Lamentations 2:9 Cross References

Lamentations 2:9

9: Jerusalem's gates have sunk into the ground. All their locks and bars are destroyed, for he has smashed them. Her kings and princes have been exiled to distant lands; the law is no more. Her prophets receive no more visions from the LORD.

Hosea 3:4

  1. This illustrates that Israel will be a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, temple, priests, or even idols!

Nehemiah 1:3

  1. They said to me, "Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been burned."

2 Chronicles 15:3

  1. For a long time, Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without God's law.

Ezekiel 7:26

  1. Calamity will follow calamity; rumor will follow rumor. They will look in vain for a vision from the prophets. They will receive no teaching from the priests and no counsel from the leaders.

Psalms 74:9

  1. We see no miraculous signs as evidence that you will save us. All the prophets are gone; no one can tell us when it will end.

Micah 3:6

  1. Now the night will close around you, cutting off all your visions. Darkness will cover you, making it impossible for you to predict the future. The sun will set for you prophets, and your day will come to an end.
  2. Then you seers will cover your faces in shame, and you diviners will be disgraced. And you will admit that your messages were not from God."

Jeremiah 51:30

  1. Her mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks. Their courage is gone. They have become as fearful as women. The invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.

Amos 8:11

  1. "The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine on the land--not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD.
  2. People will stagger everywhere from sea to sea, searching for the word of the LORD, running here and going there, but they will not find it.

Deuteronomy 28:36

  1. "The LORD will exile you and the king you crowned to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. Then in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone!

Jeremiah 14:14

  1. Then the LORD said, "These prophets are telling lies in my name. I did not send them or tell them to speak. I did not give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts.

Jeremiah 39:2

  1. Two and a half years later, on July 18, the Babylonians broke through the wall, and the city fell.

2 Kings 25:7

  1. The king of Babylon made Zedekiah watch as all his sons were killed. Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.

Ezekiel 17:20

  1. 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.

2 Kings 24:12

  1. Then King Jehoiachin, along with his advisers, nobles, and officials, and the queen mother, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
  2. As the LORD had said beforehand, Nebuchadnezzar carried away all the treasures from the LORD's Temple and the royal palace. They cut apart all the gold vessels that King Solomon of Israel had placed in the Temple.
  3. King Nebuchadnezzar took ten thousand captives from Jerusalem, including all the princes and the best of the soldiers, craftsmen, and smiths. So only the poorest people were left in the land.
  4. Nebuchadnezzar led King Jehoiachin away as a captive to Babylon, along with his wives and officials, the queen mother, and all Jerusalem's elite.
  5. He also took seven thousand of the best troops and one thousand craftsmen and smiths, all of whom were strong and fit for war.

Jeremiah 52:14

  1. Then the captain of the guard supervised the entire Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39:8

  1. Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the palace, and tore down the walls of the city.

Lamentations 4:20

  1. Our king, the LORD's anointed, the very life of our nation, was caught in their snares. We had foolishly boasted that under his protection we could hold our own against any nation on earth!

Jeremiah 52:8

  1. But the Babylonians chased after them and caught King Zedekiah on the plains of Jericho, for by then his men had all abandoned him.
  2. They brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, where sentence was passed against him.

Ezekiel 12:13

  1. Then I will spread out my net and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, though he will never see it, and he will die there.

Lamentations 1:3

  1. Judah has been led away into captivity, afflicted and enslaved. She lives among foreign nations and has no place of rest. Her enemies have chased her down, and she has nowhere to turn.

Lamentations 4:15

  1. "Get away!" the people shouted at them. "You are defiled! Don't touch us!" So they fled to distant lands and wandered there among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.
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