Ezekiel 16:8 Cross References
Ezekiel 16:8
8: And when I passed by and saw you again, you were old enough to be married. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
Ruth 3:9
- "Who are you?" he demanded. "I am your servant Ruth," she replied. "Spread the corner of your covering over me, for you are my family redeemer."
Isaiah 43:4
- Others died that you might live. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored, and I love you.
Jeremiah 2:2
- "Go and shout in Jerusalem's streets: `This is what the LORD says: I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.
- In those days Israel was holy to the LORD, the first of my children. All who harmed my people were considered guilty, and disaster fell upon them. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"
Romans 5:8
- But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Exodus 19:4
- `You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. You know how I brought you to myself and carried you on eagle's wings.
- Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."
- Moses returned from the mountain and called together the leaders of the people and told them what the LORD had said.
- They all responded together, "We will certainly do everything the LORD asks of us." So Moses brought the people's answer back to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 7:6
- For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
- "The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
- It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.
Ezekiel 16:6
- "But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, `Live!'
1 Samuel 12:22
- The LORD will not abandon his chosen people, for that would dishonor his great name. He made you a special nation for himself.
Deuteronomy 4:31
- For the LORD your God is merciful--he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.
Exodus 32:13
- Remember your covenant with your servants--Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You swore by your own self, `I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. Yes, I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'"
Jeremiah 31:3
- Long ago the LORD said to Israel: "I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.
Isaiah 41:8
- "But as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one, descended from my friend Abraham,
- I have called you back from the ends of the earth so you can serve me. For I have chosen you and will not throw you away.
Hosea 11:1
- "When Israel was a child, I loved him as a son, and I called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 2:18
- At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and the birds and the animals that scurry along the ground so that they will not harm you. I will remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, so you can live unafraid in peace and safety.
- I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
- I will be faithful to you and make you mine, and you will finally know me as LORD.
Malachi 1:2
- "I have loved you deeply," says the LORD. But you retort, "Really? How have you loved us?" And the LORD replies, "I showed my love for you by loving your ancestor Jacob. Yet Esau was Jacob's brother,
Ezekiel 20:5
- Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: When I chose Israel and revealed myself to her in Egypt, I swore that I, the LORD, would be her God.
- I promised that I would bring her and her descendants out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them--a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.
Jeremiah 31:32
- This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife," says the LORD.
Isaiah 63:7
- I will tell of the LORD's unfailing love. I will praise the LORD for all he has done. I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted according to his mercy and love.
- He said, "They are my very own people. Surely they will not be false again." And he became their Savior.
- In all their suffering he also suffered, and he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all the years.
Romans 9:10
- This son was our ancestor Isaac. When he grew up, he married Rebekah, who gave birth to twins.
- But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,
- not according to our good or bad works.) She was told, "The descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."
- In the words of the Scriptures, "I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau."
Exodus 24:1
- Then the LORD instructed Moses: "Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's leaders. All of them must worship at a distance.
- You alone, Moses, are allowed to come near to the LORD. The others must not come too close. And remember, none of the other people are allowed to climb on the mountain at all."
- When Moses had announced to the people all the teachings and regulations the LORD had given him, they answered in unison, "We will do everything the LORD has told us to do."
- Then Moses carefully wrote down all the LORD's instructions. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars around the altar, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Then he sent some of the young men to sacrifice young bulls as burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.