So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant? Cross References Numbers 16:38 As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites." Jeremiah 3:24 From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for--their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters. Jeremiah 9:21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!" Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach. Jeremiah 51:22 With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden. Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:22 You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared. Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?' Habakkuk 2:10 You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life. Treasury of Scripture Therefore now thus said the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Why commit you this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; against Jeremiah 7:19 Jeremiah 25:7 Jeremiah 42:20 to cut Jeremiah 44:8,11 Jeremiah 9:21 Jeremiah 51:22 child Deuteronomy 32:25 1 Samuel 15:3 1 Samuel 22:19 judah [heb] the midst of Judah Jeremiah 44:12,14,27,28 |