Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 5:9-11
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Shouldn't I punish them for these things and take revenge on a nation such as this?
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I will send enemies to cut down my people's vineyards, but not to destroy them completely. I will tell them to strip away the branches, because those branches are not mine.
11
The people of Israel and Judah have betrayed me completely. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 6:6
The LORD Almighty has ordered these kings to cut down trees and build mounds in order to besiege Jerusalem. He has said, "I will punish this city because it is full of oppression.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.
Jeremiah 23:14
But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:15
"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."
1 Kings 11:7
On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
1 Kings 11:8
He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
2 Kings 21:4-7
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He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped.
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In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars.
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He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.
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He placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the Temple, the place about which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.
2 Kings 21:16-7
2 Kings 22:16
the following message from the LORD: "I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, as written in the book that the king has read.
2 Kings 22:17
They have rejected me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and so have stirred up my anger by all they have done. My anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down.
2 Kings 23:15
Josiah also tore down the place of worship in Bethel, which had been built by King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin. Josiah pulled down the altar, broke its stones into pieces, and pounded them to dust; he also burned the image of Asherah.
Ezekiel 22:2-22
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"Mortal man," he said, "are you ready to judge the city that is full of murderers? Make clear to her all the disgusting things she has done.
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Tell the city what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.
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You are guilty of those murders and are defiled by the idols you made, and so your day is coming, your time is up! That is why I have let the nations make fun of you and all the countries sneer at you.
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Countries nearby and countries far away sneer at you because of your lawlessness.
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All Israel's leaders trust in their own strength and commit murder.
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None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.
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You have no respect for the holy places, and you don't keep the Sabbath.
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Some of your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. Some of them eat sacrifices offered to idols. Some are always satisfying their lusts.
10
Some of them sleep with their father's wife. Some force women to have intercourse with them during their period.
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Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.
12
Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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"I will bring my fist down on your robberies and murders.
14
Do you think you will have any courage left or have strength enough to lift your hand when I am finished with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I keep my word.
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I will scatter your people to every country and nation and will put an end to your evil actions.
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And so the other nations will dishonor you, but you will know that I am the LORD."
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"Mortal man, the Israelites are of no use to me. They are like waste metal---copper, tin, iron, and lead---left over after silver has been refined in a furnace.
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So now I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling them that they are just as useless as that. I will bring them all together in Jerusalem
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in the same way that the ore of silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin is put in a refining furnace. My anger and rage will melt them the way fire melts ore.
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Yes, I will gather them in Jerusalem, build a fire under them, and melt them with my anger.
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They will be melted in Jerusalem the way silver is melted in a furnace, and then they will know that they are feeling the anger of the LORD."
Matthew 23:37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Luke 13:33
Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.
Luke 13:34
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
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Jeremiah 27:10
They are deceiving you and will cause you to be taken far away from your country. I will drive you out, and you will be destroyed.
2 Kings 23:27
The LORD said, "I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshiped."
2 Kings 24:3
This happened at the LORD's command, in order to banish the people of Judah from his sight because of all the sins that King Manasseh had committed,
2 Kings 24:4
and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The LORD could not forgive Manasseh for that.
Lamentations 1:8
Her honor is gone; she is naked and held in contempt. She groans and hides her face in shame. Jerusalem made herself filthy with terrible sin.