Ezekiel 16:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread the edge of my mantle over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

Exodus 15:16

Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your descendents as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendents, and they shall inherit it forever.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the LORD who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine.

Isaiah 43:4

Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.

Jeremiah 31:3

The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

Jeremiah 31:32

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; my covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the LORD:

Ezekiel 16:6

And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yea, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 2:15

And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:7

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Malachi 1:2

I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? says the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Deuteronomy 4:31

(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.

Ruth 3:9

And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore the edge of your mantle over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.