Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 24:2
The first basket contained good figs, those that ripen early; the other one contained bad figs, too bad to eat.
Jeremiah 24:5
"I, the LORD, the God of Israel, consider that the people who were taken away to Babylonia are like these good figs, and I will treat them with kindness.
Jeremiah 29:16-18
16
Listen to what the LORD says about the king who rules the kingdom that David ruled and about the people of this city, that is, your relatives who were not taken away as prisoners with you.
17
The LORD Almighty says, 'I am bringing war, starvation, and disease on them, and I will make them like figs that are too rotten to be eaten.
18
I will pursue them with war, starvation, and disease, and all the nations of the world will be horrified at what they see. Everywhere I scatter them, people will be shocked and terrified at what has happened to them. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.
So will
Jeremiah 21:10
I have made up my mind not to spare this city, but to destroy it. It will be given over to the king of Babylonia, and he will burn it to the ground. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 32:28
I am going to give this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army; they will capture it
Jeremiah 32:29
and set it on fire. They will burn it down, together with the houses where people have made me angry by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out wine offerings to other gods.
Jeremiah 34:17-22
17
So now, I, the LORD, say that you have disobeyed me; you have not given all Israelites their freedom. Very well, then, I will give you freedom: the freedom to die by war, disease, and starvation. I will make every nation in the world horrified at what I do to you.
18
The officials of Judah and of Jerusalem, together with the palace officials, the priests, and all the leaders, made a covenant with me by walking between the two halves of a bull that they had cut in two. But they broke the covenant and did not keep its terms. So I will do to these people what they did to the bull.
20
I will hand them over to their enemies, who want to kill them, and their corpses will be eaten by birds and wild animals.
21
I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.
22
I will give the order, and they will return to this city. They will attack it, capture it, and burn it down. I will make the towns of Judah like a desert where no one lives. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 37:10
Even if you defeat the whole Babylonian army, so that only wounded men are left, lying in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city to the ground."
Jeremiah 37:17
Later on King Zedekiah sent for me, and there in the palace he asked me privately, "Is there any message from the LORD?" "There is," I answered, and added, "You will be handed over to the king of Babylonia."
Jeremiah 38:18-23
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But if you do not surrender, then this city will be handed over to the Babylonians, who will burn it down, and you will not escape from them."
19
But the king answered, "I am afraid of our own people who have deserted to the Babylonians. I may be handed over to them and tortured."
20
I said, "You will not be handed over to them. I beg you to obey the LORD's message; then all will go well with you, and your life will be spared.
21
But the LORD has shown me in a vision what will happen if you refuse to surrender.
22
In it I saw all the women left in Judah's royal palace being led out to the king of Babylonia's officers. Listen to what they were saying as they went: 'The king's best friends misled him, they overruled him. And now that his feet have sunk in the mud, his friends have left him.' "
23
Then I added, "All your women and children will be taken out to the Babylonians, and you yourself will not escape from them. You will be taken prisoner by the king of Babylonia, and this city will be burned to the ground."
Jeremiah 39:2-9
2
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
3
(When Jerusalem was captured, all the high officials of the king of Babylonia came and took their places at the Middle Gate, including Nergal Sharezer, Samgar Nebo, Sarsechim, and another Nergal Sharezer. )
4
When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers saw what was happening, they tried to escape from the city during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and escaped in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
5
But the Babylonian army pursued them and captured Zedekiah in the plains near Jericho. Then they took him to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
6
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on, and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
7
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylonia.
8
Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
9
Finally Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, together with those who had deserted to him.
Jeremiah 52:2-11
2
King Zedekiah sinned against the LORD, just as King Jehoiakim had done.
3
The LORD became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,
4
and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,
5
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
6
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
7
the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
8
But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
9
Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
10
At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
11
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
Ezekiel 12:12-16
12
The prince who is ruling them will shoulder his pack in the dark and escape through a hole that they dig for him in the wall. He will cover his eyes and not see where he is going.
13
But I will spread out my net and trap him in it. Then I will take him to the city of Babylon, where he will die without having seen it.
14
I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.
15
"When I scatter them among the other nations and in foreign countries, they will know that I am the LORD.
16
I will let a few of them survive the war, the famine, and the diseases, so that there among the nations they will realize how disgusting their actions have been and will acknowledge that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 17:11-21
12
"Ask these rebels if they know what the parable means. Tell them that the king of Babylonia came to Jerusalem and took the king and his officials back with him to Babylonia.
13
He took one of the king's family, made a treaty with him, and made him swear to be loyal. He took important men as hostages
14
to keep the nation from rising again and to make sure that the treaty would be kept.
15
But the king of Judah rebelled and sent agents to Egypt to get horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can he get away with that? He cannot break the treaty and go unpunished!
16
"As surely as I am the living God," says the Sovereign LORD, "this king will die in Babylonia because he broke his oath and the treaty he had made with the king of Babylonia, who put him on the throne.
17
Even the powerful army of the king of Egypt will not be able to help him fight when the Babylonians build earthworks and dig trenches in order to kill many people.
18
He broke his oath and the treaty he had made. He did all these things, and now he will not escape."
19
The Sovereign LORD says, "As surely as I am the living God, I will punish him for breaking the treaty which he swore in my name to keep.
20
I will spread out a hunter's net and catch him in it. I will take him to Babylonia and punish him there, because he was unfaithful to me.
21
His best soldiers will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken."
and them
Jeremiah 43:1-44
1
I finished telling the people everything that the LORD their God had sent me to tell them.
2
Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, "You are lying. The LORD our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt.
3
Baruch son of Neriah has stirred you up against us, so that the Babylonians will gain power over us and can either kill us or take us away to Babylonia."
4
So neither Johanan nor any of the army officers nor any of the people would obey the LORD's command to remain in the land of Judah.
5
Then Johanan and all the army officers took everybody left in Judah away to Egypt, together with all the people who had returned from the nations where they had been scattered:
6
the men, the women, the children, and the king's daughters. They took everyone whom Nebuzaradan the commanding officer had left under the care of Gedaliah, including Baruch and me.
7
They disobeyed the LORD's command and went into Egypt as far as the city of Tahpanhes.
8
There the LORD said to me,
9
"Get some large stones and bury them in the mortar of the pavement in front of the entrance to the government building here in the city, and let some of the Israelites see you do it.
10
Then tell them that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am going to bring my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to this place, and he will put his throne over these stones that you buried, and will spread the royal tent over them.
11
Nebuchadnezzar will come and defeat Egypt. Those people who are doomed to die of disease will die of disease, those doomed to be taken away as prisoners will be taken away as prisoners, and those doomed to be killed in war will be killed in war.
12
I will set fire to the temples of Egypt's gods, and the king of Babylonia will either burn their gods or carry them off. As shepherds pick their clothes clean of lice, so the king of Babylonia will pick the land of Egypt clean and then leave victorious.
13
He will destroy the sacred stone monuments at Heliopolis in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods."