Jeremiah 20:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He will clean out the royal treasury and take everything else of value from Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had Jehoiachin arrested and taken to Babylon, along with more of the valuable items in the temple. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Zedekiah king of Judah.

Isaiah 39:6

One day everything you and your ancestors have stored up will be taken to Babylonia. The LORD has promised that nothing will be left.

Jeremiah 12:12

A destroying army marches along desert roads and attacks everywhere. They are my deadly sword; no one is safe from them.

Jeremiah 15:13

I will give them everything you own, because you have sinned everywhere in your country.

Jeremiah 3:24

Since the days of our ancestors when our nation was young, that shameful god Baal has taken our crops and livestock, our sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 32:24

Jerusalem is under attack, and we suffer from hunger and disease. The Babylonians have already built earth ramps up to the city walls, and you can see that Jerusalem will be captured just as you said.

Jeremiah 39:8

Meanwhile, the Babylonian army had burnt the houses in Jerusalem, including the royal palace, and they had broken down the city walls.

Jeremiah 4:20

I see the enemy defeating us time after time, leaving everything in ruins. Even my own home is destroyed in a moment.

Lamentations 1:10

Zion's treasures were stolen. Jerusalem saw foreigners enter her place of worship, though the LORD had forbidden them to belong to his people.

Lamentations 1:7

Her people recall the good life that once was theirs; now they suffer and are scattered. No one was there to protect them from their enemies who sneered when their city was taken.

Lamentations 4:12

Not a king on this earth or the people of any nation believed enemies could break through her gates.

Ezekiel 22:25

Their leaders are like roaring lions, tearing apart their victims. They put people to death, then steal everything of value. Husbands are killed, and many women are left as widows.

Daniel 1:2

The Lord let Nebuchadnezzar capture Jehoiakim and take away some of the things used in God's temple. And when the king returned to Babylonia, he put these things in the temple of his own god.

Hosea 13:15

No matter how much you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the LORD, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.