Zephaniah 1:4

New American Bible - revised edition

I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; I will eliminate from this place the last vestige of Baal, the name of the idolatrous priests.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:13

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.

2 Kings 23:12

He also demolished the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof (the roof terrace of Ahaz), and the altars made by Manasseh in the two courts of the Lord’s house. He pulverized them and threw the dust into the Wadi Kidron.

2 Chronicles 34:4

In his presence, the altars of the Baals were torn down; the incense stands erected above them he broke down; the asherahs and the carved and molten images he smashed and beat into dust, which he scattered over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them;

Exodus 15:12

when you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!

Jeremiah 15:6

It is you who have disowned me—oracle of the Lord— turned your back upon me; I stretched out my hand to destroy you, because I was weary of relenting.

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will fall to others, their fields and their wives as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in the land—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:7

therefore, see, I am stretching out my hand against you and giving you up as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and wipe you out of the lands. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the Lord. Against Moab.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my hand against them; I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah, wherever they live. Thus they shall know that I am the Lord.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria are afraid for the calf of Beth-aven; Its people mourn for it and its idolatrous priests wail over it, —over its glory which has departed from it.

Micah 5:13

I will tear out the asherahs from your midst, and destroy your cities.

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord shall inspire them with terror when he makes all the gods of earth waste away; Then the distant shores of the nations, each from its own place, shall bow down to him.

Zephaniah 2:13

He will stretch out his hand against the north, to destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a waste, dry as the desert.