Ezekiel 4:1 Cross References
Ezekiel 4:1
1: "And now, son of man, take a large brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
Jeremiah 13:1
- This is what the LORD said to me: "Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not wash it."
- So I bought the belt as the LORD directed me and put it around my waist.
- Then the LORD gave me another message:
- "Take the linen belt you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks."
- So I went and hid it at the Euphrates as the LORD had instructed me.
Ezekiel 12:3
- So now put on a demonstration to show them what it will be like to go off into exile. Pack whatever you can carry on your back and leave your home to go on a journey. Make your preparations in broad daylight so the people can see you, for perhaps they will even yet consider what this means, even though they are such rebels.
- Bring your baggage outside during the day so they can watch you. Then as they are watching, leave your house in the evening, just as captives do when they begin a long march to distant lands.
- Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and carry your possessions out through it.
- As they watch, lift your pack to your shoulders and walk away into the night. Cover your face and don't look around. All of these actions will be a sign for the people of Israel."
- So I did as I was told. In broad daylight I brought my pack outside, filled with the things I might carry into exile. Then in the evening while the people looked on, I dug through the wall with my hands and went out into the darkness with my pack on my shoulder.
Hosea 1:2
- When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so some of her children will be born to you from other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me, openly committing adultery against the LORD by worshiping other gods."
- So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
- And the LORD said, "Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu's dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel.
- In fact, I will put an end to Israel's independence by breaking its military power in the Jezreel Valley."
- Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to Hosea, "Name your daughter Lo-ruhamah--`Not loved'--for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.
Jeremiah 27:2
- The LORD said to me, "Make a yoke, and fasten it on your neck with leather thongs.
- Then send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors to King Zedekiah in Jerusalem.
- Give them this message for their masters: `This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
- By my great power I have made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.
- Now I will give your countries to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who is my servant. I have put everything, even the wild animals, under his control.
Jeremiah 32:31
- "From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.
Ezekiel 5:1
- "Son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a razor to shave your head and beard. Use a scale to weigh the hair into three equal parts.
- Place a third of it at the center of your map of Jerusalem. After acting out the siege, burn it there. Scatter another third across your map and slash at it with a sword. Scatter the last third to the wind, for I will scatter my people with the sword.
- Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe.
- Then take a few of these hairs out and throw them into the fire, burning them up. A fire will then spread from this remnant and destroy all of Israel.
- "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is an illustration of what will happen to Jerusalem. I placed her at the center of the nations,
1 Samuel 15:27
- As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed at him to try to hold him back and tore his robe.
- And Samuel said to him, "See? The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else--one who is better than you.
Jeremiah 25:15
- Then the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me, "Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them."
- So I took the cup of anger from the LORD and made all the nations drink from it--every nation the LORD sent me to.
- I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
- I went to Egypt and spoke to Pharaoh, his officials, his princes, and his people. They, too, drank from that terrible cup,
Isaiah 20:2
- the LORD told Isaiah son of Amoz, "Take off all your clothes, including your sandals." Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
- Then the LORD said, "My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign--a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
- For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Jeremiah 18:2
- "Go down to the shop where clay pots and jars are made. I will speak to you while you are there."
- So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.
- But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so the potter squashed the jar into a lump of clay and started again.
- Then the LORD gave me this message:
- "O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.
Amos 3:2
- "From among all the families on the earth, I chose you alone. That is why I must punish you for all your sins."
Jeremiah 6:6
- This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees for battering rams. Build ramps against the walls of Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, for she is wicked through and through.
Jeremiah 19:1
- The LORD said to me, "Go and buy a clay jar. Then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow you.
- Go out into the valley of the son of Hinnom by the entrance to the Potsherd Gate, and repeat to them the words that I give you.
- Say to them, `Listen to this message from the LORD, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will bring such a terrible disaster on this place that the ears of those who hear about it will ring!
- " `For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness. The people burn incense to foreign gods--idols never before worshiped by this generation, by their ancestors, or by the kings of Judah. And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.
- They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!
Hosea 3:1
- Then the LORD said to me, "Go and get your wife again. Bring her back to you and love her, even though she loves adultery. For the LORD still loves Israel even though the people have turned to other gods, offering them choice gifts. "
- So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and about five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.
- Then I said to her, "You must live in my house for many days and stop your prostitution. During this time, you will not have sexual intercourse with anyone, not even with me. "
- This illustrates that Israel will be a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, temple, priests, or even idols!
- But afterward the people will return to the LORD their God and to David's descendant, their king. They will come trembling in awe to the LORD, and they will receive his good gifts in the last days.
Hosea 12:10
- I sent my prophets to warn you with many visions and parables."
1 Kings 11:30
- and Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
- Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten of these pieces, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: `I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give ten of the tribes to you!