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The Prophets — Chronicle

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Isaiah 1
Isaiah sees a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 1 · in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

Isaiah

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 2
Isaiah sees a prophetic word concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2

Isaiah

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 3
God removes Jerusalem and Judah’s essential food and water supplies.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem Judah

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

Isaiah 3
God installs children as princes and makes infants rule the people.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem Judah

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Isaiah 3
God judges the people’s elders and princes for exploiting the poor.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3
God afflicts the daughters of Zion and exposes their secret parts.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Zion]] · In that day

God

Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Isaiah 3
God removes the daughters of Zion’s ornaments and replaces beauty with mourning and disgrace.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Zion]] · In that day

God

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

Isaiah 3
Jerusalem’s men fall by the sword, and the city becomes desolate.

Isaiah 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 4
God makes the branch of the LORD beautiful and glorious, and the earth’s fruit excellent.

Isaiah 4 · In that day

God

In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 4
God washes away Zion’s filth and purges Jerusalem’s blood through judgment and burning.

Isaiah 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · When the Lord shall have washed away the filth

God

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isaiah 4
God creates protective cloud, smoke, and flaming fire over every dwelling and assembly.

Isaiah 4 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

God

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isaiah 4
God provides a tabernacle for shade, refuge, and shelter from storms and rain.

Isaiah 4

God

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Isaiah 5
God removes the vineyard’s protection and lays it waste for producing wild grapes.

Isaiah 5

God

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste:

Isaiah 5
God strikes his people, leaving their bodies torn in the streets.

Isaiah 5

God

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets.

Isaiah 5
God summons distant nations to attack, and no one can rescue their prey.

Isaiah 5 · in that day

God

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

Isaiah 6
Isaiah sees God enthroned in the temple.

Isaiah 6 · 📍 [[the temple]] · In the year that king Uzziah died

Isaiah God

I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Isaiah 6
Isaiah's iniquity is taken away and his sin purged.

Isaiah 6

Isaiah

Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Isaiah 6
Isaiah accepts God's call to go as his messenger.

Isaiah 6

God Isaiah

Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Isaiah 6
God commands Isaiah to proclaim a message of spiritual blindness to the people.

Isaiah 6

God Isaiah

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Isaiah 7
Rezin and Pekah attacked Jerusalem but failed to conquer it.

Isaiah 7 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Rezin Pekah

Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7
God sent Isaiah and Shearjashub to meet Ahaz and deliver reassurance.

Isaiah 7 · 📍 [[the upper pool]]

God Isaiah Shearjashub Ahaz

Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;

Isaiah 7
God declared that the hostile plan against Judah would fail.

Isaiah 7

God Ahaz

Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

Isaiah 7
Ahaz refused God’s invitation to request a sign.

Isaiah 7

Ahaz God

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

Isaiah 7
God announced the sign of a virgin conceiving and bearing a son called Immanuel.

Isaiah 7

God

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7
God announced that Assyria would bring unprecedented days upon Ahaz and his people.

Isaiah 7

God Ahaz

The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 8
Mahershalalhashbaz is born and receives his name.

Isaiah 8

Mahershalalhashbaz

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

Isaiah 8
Isaiah appoints Uriah and Zechariah as faithful witnesses.

Isaiah 8

Isaiah Uriah Zechariah

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

Isaiah 8
God instructs Isaiah not to follow the people's way.

Isaiah 8

God Isaiah

For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people

Isaiah 8
God commands Isaiah to bind the testimony and seal the law.

Isaiah 8

God Isaiah

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 9
God set adversaries against Rezin.

Isaiah 9

God Rezin

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

Isaiah 10
God sends the Assyrian against a hypocritical nation to take spoil and prey.

Isaiah 10

God Assyrian

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10
God declares punishment for the king of Assyria’s pride after completing his work.

Isaiah 10 · 📍 [[mount Zion and Jerusalem]]

God Sennacherib

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 10
God sends destruction upon the Assyrian through fire and flame.

Isaiah 10

God Assyrian

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isaiah 10
The remnant of Israel stops relying on its smiter and trusts God instead.

Isaiah 10 · in that day

remnant of Israel God

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 10
The remnant of Jacob returns to God.

Isaiah 10

remnant of Jacob God

The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

Isaiah 10
God removes the Assyrian’s burden and destroys his yoke.

Isaiah 10 · in that day

God Assyrian

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isaiah 10
God humbles the proud and cuts down the Assyrian forest.

Isaiah 10

God Assyrian

Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 11
God empowers the Branch with wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and reverence.

Isaiah 11

God Branch

And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

Isaiah 11
The Branch judges the poor righteously, reproves the meek, and slays the wicked.

Isaiah 11

Branch poor meek of the earth wicked

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Isaiah 11
God recovers the remnant of his people from distant lands.

Isaiah 11 · in that day

God remnant of his people

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people

Isaiah 11
God assembles Israel’s outcasts and gathers Judah’s dispersed people from across the earth.

Isaiah 11 · in that day

God Jacob Judah

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11
Ephraim’s envy and Judah’s hostility cease.

Isaiah 11

Ephraim Judah

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Isaiah 11
Israel defeats the Philistines, Edom, and Moab, while Ammon obeys.

Isaiah 11

Jacob Philistines Edom Moab Ammon

they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Isaiah 11
God destroys the tongue of the Egyptian sea and divides the river into seven dry crossings.

Isaiah 11 · 📍 [[Egyptian sea]]

God Egyptian sea

And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Isaiah 12
God’s anger is turned away, and God comforts the speaker.

Isaiah 12 · in that day

God

though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Isaiah 12
God becomes the speaker’s salvation.

Isaiah 12

God

he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 13
Isaiah sees a burden concerning Babylon.

Isaiah 13 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Isaiah

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

Isaiah 14
Lucifer falls from heaven and is cut down to the ground.

Isaiah 14 · 📍 [[heaven]]

Lucifer

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground

Isaiah 14
God brings Lucifer down to hell.

Isaiah 14 · 📍 [[hell]]

God Lucifer

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isaiah 14
Lucifer is denied burial after destroying his land and killing his people.

Isaiah 14 · 📍 [[the grave]]

Lucifer

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people

Isaiah 16
Moab's glory will be dishonored, leaving only a very small and feeble remnant.

Isaiah 16 · Within three years

Moab

Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

Isaiah 18
God declares that the branches will be cut down before the harvest.

Isaiah 18

God

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Isaiah 18
A present will be brought to God from the scattered and conquered people.

Isaiah 18 · 📍 [[mount Zion]] · In that time

God

In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

Isaiah 19
God sets the Egyptians against one another in civil conflict.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Egypt

And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19
God gives Egypt into the hand of a cruel lord and fierce king.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Egypt

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 19
Five Egyptian cities speak Canaan's language and swear allegiance to God.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In that day

God Egypt

In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

Isaiah 19
An altar to God is established in Egypt as a sign and witness.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In that day

God Egypt

In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

Isaiah 19
God sends a saviour to deliver Egypt from its oppressors.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Egypt

for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isaiah 19
Egypt comes to know God and begins offering sacrifices and fulfilling vows.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In that day

God Egypt

And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

Isaiah 19
God strikes Egypt, heals it, and restores its return to him.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Egypt

And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

Isaiah 19
Egypt, Assyria, and Israel become united as a blessing under God's rule.

Isaiah 19 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In that day

Egypt Assyria Jacob

In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

Isaiah 20
Sargon sent Tartan to Ashdod.

Isaiah 20 · 📍 [[Ashdod]] · In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod

Sargon Tartan

when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,

Isaiah 20
Tartan fought against Ashdod and captured it.

Isaiah 20 · 📍 [[Ashdod]] · In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod

Tartan

and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

Isaiah 20
God commanded Isaiah to remove his sackcloth and shoes.

Isaiah 20 · At the same time

God Isaiah

Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot.

Isaiah 20
Isaiah walked naked and barefoot as a sign and wonder.

Isaiah 20 · three years

Isaiah

Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder

Isaiah 21
God commands Isaiah to set a watchman and report what he sees.

Isaiah 21

God Isaiah

For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

Isaiah 21
Babylon falls, and its graven images are broken to the ground.

Isaiah 21 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Isaiah 21
God declares that Kedar's glory and mighty archers will fail.

Isaiah 21 · 📍 [[Kedar]] · Within a year

God

Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

Isaiah 22
God commands Isaiah to go to Shebna and deliver a message.

Isaiah 22

God Isaiah

Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 22
God declares Shebna will be carried away captive, die abroad, and lose his office.

Isaiah 22

God Shebna

Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house. And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

Isaiah 22
God appoints Eliakim son of Hilkiah, giving him Shebna’s office and authority.

Isaiah 22 · in that day

God Eliakim Hilkiah

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand:

Isaiah 22
God declares that Eliakim’s secure position will eventually be removed and cut down.

Isaiah 22 · In that day

God Eliakim

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Isaiah 23
Tyre is laid waste, leaving no house or means of entry.

Isaiah 23 · 📍 [[Tyre]]

Tyre

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in:

Isaiah 23
Tyre’s strongholds are targeted for destruction by divine command.

Isaiah 23 · 📍 [[Tyre]]

Tyre

the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Isaiah 23
Tyre is forgotten for seventy years, corresponding to one king’s reign.

Isaiah 23 · 📍 [[Tyre]] · in that day

Tyre

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:

Isaiah 23
Tyre resumes commerce, and its merchandise becomes dedicated to the LORD.

Isaiah 23 · 📍 [[Tyre]] · after the end of seventy years

Tyre

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire

Isaiah 24
God makes the earth empty, waste, and its inhabitants scattered.

Isaiah 24

God

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 24
God punishes the heavenly host and the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 24 · in that day

God

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

Isaiah 24
God reigns gloriously in mount Zion and Jerusalem before his ancients.

Isaiah 24 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

God

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah 25
God turns a city into a heap and a defended city into ruin.

Isaiah 25

God

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 25
God prepares a lavish feast for all peoples.

Isaiah 25 · 📍 [[this mountain]]

God

And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees

Isaiah 25
God removes the covering over all peoples and nations.

Isaiah 25 · 📍 [[this mountain]]

God

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 25
God abolishes death, wipes away tears, and removes his people's reproach.

Isaiah 25

God

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth

Isaiah 25
God brings Moab down under him like straw trampled for the dunghill.

Isaiah 25 · 📍 [[this mountain]]

God Moab

For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

Isaiah 25
God brings down the fortress and high fort of the walls to the dust.

Isaiah 25

God

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 26
God appoints salvation as walls and bulwarks for the strong city.

Isaiah 26 · 📍 [[the land of Judah]] · In that day

God

We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

Isaiah 26
God brings down the lofty city and lays it to the ground.

Isaiah 26

God

for he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground

Isaiah 26
God destroys former rulers and erases their memory.

Isaiah 26

God

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Isaiah 26
God increases the nation and removes it to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 26

God

Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 26
God raises the dead, causing the earth to cast them out.

Isaiah 26

God

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 26
God punishes the earth's inhabitants for their iniquity and exposes bloodshed.

Isaiah 26 · 📍 [[the earth]]

God

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 27
God punishes and slays leviathan.

Isaiah 27 · In that day

God

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 27
God causes Jacob’s descendants to take root and flourish.

Isaiah 27

God Jacob

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27
God purges Jacob’s iniquity as idolatrous altars and images are removed.

Isaiah 27

God Jacob

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Isaiah 27
God gathers the scattered people, who worship him at the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 27 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in that day

God

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28
God casts down Ephraim’s proud crown and causes it to be trodden underfoot.

Isaiah 28 · 📍 Ephraim

God

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

Isaiah 28
God becomes a crown of glory and diadem of beauty for the residue of his people.

Isaiah 28 · In that day

God

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

Isaiah 28
God lays a tried, precious cornerstone as a sure foundation in Zion.

Isaiah 28 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation;

Isaiah 28
God annuls the covenant with death and makes the agreement with hell fail.

Isaiah 28

God

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand;

Isaiah 28
God determines a consuming judgment upon the whole earth.

Isaiah 28

God

For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Isaiah 29
God declares judgment against Ariel through siege and distress.

Isaiah 29

God

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

Isaiah 29
God covers the prophets and rulers with a spirit of deep sleep.

Isaiah 29

God

For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

Isaiah 29
God announces a marvelous work that makes the wisdom of the wise perish.

Isaiah 29

God

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Isaiah 29
God restores hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind.

Isaiah 29 · in that day

God

And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Isaiah 29
God redeems Abraham.

Isaiah 29

God Abraham

Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob

Isaiah 30
God commands the prophecy to be written permanently for future generations.

Isaiah 30

God

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Isaiah 30
God declares that returning and resting will save the rebellious people.

Isaiah 30

God

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved;

Isaiah 30
God promises to answer the people's cries and end their weeping in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

Isaiah 30
God promises abundant harvests, rain, and plentiful pastures.

Isaiah 30 · in that day

God

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 30
God promises to heal his people's wounds and restore extraordinary light.

Isaiah 30 · in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people

God

Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 30
God declares that the Assyrian will be beaten down by his voice.

Isaiah 30

God Assyrian

For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

Isaiah 30
God prepares Tophet as a deep, fiery place for the king.

Isaiah 30 · 📍 [[Tophet]]

God

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large;

Isaiah 31
God declares judgment against the house of evildoers.

Isaiah 31

God

but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Isaiah 31
God comes down to fight for mount Zion and its hill.

Isaiah 31 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

God

so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

Isaiah 31
God promises to defend, deliver, and preserve Jerusalem.

Isaiah 31 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31
God commands the children of Israel to turn back from their revolt.

Isaiah 31

God

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

Isaiah 31
God declares that the Assyrian will fall by the sword and his young men be discomfited.

Isaiah 31 · in that day

God Assyrian

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

Isaiah 33
God fills Zion with judgment and righteousness.

Isaiah 33 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

Isaiah 33
God rises, exalts himself, and lifts himself up.

Isaiah 33 · Now

God

Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

Isaiah 33
God scatters the nations when he lifts himself up.

Isaiah 33

God

at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

Isaiah 33
God establishes Jerusalem as a quiet habitation that cannot be dismantled.

Isaiah 33 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

Isaiah 33
God saves his people as their judge, lawgiver, and king.

Isaiah 33

God

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 33
God forgives the iniquity of the people dwelling in the land.

Isaiah 33

God

the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Isaiah 34
God destroys the nations and delivers their armies to slaughter.

Isaiah 34

God

For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Isaiah 34
God brings judgment upon Idumea with his sword.

Isaiah 34 · 📍 [[Idumea]]

God

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Isaiah 34
God brings a great slaughter in Idumea.

Isaiah 34 · 📍 [[Bozrah]]

God

for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Isaiah 34
God turns Idumea into a permanently burning wasteland.

Isaiah 34 · 📍 [[Idumea]]

God

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 35
God will come with vengeance and save those with fearful hearts.

Isaiah 35

God

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

Isaiah 35
The blind will receive sight, and the deaf will regain hearing.

Isaiah 35

the blind the deaf

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Isaiah 35
The lame man will leap, and the dumb will sing.

Isaiah 35

the lame man the dumb

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing:

Isaiah 35
The ransomed of the LORD will return to Zion with everlasting joy.

Isaiah 35 · 📍 [[Zion]]

the ransomed of the LORD

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:

Isaiah 36
Sennacherib conquered all the fortified cities of Judah.

Isaiah 36 · 📍 [[Judah]] · in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah

Sennacherib

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

Isaiah 36
Sennacherib sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to address Hezekiah.

Isaiah 36 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Sennacherib Rabshakeh Hezekiah

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.

Isaiah 36
Hezekiah’s officials returned distressed and reported Rabshakeh’s words to him.

Isaiah 36

Eliakim Shebna Joah Hezekiah

Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37
Hezekiah sent Eliakim and Shebna to seek Isaiah’s prophetic help.

Isaiah 37

Hezekiah Eliakim Shebna Isaiah

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37
Isaiah sent God’s response to Hezekiah after his prayer against Sennacherib.

Isaiah 37

Isaiah Hezekiah

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

Isaiah 37
God declared that Sennacherib would return without entering Jerusalem.

Isaiah 37 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Sennacherib

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

Isaiah 37
God smote 185,000 Assyrians, leaving them dead corpses.

Isaiah 37 · early in the morning

God Sennacherib

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 37
Sennacherib departed from the campaign and returned to Nineveh.

Isaiah 37 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Sennacherib

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Isaiah 37
Sennacherib worshipped Nisroch in his temple.

Isaiah 37 · 📍 [[the house of Nisroch his god]]

Sennacherib Nisroch

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,

Isaiah 37
Adrammelech and Sharezer killed Sennacherib with the sword.

Isaiah 37

Adrammelech Sharezer Sennacherib

that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword;

Isaiah 37
Esarhaddon succeeded Sennacherib as king.

Isaiah 37

Esarhaddon Sennacherib

and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 38
Isaiah announced that Hezekiah would die and commanded him to set his house in order.

Isaiah 38 · In those days

Isaiah Hezekiah

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Isaiah 38
Hezekiah prayed and wept after hearing that he would die.

Isaiah 38

Hezekiah God

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

Isaiah 38
God answered Hezekiah’s prayer by adding fifteen years to his life and promising Jerusalem’s deliverance.

Isaiah 38

God Isaiah Hezekiah

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Isaiah 38
God promised to deliver Hezekiah and the city from Assyria and defend the city.

Isaiah 38

God Hezekiah

And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38
God confirmed his promise by moving the sundial shadow ten degrees backward.

Isaiah 38

God Hezekiah

So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

Isaiah 38
Hezekiah recovered from his sickness.

Isaiah 38

Hezekiah

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

Isaiah 38
Isaiah prescribed a fig poultice, and Hezekiah recovered.

Isaiah 38

Isaiah Hezekiah

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Isaiah 39
Merodachbaladan sent letters and a present to Hezekiah after hearing of his recovery.

Isaiah 39 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · At that time

Merodachbaladan Hezekiah

At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

Isaiah 39
Hezekiah showed Merodachbaladan's visitors all his treasures, weapons, and possessions.

Isaiah 39

Hezekiah Merodachbaladan

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

Isaiah 39
God declared through Isaiah that Hezekiah's stored wealth would be carried to Babylon.

Isaiah 39 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · the days come

God Isaiah Hezekiah

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 39
God declared that Hezekiah's sons would be taken away and made eunuchs in Babylon's palace.

Isaiah 39 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · the days come

God Isaiah Hezekiah

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Isaiah 40
God pardons Jerusalem after her warfare is accomplished.

Isaiah 40 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 40
God’s glory will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together.

Isaiah 40

God

And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Isaiah 40
God comes with strong hand and rules with his arm.

Isaiah 40

God

Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Isaiah 40
God creates the heavenly host and calls each by name.

Isaiah 40

God

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

Isaiah 40
God brings princes to nothing and makes earthly judges vanity.

Isaiah 40

God

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40
God gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the powerless.

Isaiah 40

God

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isaiah 40
Those who wait upon God renew their strength and do not grow weary.

Isaiah 40

God

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 41
God chooses Jacob as his servant and identifies him as Abraham’s seed.

Isaiah 41

God Jacob Abraham

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Isaiah 41
God promises to strengthen, help, and uphold Jacob.

Isaiah 41

God Jacob

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41
God declares that those opposing Jacob will perish and become nothing.

Isaiah 41

God Jacob

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Isaiah 41
God transforms Jacob into a sharp threshing instrument that crushes mountains and hills.

Isaiah 41

God Jacob

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Isaiah 41
God promises to provide rivers, fountains, and springs in the wilderness and dry land.

Isaiah 41

God

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Isaiah 41
God raises up one from the north to confront princes.

Isaiah 41

God

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isaiah 42
God calls his servant, gives him a covenant, and makes him a light to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 42

God

I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Isaiah 42
God promises to open blind eyes and release prisoners from darkness.

Isaiah 42

God

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 42
God declares that he will destroy and devour at once.

Isaiah 42

God

now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Isaiah 42
God promises to lead the blind along unknown paths and turn darkness into light.

Isaiah 42

God

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.

Isaiah 42
God gives Jacob and Israel to spoil because of their disobedience.

Isaiah 42

God

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned?

Isaiah 42
God pours the fury of his anger and the strength of battle upon Israel.

Isaiah 42

God

Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about

Isaiah 43
God redeemed Jacob and Israel, called them by name, and claimed them as his own.

Isaiah 43

God Jacob Jacob

I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Isaiah 43
God promised to gather Israel’s descendants, sons, and daughters from every direction.

Isaiah 43

God Jacob Jacob

I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

Isaiah 43
God sent judgment against Babylon, bringing down its nobles and the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 43 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Babylon Chaldeans

For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans

Isaiah 43
God promised a new way through the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43

God Jacob Jacob

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43
God promised to blot out Jacob and Israel’s transgressions and forget their sins.

Isaiah 43

God Jacob Jacob

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 43
God profaned Israel’s princes and gave Jacob and Israel over to curse and reproach.

Isaiah 43

God Jacob Jacob

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Isaiah 44
God promises to pour his spirit and blessing upon Jacob’s offspring.

Isaiah 44

God Jacob

I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Isaiah 44
God blots out Jacob’s transgressions and redeems him.

Isaiah 44

God Jacob

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Isaiah 44
God promises Jerusalem will be inhabited and Judah’s cities rebuilt.

Isaiah 44 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

Isaiah 44
God declares Cyrus his shepherd, who will rebuild Jerusalem and lay the temple foundation.

Isaiah 44 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Cyrus

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

Isaiah 45
God anoints Cyrus and empowers him to subdue nations.

Isaiah 45

God Cyrus

Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him;

Isaiah 45
God calls Cyrus by name and gives him a surname despite Cyrus not knowing God.

Isaiah 45

God Cyrus

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Isaiah 45
God promises Cyrus hidden treasures so Cyrus will recognize the LORD as Israel’s God.

Isaiah 45

God Cyrus

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45
God raises Cyrus, directs his ways, and appoints him to build the city and release captives.

Isaiah 45

God Cyrus

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 46
Bel and Nebo bow down, and their idols go into captivity.

Isaiah 46

Bel Nebo

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Isaiah 46
A goldsmith makes a god from precious metals, and people worship it.

Isaiah 46

a goldsmith

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Isaiah 46
God brings salvation near and places it in Zion for Israel.

Isaiah 46 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Jacob

I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 47
Babylon loses its throne and former status.

Isaiah 47

Babylon

there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 47
Babylon suffers the loss of children and widowhood.

Isaiah 47 · in one day

Babylon

these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood

Isaiah 47
Sudden evil, mischief, and desolation overtake Babylon.

Isaiah 47

Babylon

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee

Isaiah 47
Babylon's astrologers and stargazers cannot deliver it from destruction.

Isaiah 47

Babylon

the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

Isaiah 47
Babylon's merchants scatter, and none can save it.

Isaiah 47

Babylon

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Isaiah 48
God declares judgment against Babylon and the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Babylon Chaldeans

The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48
Jacob is commanded to leave Babylon and flee from the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Jacob Babylon Chaldeans

Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 48
God redeems Jacob.

Isaiah 48

God Jacob

The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 48
God leads Jacob through deserts and provides water from a rock.

Isaiah 48

God Jacob

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 49
God appoints Israel as his servant to restore Jacob and enlighten the Gentiles.

Isaiah 49

God Jacob

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

Isaiah 49
God expands Israel’s mission to restore Jacob and bring salvation to the earth.

Isaiah 49

God Jacob Jacob Gentiles

I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49
God preserves his servant and establishes him as a covenant for the people.

Isaiah 49 · in an acceptable time

God

and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Isaiah 49
God promises to release prisoners and guide them to nourishment and water.

Isaiah 49

God

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.

Isaiah 49
God promises Zion that her children will return while her destroyers depart.

Isaiah 49 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Isaiah 49
God promises to restore Israel’s children through the Gentiles and their rulers.

Isaiah 49

God Jacob

and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Isaiah 49
God promises to rescue captives and save the children of those under oppression.

Isaiah 49

God

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:

Isaiah 49
God declares judgment against Israel’s oppressors through their own destruction.

Isaiah 49

God

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood

Isaiah 51
God calls, blesses, and increases Abraham.

Isaiah 51

God Abraham

for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Isaiah 52
God comforts his people and redeems Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52
God brings Zion back, causing its watchmen to sing together.

Isaiah 52 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

Isaiah 52
God leads his people out without haste or flight.

Isaiah 52

God Jacob

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

Isaiah 52
God's servant is exalted and extolled.

Isaiah 52

God's servant

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

Isaiah 52
God reveals salvation to all nations and the earth.

Isaiah 52

God nations

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 54
God swears that Noah’s floodwaters will never again cover the earth.

Isaiah 54

God Noah

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth;

Isaiah 55
God promises an everlasting covenant associated with David’s sure mercies.

Isaiah 55

God David

and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 55
God appoints David as a witness, leader, and commander to the people.

Isaiah 55

God David

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

Isaiah 55
God’s spoken word accomplishes the purpose for which he sends it.

Isaiah 55

God

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please

Isaiah 55
God promises transformation from thorns and briers to fir and myrtle trees.

Isaiah 55

God

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree

Isaiah 56
God promises eunuchs an honored place and an everlasting name.

Isaiah 56 · 📍 [[mine house]]

God the eunuchs

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 56
God brings foreign adherents to his holy mountain and accepts their sacrifices.

Isaiah 56 · 📍 [[my holy mountain]]

God the sons of the stranger

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar;

Isaiah 56
God gathers additional people alongside Israel’s already gathered outcasts.

Isaiah 56

God the outcasts of Israel

The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

Isaiah 57
God declares that the righteous perish and are taken away from coming evil.

Isaiah 57

God

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Isaiah 57
God smites the covetous but promises to heal, lead, and restore him.

Isaiah 57

God

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Isaiah 57
God promises peace and healing to those far away and those nearby.

Isaiah 57

God

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

Isaiah 58
God commands proclamation of his people’s transgressions and sins.

Isaiah 58

God

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58
God commands a fast that releases the oppressed and breaks every yoke.

Isaiah 58

God

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 58
God promises light, healing, righteousness, and protection to those who practice the chosen fast.

Isaiah 58

God

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Isaiah 58
God promises continual guidance and nourishment to those who satisfy the afflicted.

Isaiah 58

God

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:

Isaiah 58
God promises descendants will rebuild ruined places and restore former paths of habitation.

Isaiah 58

God

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;

Isaiah 58
God commands honoring the Sabbath instead of pursuing personal pleasure.

Isaiah 58

God

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable;

Isaiah 58
God promises delight, exaltation, and Jacob’s heritage to those who honor him on the Sabbath.

Isaiah 58

God

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:

Isaiah 59
God declares judgment and repayment against adversaries and enemies.

Isaiah 59

God

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

Isaiah 59
The Redeemer will come to Zion and redeem those who turn from transgression.

Isaiah 59 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 59
God establishes an everlasting covenant, preserving his Spirit and words among his people and descendants.

Isaiah 59 · from henceforth and for ever

God

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Isaiah 61
God anoints and sends Isaiah to proclaim good tidings and liberty to captives.

Isaiah 61

God Isaiah

the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives

Isaiah 61
God promises to make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 61

God

I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 62
Zion receives the new name Hephzibah, and its land receives the name Beulah.

Isaiah 62

Zion

but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah

Isaiah 62
God appoints watchmen upon Jerusalem’s walls to remain continually vigilant.

Isaiah 62 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night

Isaiah 62
God promises that Jerusalem’s harvest will no longer be consumed by its enemies.

Isaiah 62

God

Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies

Isaiah 62
God proclaims that Zion’s salvation is coming with reward and accomplishment.

Isaiah 62

God Zion

Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Isaiah 62
Jerusalem is designated the holy, redeemed, sought-out city rather than the forsaken city.

Isaiah 62 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Jerusalem

and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isaiah 63
God redeemed Israel and carried them through their affliction.

Isaiah 63

God Jacob

in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63
Israel rebelled against God, who became their enemy and fought against them.

Isaiah 63

Jacob God

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Isaiah 63
God led Israel by Moses, divided the waters, and guided them through the deep.

Isaiah 63 · the days of old

God Moses Jacob

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them

Isaiah 64
God came down, causing the mountains to flow at his presence.

Isaiah 64

God

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

Isaiah 64
God consumed the people because of their iniquities.

Isaiah 64

God

for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 65
God will recompense the rebellious people for their iniquities.

Isaiah 65

God rebellious people

I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Isaiah 65
God will preserve a remnant of his servants from destruction.

Isaiah 65

God God's servants

so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

Isaiah 65
God's servants will inherit the mountains and dwell there.

Isaiah 65 · 📍 [[God's mountains]]

God's servants

and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

Isaiah 65
God will number those who forsake him to the sword and slaughter.

Isaiah 65

God forsakers of the LORD

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:

Isaiah 65
God will create new heavens and a new earth, replacing former things.

Isaiah 65

God

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Isaiah 65
God will create Jerusalem as a rejoicing and its people as a joy.

Isaiah 65 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Isaiah 65
God will end weeping and crying in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 65 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Isaiah 65
God will establish peace among creatures, ending harm and destruction in his holy mountain.

Isaiah 65 · 📍 [[God's holy mountain]]

God

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 66
God brings the fears of those who ignored his call upon them.

Isaiah 66

God

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer;

Isaiah 66
God extends peace to Jerusalem like a river and gives her glory among the nations.

Isaiah 66 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream:

Isaiah 66
God comforts his people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 66 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 66
God judges all flesh with fire and sword, leaving many slain.

Isaiah 66

God

For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Isaiah 66
God gathers all nations and tongues to see his glory.

Isaiah 66

God

it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Isaiah 66
God sends survivors to distant nations to declare his glory among the Gentiles.

Isaiah 66 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

And I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

Isaiah 66
God appoints some from the nations as priests and Levites.

Isaiah 66

God

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 66
God creates new heavens and a new earth that remain before him.

Isaiah 66

God

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD

Jeremiah 1
God ordained Jeremiah as a prophet to the nations before his birth.

Jeremiah 1 · Before I formed thee in the belly

God Jeremiah

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Jeremiah 1
God commanded Jeremiah to go wherever sent and speak whatever commanded.

Jeremiah 1

God Jeremiah

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

Jeremiah 1
God placed divine words in Jeremiah’s mouth.

Jeremiah 1

God Jeremiah

Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

Jeremiah 1
God appointed Jeremiah over nations and kingdoms to destroy and rebuild.

Jeremiah 1 · this day

God Jeremiah

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 1
God made Jeremiah a fortified city and an iron pillar against Judah’s authorities and people.

Jeremiah 1 · this day

God Jeremiah

For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

Jeremiah 2
God commands Jeremiah to proclaim the LORD’s message in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD;

Jeremiah 3
God put away backsliding Israel and gave her a bill of divorce.

Jeremiah 3

God

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce

Jeremiah 3
God commands Jeremiah to proclaim Israel’s return and promises mercy.

Jeremiah 3

God Jeremiah

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you

Jeremiah 3
God promises to gather repentant people and bring them to Zion.

Jeremiah 3 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion

Jeremiah 3
God promises to heal the backslidings of those who return to him.

Jeremiah 3

God

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 4
God calls Israel to return and remove its abominations.

Jeremiah 4

God

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

Jeremiah 4
God commands Judah and Jerusalem to repent to avert his consuming fury.

Jeremiah 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 4
God announces judgment against the people, with devastation advancing from the north.

Jeremiah 4 · At that time

God

Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

Jeremiah 4
God declares the whole land desolate but promises not to destroy it completely.

Jeremiah 4

God

For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

Jeremiah 4
Jeremiah beholds a vision of cosmic disorder, vanished people, and ruined cities.

Jeremiah 4

Jeremiah

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 5
God judges Israel and Judah for treachery and idolatry.

Jeremiah 5

God house of Israel house of Judah

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 5
God commands Jerusalem’s walls and battlements to be destroyed, but not completely ended.

Jeremiah 5 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.

Jeremiah 5
God announces that a distant nation will invade Israel and consume its resources.

Jeremiah 5

God house of Israel

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Jeremiah 5
God declares that the invading nation will destroy Israel’s harvest, livestock, vineyards, and fortified cities.

Jeremiah 5

God house of Israel

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Jeremiah 5
God promises not to make a complete end of Israel.

Jeremiah 5 · in those days

God house of Israel

Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

Jeremiah 5
God declares that Israel will serve strangers in a foreign land because it forsook him and served strange gods.

Jeremiah 5

God house of Israel

Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Jeremiah 6
God commands Benjamin’s children to flee Jerusalem and signal the approaching destruction.

Jeremiah 6 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God children of Benjamin

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

Jeremiah 6
Shepherds and their flocks surround Jerusalem and establish camps against it.

Jeremiah 6 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

shepherds Jerusalem

The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Jeremiah 6
God orders trees felled and a siege mound raised against Jerusalem for judgment.

Jeremiah 6 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

Jeremiah 6
God declares that inhabitants’ houses, fields, and wives will be transferred to others.

Jeremiah 6

God inhabitants of the land

And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 6
God warns Jerusalem that desolation will follow if it refuses instruction.

Jeremiah 6 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 6
Jerusalem refuses to follow the good ancient paths and rejects the watchmen’s warnings.

Jeremiah 6

Jerusalem

But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Jeremiah 6
God brings evil upon the people because they reject his words and law.

Jeremiah 6

God this people

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Jeremiah 6
A cruel northern nation advances with weapons and horses to wage war against Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 6

a great nation Jerusalem

Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Jeremiah 7
God delivered a word to Jeremiah concerning Judah.

Jeremiah 7

God Jeremiah

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Jeremiah 7
God commanded Jeremiah to stand at the gate and proclaim His word.

Jeremiah 7 · 📍 [[the LORD’s house]]

God Jeremiah

Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say,

Jeremiah 7
God forbade Jeremiah from praying or interceding for the people.

Jeremiah 7

God Jeremiah

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me:

Jeremiah 7
God commanded Jeremiah to speak despite the people’s refusal to listen.

Jeremiah 7

God Jeremiah

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee:

Jeremiah 7
God declared that He would destroy the temple and its place as He had destroyed Shiloh.

Jeremiah 7 · 📍 [[the LORD’s house]]

God

Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

Jeremiah 7
God declared that His anger would be poured out upon the land and remain unquenched.

Jeremiah 7

God

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place,

Jeremiah 7
God declared that Tophet would become a valley of slaughter with no burial space remaining.

Jeremiah 7 · 📍 [[Tophet]] · the days come

God

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

Jeremiah 7
God would end joy and celebration, leaving the land desolate.

Jeremiah 7 · 📍 [[the cities of Judah]] · Then

God

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness

Jeremiah 8
God declares that Judah’s dead will be exhumed and left unburied.

Jeremiah 8 · At that time

God

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

Jeremiah 8
God commands Jeremiah to proclaim judgment on Jerusalem’s persistent backsliding.

Jeremiah 8

God

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Jeremiah 8
God transfers the people’s wives and fields to others because of pervasive deceit and covetousness.

Jeremiah 8

God

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them:

Jeremiah 8
God declares that the unrepentant will fall and be cast down.

Jeremiah 8 · in the time of their visitation

God

therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8
God declares that Judah will be consumed and lose the things previously given to it.

Jeremiah 8

God

I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Jeremiah 8
God sends deadly serpents among the people to bite them.

Jeremiah 8

God

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9
God will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons.

Jeremiah 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons;

Jeremiah 9
God will make Judah’s cities desolate and uninhabited.

Jeremiah 9 · 📍 [[Judah]]

God Judah

and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9
God will feed Judah with wormwood and give them water of gall.

Jeremiah 9

God Judah

Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jeremiah 9
God will scatter Judah among unfamiliar nations.

Jeremiah 9

God Judah

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known:

Jeremiah 9
God will send a sword after Judah until they are consumed.

Jeremiah 9

God Judah

and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Jeremiah 9
Death will enter Jerusalem’s houses and kill children and young men.

Jeremiah 9 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Jerusalem

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 9
God will punish circumcised and uncircumcised peoples alike.

Jeremiah 9 · the days come

God Egypt Judah Edom Ammon Moab Jacob

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

Jeremiah 10
God commands Israel not to follow heathen customs or fear celestial signs.

Jeremiah 10

God

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;

Jeremiah 10
God declares that gods who did not create heaven and earth will perish.

Jeremiah 10

God

The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

Jeremiah 10
God declares that the land’s inhabitants will be expelled and distressed.

Jeremiah 10 · at this once

God

Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

Jeremiah 10
God declares that Judah’s cities will become desolate because of northern devastation.

Jeremiah 10

God

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jeremiah 11
God commands Jeremiah to proclaim the covenant words throughout Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 11

God Jeremiah

Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Jeremiah 11
God declares that covenant breakers will face unavoidable evil.

Jeremiah 11

God

Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.

Jeremiah 11
God reveals a conspiracy against Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 11

God

And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

Jeremiah 11
Jeremiah is threatened with death for prophesying in God's name.

Jeremiah 11 · 📍 [[Anathoth]]

Jeremiah

Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

Jeremiah 11
God orders Jeremiah not to pray for the condemned people.

Jeremiah 11

God Jeremiah

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

Jeremiah 11
God pronounces punishment on the men of Anathoth, including death and famine.

Jeremiah 11 · 📍 [[Anathoth]] · the year of their visitation

God

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

Jeremiah 12
God forsakes his house and heritage, giving his beloved people into their enemies’ hands.

Jeremiah 12

God

I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 12
God promises compassion and restoration to each person’s heritage and land.

Jeremiah 12 · after that I have plucked them out

God

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

Jeremiah 12
God promises to establish obedient nations among his people.

Jeremiah 12

God

then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

Jeremiah 12
God threatens to uproot and destroy any nation that refuses to obey.

Jeremiah 12

God

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 13
God commands Jeremiah to obtain and wear a linen girdle.

Jeremiah 13

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

Jeremiah 13
God commands Jeremiah to hide the girdle in a rock.

Jeremiah 13 · 📍 [[Euphrates]]

God Jeremiah

Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah hides the girdle by Euphrates as commanded.

Jeremiah 13 · 📍 [[Euphrates]]

Jeremiah

So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

Jeremiah 13
God commands Jeremiah to retrieve the hidden girdle.

Jeremiah 13 · 📍 [[Euphrates]] · after many days

God Jeremiah

And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah retrieves the girdle and finds it ruined and useless.

Jeremiah 13 · 📍 [[Euphrates]]

Jeremiah

Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

Jeremiah 13
God declares that Judah’s pride will be ruined like the marred girdle.

Jeremiah 13

God

Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13
God declares that Judah will be wholly carried away captive.

Jeremiah 13

God

The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

Jeremiah 14
God commands Jeremiah not to pray for Judah’s welfare.

Jeremiah 14

God Jeremiah

Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

Jeremiah 14
God declares Judah will be consumed by sword, famine, and pestilence.

Jeremiah 14 · now

God

he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Jeremiah 14
God reveals that the prophets falsely claim divine authority and were not sent.

Jeremiah 14 · Then

God Jeremiah

Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them

Jeremiah 14
God declares judgment on the false prophets who promised peace.

Jeremiah 14

God

By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Jeremiah 14
God commands Jeremiah to proclaim continual mourning over Judah’s devastation.

Jeremiah 14 · Therefore

God Jeremiah

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease

Jeremiah 15
God decrees that the people will face death, sword, famine, or captivity.

Jeremiah 15

God

Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

Jeremiah 15
God causes the people to be removed among the kingdoms because of Manasseh's deeds in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Manasseh Hezekiah

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15
God promises to restore Jeremiah as His mouth if he returns and separates the precious from the vile.

Jeremiah 15

God Jeremiah

Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth;

Jeremiah 15
God makes Jeremiah an unconquerable fortified wall and promises to save and deliver him.

Jeremiah 15

God Jeremiah

And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 16
God commands Jeremiah not to marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

Jeremiah 16

God Jeremiah

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Jeremiah 16
God commands Jeremiah not to enter the house of mourning or lament the dead.

Jeremiah 16

God Jeremiah

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them:

Jeremiah 16
God commands Jeremiah not to enter the house of feasting or eat and drink there.

Jeremiah 16

God Jeremiah

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Jeremiah 16
God declares that mourning and celebration will cease from the land.

Jeremiah 16

God

Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 16
God declares that the people will be cast out into an unknown land to serve other gods.

Jeremiah 16

God

Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

Jeremiah 16
God promises to bring the dispersed people back into the land given to their fathers.

Jeremiah 16

God

But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

Jeremiah 17
God commanded Jeremiah to stand at Jerusalem’s gates and proclaim His word.

Jeremiah 17 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 17
God commanded Judah to keep the sabbath and carry no burdens through Jerusalem’s gates.

Jeremiah 17 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 17
Judah rejected God’s sabbath instruction and refused to receive correction.

Jeremiah 17 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Jeremiah 17
God promised Jerusalem enduring royal rule if its people observed the sabbath.

Jeremiah 17 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

Jeremiah 17
God threatened to kindle an unquenchable fire in Jerusalem’s gates for continued sabbath-breaking.

Jeremiah 17 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jeremiah

But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 17
God declared that Judah would lose its heritage and serve enemies in an unknown land.

Jeremiah 17

God

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not

Jeremiah 18
God commands Jeremiah to go to the potter’s house and hear His words.

Jeremiah 18 · 📍 [[the potter’s house]]

God Jeremiah

Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Jeremiah 18
God commands Jeremiah to warn Judah and Jerusalem to repent and reform their ways.

Jeremiah 18

God Jeremiah

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Jeremiah 19
God commands Jeremiah to obtain a bottle and proclaim His words in Hinnom valley.

Jeremiah 19 · 📍 [[the valley of the son of Hinnom]]

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

Jeremiah 19
God declares the valley will be renamed the valley of slaughter.

Jeremiah 19 · 📍 [[the valley of the son of Hinnom]] · the days come

God

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

Jeremiah 19
God declares Jerusalem will become desolate and an object of astonishment.

Jeremiah 19 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 19
God commands Jeremiah to break the bottle as a sign that the people and city will be broken.

Jeremiah 19 · 📍 [[Tophet]]

God Jeremiah

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again:

Jeremiah 19
Jeremiah proclaims that God will bring the pronounced evil upon the city and its towns.

Jeremiah 19 · 📍 [[the court of the LORD’s house]]

God Jeremiah

Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house; and said to all the people, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it,

Jeremiah 20
Pashur struck Jeremiah and imprisoned him in the stocks.

Jeremiah 20 · 📍 [[high gate of Benjamin]]

Pashur Jeremiah

Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 20
Pashur released Jeremiah, who declared that the LORD had renamed him Magormissabib.

Jeremiah 20 · on the morrow

Pashur Jeremiah

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

Jeremiah 20
God declared that Pashur and his household would be captive, die, and be buried in Babylon.

Jeremiah 20 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Jeremiah Pashur

And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Jeremiah 21
Zedekiah sent Pashur and Zephaniah to Jeremiah to seek the LORD's counsel about Babylon's war.

Jeremiah 21

Zedekiah Pashur Zephaniah Jeremiah

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

Jeremiah 21
God declared that Judah's weapons would be turned back and gathered into the besieged city.

Jeremiah 21

God Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

Jeremiah 21
God delivered Zedekiah and the survivors into Nebuchadrezzar's hand for slaughter.

Jeremiah 21 · afterward

God Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 21
God gave the city into Babylon's king's hand, and Nebuchadrezzar burned it with fire.

Jeremiah 21

God Nebuchadnezzar

For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 21
God commanded the house of David to execute judgment and rescue the oppressed.

Jeremiah 21 · in the morning

God

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 22
God commands Jeremiah to go to Judah’s king and speak the LORD’s word.

Jeremiah 22

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

Jeremiah 22
God declares that Shallum will die captive and never return to Judah.

Jeremiah 22

God Shallum

For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

Jeremiah 22
God declares that Jehoiakim will receive an ass’s burial beyond Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 22 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jehoiakim

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 22
God gives Coniah into Nebuchadrezzar’s hand.

Jeremiah 22 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Coniah Nebuchadnezzar

And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 22
God casts Coniah and his mother into another country, where they will die.

Jeremiah 22

God Coniah

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Jeremiah 22
God decrees that Coniah’s seed will not prosper on David’s throne in Judah.

Jeremiah 22

God Coniah

Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Jeremiah 23
God gathers the remnant of his flock and restores them to their own land.

Jeremiah 23

God

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

Jeremiah 23
God promises David a righteous Branch and a reigning king who will execute justice.

Jeremiah 23 · the days come

God David

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Jeremiah 23
God condemns the prophets and priests for profaneness, lies, and wickedness.

Jeremiah 23

God

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23
God declares that the wicked will suffer his judgment and anger.

Jeremiah 23

God

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Jeremiah 23
God disavows the prophets who ran and prophesied without being sent or spoken to.

Jeremiah 23

God

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23
God commands Jeremiah to reject the people’s question about the burden of the LORD.

Jeremiah 23

God Jeremiah

And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden?

Jeremiah 23
God promises to forsake the people and cast them out of his presence.

Jeremiah 23

God

Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

Jeremiah 23
God declares an everlasting reproach and perpetual shame upon the condemned.

Jeremiah 23

God

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

Jeremiah 24
Nebuchadrezzar carried Jeconiah captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jeremiah 24 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah

Nebuchadnezzar Jeconiah

after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 24
God sent Judah’s captives to the Chaldeans for their good.

Jeremiah 24 · 📍 [[the land of the Chaldeans]]

God

whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Jeremiah 24
God promised to restore the captives and rebuild them in their land.

Jeremiah 24 · 📍 [[this land]]

God

and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Jeremiah 24
God declared that Zedekiah would be removed among the kingdoms for punishment.

Jeremiah 24 · 📍 [[all the kingdoms of the earth]]

God Zedekiah

So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 24
God sent sword, famine, and pestilence against Zedekiah and his people.

Jeremiah 24

God Zedekiah

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

Jeremiah 25
God appointed Nebuchadrezzar to bring destruction against Judah and surrounding nations.

Jeremiah 25 · in the fourth year of Jehoiakim

God Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them

Jeremiah 25
God decreed that the nations would serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Jeremiah 25 · seventy years

God

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25
God declared that Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon would be punished after seventy years.

Jeremiah 25 · when seventy years are accomplished

God Nebuchadnezzar

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation

Jeremiah 25
God commanded Jeremiah to make all nations drink the cup of divine fury.

Jeremiah 25

God Jeremiah

Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Jeremiah 25
Jeremiah took the cup from God and made all the designated nations drink.

Jeremiah 25

God Jeremiah

Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

Jeremiah 25
God announced judgment by the sword against all inhabitants of the earth.

Jeremiah 25

God

I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 26
God commanded Jeremiah to proclaim warnings to Judah in the LORD’s house.

Jeremiah 26 · 📍 [[the LORD’s house]] · In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

Jeremiah 26
The priests, prophets, and people seized Jeremiah and declared that he should die.

Jeremiah 26 · 📍 [[the house of the LORD]]

Jeremiah

when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Jeremiah 26
The princes and people judged Jeremiah not worthy of death because he spoke in God’s name.

Jeremiah 26 · 📍 [[the house of the LORD]]

Jeremiah

Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 26
Hezekiah feared God and sought Him, so Micah was not put to death for prophesying judgment.

Jeremiah 26 · in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah

Micah Hezekiah God

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them?

Jeremiah 26
Urijah fled to Egypt after Jehoiakim sought to kill him.

Jeremiah 26 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Urijah Jehoiakim

the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

Jeremiah 26
Jehoiakim sent Elnathan and others to Egypt to bring Urijah back.

Jeremiah 26 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Jehoiakim Elnathan Achbor Urijah

And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

Jeremiah 26
Jehoiakim killed Urijah with the sword and cast his body among the common graves.

Jeremiah 26

Jehoiakim Urijah

who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 26
Ahikam protected Jeremiah from being handed over to the people for execution.

Jeremiah 26 · Nevertheless

Ahikam Shaphan Jeremiah

Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

Jeremiah 27
God commands Jeremiah to make bonds and yokes and place them on his neck.

Jeremiah 27 · In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

Jeremiah 27
God gives all lands and beasts to Nebuchadnezzar for service.

Jeremiah 27 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · And now

God Nebuchadnezzar

And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

Jeremiah 27
Jeremiah commands Zedekiah to submit to Babylon's yoke and serve its king.

Jeremiah 27

God Zedekiah Jeremiah

I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Jeremiah 27
God warns Zedekiah that refusing Babylon's yoke will bring death through war, famine, and pestilence.

Jeremiah 27

God Jeremiah Zedekiah

Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27
Nebuchadnezzar carries Jeconiah captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jeremiah 27 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar Jeconiah

Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 27
God declares that the remaining sacred and royal vessels will be carried to Babylon and later restored.

Jeremiah 27 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

Jeremiah 28
Hananiah removed the yoke from Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.

Jeremiah 28 · 📍 [[the house of the LORD]] · the same year

Hananiah Jeremiah

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.

Jeremiah 28
God commanded Jeremiah to tell Hananiah that wooden yokes would become iron yokes.

Jeremiah 28

God Jeremiah Hananiah

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

Jeremiah 28
God placed an iron yoke on the nations, making them serve Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 28

God Nebuchadnezzar

I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:

Jeremiah 28
God revealed through Jeremiah that Hananiah was not sent and had taught rebellion.

Jeremiah 28

God Jeremiah Hananiah

The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 28
God sentenced Hananiah to die for teaching rebellion against the LORD.

Jeremiah 28 · this year

God Hananiah

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

Jeremiah 28
Hananiah died.

Jeremiah 28 · the same year in the seventh month

Hananiah

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Jeremiah 29
Jeremiah sent a letter to the captives carried from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jeremiah 29 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Jeremiah

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

Jeremiah 29
Zedekiah sent Elasah and Gemariah to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 29 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Zedekiah king of Judah Elasah Gemariah Nebuchadnezzar

By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

Jeremiah 29
God promised to visit the captives and bring them back to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 29 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon

God

For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jeremiah 29
God declared that Nebuchadnezzar would deliver Ahab and Zedekiah to be slain.

Jeremiah 29 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Ahab Zedekiah son of Maaseiah Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

Jeremiah 29
Nebuchadnezzar roasted Ahab and Zedekiah in the fire.

Jeremiah 29 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar Ahab Zedekiah son of Maaseiah

The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

Jeremiah 29
Zephaniah read Shemaiah’s letter aloud to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 29

Zephaniah Jeremiah

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

Jeremiah 29
God sentenced Shemaiah and his descendants to punishment and exclusion from the people’s future good.

Jeremiah 29

God Shemaiah the Nehelamite

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD;

Jeremiah 30
God commands Jeremiah to write all revealed words in a book.

Jeremiah 30

God Jeremiah

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

Jeremiah 30
God promises to restore Israel and Judah from captivity to their ancestral land.

Jeremiah 30 · the days come

God

For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Jeremiah 30
God promises to break the yoke and bonds of oppression.

Jeremiah 30 · in that day

God

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

Jeremiah 30
God promises to restore health, heal wounds, and rebuild the city.

Jeremiah 30

God

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Jeremiah 30
God promises to establish the congregation and punish its oppressors.

Jeremiah 30

God

Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

Jeremiah 31
God promises to gather and restore the scattered people of Israel.

Jeremiah 31

God

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

Jeremiah 31
God promises Rahel that her exiled children will return to their own border.

Jeremiah 31 · 📍 [[Ramah]]

God Rahel

Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

Jeremiah 31
Ephraim repents after chastisement, and God promises mercy.

Jeremiah 31

Ephraim God

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 31
God will establish a new covenant with Israel and Judah.

Jeremiah 31 · the days come

God

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jeremiah 31
God will write his law inwardly, become their God, and make them his people.

Jeremiah 31 · After those days

God

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 31
God promises forgiveness and permanent removal of remembered sin.

Jeremiah 31

God

for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 32
Zedekiah imprisoned Jeremiah for prophesying Jerusalem’s capture by Babylon.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[the court of the prison]] · in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah

Zedekiah Jeremiah

For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Jeremiah 32
God declared that Zedekiah would be captured and taken to Babylon.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Zedekiah

And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon

Jeremiah 32
Jeremiah bought Hanameel’s field in Anathoth for seventeen shekels of silver.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[Anathoth]]

Hanameel Jeremiah

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Jeremiah 32
Jeremiah delivered the sealed and open purchase documents to Baruch before Hanameel and witnesses.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[the court of the prison]]

Jeremiah Baruch Hanameel

And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase

Jeremiah 32
God commanded Baruch to preserve the purchase documents in an earthen vessel.

Jeremiah 32

God Baruch

Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

Jeremiah 32
God declared that Jerusalem would be given to the Chaldeans and burned.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

Jeremiah 32
God promised to restore the exiles, resettle them safely, and establish an everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 32 · 📍 [[this place]]

God

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

Jeremiah 33
God delivers a second message to Jeremiah while he remains confined in prison.

Jeremiah 33 · 📍 [[court of the prison]] · while he was yet shut up

God Jeremiah

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Jeremiah 33
God commands Jeremiah to call upon him for an answer and unknown revelations.

Jeremiah 33

God Jeremiah

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Jeremiah 33
God promises healing, peace, cleansing, pardon, and restoration for the captives.

Jeremiah 33

God

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

Jeremiah 33
God promises that Judah and Israel’s captivity will return and their communities will be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 33

God

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Jeremiah 33
God promises Jerusalem will again resound with joy, marriage, praise, and worship.

Jeremiah 33 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · Again

God

Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 33
God promises David a righteous Branch who will execute judgment and righteousness.

Jeremiah 33 · In those days, and at that time

God David

In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 33
God promises Judah’s salvation and Jerusalem’s secure habitation.

Jeremiah 33 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In those days

God

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

Jeremiah 33
God guarantees David’s enduring royal succession and confirms his covenant with him.

Jeremiah 33

God David

David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Jeremiah 34
God commands Jeremiah to announce Jerusalem’s surrender and Zedekiah’s capture.

Jeremiah 34 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army

God Jeremiah

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

Jeremiah 34
God declares that Zedekiah will be captured, deported, and die peacefully.

Jeremiah 34 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Zedekiah

And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. 34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: 34:5 But thou shalt die in peace:

Jeremiah 34
Zedekiah makes a covenant proclaiming liberty, and servants are released.

Jeremiah 34 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem

Zedekiah

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free;

Jeremiah 34
God gives Zedekiah and his princes into the hands of their enemies.

Jeremiah 34

God Zedekiah

And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.

Jeremiah 34
God causes Babylon’s army to return, capture Jerusalem, and burn it.

Jeremiah 34 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire:

Jeremiah 35
God commanded Jeremiah to bring the Rechabites into the house of the LORD and offer them wine.

Jeremiah 35 · 📍 [[house of the LORD]] · in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah

God Jeremiah

Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

Jeremiah 35
Jonadab commanded his descendants to abstain from wine and live in tents permanently.

Jeremiah 35

Jonadab Jaazaniah

Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents

Jeremiah 35
The Rechabites refused wine and affirmed their obedience to Jonadab's command.

Jeremiah 35 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Jaazaniah Jonadab

We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us

Jeremiah 35
God declared that evil would come upon Judah and Jerusalem because they ignored his words.

Jeremiah 35 · 📍 [[Judah]]

God

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them

Jeremiah 35
God promised that Jonadab would always have a descendant standing before him.

Jeremiah 35

God Jonadab

Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Jeremiah 36
God commands Jeremiah to write a scroll containing His words against Israel, Judah, and the nations.

Jeremiah 36 · the fourth year of Jehoiakim

God Jeremiah

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations

Jeremiah 36
Baruch writes Jeremiah’s dictated words of the LORD onto a scroll.

Jeremiah 36 · the fourth year of Jehoiakim

Jeremiah Baruch

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

Jeremiah 36
Baruch reads Jeremiah’s scroll publicly in the LORD’s house during a proclaimed fast.

Jeremiah 36 · 📍 [[the LORD’s house]] · the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month

Baruch

Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people.

Jeremiah 36
The princes summon Baruch and have him read the scroll to them.

Jeremiah 36

Jehudi Baruch Delaiah Elnathan Gemariah Zedekiah

Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.

Jeremiah 36
Jehoiakim cuts Jeremiah’s scroll apart and burns it completely in the fire.

Jeremiah 36 · 📍 [[the winterhouse]] · the ninth month

Jehoiakim Jehudi

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Jeremiah 36
Jehoiakim orders Baruch and Jeremiah seized, but God hides them.

Jeremiah 36

Jehoiakim Jerahmeel Seraiah Shelemiah (son of Abdeel) Baruch Jeremiah God

But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

Jeremiah 36
God declares that Jehoiakim will lose the Davidic throne and suffer an exposed death.

Jeremiah 36

God Jehoiakim

Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Jeremiah 36
Jeremiah dictates another scroll, and Baruch rewrites the burned words with additional material.

Jeremiah 36 · after the king had burned the roll

Jeremiah Baruch

Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

Jeremiah 37
Zedekiah reigned instead of Coniah, whom Nebuchadrezzar had made king in Judah.

Jeremiah 37 · 📍 [[land of Judah]]

Zedekiah Coniah Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar

And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

Jeremiah 37
Zedekiah sent Jehucal and Zephaniah to ask Jeremiah to pray for them.

Jeremiah 37

Zedekiah Jehucal Zephaniah Jeremiah

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

Jeremiah 37
Irijah accused Jeremiah of defecting to the Chaldeans and took him to the princes.

Jeremiah 37 · 📍 [[gate of Benjamin]]

Irijah Jeremiah

and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 37
The princes beat Jeremiah and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the scribe.

Jeremiah 37 · 📍 [[house of Jonathan the scribe]]

Jeremiah

Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jeremiah 37
Zedekiah removed Jeremiah from the dungeon and questioned him secretly.

Jeremiah 37

Zedekiah Jeremiah

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD?

Jeremiah 37
God declared through Jeremiah that Zedekiah would be delivered to Babylon's king.

Jeremiah 37

God Jeremiah Zedekiah

And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 37
Zedekiah ordered Jeremiah confined in the prison court and given daily bread.

Jeremiah 37 · 📍 [[court of the prison]] · until all the bread in the city were spent

Zedekiah Jeremiah

Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Jeremiah 37
Zedekiah commanded Jeremiah remain in the prison court with a daily ration of bread.

Jeremiah 37 · 📍 [[court of the prison]] · until all the bread in the city were spent

Zedekiah Jeremiah

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38
Zedekiah surrendered Jeremiah to the princes, who cast him into a muddy dungeon.

Jeremiah 38 · 📍 [[the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech]]

Zedekiah Jeremiah

Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Jeremiah 38
Zedekiah commanded Ebedmelech to remove Jeremiah from the dungeon before he died.

Jeremiah 38 · 📍 [[the dungeon]]

Zedekiah Ebedmelech Jeremiah

Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Jeremiah 38
Ebedmelech and his men pulled Jeremiah from the dungeon, where he had sunk in mire.

Jeremiah 38 · 📍 [[the court of the prison]]

Ebedmelech Jeremiah

So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38
Zedekiah secretly swore not to kill Jeremiah or surrender him to his enemies.

Jeremiah 38

Zedekiah Jeremiah

So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

Jeremiah 38
Jeremiah revealed God's conditional promise of survival if Zedekiah surrendered to Babylon's princes.

Jeremiah 38

God Jeremiah Zedekiah

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

Jeremiah 38
Zedekiah ordered Jeremiah to keep their conversation secret and promised he would not die.

Jeremiah 38

Zedekiah Jeremiah

Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

Jeremiah 39
Nebuchadrezzar besieged Jerusalem with the Babylonian army.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month

Nebuchadnezzar

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

Jeremiah 39
Jerusalem was breached during Zedekiah’s reign.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month

Zedekiah

And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

Jeremiah 39
Zedekiah was captured and brought before Nebuchadrezzar for judgment.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[Riblah]]

Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

Jeremiah 39
Nebuchadrezzar killed Zedekiah’s sons and Judah’s nobles.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[Riblah]]

Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

Jeremiah 39
Zedekiah was blinded, chained, and taken to Babylon.

Jeremiah 39

Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 39
Nebuzaradan carried the remaining people of Jerusalem into captivity.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuzaradan

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city

Jeremiah 39
Jeremiah was taken from prison and placed in Gedaliah’s care.

Jeremiah 39 · 📍 [[court of the prison]]

Jeremiah Gedaliah

Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home:

Jeremiah 39
God promised to deliver Ebedmelech from those he feared.

Jeremiah 39 · in that day

God Ebedmelech

But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

Jeremiah 40
Nebuzaradan released Jeremiah from the chains binding him.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Ramah]] · this day

Nebuzaradan Jeremiah

And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand.

Jeremiah 40
Nebuzaradan directed Jeremiah to live with Gedaliah and supplied him with provisions.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Mizpah]]

Nebuzaradan Jeremiah Gedaliah

Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people

Jeremiah 40
Gedaliah was appointed governor over Judah's cities.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Judah]]

Gedaliah

whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah

Jeremiah 40
Jeremiah went to Gedaliah and lived with the remaining people.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Mizpah]] · Then

Jeremiah Gedaliah

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

Jeremiah 40
Gedaliah learned that Baalis had sent Ishmael to assassinate him.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Mizpah]]

Gedaliah Baalis Ishmael

Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee?

Jeremiah 40
Johanan offered to kill Ishmael, but Gedaliah rejected the proposal.

Jeremiah 40 · 📍 [[Mizpah]] · secretly

Johanan Gedaliah Ishmael

Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

Jeremiah 41
Ishmael slew Gedaliah, the governor appointed over the land by Babylon’s king.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Mizpah]] · the seventh month

Ishmael Gedaliah

Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Jeremiah 41
Ishmael slew the Jews, Chaldeans, and men of war who were with Gedaliah.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Mizpah]]

Ishmael

Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.

