Exodus 5:12

New Century Version

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw.

Cross References

Exodus 15:7

In your great victory you destroyed those who were against you. Your anger destroyed them, like fire burning straw.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before.”

Exodus 5:13

The slave masters kept forcing the people to work harder. They said, “You must make just as many bricks as you did when you were given straw.”

Isaiah 47:14

But they are like straw; fire will quickly burn them up. They cannot save themselves from the power of the fire. They are not like coals that give warmth nor like a fire that you may sit beside.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Joel 2:5

It is like the noise of chariots rumbling over the tops of the mountains, like the noise of a roaring fire burning dry stalks. They are like a powerful army lined up for battle.

Obadiah 1:18

The people of Jacob will be like a fire and the people of Joseph like a flame. But the people of Esau will be like dry stalks. The people of Jacob will set them on fire and burn them up. There will be no one left of the people of Esau.” This will happen because the Lord has said it.

Nahum 1:10

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

1 Corinthians 3:12

But if people build on that foundation, using gold, silver, jewels, wood, grass, or straw,