Jeremiah 2:18

A Conservative Version

And now what have thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Cross References

Joshua 13:3

from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekron

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do thou gad about so much to change thy way? Thou shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou were ashamed of Assyria.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek LORD!

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb. But he is not able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound.

Ezekiel 17:15

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape who does such things? Shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Isaiah 7:20

In that day LORD will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 23:3

And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, and she was the mart of nations.

Ezekiel 16:28

Thou have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou were insatiable. Yea, thou have played the harlot with them, and yet thou were not satisfied.

2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will thou go here and there, O thou backsliding daughter? For LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 23:30

These things shall be done to thee, because thou have played the harlot after the nations, and because thou are polluted with their idols.