Jeremiah 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Moreover, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Moreover, the children of Memphis and Tahpanhes (Egypt) [have in times past shown their power as a foe; they] have broken and fed on the crown of your head [Israel]–so do not rely on them as an ally now.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ As well, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes lay open your scalp.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Likewise, the sons of Memphis and of Tahpanhes have defiled you, even to the top of the head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The children also of Memphis and of Taphnes have deflowered thee, even to the crown of the head.

Jeremiah 2:16 Cross References

2 Kings 18:21

See, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

2 Kings 23:33

Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and imposed tribute on the land of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

Isaiah 8:8

it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Jeremiah 44:1

The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros:

Jeremiah 46:14

Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, “Take your stations and be ready, for the sword shall devour those around you.”

Jeremiah 46:19

Pack your bags for exile, sheltered daughter Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 48:45

In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop exhausted, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the scalp of the people of tumult.

Ezekiel 30:13

Thus says the Lord God: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt, so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:16

I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached and Memphis face adversaries by day.

Hosea 9:6

For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

Deuteronomy 33:20

And of Gad he said, “Blessed be the enlargement of Gad! Like a lion he lives; he tears at arm and scalp.