Lamentations 4:20 Cross References
Lamentations 4:20
20: 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 39:5
- But the Babylonians chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho. They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.
2 Samuel 19:21
- Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, "Shimei should die, for he cursed the LORD's anointed king!"
Genesis 2:7
- And the LORD God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person.
Ezekiel 12:13
- 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 2:9
- 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.
2 Samuel 1:14
- "Were you not afraid to kill the LORD's anointed one?" David asked.
Genesis 44:30
- "And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.
1 Samuel 12:3
- Now tell me as I stand before the LORD and before his anointed one--whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong."
Psalms 89:20
- I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
- I will steady him, and I will make him strong.
Jeremiah 52:8
- But the Babylonians chased after them and caught King Zedekiah on the plains of Jericho, for by then his men had all abandoned him.
1 Samuel 16:6
- When they arrived, Samuel took one look at Eliab and thought, "Surely this is the LORD's anointed!"
1 Samuel 24:10
- This very day you can see with your own eyes it isn't true. For the LORD placed you at my mercy back there in the cave, and some of my men told me to kill you, but I spared you. For I said, `I will never harm him--he is the LORD's anointed one.'
Ezekiel 19:4
- Then the nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.
- `When the mother lion saw that all her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong lion.
- He prowled among the other lions and became a leader among them. He learned to catch and devour prey, and he, too, became a man-eater.
- He demolished fortresses in nearby nations and destroyed their towns and cities. Their farms were desolated, and their crops were destroyed. Everyone in the land trembled in fear when they heard him roar.
- Then the armies of the nations attacked him, surrounding him from every direction. They spread out their nets for him and captured him in their pit.
1 Samuel 26:9
- "No!" David said. "Don't kill him. For who can remain innocent after attacking the LORD's anointed one?
2 Samuel 1:21
- O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you or your slopes. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled; the shield of Saul will no longer be anointed with oil.
1 Samuel 12:5
- "The LORD and his anointed one are my witnesses," Samuel declared, "that you can never accuse me of robbing you.Yes, it is true," they replied.
Ezekiel 17:18
- For the king of Israel broke his treaty after swearing to obey; therefore, he will not escape.
2 Samuel 18:3
- But his men objected strongly. "You must not go," they urged. "If we have to turn and run--and even if half of us die--it will make no difference to Absalom's troops; they will be looking only for you. You are worth ten thousand of us, and it is better that you stay here in the city and send us help if we need it."
1 Samuel 24:6
- "The LORD knows I shouldn't have done it," he said to his men. "It is a serious thing to attack the LORD's anointed one, for the LORD himself has chosen him."
1 Samuel 26:16
- This isn't good at all! I swear by the LORD that you and your men deserve to die, because you failed to protect your master, the LORD's anointed! Look around! Where are the king's spear and the jug of water that were beside his head?"