Bible Cross References
the Assyrian
Nahum 3:1-19
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Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart.
2
The sound of a whip, and the sound of rattling of wheels, and galloping horses, and of bounding chariots.
3
The horseman lifts up both the gleaming sword and the glittering spear, and many are slain, and there is a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble over their dead bodies,
4
because of the many harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.
5
Behold, I am against you, declares Jehovah of Hosts, and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6
And I will cast detestable filth on you and will disgrace you. And I will set you as a spectacle.
7
And it shall be that all those who look upon you shall flee from you and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste; who shall weep for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?
8
Are you better than populous No that dwelt among the rivers, waters surrounding her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the sea?
9
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and without end; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
10
Yet she was carried away; she went into captivity. Also her young ones were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.
11
You also shall be drunken; you shall be hidden; you also shall seek refuge from the enemy.
12
All your fortresses are fig trees with the firstfruits; if they are shaken, then they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
13
Behold, your people in your midst are women; the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies; the fire shall devour your bars.
14
Draw your water for the siege. Strengthen your fortifications. Go into the clay and tread in the mortar. Make the mold strong.
15
Fire will devour you there. The sword shall cut you off. It will eat you up like the caterpillar. Make yourself as many as the caterpillar; multiply yourself like the locusts.
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You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the caterpillar shall strip off and fly away.
17
Your princes are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day. When the sun rises and they flee, the place where they are is not known.
18
Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them.
19
There is no healing for your fracture; your wound is severe. All who hear the report of you shall clap their hands over you, for on whom has your wickedness not passed continually?
Zephaniah 2:13
And He will stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry like the wilderness.
a cedar
Ezekiel 17:3
and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with large wings and long pinions, full of feathers of various colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch from the cedar.
Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off its topmost young twig and carried it to a land of trade; he set it in a city of merchants.
Ezekiel 17:22
Thus says the Lord Jehovah: I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Isaiah 10:33
Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall lop off the bough with terror; and those exalted high shall be chopped down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
Isaiah 10:34
And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by the Mighty One.
Isaiah 37:24
By your servants you have taunted Jehovah and have said, By my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains beside Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will go to the extremities of its height, the forest of its Carmel.
Daniel 4:10
As for the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and, behold, a tree was in the middle of the earth. And its height was great.
Daniel 4:20-23
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The tree that you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens and was visible to all the earth,
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and its leaves being beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and food for all being in it, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in its branches the birds of the heavens had their home:
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It is you, O king, for you have become great and strong; for your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.
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And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Cut the tree down, and destroy it. Yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field. And let him be wet with the dew of the heavens, and his portion with the beasts of the field, until seven times pass over him.
Zechariah 11:2
Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the inaccessible forest has come down.
of an high
Ezekiel 31:6
All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and in its shadow all great nations made their home.
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me as king over you, then come and seek refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon!
Daniel 4:12
Its leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and food for all was in it. The beasts of the field sought shade under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.