Jeremiah 41
Ishmael deceived and slew pilgrims from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Mizpah]] · the second day after he had slain Gedaliah

Ishmael

And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

Jeremiah 41
Ishmael carried away the remaining people and the king’s daughters captive toward the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Mizpah]]

Ishmael

Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41
Johanan and his captains fought Ishmael and found him by Gibeon’s great waters.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Gibeon]]

Johanan Ishmael

Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

Jeremiah 41
The people captured by Ishmael abandoned him and returned to Johanan.

Jeremiah 41

Johanan Ishmael

So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

Jeremiah 41
Ishmael escaped from Johanan with eight men and fled to the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[the Ammonites]]

Ishmael Johanan

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41
Johanan recovered the remaining captives and led them toward Egypt because of fear of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 41 · 📍 [[Bethlehem]]

Johanan

Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt

Jeremiah 42
Jeremiah agrees to pray and faithfully reveal whatever answer he receives.

Jeremiah 42

Jeremiah

Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

Jeremiah 42
God reveals His answer to Jeremiah after the remnant's request.

Jeremiah 42 · after ten days

God Jeremiah

And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 42
God promises to rebuild, protect, and restore the remnant if they remain in the land.

Jeremiah 42

God

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Jeremiah 42
God commands the remnant not to enter Egypt and warns that He has admonished them.

Jeremiah 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · this day

God

The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

Jeremiah 42
God declares that those entering Egypt will die by sword, famine, and pestilence.

Jeremiah 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Jeremiah 42
Jeremiah exposes the remnant's deceit and declares that they have rejected God's instruction.

Jeremiah 42 · this day

Jeremiah Johanan Jezaniah

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

Jeremiah 43
Azariah and Johanan reject Jeremiah’s message and accuse him of speaking falsely.

Jeremiah 43

Azariah Johanan Jeremiah

Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely:

Jeremiah 43
Johanan leads Judah’s remnant, Jeremiah, and Baruch into Egypt, reaching Tahpanhes.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Tahpanhes]]

Johanan Jeremiah Baruch

So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

Jeremiah 43
God commands Jeremiah to hide great stones at the entrance of Pharaoh’s house.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Tahpanhes]]

God Jeremiah

Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

Jeremiah 43
God declares that Nebuchadrezzar will establish his throne over the hidden stones.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Tahpanhes]]

God Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid;

Jeremiah 43
Nebuchadrezzar will strike Egypt and assign its people to death, captivity, or the sword.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Nebuchadnezzar

And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Jeremiah 43
Nebuchadrezzar will burn Egypt’s god-houses and carry away their images captive.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Nebuchadnezzar

And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives:

Jeremiah 43
Nebuchadrezzar will break Bethshemesh’s images and burn the Egyptians’ god-houses.

Jeremiah 43 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Nebuchadnezzar

He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

Jeremiah 44
God’s judgment left Jerusalem and Judah’s cities desolate and uninhabited.

Jeremiah 44 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · this day

God

and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

Jeremiah 44
God sent prophets to forbid Judah’s worship of other gods.

Jeremiah 44

God

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Jeremiah 44
God decreed that Judah’s remnant in Egypt would perish by sword and famine.

Jeremiah 44 · 📍 [[the land of Egypt]]

God

and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine:

Jeremiah 44
Judah’s people rejected Jeremiah’s message and resolved to worship the queen of heaven.

Jeremiah 44 · 📍 [[the land of Egypt]]

Jeremiah

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

Jeremiah 44
God declared that only a small number of Judah’s remnant would escape Egypt and return to Judah.

Jeremiah 44 · 📍 [[the land of Egypt]]

God

Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah,

Jeremiah 44
God decreed that His name would no longer be invoked by Judah in Egypt.

Jeremiah 44 · 📍 [[the land of Egypt]]

God

my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

Jeremiah 44
God announced that Pharaohhophra would be handed over to enemies seeking his life.

Jeremiah 44

God Pharaohhophra

Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life;

Jeremiah 44
God recalled giving Zedekiah to Nebuchadrezzar as a precedent for Pharaohhophra’s downfall.

Jeremiah 44

God Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

Jeremiah 45
God promises to preserve Baruch’s life wherever he goes.

Jeremiah 45

God Baruch

but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Jeremiah 46
Nebuchadrezzar defeated Pharaohnecho’s army by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46 · 📍 [[Carchemish]] · in the fourth year of Jehoiakim

Nebuchadnezzar Pharaohnecho Jehoiakim Josiah

Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 46
God revealed to Jeremiah that Nebuchadrezzar would come and strike Egypt.

Jeremiah 46 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar

The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 46
God declared that Egypt would be delivered into Nebuchadrezzar’s hand before later restoration.

Jeremiah 46 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · afterward

God Nebuchadnezzar

And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 47
God delivered a prophetic word to Jeremiah concerning the Philistines.

Jeremiah 47 · before that Pharaoh smote Gaza

God Jeremiah

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

Jeremiah 47
God announced that the Philistines would be spoiled and their remaining helpers cut off.

Jeremiah 47 · the day that cometh

God

Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

Jeremiah 48
Moab is spoiled, its cities are destroyed, and its people are scattered.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]]

Moab

Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter

Jeremiah 48
Chemosh, together with his priests and princes, goes into captivity.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]]

Chemosh Moab

and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 48
God sends wanderers who empty Moab's vessels and break its bottles.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]] · the days come

God Moab

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

Jeremiah 48
God ends the worshippers offering sacrifices and incense to Moab's gods.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]]

God Moab

Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

Jeremiah 48
Moab's strongholds are taken, and its warriors' hearts fail.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]] · at that day

Moab

Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 48
Moab is destroyed as a people because of its arrogance against the LORD.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]]

Moab

And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

Jeremiah 48
Moab's sons and daughters are taken captive.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]]

Moab

for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

Jeremiah 48
God promises to restore Moab's captivity.

Jeremiah 48 · 📍 [[Moab]] · in the latter days

God Moab

Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 49
God declares that Esau will be exposed, despoiled, and unable to hide.

Jeremiah 49

God Esau

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself:

Jeremiah 49
God announces calamity and judgment against Esau.

Jeremiah 49

God Esau

for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Jeremiah 49
God delivers a prophetic word to Jeremiah concerning judgment against Elam.

Jeremiah 49 · in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah

God Jeremiah

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 50
God declares Babylon taken and its idols broken.

Jeremiah 50 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 50
Israel and Judah join themselves to God in a perpetual covenant.

Jeremiah 50 · 📍 [[Zion]] · In those days, and in that time

God

Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Jeremiah 50
God declares that he will punish Nebuchadrezzar and his land.

Jeremiah 50 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 50
God promises to restore Israel and pardon the reserved remnant.

Jeremiah 50 · In those days, and in that time

God

And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

Jeremiah 50
God promises that Israel's iniquity and Judah's sins will no longer be found.

Jeremiah 50 · In those days, and in that time

God

the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found

Jeremiah 50
God makes Babylon desolate and permanently uninhabited.

Jeremiah 50 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

Jeremiah 50
The king of Babylon becomes fearful and weak after hearing the invaders' report.

Jeremiah 50 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him

Jeremiah 51
God declares judgment against Bel and removes what he had swallowed.

Jeremiah 51 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Bel

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up:

Jeremiah 51
Jeremiah commands Seraiah to read his written judgment against Babylon.

Jeremiah 51 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · in the fourth year of his reign

Jeremiah Seraiah

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.

Jeremiah 51
Jeremiah records in a book all the evil destined to come upon Babylon.

Jeremiah 51

Jeremiah

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

Jeremiah 51
Seraiah reads Jeremiah’s judgment, binds a stone to the book, and casts it into Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Seraiah

And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

Jeremiah 52
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Jerusalem and Judah]]

Zedekiah

For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52
Nebuchadrezzar besieged Jerusalem and built forts around it.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month

Nebuchadnezzar

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

Jeremiah 52
Nebuchadrezzar captured Zedekiah and brought him to Riblah for judgment.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Riblah]]

Zedekiah Nebuchadnezzar

Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

Jeremiah 52
Nebuchadrezzar slew Zedekiah’s sons and Judah’s princes before him.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Riblah]]

Nebuchadnezzar Zedekiah

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Jeremiah 52
Nebuchadrezzar blinded Zedekiah, imprisoned him, and carried him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar Zedekiah

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52
Nebuzaradan burned Jerusalem’s temple, palace, houses, and demolished its walls.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month

Nebuzaradan

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

Jeremiah 52
Nebuzaradan captured Seraiah and Zephaniah, and Nebuchadrezzar executed them at Riblah.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Riblah]]

Nebuzaradan Seraiah Zephaniah Nebuchadnezzar

So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Jeremiah 52
Evilmerodach released Jehoiachin, elevated him, and provided for him permanently.

Jeremiah 52 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month

Evilmerodach Jehoiachin

And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

Lamentations 1
Judah went into captivity among the heathen.

Lamentations 1

Judah

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen

Lamentations 1
Jerusalem was removed after grievously sinning.

Lamentations 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Jerusalem

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed

Lamentations 1
Jerusalem's sanctuary was entered by the heathen.

Lamentations 1

Jerusalem

the heathen entered into her sanctuary

Lamentations 1
God afflicted Judah for her transgressions.

Lamentations 1

God Judah

for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions

Lamentations 1
God delivered Judah into the hands of her enemies.

Lamentations 1

God Judah

the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up

Lamentations 1
God crushed Jerusalem's mighty men and young men.

Lamentations 1

God Jerusalem

The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men

Lamentations 1
Judah's priests and elders died while seeking food.

Lamentations 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Judah

my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls

Lamentations 1
Judah's virgins and young men went into captivity.

Lamentations 1

Judah

my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity

Lamentations 2
God covered Zion with a cloud and cast Israel’s beauty down from heaven.

Lamentations 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion Jacob

How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel

Lamentations 2
God swallowed Jacob’s habitations and threw down Judah’s strongholds.

Lamentations 2

God Jacob Judah

The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah

Lamentations 2
God cut off Israel’s strength and burned against Jacob like a consuming fire.

Lamentations 2

God Jacob

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire

Lamentations 2
God destroyed Zion’s sanctuary and gave her palace walls into the enemy’s hands.

Lamentations 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces

Lamentations 2
God purposed to destroy Zion’s wall and did not withdraw his hand from destruction.

Lamentations 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying

Lamentations 2
God destroyed Jerusalem’s gates and bars, leaving its king and princes among the Gentiles.

Lamentations 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles

Lamentations 2
God fulfilled his ancient word by throwing Zion down and causing her enemy to rejoice.

Lamentations 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied

Lamentations 2
God slew Israel’s young and old, leaving them fallen by the sword.

Lamentations 2 · in the day of thine anger

God Jacob

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger

Lamentations 3
God leads the speaker into darkness, affliction, confinement, and desolation.

Lamentations 3

God the speaker

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Lamentations 3
The speaker recalls God’s mercies and regains hope.

Lamentations 3

the speaker

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

Lamentations 3
The people confess transgression and rebellion, while God withholds pardon.

Lamentations 3

the speaker God

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Lamentations 3
Enemies imprison the speaker and cast a stone over him.

Lamentations 3

the speaker the enemies

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

Lamentations 3
The speaker calls from the dungeon, and God hears and draws near.

Lamentations 3

the speaker God

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3
God pleads the speaker’s cause and redeems his life.

Lamentations 3

God the speaker

O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3
The speaker asks God to judge his cause and repay his enemies.

Lamentations 3

the speaker God

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3
The speaker calls for God to persecute and destroy his enemies.

Lamentations 3

God the enemies

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

Lamentations 4
God completed his fury, and fire devoured Zion’s foundations.

Lamentations 4 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Lamentations 4
The pitiful women cooked their own children for food during the destruction.

Lamentations 4

the pitiful women their own children

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4
The adversary and enemy entered Jerusalem’s gates, contrary to worldly expectation.

Lamentations 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

the adversary and the enemy Jerusalem

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 4
Prophets and priests shed the blood of the just in Jerusalem’s midst.

Lamentations 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

her prophets her priests the just

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

Lamentations 4
Zion’s punishment and captivity end, while Edom’s iniquity is visited and exposed.

Lamentations 4 · 📍 [[land of Uz]]

Zion Edom

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

Ezekiel 1
God reveals visions to Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 1 · 📍 [[river of Chebar]] · in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month

God Ezekiel

the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1
God's word comes expressly to Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 1 · 📍 [[the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar]] · In the fifth day of the month

God Ezekiel

The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi

Ezekiel 1
Ezekiel falls facedown after seeing God's glory.

Ezekiel 1

Ezekiel God

And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Ezekiel 2
God sent Ezekiel to the rebellious children of Israel as a prophet.

Ezekiel 2

God Ezekiel

And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation

Ezekiel 2
God commanded Ezekiel to speak His words regardless of whether Israel listened.

Ezekiel 2

God Ezekiel

And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 2
God commanded Ezekiel not to rebel and to eat what He gave him.

Ezekiel 2

God Ezekiel

But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

Ezekiel 2
God gave Ezekiel a scroll containing lamentations, mourning, and woe.

Ezekiel 2

God Ezekiel

And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Ezekiel 3
God commands Ezekiel to eat the scroll, and Ezekiel consumes it.

Ezekiel 3

God Ezekiel

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Ezekiel 3
God sends Ezekiel to speak His words to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 3

God Ezekiel

And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

Ezekiel 3
Ezekiel is taken to the captives at Telabib beside the river Chebar.

Ezekiel 3 · 📍 [[Telabib]]

Ezekiel

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Ezekiel 3
God appoints Ezekiel as a watchman for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 3 · at the end of seven days

God Ezekiel

And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Ezekiel 3
God commands Ezekiel to shut himself inside his house.

Ezekiel 3

God Ezekiel

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

Ezekiel 3
God declares that Ezekiel will be bound and made unable to speak to the rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3

God Ezekiel

But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 4
God commands Ezekiel to portray Jerusalem and enact its siege as a sign to Israel.

Ezekiel 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Ezekiel 4
God appoints Ezekiel to bear Israel’s iniquity by lying on his left side.

Ezekiel 4 · three hundred and ninety days

God Ezekiel

Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4
God appoints Ezekiel to bear Judah’s iniquity by lying on his right side.

Ezekiel 4 · forty days

God Ezekiel

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

Ezekiel 4
God binds Ezekiel so he cannot turn from side to side during the symbolic siege.

Ezekiel 4 · till thou hast ended the days of thy siege

God Ezekiel

And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

Ezekiel 4
After Ezekiel objects, God replaces human dung with cow’s dung for baking his bread.

Ezekiel 4

God Ezekiel

Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

Ezekiel 4
God declares that Jerusalem’s bread supply will be broken, bringing measured food and water scarcity.

Ezekiel 4 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Ezekiel 5
God commands Ezekiel to shave his head and beard, then weigh and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5

God Ezekiel

And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5
God commands Ezekiel to burn, strike, and scatter the divided hair.

Ezekiel 5 · when the days of the siege are fulfilled

God Ezekiel

Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5
God commands Ezekiel to preserve and bind a few hairs in his skirts.

Ezekiel 5

God Ezekiel

Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

Ezekiel 5
God commands Ezekiel to cast some preserved hairs into the fire and burn them.

Ezekiel 5

God Ezekiel

Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5
God declares severe judgments against Jerusalem, including death by pestilence, famine, sword, and scattering.

Ezekiel 5 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5
God sends famine, evil beasts, pestilence, blood, and the sword against the condemned people.

Ezekiel 5

God

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 6
God commands Ezekiel to face Israel’s mountains and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 6 · 📍 [[mountains of Israel]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 6
God declares that Israel’s high places will be destroyed and its idols broken.

Ezekiel 6

God

Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6
God promises to preserve a remnant that escapes the sword among the nations.

Ezekiel 6

God

Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations

Ezekiel 6
God makes the land desolate and declares that its inhabitants will know him.

Ezekiel 6 · 📍 [[Diblath]]

God

So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath

Ezekiel 7
God declares an end upon the land of Israel and will judge it for its ways and abominations.

Ezekiel 7 · 📍 [[land of Israel]]

God

Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 7
God pours out fury and recompenses Israel for its abominations.

Ezekiel 7

God

Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

Ezekiel 7
God’s judgment brings sword, pestilence, and famine upon the people.

Ezekiel 7

God

The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Ezekiel 7
God gives Israel’s ornament into strangers’ hands as prey and spoil.

Ezekiel 7

God

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Ezekiel 7
God brings the worst heathen to possess the people’s houses and defile holy places.

Ezekiel 7

God

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Ezekiel 7
God judges the king, prince, and people according to their ways and deserts.

Ezekiel 7

God

The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 8
God transports Ezekiel in a vision to Jerusalem and reveals its idolatrous corruption.

Ezekiel 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month

God Ezekiel

and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem

Ezekiel 8
God commands Ezekiel to dig through the wall, revealing a hidden entrance.

Ezekiel 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Ezekiel 8
God commands Ezekiel to enter and witness the hidden abominations.

Ezekiel 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

Ezekiel 8
Jaazaniah joins Israel's elders in burning incense before images and idols.

Ezekiel 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Jaazaniah

and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8
God declares that he will respond furiously and withhold pity from the idolaters.

Ezekiel 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity

Ezekiel 9
God’s glory moved from the cherub to the threshold of the house.

Ezekiel 9

God

And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house.

Ezekiel 9
God commanded the linen-clothed man to mark the foreheads of the faithful.

Ezekiel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God man clothed with linen

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 9
God ordered the others to slaughter everyone except those bearing the mark.

Ezekiel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God the others

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.

Ezekiel 9
The slaughterers began at the sanctuary and killed throughout the city.

Ezekiel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

six men

Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

Ezekiel 9
God declared Israel and Judah’s iniquity deserving recompense.

Ezekiel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jacob Judah

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

Ezekiel 9
The linen-clothed man reported completing God’s command.

Ezekiel 9

man clothed with linen

And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

Ezekiel 10
God commands the man clothed with linen to scatter coals of fire over the city.

Ezekiel 10

God the man clothed with linen

And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city.

Ezekiel 10
God’s glory departs from the house and stands over the cherubims.

Ezekiel 10

God

Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

Ezekiel 10
Ezekiel recognizes the living creatures as cherubims.

Ezekiel 10 · 📍 [[the river of Chebar]]

Ezekiel

This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

Ezekiel 11
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against the men devising wicked counsel.

Ezekiel 11 · 📍 [[the east gate of the LORD’s house]]

God Ezekiel

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

Ezekiel 11
Pelatiah dies while Ezekiel prophesies.

Ezekiel 11

Ezekiel Pelatiah

And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.

Ezekiel 11
God promises to gather the scattered exiles and give them the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 11 · 📍 [[the land of Israel]]

God

I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 11
God promises to give the people new hearts and establish them as his people.

Ezekiel 11

God

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

Ezekiel 12
God commands Ezekiel to enact a public removal symbolizing captivity.

Ezekiel 12 · by day

God Ezekiel

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight

Ezekiel 12
Ezekiel performs the commanded sign by carrying belongings through a breached wall.

Ezekiel 12 · in the even

Ezekiel

And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.

Ezekiel 12
God declares that the prince will be captured, taken to Babylon, and die there unseen.

Ezekiel 12 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · in the twilight

God

My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

Ezekiel 12
God commands Ezekiel to eat and drink while trembling as a sign of coming distress.

Ezekiel 12

God Ezekiel

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

Ezekiel 12
God declares that Jerusalem and Israel’s land will become desolate because of violence.

Ezekiel 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 12
God ends delayed visions and declares that his spoken word will be fulfilled promptly.

Ezekiel 12 · in your days

God

For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 13
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Israel’s prophets.

Ezekiel 13

God Ezekiel

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

Ezekiel 13
God excludes false prophets from his people’s assembly and the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 13

God

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 13
God destroys the wall built with false prophecy and consumes those who daubed it.

Ezekiel 13

God

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

Ezekiel 13
God tears away the women’s divining devices and delivers his people from their control.

Ezekiel 13

God

Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 14
God commands Ezekiel to tell Israel to repent and turn from its idols.

Ezekiel 14

God Ezekiel

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 14
God declares destruction and punishment for idolaters and deceived prophets.

Ezekiel 14

God

And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 14
God declares four judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, beasts, and pestilence.

Ezekiel 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

Ezekiel 14
God declares that a remnant of sons and daughters will survive Jerusalem’s judgments.

Ezekiel 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters

Ezekiel 16
God commands Ezekiel to make Jerusalem know her abominations.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Ezekiel 16
God commands Jerusalem to live despite being abandoned and polluted at birth.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

Ezekiel 16
God enters a covenant with Jerusalem, and she becomes his.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

Ezekiel 16
God delivers Jerusalem to her haters because of her abominations.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee

Ezekiel 16
God judges Jerusalem with bloodshed and gives her into the hands of attackers.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16
God promises to restore Jerusalem’s captivity alongside Sodom and Samaria.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

Ezekiel 16
God remembers his former covenant with Jerusalem and establishes an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 17
God commands Ezekiel to present a riddle and parable to Israel.

Ezekiel 17

God Ezekiel

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 17
God commands Ezekiel to explain the parable's meaning to the rebellious house.

Ezekiel 17

God Ezekiel

Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them,

Ezekiel 17
God declares that the covenant-breaking king will die in Babylon.

Ezekiel 17 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

Ezekiel 17
God promises to capture the covenant-breaker and bring him to Babylon for his trespass.

Ezekiel 17 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

Ezekiel 17
God promises to plant a tender cedar branch that will bear fruit and shelter living creatures.

Ezekiel 17 · 📍 [[the mountain of the height of Israel]]

God

I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

Ezekiel 18
God declares that each sinful soul will die rather than inherit another’s guilt.

Ezekiel 18

God

The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Ezekiel 18
God declares that a wicked person who turns from sin will live.

Ezekiel 18

God

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 18
God declares that a righteous person who turns to iniquity will die for sin.

Ezekiel 18

God

When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Ezekiel 18
God announces judgment according to each person’s conduct and commands repentance.

Ezekiel 18

God

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 18
God commands transgressors to cast away sin and make a new heart and spirit.

Ezekiel 18

God

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit

Ezekiel 20
God commands Ezekiel to judge Israel’s elders and expose their ancestors’ abominations.

Ezekiel 20

God Ezekiel

Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

Ezekiel 20
God brings Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness after choosing them as his people.

Ezekiel 20 · 📍 [[the land of Egypt]] · In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them

God

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20
God declares that Israel’s rebellion will prevent that generation from entering the promised land.

Ezekiel 20 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

God

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them

Ezekiel 20
God promises to scatter Israel among foreign nations because they rejected his statutes and polluted his sabbaths.

Ezekiel 20

God

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Ezekiel 20
God gathers scattered Israel, purges rebels, and brings the survivors into the covenant.

Ezekiel 20

God

And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

Ezekiel 20
God promises to accept Israel’s worship and offerings on his holy mountain.

Ezekiel 20 · 📍 [[mine holy mountain]]

God

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me:

Ezekiel 20
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against the southern forest and announces an unquenchable fire.

Ezekiel 20 · 📍 [[the south field]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

Ezekiel 21
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Jerusalem and the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 21 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 21
God declares that his sword will cut off both the righteous and wicked from Israel.

Ezekiel 21 · 📍 Jacob

God

Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21
God declares that the sword will bring terror upon Israel’s people and princes.

Ezekiel 21 · 📍 Jacob

God

Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people:

Ezekiel 21
God commands Ezekiel to appoint routes for Babylon’s sword toward Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 21 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Ezekiel

Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

Ezekiel 21
God removes Israel’s prince’s crown and overturns the existing order.

Ezekiel 21 · 📍 Jacob

God

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

Ezekiel 21
God judges the Ammonites and delivers them into the hands of destructive men.

Ezekiel 21

God

And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

Ezekiel 22
God commands Ezekiel to judge the bloody city and expose all its abominations.

Ezekiel 22

God Ezekiel

Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

Ezekiel 22
God makes the guilty city a reproach and mocking among the nations.

Ezekiel 22

God

therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

Ezekiel 22
God declares that he will scatter the city among the nations and consume its filthiness.

Ezekiel 22

God

And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

Ezekiel 22
God gathers the people into Jerusalem to melt them in his anger and fury.

Ezekiel 22 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

Ezekiel 22
God pours out indignation, consumes the people, and recompenses their conduct.

Ezekiel 22

God

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads

Ezekiel 23
God reveals Aholah as Samaria and Aholibah as Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23

Aholah Aholibah

Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

Ezekiel 23
God delivers Aholah into the hands of the Assyrians, who kill her children and her.

Ezekiel 23

God Aholah

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

Ezekiel 23
Aholibah sends messengers to Chaldea, and the Babylonians come and defile her.

Ezekiel 23 · 📍 [[Chaldea]]

Aholibah

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom

Ezekiel 23
God raises Aholibah’s former lovers against her for judgment.

Ezekiel 23

God Aholibah

Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

Ezekiel 23
God delivers Aholibah to those she hates, who strip and expose her.

Ezekiel 23

God Aholibah

Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

Ezekiel 23
God commands Ezekiel to judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare their abominations.

Ezekiel 23

God Ezekiel Aholah Aholibah

The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

Ezekiel 23
Aholah and Aholibah are judged as adulteresses and women who shed blood.

Ezekiel 23

Aholah Aholibah

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood;

Ezekiel 23
God brings a company against them to remove and spoil them, killing their children and burning their houses.

Ezekiel 23

God Aholah Aholibah

I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Ezekiel 24
God commands Ezekiel not to mourn after the death of his wife.

Ezekiel 24

God Ezekiel

Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet

Ezekiel 24
Ezekiel's wife dies.

Ezekiel 24 · at even

Ezekiel

and at even my wife died

Ezekiel 24
Ezekiel obeys the command and refrains from mourning his dead wife.

Ezekiel 24 · in the morning

Ezekiel

and I did in the morning as I was commanded

Ezekiel 24
God declares Israel's sanctuary profaned and its remaining sons and daughters killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 24

God

I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24
Ezekiel's mouth is opened, ending his silence, and he becomes a sign to the people.

Ezekiel 24 · In that day

Ezekiel God

In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them

Ezekiel 25
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against the Ammonites.

Ezekiel 25

God Ezekiel

Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

Ezekiel 25
God declares that Rabbah will become a stable for camels.

Ezekiel 25 · 📍 [[Rabbah]]

God

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks:

Ezekiel 25
God opens Moab’s frontier cities and gives them to the men of the east.

Ezekiel 25 · 📍 [[Moab]]

God

Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

Ezekiel 25
God declares judgment against Edom, making it desolate and causing its people to fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25 · 📍 [[Edom]]

God

I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25
God declares vengeance against the Philistines and destroys the Cherethims and the sea coast remnant.

Ezekiel 25 · 📍 [[Philistines]]

God

Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Ezekiel 26
God declares that many nations will come against Tyrus and destroy it.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Tyrus

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Ezekiel 26
God brings Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon against Tyrus with military forces.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Nebuchadnezzar Tyrus

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

Ezekiel 26
Nebuchadrezzar attacks Tyrus, kills its people, and brings down its defenses.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

Nebuchadnezzar Tyrus

He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

Ezekiel 26
Tyrus’s riches and merchandise are plundered, while its walls and houses are destroyed.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

Nebuchadnezzar Tyrus

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Ezekiel 26
God ends Tyrus’s songs and harps, reducing it to a place for spreading nets.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Tyrus

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Ezekiel 26
God makes Tyrus desolate, uninhabited, terrifying, and permanently lost.

Ezekiel 26 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Tyrus

I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 27
God commands Ezekiel to take up a lamentation and speak against Tyrus.

Ezekiel 27 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Ezekiel

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

Ezekiel 27
God declares that Tyrus will be broken, its company will fall, and it will never exist again.

Ezekiel 27 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God

In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

Ezekiel 28
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Zidon.

Ezekiel 28 · 📍 [[Zidon]]

God Ezekiel

Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 28
God declares that He will execute judgments in Zidon.

Ezekiel 28 · 📍 [[Zidon]]

God

Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

Ezekiel 28
God promises to gather Israel and settle them in the land given to Jacob.

Ezekiel 28 · When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered

God Jacob

When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

Ezekiel 28
God promises Israel safety, houses, vineyards, and confidence after judging their despisers.

Ezekiel 28

God

And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

Ezekiel 29
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy judgment against Pharaoh and Egypt.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month

God Ezekiel Pharaoh king of Egypt

Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

Ezekiel 29
God declares judgment against Pharaoh, removing him from the rivers and abandoning him in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month

God Pharaoh king of Egypt

But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers:

Ezekiel 29
God brings a sword against Egypt and makes its land desolate for forty years.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month

God Pharaoh king of Egypt

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste;

Ezekiel 29
God scatters the Egyptians among nations and disperses them through other countries.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · forty years

God Pharaoh king of Egypt

and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezekiel 29
God regathers the Egyptians to Pathros, but reduces Egypt to the basest kingdom.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Pathros]] · At the end of forty years

God Pharaoh king of Egypt

At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

Ezekiel 29
God gives Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar as compensation for his army’s service against Tyrus.

Ezekiel 29 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month

God Nebuchadnezzar

Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 29
God causes Israel’s strength to grow and gives Ezekiel an opening to speak among them.

Ezekiel 29 · In that day

God Ezekiel

In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;

Ezekiel 30
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy about the coming day of judgment.

Ezekiel 30

God Ezekiel

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

Ezekiel 30
God appoints Nebuchadrezzar to destroy Egypt and end its multitude.

Ezekiel 30 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Nebuchadnezzar

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30
God destroys Egypt’s idols and removes its prince.

Ezekiel 30 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 30
God strengthens Babylon’s king and gives him power against Egypt.

Ezekiel 30 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month

God Nebuchadnezzar

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms

Ezekiel 31
God commanded Ezekiel to speak to Pharaoh about his greatness.

Ezekiel 31 · in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month

God Ezekiel Pharaoh

Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Ezekiel 31
God declared that Pharaoh would be brought down among those slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 31

God Pharaoh

yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32
God commands Ezekiel to lament Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Ezekiel 32 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month

God Ezekiel Pharaoh

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him

Ezekiel 32
God declares that Pharaoh will be destroyed and slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

Ezekiel 32
God declares Pharaoh and his multitude slain by the sword and laid among the uncircumcised.

Ezekiel 32 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month

God Pharaoh

And he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 33
God appointed Ezekiel as a watchman and commanded him to warn Israel.

Ezekiel 33 · 📍 [[house of Israel]]

God Ezekiel

So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

Ezekiel 33
God required Ezekiel to warn the wicked, or bear responsibility for their deaths.

Ezekiel 33

God Ezekiel

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 33
God urged the wicked to turn from evil and live.

Ezekiel 33 · 📍 [[house of Israel]]

God Ezekiel

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33
God declared that every Israelite would be judged according to their ways.

Ezekiel 33 · 📍 [[house of Israel]]

God

O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

Ezekiel 33
God opened Ezekiel’s mouth, ending his period of silence.

Ezekiel 33 · in the morning

God Ezekiel

Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

Ezekiel 33
God sentenced the land’s inhabitants to death by sword, beasts, and pestilence.

Ezekiel 33 · 📍 [[land of Israel]]

God

As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Ezekiel 33
God declared that the land would become desolate because of its inhabitants’ abominations.

Ezekiel 33 · 📍 [[land]]

God

For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

Ezekiel 34
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Israel’s shepherds.

Ezekiel 34

God Ezekiel

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds;

Ezekiel 34
God removes the shepherds from feeding the flock and rescues the flock from them.

Ezekiel 34

God

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

Ezekiel 34
God gathers the scattered flock and brings it back to its own land.

Ezekiel 34 · 📍 [[the mountains of Israel]]

God

And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezekiel 34
God promises to seek the lost, restore the displaced, heal the broken, and strengthen the sick.

Ezekiel 34

God

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 34
God appoints David as one shepherd over the flock and makes him their prince.

Ezekiel 34

God David

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 34
God establishes a covenant of peace and promises the flock safety from evil beasts.

Ezekiel 34

God

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezekiel 34
God breaks the flock’s yoke and delivers them from those who exploited them.

Ezekiel 34

God

and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

Ezekiel 35
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against mount Seir.

Ezekiel 35 · 📍 [[mount Seir]]

God Ezekiel

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 35
God condemns mount Seir to perpetual desolation for its hostility toward Israel.

Ezekiel 35 · 📍 [[mount Seir]]

God

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Ezekiel 35
God promises to judge mount Seir and make it desolate when the whole earth rejoices.

Ezekiel 35 · 📍 [[mount Seir]]

God

Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

Ezekiel 36
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy to the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 36

God Ezekiel

Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

Ezekiel 36
God judges Israel and scatters its people among foreign nations.

Ezekiel 36

God

And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

Ezekiel 36
God gathers Israel from foreign countries and brings them back to their own land.

Ezekiel 36

God

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Ezekiel 36
God cleanses Israel from its impurities and idols with clean water.

Ezekiel 36

God

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Ezekiel 36
God replaces Israel’s stony heart with a heart of flesh and gives a new spirit.

Ezekiel 36

God

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36
God restores Israel’s desolate cities and causes the land to be cultivated again.

Ezekiel 36

God

In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

Ezekiel 36
God makes the ruined land inhabited and fertile like the garden of Eden.

Ezekiel 36

God

This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

Ezekiel 37
God transports Ezekiel to a valley filled with dry bones.

Ezekiel 37

God Ezekiel

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

Ezekiel 37
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy over the dry bones.

Ezekiel 37

God Ezekiel

Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 37
God restores the bones with flesh and breath, making them a living army.

Ezekiel 37

God

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Ezekiel 37
God promises to resurrect Israel and return them to their own land.

Ezekiel 37 · 📍 [[the land of Israel]]

God

Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37
God reunites Israel as one nation under one king.

Ezekiel 37 · 📍 [[the land upon the mountains of Israel]]

God

And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

Ezekiel 37
God declares David will rule Israel as its everlasting king and shepherd.

Ezekiel 37

God David

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd:

Ezekiel 37
God promises Israel everlasting habitation in the land given to Jacob.

Ezekiel 37 · 📍 [[the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant]]

God Jacob

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever:

Ezekiel 37
God establishes an everlasting covenant of peace and places his sanctuary among Israel.

Ezekiel 37

God

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

Ezekiel 38
God commanded Ezekiel to prophesy against Gog.

Ezekiel 38

God Ezekiel

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Ezekiel 38
God declared opposition to Gog and said He would bring him and his army forth.

Ezekiel 38

God Gog

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army,

Ezekiel 38
Gog formed an evil plan to invade unwalled villages and seize their wealth.

Ezekiel 38 · at the same time

Gog

It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

Ezekiel 38
God would bring Gog and his armies against Israel to reveal His holiness to the nations.

Ezekiel 38 · 📍 [[land of Israel]] · in the latter days

God Gog

And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38
God would unleash a great shaking across the land when Gog attacked Israel.

Ezekiel 38 · 📍 [[land of Israel]] · at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel

God Gog

And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 38
God would turn swords against Gog’s forces and cause widespread destruction.

Ezekiel 38 · in that day

God Gog

And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

Ezekiel 38
God would judge Gog and his armies with pestilence, blood, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Ezekiel 38

God Gog

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Ezekiel 38
God would magnify and sanctify Himself, becoming known among many nations.

Ezekiel 38

God

Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 39
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Gog.

Ezekiel 39

God Ezekiel Gog

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog

Ezekiel 39
God defeats Gog and causes him and his forces to fall on Israel’s mountains.

Ezekiel 39 · 📍 [[the mountains of Israel]]

God Gog

And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee

Ezekiel 39
God sends fire upon Magog and its careless inhabitants.

Ezekiel 39 · 📍 [[Magog]]

God

And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 39
God assigns Gog and his multitude a burial place in Israel.

Ezekiel 39 · 📍 [[The valley of Hamongog]] · in that day

God Gog

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

Ezekiel 39
God executes judgment on the heathen and displays his glory among them.

Ezekiel 39

God

And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

Ezekiel 39
God restores Israel from captivity, gathers them from enemies’ lands, and leaves none among the heathen.

Ezekiel 39 · 📍 [[their own land]] · When I have brought them again from the people

God

When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

Ezekiel 39
God promises never again to hide his face from Israel and pours out his spirit upon them.

Ezekiel 39

God

Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 40
God brings Ezekiel into Israel in a vision and sets him on a very high mountain.

Ezekiel 40 · 📍 [[the land of Israel]] · In the five and twentieth year of our captivity

God Ezekiel

In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

Ezekiel 42
The chambers are designated holy for priests to eat and store the most holy offerings.

Ezekiel 42 · 📍 [[north chambers and the south chambers]]

priests

The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things

Ezekiel 42
Priests must leave their ministering garments and put on other garments before approaching the people's offerings.

Ezekiel 42 · 📍 [[holy place]] · When the priests enter therein

priests

When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

Ezekiel 42
A surrounding wall separates the sanctuary from the profane place.

Ezekiel 42 · 📍 [[sanctuary and the profane place]]

Ezekiel

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Ezekiel 43
God’s glory entered and filled the house.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the house]] · Afterward

God

And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

Ezekiel 43
God declares the house will be his eternal dwelling among Israel.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the house]]

God

the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever

Ezekiel 43
God commands Ezekiel to show Israel the house and record its laws for observance.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the house]]

God Ezekiel

Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

Ezekiel 43
God commands Ezekiel to give the priests a bullock as a sin offering.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the altar]]

God Ezekiel

And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 43
God commands a goat to be offered and the altar cleansed after the bullock.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the altar]] · on the second day

God Ezekiel

And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

Ezekiel 43
God establishes regular burnt and peace offerings after the altar’s seven-day purification.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the altar]] · upon the eighth day

God

And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings

Ezekiel 43
God promises to accept the offerings.

Ezekiel 43 · 📍 [[the altar]] · upon the eighth day

God

and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 44
God declares the eastern sanctuary gate permanently shut because he entered through it.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[outward sanctuary]]

God

This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

Ezekiel 44
God commands Ezekiel to observe and communicate the sanctuary’s ordinances and laws.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[house of the LORD]]

God Ezekiel

mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof

Ezekiel 44
God forbids uncircumcised strangers from entering the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

God

No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary

Ezekiel 44
God punishes the disobedient Levites by barring them from priestly service and holy things.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

God

they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things

Ezekiel 44
God permits the Levites to retain gatekeeping and other sanctuary service despite their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

God

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

Ezekiel 44
God grants faithful priests access to minister and offer sacrifices in the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

God

they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood

Ezekiel 44
God assigns the priests no territorial possession, declaring himself their inheritance and possession.

Ezekiel 44 · 📍 Jacob

God

And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

Ezekiel 45
God commands a holy land portion to be allocated to the priests for sanctuary ministry.

Ezekiel 45

God priests

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary

Ezekiel 45
God assigns the Levites a possession containing twenty chambers.

Ezekiel 45

God Levites

the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

Ezekiel 45
God assigns the city possession to the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45

God house of Israel

it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45
God assigns the prince a possession and forbids the princes from oppressing Israel.

Ezekiel 45

God prince

And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion

Ezekiel 45
God commands Israel’s princes to remove violence, execute justice, and end exactions.

Ezekiel 45

God princes

remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people

Ezekiel 45
The people are commanded to provide an oblation for the prince in Israel.

Ezekiel 45

house of Israel prince

All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

Ezekiel 45
The prince is assigned responsibility for preparing offerings during Israel’s feasts and solemnities.

Ezekiel 45

prince house of Israel

it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings

Ezekiel 45
The prince prepares a sin offering for himself and the people at Passover.

Ezekiel 45 · In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month

prince house of Israel

And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 46
The east gate of the inner court is opened, allowing the prince to enter and worship.

Ezekiel 46 · 📍 [[the inner court]] · on the sabbath

God the prince

The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened

Ezekiel 46
The people of the land worship before God at the gate.

Ezekiel 46 · 📍 [[this gate]] · in the sabbaths and in the new moons

the people of the land God

Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

Ezekiel 46
The east gate is opened for the prince’s voluntary offerings and shut after he leaves.

Ezekiel 46 · 📍 [[the gate that looketh toward the east]] · when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily

the prince God

one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

Ezekiel 46
A gift from the prince becomes his sons’ inherited possession.

Ezekiel 46

the prince his sons

If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46
A servant receives inherited property temporarily, after which it returns to the prince.

Ezekiel 46 · to the year of liberty

the prince his servants

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince

Ezekiel 46
The prince is forbidden to seize the people’s inheritance and must preserve their possessions.

Ezekiel 46

the prince the people

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession

Ezekiel 46
The priests boil trespass and sin offerings and bake meat offerings in the designated chambers.

Ezekiel 46 · 📍 [[the holy chambers of the priests]]

the priests

This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering

Ezekiel 47
God declares that the waters entering the sea will heal it.

Ezekiel 47

God

These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

Ezekiel 47
God assigns Joseph two portions of the inherited land.

Ezekiel 47

God Joseph

This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

Ezekiel 47
God establishes inheritance for strangers within the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47

God

they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 48
The land is divided by lot among Israel’s tribes as their inheritance.

Ezekiel 48

Dan Asher Naphtali Manasseh Ephraim Reuben Judah Benjamin Simeon Issachar Zebulun Gad

This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 48
A holy offering is designated beside Judah’s portion, with the sanctuary at its center.

Ezekiel 48

Judah

And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

Ezekiel 48
The holy oblation is assigned to the priests descended from Zadok.

Ezekiel 48

the priests Zadok

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Ezekiel 48
The Levites receive a designated portion adjoining the priests’ holy border.

Ezekiel 48

the Levites

And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:

Ezekiel 48
A designated area is established for the city, its inhabitants, and its suburbs.

Ezekiel 48

the city

And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 48
People from all Israel’s tribes are assigned to serve the city.

Ezekiel 48

the city the tribes of Israel

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 48
The remaining land around the holy oblation and city possession is assigned to the prince.

Ezekiel 48

the prince

And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city

Ezekiel 48
The city receives the name The LORD is there.

Ezekiel 48 · from that day

the city

and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Daniel 1
Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem.

Daniel 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah

Nebuchadnezzar

came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

Daniel 1
God delivered Jehoiakim and sacred vessels into Nebuchadnezzar’s power.

Daniel 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar

And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God:

Daniel 1
Nebuchadnezzar ordered Ashpenaz to bring Israelite royal and princely children.

Daniel 1

Nebuchadnezzar Ashpenaz

And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes;

Daniel 1
Ashpenaz assigned Babylonian names to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel 1

Ashpenaz Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah

Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.

Daniel 1
Melzar replaced the youths’ royal food and wine with pulse and water.

Daniel 1 · ten days

Daniel Melzar Hananiah Mishael Azariah

Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

Daniel 1
God granted the four youths exceptional knowledge and wisdom, including Daniel’s understanding of visions and dreams.

Daniel 1

God Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah

As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Daniel 1
Ashpenaz brought the four youths before Nebuchadnezzar, and they entered royal service.

Daniel 1 · at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in

Ashpenaz Nebuchadnezzar Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah

then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.

Daniel 1
Nebuchadnezzar judged the four youths ten times superior in wisdom to his realm’s experts.

Daniel 1

Nebuchadnezzar Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah

he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

Daniel 2
Nebuchadnezzar decrees that all wise men, including Daniel and his companions, be slain.

Daniel 2 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

Daniel 2
God reveals the secret of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream to Daniel.

Daniel 2 · in a night vision

God Daniel

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel 2
Daniel reveals Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and its interpretation through God’s revelation.

Daniel 2

Daniel Nebuchadnezzar God

But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.

Daniel 2
Nebuchadnezzar worships Daniel after hearing the dream’s interpretation.

Daniel 2

Nebuchadnezzar Daniel

Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

Daniel 2
Nebuchadnezzar promotes Daniel to rule Babylon and oversee its wise men.

Daniel 2 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Nebuchadnezzar Daniel

Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2
Daniel secures Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego’s appointment over Babylon’s provincial affairs.

Daniel 2 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

Daniel Shadrach Mishael Azariah

Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon

Daniel 3
Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3 · 📍 [[plain of Dura]]

Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3
Nebuchadnezzar commanded everyone to worship his golden image or face the fiery furnace.

Daniel 3 · at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick

Nebuchadnezzar

That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Daniel 3
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to serve Nebuchadnezzar’s gods or worship his image.

Daniel 3

Shadrach Mishael Azariah Nebuchadnezzar

But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Daniel 3
Nebuchadnezzar ordered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego bound and cast into the fiery furnace.

Daniel 3 · 📍 [[burning fiery furnace]] · Then

Nebuchadnezzar Shadrach Mishael Azariah

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3
God delivered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the fire unharmed.

Daniel 3 · 📍 [[burning fiery furnace]]

God Shadrach Mishael Azariah

Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him

Daniel 3
Nebuchadnezzar decreed severe punishment for anyone speaking against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel 3 · Therefore

Nebuchadnezzar God

Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill:

Daniel 3
Nebuchadnezzar promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Babylon.

Daniel 3 · 📍 [[province of Babylon]] · Then

Nebuchadnezzar Shadrach Mishael Azariah

Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 4
Daniel reveals God's decree that Nebuchadnezzar will lose his kingdom and live among beasts.

Daniel 4

Daniel God Nebuchadnezzar

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field

Daniel 4
God declares that Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom has departed from him.

Daniel 4 · At the end of twelve months

God Nebuchadnezzar

While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

Daniel 4
Nebuchadnezzar is driven from human society and reduced to living like an animal.

Daniel 4 · The same hour

God Nebuchadnezzar

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen

Daniel 4
Nebuchadnezzar's understanding returns, and he blesses and praises God.

Daniel 4 · at the end of the days

Nebuchadnezzar God

And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High

Daniel 4
Nebuchadnezzar's honor returns, and he is reestablished in his kingdom with added majesty.

Daniel 4 · At the same time

Nebuchadnezzar

At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me

Daniel 5
Belshazzar ordered Nebuchadnezzar’s temple vessels brought for his feast and drinking.

Daniel 5 · 📍 [[king’s palace]]

Belshazzar Nebuchadnezzar

Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple

Daniel 5
Belshazzar and his guests praised idols while drinking from Jerusalem’s temple vessels.

Daniel 5

Belshazzar God

and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Daniel 5
God sent a hand that wrote a mysterious judgment on the palace wall.

Daniel 5 · 📍 [[king’s palace]] · In the same hour

God Belshazzar

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace

Daniel 5
Daniel interpreted the writing, declaring Belshazzar’s kingdom numbered, deficient, divided, and given away.

