Exodus 5:12

God's Word

So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Cross References

Exodus 15:7

With your unlimited majesty, you destroyed those who attacked you. You sent out your burning anger. It burned them up like straw.

Exodus 5:11

Get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work load will not be reduced one bit.”

Exodus 5:13

The slave drivers kept hurrying them. They said, “Finish the same amount of work each day, just as when you had straw.”

Isaiah 47:14

They are like straw. Fire burns them. They can’t rescue themselves from the flames. There are no glowing coals to keep them warm and no fire for them to sit by.

Isaiah 5:24

As flames burn up straw and dry grass shrivels in flames, so their roots will rot, and their blossoms will blow away like dust. They have rejected the teachings of the Lord of Armies and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Joel 2:5

As they leap on mountaintops, they sound like rattling chariots, like crackling fire burning up straw, and like a mighty army prepared for battle.

Obadiah 1:18

The descendants of Jacob will be like a fire. The descendants of Joseph will be like a flame. But the descendants of Esau will be like straw. They will be burned and destroyed. There will be no one left among the descendants of Esau.” The Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

⌞The people of Nineveh will be⌟ like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.

1 Corinthians 3:12

People may build on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw.