Isaiah 30:2

Modern English Version

they walk down to Egypt and have not asked from My mouth, to strengthen themselves in the safety of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Cross References

1 Kings 22:7

Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord here whom we can ask?”

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and offered up no gift to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year. So the king of Assyria detained him, and then put him in prison.

2 Kings 18:21

Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will enter his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 16:3

“Take counsel, execute justice, make your shadow as the night at the height of noon. Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

Isaiah 18:1

Woe to the land vibrating with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush,

Isaiah 36:6

Behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then will you turn away one captain of the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 8:19

When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what are you doing in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 21:2

“Please inquire of the Lord for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, so that the enemy withdraws from us.”

Jeremiah 37:5

At that time Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:14

saying, ‘No, but we will go into the land of Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread, and there we will dwell,’

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few out of many, as your eyes now see us.

Jeremiah 42:20

For you have only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God. And according to all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 43:7

So they came into the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the Lord. Thus they entered as far as Tahpanhes.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, yet they speak lies against Me.

Hosea 8:10

Though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them. They will begin to diminish due to the burden of the king of princes.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

Numbers 27:21

He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him about the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, even all the assembly.”

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way by which I spoke to you, “You will not see it ever again.” And there you will be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Joshua 9:14

So the men examined some of the food provisions, but they did not ask the Lord about it.

Judges 9:15

“The thorn bush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade. If not, let fire come out from the thorn bush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’