Ezekiel 29:7 Cross References

Ezekiel 29:7

7: Israel leaned on you, but like a cracked staff, you splintered and stabbed her in the armpit. When she put her weight on you, you gave way, and her back was thrown out of joint.

Ezekiel 17:15

  1. "Nevertheless, this man of Israel's royal family rebelled against Babylon, sending ambassadors to Egypt to request a great army and many horses. Can Israel break her sworn treaties like that and get away with it?
  2. No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, the king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he despised and broke.
  3. Pharaoh and all his mighty army will fail to help Israel when the king of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem again and destroys the lives of many.

Isaiah 36:6

  1. Will Egypt? If you lean on Egypt, you will find it to be a stick that breaks beneath your weight and pierces your hand. The Pharaoh of Egypt is completely unreliable!

Jeremiah 17:5

  1. This is what the LORD says: "Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans and turn their hearts away from the LORD.
  2. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, on the salty flats where no one lives.

Proverbs 25:19

  1. Putting confidence in an unreliable person is like chewing with a toothache or walking on a broken foot.

Psalms 118:8

  1. It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in people.
  2. It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Psalms 146:3

  1. Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.
  2. When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end.

Jeremiah 37:5

  1. At this time the army of Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt appeared at the southern border of Judah. When the Babylonian army heard about it, they withdrew from their siege of Jerusalem.
  2. Then the LORD gave this message to Jeremiah:
  3. "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to ask me what is going to happen, that Pharaoh's army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you.
  4. Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city and burn it to the ground.
  5. The LORD says: Do not fool yourselves that the Babylonians are gone for good. They aren't!
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