2 Kings 21:13

New American Bible - revised edition

I will measure Jerusalem with the same cord as I did Samaria, and with the plummet I used for the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a dish, wiping it inside and out.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:10

Therefore, I am bringing evil upon the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam’s line every male —bond or free—in Israel; I will burn up what is left of the house of Jeroboam as dung is burned, completely.

2 Kings 10:11

(And so Jehu slew all who were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all his powerful supporters, intimates, and priests, leaving him no survivor.)

2 Kings 17:6

In Hoshea’s ninth year, the king of Assyria took Samaria, deported the Israelites to Assyria, and settled them in Halah, and at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 21:14

I will cast off the survivors of my inheritance. I will deliver them into enemy hands, to become prey and booty for all their enemies,

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said: Even Judah will I put out of my sight as I did Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house of which I said: There shall my name be.

2 Kings 9:8

The whole house of Ahab shall perish: I will cut off from Ahab’s line every male, whether bond or free in Israel.

Isaiah 10:22

Though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed, as overflowing justice demands.

Isaiah 14:23

I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 28:17

I will make judgment a measuring line, and justice a level.— Hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters shall flood the hiding place.

Isaiah 34:11

But the desert owl and hoot owl shall possess it, the screech owl and raven shall dwell in it. The Lord will stretch over it the measuring line of chaos, the plumb line of confusion.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord was bent on destroying the wall of daughter Zion: He stretched out the measuring line; did not hesitate to devour, Brought grief on rampart and wall till both succumbed.

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus says the Lord God: Evil upon evil! See it coming!

Zechariah 1:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord: I return to Jerusalem in mercy; my house will be rebuilt there—oracle of the Lord of hosts— and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.