Isaiah 30:2

New American Bible - revised edition

They go down to Egypt, without asking my counsel, To seek strength in Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:7

But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no other prophet of the Lord here we might consult?”

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria found Hoshea guilty of conspiracy for sending messengers to the king of Egypt at Sais, and for failure to pay the annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested and imprisoned him.

2 Kings 18:21

Do you trust in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 16:3

Offer counsel, take their part; at high noon make your shade like the night; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitives.

Isaiah 18:1

Ah! Land of buzzing insects, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

Isaiah 36:6

Do you trust in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you turn back even a captain, one of the least servants of my lord, trusting, as you do, in Egypt for chariots and horses?

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, “Inquire of ghosts and soothsayers who chirp and mutter; should not a people inquire of their gods, consulting the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 2:18

And now, why go to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Why go to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 21:2

Inquire for us of the Lord, because Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, is attacking us. Perhaps the Lord will act for us in accord with his wonderful works by making him withdraw from us.

Jeremiah 37:5

Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard this report, they withdrew from the city.

Jeremiah 42:14

and saying, “No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, nor hear the trumpet alarm, nor hunger for bread. There we will live!”

Jeremiah 42:2

approached Jeremiah the prophet and said, “Please grant our petition; pray for us to the Lord, your God, for all this remnant. As you see, only a few of us remain, but once we were many.

Jeremiah 42:20

At the cost of your lives you have been deceitful, for you yourselves sent me to the Lord, your God, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord, our God; whatever the Lord, our God, shall say, tell us and we will do it.”

Jeremiah 43:7

They went to Egypt—they did not listen to the voice of the Lord—and came to Tahpanhes. Jeremiah in Egypt.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed—our very lifebreath!— was caught in their snares, He in whose shade we thought to live among the nations.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies against me.

Hosea 8:10

Even though they bargain with the nations, I will now gather them together; They will soon succumb under the burden of king and princes.

Hosea 8:9

For they went up to Assyria— a wild ass off on its own— Ephraim bargained for lovers.

Numbers 27:21

He shall present himself to Eleazar the priest, who will seek for him the decision of the Urim in the Lord’s presence; and as it directs, Joshua, all the Israelites with him, and the whole community will go out for battle; and as it directs, they will come in.

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt, by a route which I told you that you would never see again; and there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.

Joshua 9:14

Then the Israelite leaders partook of their provisions, without inquiring of the Lord.

Judges 9:15

The buckthorn answered the trees, ‘If you are anointing me in good faith, to make me king over you, come, and take refuge in my shadow. But if not, let fire come from the buckthorn and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’