Isaiah 30:2

New International Version

who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection, to Egypt’s shade for refuge.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:7

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the Lord here whom we can inquire of?”

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.

2 Kings 18:21

Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

Isaiah 16:3

“Make up your mind,” Moab says. “Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.

Isaiah 18:1

Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush,

Isaiah 36:6

Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Isaiah 8:19

When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Jeremiah 2:18

Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?

Jeremiah 21:2

“Inquire now of the Lord for us because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is attacking us. Perhaps the Lord will perform wonders for us as in times past so that he will withdraw from us.”

Jeremiah 37:5

Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:14

and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for bread,’

Jeremiah 42:2

Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the Lord your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left.

Jeremiah 42:20

that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 43:7

So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.

Hosea 8:10

Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

Numbers 27:21

He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the Lord. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.”

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Joshua 9:14

The Israelites sampled their provisions but did not inquire of the Lord.

Judges 9:15

“The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’