Jeremiah 44:7

God's Word

Now, this is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why do you bring this terrible disaster on yourselves? Why do you keep destroying men, women, children, and babies from Judah until none are left?

Cross References

Proverbs 1:18

But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.

Proverbs 15:32

Whoever ignores discipline despises himself, but the person who listens to warning gains understanding.

Proverbs 5:22

A wicked person will be trapped by his own wrongs, and he will be caught in the ropes of his own sin.

Proverbs 8:36

Whoever sins against me harms himself. All those who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 25:6

Don’t follow other gods to serve and worship them. Don’t make me furious about the idols your hands have shaped. Then I won’t harm you.

Jeremiah 25:7

But you haven’t listened to me, declares the Lord. You have made me furious about the idols your hands have shaped and ⌞have brought⌟ harm upon yourselves.’

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Judah’s King Hezekiah and all the people of Judah put Micah to death? No! Hezekiah feared the Lord and sought the Lord’s favor. So the Lord changed his plan about the disaster he intended to bring on them. But we are about to bring a bigger disaster on ourselves.”

Jeremiah 3:24

Ever since we were young, the shameful worship ⌞of Baal⌟ has taken everything our ancestors worked for, their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 38:17

Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, you will live, and this city will not be burned. You and your household will live.

Jeremiah 42:20

You only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us, and tell us everything that the Lord our God says, and we’ll do it.’

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the people of Judah who went to live in Egypt will survive or return to Judah, where they long to return and live. Only a few refugees will return there.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you make me angry by burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live. You will destroy yourselves and be cursed and ridiculed by all the nations on earth.

Jeremiah 51:22

I will use you to crush men and women. I will use you to crush the old and the young. I will use you to crush young men and women.

Jeremiah 7:19

They aren’t really provoking me,” declares the Lord. “But they are ⌞harming⌟ themselves to their own shame.

Jeremiah 9:21

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.

Lamentations 2:22

You have invited those who terrorize me on every side, as though they were invited to a festival. No one escaped or survived on the day of the Lord’s anger. My enemy has murdered the children I nursed and raised.”

Ezekiel 33:11

“Tell them, ‘As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I don’t want wicked people to die. Rather, I want them to turn from their ways and live. Change the way you think and act! Turn from your wicked ways! Do you want to die, people of Israel?’

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill old men, young men, old women, young women, and children. But don’t come near anyone who has a mark on him. Start with my holy place.” So they started with the old men in front of the temple.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have planned disgrace for your household by cutting off many people and forfeiting your own life.

Numbers 16:38

The incense burners of these men who sinned and lost their lives are holy, because they were offered to the Lord. Hammer them into thin metal sheets to cover the altar. This will be a sign to the Israelites.”

Deuteronomy 32:25

Foreign wars will kill off their children, and even at home there will be horrors. Young men and young women alike will die as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.

Joshua 6:21

They claimed everything in it for the Lord. With their swords they killed men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Judges 21:11

These are your directions: Claim every female who has gone to bed with a man, and claim every male. Claim them for the Lord by destroying them.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack Amalek. Claim everything they have for God by destroying it. Don’t spare them, but kill men and women, infants and children, cows and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

1 Samuel 22:19

He also killed the people of Nob, the city of the priests. Using ⌞his⌟ sword, he killed men and women, children and infants, cows, donkeys, and sheep.