Jeremiah 50:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Attack the land of Merathaim, and those who live in Pekod; Slaughter and put them under the ban—oracle of the Lord— do all I have commanded you.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:11

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants: “If my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life, how much more might this Benjaminite do so! Let him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

2 Kings 18:25

Did I come up to destroy this place without the Lord? The Lord himself said to me: Go up and destroy that land!”

2 Chronicles 36:23

“Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has also charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. All among you, therefore, who belong to his people, may their God be with them; let them go up.”

Isaiah 10:6

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Isaiah 44:28

I say of Cyrus, My shepherd! He carries out my every wish, Saying of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Lay its foundations.”

Isaiah 48:14

All of you assemble and listen: Who among you declared these things? The one the Lord loves shall do his will against Babylon and the offspring of Chaldea.

Isaiah 48:15

I myself have spoken, I have summoned him, I have brought him, and his way succeeds!

Jeremiah 34:22

I am giving the command—oracle of the Lord—to bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and burn it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed are they who do the Lord’s work carelessly, cursed those who keep their sword from shedding blood.

Jeremiah 50:15

raise the war cry against it on every side. It surrenders, its bastions fall, its walls are torn down: This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her, as she has done, do to her; for she sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:3

A nation from the north advances against it, making the land desolate So that no one can live there; human beings and animals have fled.

Jeremiah 50:9

See, I am stirring up against Babylon a band of great nations from the land of the north; They are arrayed against her, from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who never returns empty-handed.

Ezekiel 23:23

the men of Babylon and all of Chaldea, Pekod, Shoa and Koa, along with all the Assyrians, handsome young soldiers, all of them governors and officers, charioteers and warriors, all of them horsemen.

Deuteronomy 33:27

The God of old is a refuge; a support are the arms of the Everlasting. He drove the enemy out of your way and he said, “Destroy!”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”