Jeremiah 13:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, together with his mother, his ministers, officers, and functionaries, surrendered to the king of Babylon, who, in the eighth year of his reign, took him captive.

2 Kings 24:15

He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, his wives, his functionaries, and the chiefs of the land he led captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his distress, he began to appease the Lord, his God. He humbled himself abjectly before the God of his ancestors,

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and how his supplication was heard, all his sins and his treachery, the sites where he built high places and set up asherahs and carved images before he humbled himself, all this is recorded in the chronicles of his seers.

2 Chronicles 33:23

Moreover, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; on the contrary, Amon only increased his guilt.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

Exodus 39:28

the turban of fine linen; the ornate skullcaps of fine linen; linen pants of fine linen twined;

Proverbs 27:24

For wealth does not last forever, nor even a crown from age to age.

Isaiah 3:20

the headdresses, bangles, cinctures, perfume boxes, and amulets;

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down, sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon; Sit on the ground, dethroned, daughter of the Chaldeans. No longer shall you be called dainty and delicate.

Jeremiah 22:24

As I live—oracle of the Lord—even if you, Coniah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would snatch you off.

Jeremiah 22:26

I will cast you out, you and the mother who bore you, into a land different from the land of your birth; and there you will die;

Jeremiah 29:2

This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans and smiths had left Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:16

and when they had heard all its words, they turned to each other in alarm and said to Baruch, “We have to tell the king all these things.”

Lamentations 1:6

From daughter Zion has gone all her glory: Her princes have become like rams that find no pasture. They have gone off exhausted before their pursuers.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is on her skirt; she has no thought of her future. Her downfall is astonishing, with no one to comfort her. “Look, O Lord, at my misery; how the enemy triumphs!”

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit silently on the ground; They cast dust on their heads and dress in sackcloth; The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

Ezekiel 16:12

a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 21:26

For the king of Babylon is standing at the fork of the two roads to read the omens: he shakes out the arrows, inquires of the teraphim, inspects the liver.

Ezekiel 24:17

Groan, moan for the dead, but make no public lament; bind on your turban, put your sandals on your feet, but do not cover your beard or eat the bread of mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall remain on your heads, your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away because of your sins and groan to one another.

Ezekiel 44:18

They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart became proud and his spirit hardened by insolence, he was put down from his royal throne and deprived of his glory;

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 18:4

Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

1 Peter 5:6

So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.