Isaiah 30:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

Cross References

1 Kings 22:7

But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?”

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

2 Kings 18:21

Behold, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 16:3

“Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, betray not the fugitive;

Isaiah 18:1

Ah, land of whirring wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Isaiah 36:6

Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Jeremiah 21:2

“Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds, and will make him withdraw from us.”

Jeremiah 37:5

The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:14

and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war, or hear the sound of the trumpet, or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

Jeremiah 42:20

that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says declare to us and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 43:7

And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

Hosea 8:10

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.

Numbers 27:21

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.”

Deuteronomy 28:68

And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you.”

Joshua 9:14

So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the Lord.

Judges 9:15

And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’