Zechariah 2:6

Good News Translation

The Lord said to his people, “I scattered you in all directions. But now, you exiles, escape from Babylonia and return to Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

Then one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed.”

Psalm 44:2

how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out from Babylon, go free! Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere: “The Lord has saved his servant Israel!”

Isaiah 55:1

The Lord says, “Come, everyone who is thirsty— here is water! Come, you that have no money— buy grain and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk— it will cost you nothing!

Jeremiah 1:14

He said to me, “Destruction will boil over from the north on all who live in this land,

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make all the people of the world horrified at them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh did in Jerusalem when he was king of Judah.”

Jeremiah 3:18

Israel will join with Judah, and together they will come from exile in the country in the north and will return to the land that I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.”

Jeremiah 31:10

The Lord says, “Nations, listen to me and proclaim my words on the far-off shores. I scattered my people, but I will gather them and guard them as a shepherd guards his flock.

Jeremiah 31:38

“The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when all of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my city, from Hananel Tower west to the Corner Gate.

Jeremiah 31:8

I will bring them from the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. The blind and the lame will come with them, pregnant women and those about to give birth. They will come back a great nation.

Jeremiah 50:8

“People of Israel, run away from Babylonia! Leave the country! Be the first to leave!

Jeremiah 51:45

People of Israel, run away from there! Run for your life from my fierce anger.

Jeremiah 51:50

The Lord says to his people in Babylonia: “You have escaped death! Now go! Don't wait! Though you are far from home, think about me, your Lord, and remember Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:6

Run away from Babylonia! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylonia's sin. I am now taking my revenge and punishing it as it deserves.

Ezekiel 11:16

“Now tell your fellow exiles what I am saying. I am the one who sent them to live in far-off nations and scattered them in other countries. Yet, for the time being I will be present with them in the lands where they have gone.

Ezekiel 17:21

His best soldiers will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.

Daniel 11:4

But at the height of his power his empire will break up and be divided into four parts. Kings not descended from him will rule in his place, but they will not have the power that he had.

Amos 9:9

“I will give the command and shake the people of Israel like grain in a sieve. I will shake them among the nations to remove all who are worthless.

Zechariah 1:16

So I have come back to Jerusalem to show mercy to the city. My Temple will be restored, and the city will be rebuilt.”

Matthew 24:31

The great trumpet will sound, and he will send out his angels to the four corners of the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

Mark 13:27

He will send the angels out to the four corners of the earth to gather God's chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

Deuteronomy 28:64

“The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins; you must not share in her punishment!

Ruth 4:1

Boaz went to the meeting place at the town gate and sat down there. Then Elimelech's nearest relative, the man whom Boaz had mentioned, came by, and Boaz called to him, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.