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Behold, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah shall be brought out to the rulers of the king of Babylon, and they shall say, Your friends have enticed you, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.
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So they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And this city shall be burned with fire.
Ezekiel 6:1-9
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And the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying:
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Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
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and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah! Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: Behold I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
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And your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
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And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
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In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and found guilty, your idols broken and brought to an end, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
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And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.
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Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered throughout the earth.
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And those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has turned away from Me, and by their eyes which go whoring after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they did in all their abominations.
Ezekiel 17:12-21
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Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and rulers, and led them with him to Babylon.
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And he has taken the king's seed, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also has taken away the mighty of the land,
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that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by the keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be delivered?
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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there he shall die with him in the midst of Babylon.
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Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in the war, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many persons.
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Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense upon his own head.
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And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there for the treason by which he betrayed Me.
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And all his fugitives with all his troops shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered to every wind. And you shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezekiel 21:9-27
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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says Jehovah! Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!
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It is sharpened to slaughter and butcher, polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scepter of My son, as every tree.
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And He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; this sword is sharpened, and it is polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.
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Cry and howl, son of man; for it will be against My people, against all the rulers of Israel. The sword will be thrown against My people; therefore slap your thigh,
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because it is a testing. And what if the sword despises even the scepter? It shall be no more, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike hand to hand; strike. The third time let the sword be doubled. It is the sword that slays, the sword that slays the great men, that surrounds them.
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I have set the slaughter of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; it is grasped for the slaughter:
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Be sharp to the right! Set yourself to the left; wherever your face is appointed!
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I also will strike My hand to hand, and I will cause My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.
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The Word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying:
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And you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall come forth from the same land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the road to the city.
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Appoint a road for the sword to go into Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.
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For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the head of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver.
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In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a mound, and to build a siege wall.
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And it will be to them like a false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths with them; but he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
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Now to you, O slain, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,
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thus says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; nothing shall remain as it was. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.
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Ruin, ruin! I will ruin it! It shall be no more, until He comes whose right it is. And I will give it to Him.
Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 24:1-14
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Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day; the king of Babylon has leaned against Jerusalem this very day.
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And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Put on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it.
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Gather pieces of meat into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with choice cuts;
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take the choice of the flock. Also pile bones under it, boil it to boiling, and let the cuts simmer in it.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum is not gone from it! Bring it out piece by piece. Let no lot fall on it.
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For her blood is in her midst; she set it on top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
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That it may raise up fury and take vengeance, I have set her blood on top of a rock, that it may not be covered.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pyre great.
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Heap on the wood, kindle the fire; cook the flesh well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned.
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Then set the pot empty on the coals, that it may become hot and its bronze may burn, that its filthiness may be melted in it, that its scum may be consumed.
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She has grown weary with toil, and her great scum has not gone from her. Let her scum be in the fire!
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In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed, you will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.
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I, Jehovah, have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, nor will I spare, nor will I have compassion; according to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you, declares the Lord Jehovah.