Jeremiah 27:8 Cross References
Jeremiah 27:8
8: So you must submit to Babylon's king and serve him; put your neck under Babylon's yoke! I will punish any nation that refuses to be his slave, says the LORD. I will send war, famine, and disease upon that nation until Babylon has conquered it.
Ezekiel 14:21
- "Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How terrible it will be when all four of these fearsome punishments fall upon Jerusalem--war, famine, beasts, and plague--destroying all her people and animals.
Ezekiel 17:19
- "So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will punish him for breaking my covenant and despising the solemn oath he made in my name.
- I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and deal with him there for this treason against me.
- And all the best warriors of Israel will be killed in battle, and those remaining in the city will be scattered to the four winds. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken these words.
Jeremiah 24:10
- I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors."
Jeremiah 38:17
- Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "The LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: If you surrender to Babylon, you and your family will live, and the city will not be burned.
- But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape! This city will be handed over to the Babylonians, and they will burn it to the ground."
- "But I am afraid to surrender," the king said, "for the Babylonians will hand me over to the Judeans who have defected to them. And who knows what they will do to me?"
Jeremiah 40:9
- Gedaliah assured them that it would be safe for them to surrender to the Babylonians. "Stay here, and serve the king of Babylon," he said, "and all will go well for you.
Jeremiah 42:10
- `Stay here in this land. If you do, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you. For I am sorry for all the punishment I have had to bring upon you.
- Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore, says the LORD. For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power.
- I will be merciful to you by making him kind, so he will let you stay here in your land.'
- "But if you refuse to obey the LORD your God and say, `We will not stay here,'
- and if you insist on going to live in Egypt where you think you will be free from war, famine, and alarms,
Jeremiah 25:28
- And if they refuse to accept the cup, tell them, `The LORD Almighty says: You must drink from it. You cannot escape!
- I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city where my own name is honored. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!'
Jeremiah 52:3
- So the LORD, in his anger, finally banished the people of Jerusalem and Judah from his presence and sent them into exile. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
- So on January 15, during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.
- Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
- By July 18 of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the famine in the city had become very severe, with the last of the food entirely gone.