Bible Cross References
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Zechariah 11:6-9
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(The LORD said, "I will no longer pity anyone on earth. I myself will put all the people in the power of their rulers. These rulers will devastate the earth, and I will not save it from their power.")
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Those who bought and sold the sheep hired me, and I became the shepherd of the sheep that were going to be butchered. I took two sticks: one I called "Favor" and the other "Unity." And I took care of the flock.
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I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.
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Then I said to the flock, "I will not be your shepherd any longer. Let those die who are to die. Let those be destroyed who are to be destroyed. Those who are left will destroy one another."
Deuteronomy 28:49-68
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The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
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They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
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They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
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"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
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He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
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He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
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Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
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Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
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"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
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You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
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Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
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Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
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The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Isaiah 65:12-15
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It will be your fate to die a violent death, because you did not answer when I called you or listen when I spoke. You chose to disobey me and do evil.
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And so I tell you that those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty. They will be happy, but you will be disgraced.
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They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart.
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My chosen people will use your name as a curse. I, the Sovereign LORD, will put you to death. But I will give a new name to those who obey me.
Isaiah 66:4-6
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So I will bring disaster upon them---the very things they are afraid of---because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil."
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Listen to what the LORD says, you that fear him and obey him: "Because you are faithful to me, some of your own people hate you and will have nothing to do with you. They mock you and say, 'Let the LORD show his greatness and save you, so that we may see you rejoice.' But they themselves will be disgraced!
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Listen! That loud noise in the city, that sound in the Temple, is the sound of the LORD punishing his enemies!
Isaiah 66:24-6
Ezekiel 5:2-4
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Burn up a third of it in the city when the siege is over. Take another third and chop it up with your sword as you move around outside the city. Scatter the remaining third to the winds, and I will pursue it with my sword.
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Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.
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Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel."
Ezekiel 5:12-4
Daniel 9:27
That ruler will have a firm agreement with many people for seven years, and when half this time is past, he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings. The Awful Horror will be placed on the highest point of the Temple and will remain there until the one who put it there meets the end which God has prepared for him."
Malachi 3:1
The LORD Almighty answers, "I will send my messenger to prepare the way for me. Then the Lord you are looking for will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger you long to see will come and proclaim my covenant."
Malachi 3:2
But who will be able to endure the day when he comes? Who will be able to survive when he appears? He will be like strong soap, like a fire that refines metal.
Malachi 3:5
The LORD Almighty says, "I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners---against all who do not respect me.
Malachi 4:1-3
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The LORD Almighty says, "The day is coming when all proud and evil people will burn like straw. On that day they will burn up, and there will be nothing left of them.
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But for you who obey me, my saving power will rise on you like the sun and bring healing like the sun's rays. You will be as free and happy as calves let out of a stall.
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On the day when I act, you will overcome the wicked, and they will be like dust under your feet.
Matthew 3:10-12
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The ax is ready to cut down the trees at the roots; every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire.
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I baptize you with water to show that you have repented, but the one who will come after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. He is much greater than I am; and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals.
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He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."
Matthew 21:43
"And so I tell you," added Jesus, "the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the proper fruits."
Matthew 21:44
Matthew 22:7
The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.
Matthew 23:35-37
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As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
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I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
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"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!
Matthew 24:21
For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.
Luke 19:41-44
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He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
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saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
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The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
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They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!"
Luke 20:16-18
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"He will come and kill those men, and turn the vineyard over to other tenants." When the people heard this, they said, "Surely not!"
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Jesus looked at them and asked, "What, then, does this scripture mean? 'The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.'
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Everyone who falls on that stone will be cut to pieces; and if that stone falls on someone, that person will be crushed to dust."
Luke 21:20-24
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"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed.
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Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.
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For those will be 'The Days of Punishment,' to make come true all that the Scriptures say.
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How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.
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Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.
Luke 23:28-30
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Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.
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For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'
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That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Hide us!'
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
Revelation 8:7-12
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The first angel blew his trumpet. Hail and fire, mixed with blood, came pouring down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees, and every blade of green grass.
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Then the second angel blew his trumpet. Something that looked like a huge mountain on fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea was turned into blood,
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a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
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Then the third angel blew his trumpet. A large star, burning like a torch, dropped from the sky and fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
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(The name of the star is "Bitterness.") A third of the water turned bitter, and many people died from drinking the water, because it had turned bitter.
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Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet. A third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that their light lost a third of its brightness; there was no light during a third of the day and a third of the night also.
Revelation 16:19
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the wine from his cup---the wine of his furious anger.
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Zechariah 14:1
The day when the LORD will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, and the loot will be divided up before your eyes.
Zechariah 14:2
The LORD will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from the city.
Isaiah 6:13
Even if one person out of ten remains in the land, he too will be destroyed; he will be like the stump of an oak tree that has been cut down." (The stump represents a new beginning for God's people.)
Jeremiah 30:11
I will come to you and save you. I will destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you. I will not let you go unpunished; but when I punish you, I will be fair. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Joel 2:31
The sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
Joel 2:32
But all who ask the LORD for help will be saved. As the LORD has said, 'Some in Jerusalem will escape; those whom I choose will survive.' "
Amos 9:8
I, the Sovereign LORD, am watching this sinful kingdom of Israel, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not destroy all the descendants of Jacob.
Amos 9:9
"I will give the command and shake the people of Israel like grain in a sieve. I will shake them among the nations to remove all who are worthless.
Matthew 24:22
But God has already reduced the number of days; had he not done so, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, God will reduce the days.
Mark 13:20
But the Lord has reduced the number of those days; if he had not, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, he has reduced those days.
Romans 9:27-29
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And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;
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for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world."
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It is as Isaiah had said before, "If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."
Romans 11:1-5
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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.