Isaiah 7:18

New Century Version

“At that time the Lord will whistle for the Egyptians, and they will come like flies from Egypt’s faraway streams. He will call for the Assyrians, and they will come like bees.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:26

He raises a banner for the nations far away. He whistles to call those people from the ends of the earth. Look! The enemy comes quickly!

Isaiah 31:1

How terrible it will be for those people who go down to Egypt for help. They think horses will save them. They think their many chariots and strong horsemen will save them. But they don’t trust God, the Holy One of Israel, or ask the Lord for help.

Joshua 24:12

I sent terror ahead of you to force out two Amorite kings. You took the land without using swords and bows.

Deuteronomy 7:20

The Lord your God will also send terror among them so that even those who are alive and hiding from you will die.

Deuteronomy 1:44

and the Amorites who lived in those mountains came out and fought you. They chased you like bees and defeated you from Edom to Hormah.

Isaiah 13:5

This army is coming from a faraway land, from the edge of the horizon. In anger the Lord is using this army like a weapon to destroy the whole country.

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord will bring troubled times to you, your people, and to the people of your father’s family. They will be worse than anything that has happened since Israel separated from Judah. The Lord will bring the king of Assyria to fight against you.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like a swarm of bees, but they died as quickly as thorns burn. By the Lord’s power, I defeated them.

Exodus 8:24

So the Lord did as he had said, and great swarms of flies came into the king’s palace and his officers’ houses. All over Egypt flies were ruining the land.

Exodus 8:21

If you don’t let them go, I will send swarms of flies into your houses. The flies will be on you, your officers, and your people. The houses of Egypt will be full of flies, and they will be all over the ground, too.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the world, and it will swoop down like an eagle. You won’t understand their language,

Zechariah 10:8

I will call my people and gather them together. I will save them, and they will grow in number as they grew in number before.

Psalm 105:31

The Lord spoke and flies came, and gnats were everywhere in the country.