Bible Cross References
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Ezekiel 17:15-17
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.
Jeremiah 37:5-11
5
The Babylonian army had been besieging Jerusalem, but when they heard that the Egyptian army had crossed the Egyptian border, they retreated.
6
Then the LORD, the God of Israel, told me
7
to say to Zedekiah, "The Egyptian army is on its way to help you, but it will return home.
8
Then the Babylonians will come back, attack the city, capture it, and burn it down.
9
I, the LORD, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians will not come back, because they will.
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."
11
The Babylonian army retreated from Jerusalem because the Egyptian army was approaching.
thou didst
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the LORD than to depend on people.
Psalm 118:9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to depend on human leaders.
Psalm 146:3
Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.
Psalm 146:4
When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.
Proverbs 25:19
Depending on an unreliable person in a crisis is like trying to chew with a loose tooth or walk with a crippled foot.
Jeremiah 17:5
The LORD says, "I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.
Jeremiah 17:6
He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.