Bible Cross References
The two
Jeremiah 33:21
In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David that he would always have a descendant to be king, and I have made a covenant with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me; and those covenants can never be broken.
Jeremiah 33:22
I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore."
Psalm 94:14
The LORD will not abandon his people; he will not desert those who belong to him.
Romans 11:1-6
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I ask, then: Did God reject his own people? Certainly not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
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God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the beginning. You know what the scripture says in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel:
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"Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me."
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What answer did God give him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not worshiped the false god Baal."
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It is the same way now: there is a small number left of those whom God has chosen because of his grace.
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His choice is based on his grace, not on what they have done. For if God's choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.
thus
Nehemiah 4:2-4
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In front of his companions and the Samaritan troops he said, "What do these miserable Jews think they're doing? Do they intend to rebuild the city? Do they think that by offering sacrifices they can finish the work in one day? Can they make building stones out of heaps of burnt rubble?"
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Tobiah was standing there beside him, and he added, "What kind of wall could they ever build? Even a fox could knock it down!"
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I prayed, "Hear how they make fun of us, O God! Let their ridicule fall on their own heads. Let them be robbed of everything they have, and let them be taken as prisoners to a foreign land.
Esther 3:6-8
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and when he learned that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided to do more than punish Mordecai alone. He made plans to kill every Jew in the whole Persian Empire.
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In the twelfth year of King Xerxes' rule, in the first month, the month of Nisan, Haman ordered the lots to be cast ("purim," they were called) to find out the right day and month to carry out his plot. The thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, was decided on.
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So Haman told the king, "There is a certain race of people scattered all over your empire and found in every province. They observe customs that are not like those of any other people. Moreover, they do not obey the laws of the empire, so it is not in your best interests to tolerate them.
Psalm 44:13
Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.
Psalm 44:14
You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
Psalm 71:11
They say, "God has abandoned him; let's go after him and catch him; there is no one to rescue him."
Psalm 83:4
"Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."
Psalm 123:3
Be merciful to us, LORD, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.
Psalm 123:4
We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.
Lamentations 2:15
People passing by the city look at you in scorn. They shake their heads and laugh at Jerusalem's ruins: "Is this that lovely city? Is this the pride of the world?"
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate. They curl their lips and sneer, "We have destroyed it! This is the day we have waited for!"
Lamentations 4:15
"Get away!" people shouted. "You're defiled! Don't touch me!" So they wandered from nation to nation, welcomed by no one.
Ezekiel 25:3
Tell them to listen to what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: You were delighted to see my Temple profaned, to see the land of Israel devastated, to see the people of Judah go into exile.
Ezekiel 26:2
"Mortal man," he said, "this is what the people in the city of Tyre are cheering about. They shout, 'Jerusalem is shattered! Her commercial power is gone! She won't be our rival any more!'
Ezekiel 35:10-15
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"You said that the two nations, Judah and Israel, together with their lands, belonged to you and that you would possess them, even though I, the LORD, was their God.
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So then, as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will pay you back for your anger, your jealousy, and your hate toward my people. They will know that I am punishing you for what you did to them.
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Then you will know that I, the LORD, heard you say with contempt that the mountains of Israel were desolate and that they were yours to devour.
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I have heard the wild, boastful way you have talked against me."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "I will make you so desolate that the whole world will rejoice at your downfall,
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just as you rejoiced at the devastation of Israel, my own possession. The mountains of Seir, yes, all the land of Edom, will be desolate. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 36:2
the Sovereign LORD, have for them: Israel's enemies gloated and said, 'Now those ancient hills are ours!'