Daniel 5 · 📍 [[banquet house]]

Daniel Belshazzar

MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 5
Belshazzar made Daniel the third ruler and honored him with royal clothing and a gold chain.

Daniel 5

Belshazzar Daniel

Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5
Belshazzar was slain.

Daniel 5 · In that night

Belshazzar

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

Daniel 5
Darius the Median took Belshazzar’s kingdom.

Daniel 5

Belshazzar Darius

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6
Darius preferred Daniel above the presidents and princes and planned to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6

Daniel Darius

Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6
Darius signed a decree forbidding petitions to any god or man for thirty days.

Daniel 6

Darius

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

Daniel 6
Daniel continued praying and giving thanks before God despite the signed decree.

Daniel 6

Daniel God

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Daniel 6
Darius commanded Daniel to be cast into the lions’ den.

Daniel 6

Darius Daniel

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.

Daniel 6
God sent an angel that shut the lions’ mouths and preserved Daniel from harm.

Daniel 6

God Daniel

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me;

Daniel 6
Darius commanded that Daniel be taken out of the den, and Daniel was found unharmed.

Daniel 6

Darius Daniel

Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

Daniel 6
Darius commanded Daniel’s accusers, their children, and their wives to be cast into the lions’ den.

Daniel 6

Darius

And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives;

Daniel 6
Darius decreed that people throughout his kingdom should fear the living God who delivered Daniel.

Daniel 6

Darius God Daniel

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel:

Daniel 7
God’s judgment is set, and the books are opened.

Daniel 7

God

the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

Daniel 7
The Son of man comes before God and receives everlasting dominion, glory, and a kingdom.

Daniel 7 · in the night visions

God

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Daniel 7
God gives judgment to the saints, who possess the kingdom.

Daniel 7 · Until the Ancient of days came

God

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Daniel 7
God removes the horn’s dominion and destroys it completely.

Daniel 7

God

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

Daniel 8
Daniel receives a vision at Shushan.

Daniel 8 · 📍 [[Shushan]] · In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar

Daniel

In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel

Daniel 8
Gabriel is commanded to explain the vision to Daniel.

Daniel 8 · 📍 [[the banks of Ulai]]

Gabriel Daniel

Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

Daniel 8
Gabriel approaches Daniel and announces the vision concerns the time of the end.

Daniel 8

Gabriel Daniel

So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

Daniel 8
Gabriel touches Daniel and restores him to an upright position.

Daniel 8

Gabriel Daniel

but he touched me, and set me upright.

Daniel 8
Gabriel promises to reveal the final outcome of the indignation at the appointed time.

Daniel 8

Gabriel Daniel

And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

Daniel 8
Gabriel interprets the ram as representing the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8

Gabriel Daniel

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8
Gabriel identifies the goat as the king of Grecia and explains its broken horn.

Daniel 8

Gabriel Daniel

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 8
Daniel becomes sick, then recovers and resumes the king’s business.

Daniel 8 · certain days; afterward

Daniel Belshazzar

And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business

Daniel 9
Darius was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 9 · 📍 [[realm of the Chaldeans]] · In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus

Darius

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

Daniel 9
Daniel understood the seventy-year prophecy concerning Jerusalem’s desolations.

Daniel 9 · In the first year of his reign

Daniel

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9
Gabriel came to Daniel and gave him skill and understanding.

Daniel 9 · about the time of the evening oblation

Gabriel Daniel

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

Daniel 9
Gabriel revealed seventy weeks appointed to complete redemption and establish everlasting righteousness.

Daniel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

Gabriel Daniel

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Daniel 9
Jerusalem was prophesied to be restored and rebuilt, including its street and wall.

Daniel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · from the going forth of the commandment

Gabriel Daniel

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Daniel 9
The Messiah was prophesied to be cut off, followed by destruction of the city and sanctuary.

Daniel 9 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · After threescore and two weeks

Gabriel Daniel

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;

Daniel 9
The sacrifice and oblation were prophesied to cease amid abominations and desolation.

Daniel 9 · in the midst of the week

Gabriel Daniel

and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate

Daniel 10
A true revelation is given to Daniel, and he understands its vision.

Daniel 10 · In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia

Daniel

a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Daniel 10
Daniel sees a great vision while beside the river Hiddekel.

Daniel 10 · 📍 [[Hiddekel]] · the four and twentieth day of the first month

Daniel

And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen

Daniel 10
Daniel loses his strength and falls into a deep sleep after hearing the vision.

Daniel 10

Daniel

and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face

Daniel 10
Daniel's words are heard after he seeks understanding and chastens himself before God.

Daniel 10 · from the first day

Daniel God

for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard

Daniel 10
Michael comes to help the messenger opposed by the prince of Persia.

Daniel 10 · one and twenty days

Michael

but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me

Daniel 10
Daniel is strengthened and can ask the messenger to speak.

Daniel 10

Daniel

And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.

Daniel 12
God will raise many from the dead to everlasting life or everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12

God

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12
God commands Daniel to shut and seal the prophetic book.

Daniel 12 · the time of the end

God Daniel

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end

Daniel 12
God declares the words closed and sealed until the end.

Daniel 12 · till the time of the end

God Daniel

Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

Daniel 12
God promises Daniel rest and a destined portion at the end of the days.

Daniel 12 · at the end of the days

God Daniel

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Hosea 1
God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman and have children of promiscuity.

Hosea 1

God Hosea

And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

Hosea 1
Hosea took Gomer as wife, and she gave birth to a son.

Hosea 1

Hosea Gomer Jezreel

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

Hosea 1
God named the son Jezreel and announced Israel’s kingdom would cease.

Hosea 1 · 📍 [[the valley of Jezreel]] · yet a little while

God Jezreel

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

Hosea 1
God announced that Israel’s military strength would be broken.

Hosea 1 · 📍 [[the valley of Jezreel]] · at that day

God

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.

Hosea 1
Gomer gave birth to a daughter named Loruhamah.

Hosea 1

Gomer Loruhamah

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah:

Hosea 1
God declared that Israel would no longer receive mercy.

Hosea 1

God Loruhamah

for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

Hosea 1
Gomer gave birth to a son named Loammi.

Hosea 1

Gomer Loammi

Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

Hosea 1
God declared that Israel was no longer his people and he was no longer their God.

Hosea 1

God Loammi

Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Hosea 2
Ammi is declared God's people after previously being not God's people.

Hosea 2

Ammi

and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people;

Hosea 3
God commands Hosea to love an adulterous woman.

Hosea 3

God Hosea

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

Hosea 3
Hosea buys the woman for silver and barley.

Hosea 3

Hosea woman

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Hosea 3
Hosea requires the woman to remain faithful and exclusive to him.

Hosea 3 · many days

Hosea woman

And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

Hosea 4
God brings a controversy against Israel because truth, mercy, and knowledge are absent.

Hosea 4

God Jacob

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4
God causes the land and its inhabitants to languish because of Israel’s sins.

Hosea 4

God Jacob

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Hosea 4
God rejects his people as priests because they rejected knowledge and forgot his law.

Hosea 4

God Jacob

because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Hosea 4
God changes Israel’s glory into shame as Israel’s sins increase.

Hosea 4

God Jacob

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

Hosea 4
God declares that Israel will be punished for its ways and rewarded for its deeds.

Hosea 4

God Jacob

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

Hosea 4
Israel turns from God to idols and practices continual whoredom.

Hosea 4

Jacob

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Hosea 4
Ephraim becomes joined to idols and is abandoned.

Hosea 4

Ephraim

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Hosea 4
Israel becomes ashamed because of its sacrifices.

Hosea 4

Jacob

The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hosea 5
God announces judgment against the priests, Israel, and the royal house.

Hosea 5

God priests Jacob

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you

Hosea 5
Ephraim commits whoredom, and Israel becomes defiled.

Hosea 5

Ephraim Jacob

for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

Hosea 5
Israel and Ephraim fall in iniquity, and Judah falls with them.

Hosea 5

Jacob Ephraim Judah

therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

Hosea 5
God withdraws from Israel and Ephraim after they fail to seek him.

Hosea 5

God Jacob Ephraim

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 5
Ephraim appeals to the Assyrian and sends to king Jareb, but receives no healing.

Hosea 5

Ephraim Assyrian king Jareb

then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

Hosea 5
God tears away Ephraim and Judah, leaving them without rescue.

Hosea 5

God Ephraim Judah

I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

Hosea 7
God's intended healing of Israel is thwarted when its iniquity is exposed.

Hosea 7

God Jacob

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria

Hosea 7
Israel's kings fall after conspirators devour their judges.

Hosea 7

Jacob

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen

Hosea 7
Ephraim seeks aid from Egypt and Assyria like a senseless dove.

Hosea 7

Ephraim Egypt Assyria

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7
God announces that he will trap, bring down, and chastise Ephraim.

Hosea 7 · When they shall go

God Ephraim

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them

Hosea 7
Israel rebels against God despite receiving strength and redemption.

Hosea 7

God Jacob

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

Hosea 7
Ephraim's princes are sentenced to fall by the sword.

Hosea 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

princes

their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 8
Israel transgressed God’s covenant and trespassed against his law.

Hosea 8

Jacob God

He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Hosea 8
Israel established unauthorized kings and princes, then made idols from silver and gold.

Hosea 8

Jacob

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

Hosea 8
The calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.

Hosea 8 · 📍 [[Samaria]]

Samaria

but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Hosea 8
Israel will be swallowed up and placed among the Gentiles without favor.

Hosea 8

Jacob

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Hosea 8
God will gather Israel among the nations, bringing sorrow under the burden of foreign rule.

Hosea 8

God Jacob

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

Hosea 8
God rejects Israel’s sacrifices, remembers its iniquity, and sends it back to Egypt.

Hosea 8

God Jacob

but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 8
God will send fire upon Judah’s cities and devour their palaces.

Hosea 8

God Judah

but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hosea 9
Ephraim leaves the LORD’s land, returns to Egypt, and eats unclean things in Assyria.

Hosea 9 · 📍 [[Egypt; Assyria]]

God Ephraim

They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Hosea 9
Destruction comes upon Israel; Egypt gathers them, and Memphis buries them.

Hosea 9 · 📍 [[Memphis]]

Jacob Egypt Memphis

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them

Hosea 9
Israel faces the announced days of visitation and recompence.

Hosea 9 · The days of visitation

God Jacob

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it

Hosea 9
God remembers Israel’s iniquity and visits its sins.

Hosea 9

God Jacob

therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

Hosea 9
God bereaves Ephraim’s children until no man remains.

Hosea 9

God Ephraim

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left

Hosea 9
God drives Ephraim from his house and rejects its revolting princes.

Hosea 9 · 📍 [[Gilgal]]

God Ephraim

for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

Hosea 9
God slays Ephraim’s beloved offspring.

Hosea 9

God Ephraim

yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

Hosea 9
God casts Ephraim away, making them wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 9

God Ephraim

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 10
Israel’s altars are broken down and its images are spoiled.

Hosea 10

Jacob

he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

Hosea 10
The calves of Bethaven are carried to Assyria as a present to king Jareb.

Hosea 10 · 📍 [[Assyria]]

Bethaven Assyria king Jareb

It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb

Hosea 10
Samaria’s king is cut off.

Hosea 10 · 📍 [[Samaria]]

Samaria

As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

Hosea 10
Aven’s high places and Israel’s altars are destroyed.

Hosea 10 · 📍 [[Aven]]

Aven Jacob

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars

Hosea 10
The people of Israel are gathered for chastisement.

Hosea 10

Jacob

It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them

Hosea 10
The king of Israel is utterly cut off.

Hosea 10 · in a morning

Jacob

in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

Hosea 11
God called Israel out of Egypt.

Hosea 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · When Israel was a child

God Jacob

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 11
Israel sacrificed to Baalim and burned incense to graven images.

Hosea 11

Jacob Baalim

they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Hosea 11
God taught Ephraim to walk and healed him.

Hosea 11

God Ephraim

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Hosea 11
The Assyrian was declared to become Israel's king because Israel refused to return.

Hosea 11

Jacob Assyrian

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Hosea 11
God declared that he would not destroy Ephraim.

Hosea 11

God Ephraim

I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim:

Hosea 11
God promised to place Israel in their houses after their return.

Hosea 11

God Jacob

and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

Hosea 12
God declares that Jacob will be punished according to his ways and deeds.

Hosea 12

God Jacob

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

Hosea 12
Jacob prevails in his struggle with God and makes supplication.

Hosea 12 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Jacob God

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

Hosea 12
God brings Israel out of Egypt through a prophet and preserves him through a prophet.

Hosea 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God

And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

Hosea 13
Ephraim died after offending in Baal.

Hosea 13

Ephraim

but when he offended in Baal, he died.

Hosea 13
Israel made molten images and idols for worship.

Hosea 13

Jacob

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding

Hosea 13
God gave Israel a king, then removed him in wrath.

Hosea 13

God Jacob

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

Hosea 13
God promised to ransom Israel from death and redeem them from the grave.

Hosea 13

God Jacob

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death

Hosea 13
Samaria was condemned to desolation, with its people killed and families violently destroyed.

Hosea 13

Samaria

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Hosea 14
Israel is called to return to God and abandon its iniquity.

Hosea 14

Jacob God

O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Hosea 14
Israel renounces dependence on Asshur, horses, and handmade gods.

Hosea 14

Jacob

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods:

Hosea 14
God promises to heal Israel’s backsliding and turn away his anger.

Hosea 14

God Jacob

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Hosea 14
Israel is promised renewed growth, beauty, and flourishing like a fruitful vine.

Hosea 14

Jacob

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Hosea 14
Ephraim renounces idols and acknowledges receiving fruit from God.

Hosea 14

Ephraim

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

Joel 1
God’s word comes to Joel.

Joel 1

God Joel

The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

Joel 2
God commands the inhabitants to sound an alarm because the day of the LORD approaches.

Joel 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Joel 2
God commands the people to repent with fasting, weeping, mourning, and sincere hearts.

Joel 2

God

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Joel 2
God promises to send grain, wine, and oil, satisfying his people and ending their reproach.

Joel 2

God

Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

Joel 2
God removes the northern army and drives it into barren lands and surrounding seas.

Joel 2

God

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea,

Joel 2
God restores the years consumed by locusts and other destructive insects.

Joel 2

God

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2
God pours out his spirit upon all flesh, enabling prophecy, dreams, and visions.

Joel 2 · afterward

God

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

Joel 2
God promises deliverance in mount Zion and Jerusalem to everyone who calls on his name.

Joel 2 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

God

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,

Joel 3
God restores Judah and Jerusalem from captivity.

Joel 3 · in those days, and in that time

God Judah Jerusalem

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem

Joel 3
God gathers the nations to judge them for scattering Israel and dividing the land.

Joel 3 · 📍 [[the valley of Jehoshaphat]]

God all nations Jacob

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Joel 3
God repays Tyre, Zidon, and Palestine for taking his treasures and selling Judah's children.

Joel 3

Tyre Zidon the coasts of Palestine God

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

Joel 3
God sells the offenders' children to Judah, who sells them to the distant Sabeans.

Joel 3

God the children of Judah the children of Jerusalem the Sabeans

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Joel 3
God sits in judgment over all the surrounding nations.

Joel 3 · 📍 [[the valley of Jehoshaphat]]

God all nations

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Joel 3
Jerusalem becomes holy, and strangers no longer pass through it.

Joel 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · then

God Jerusalem

then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Joel 3
Egypt and Edom become desolate because they shed innocent blood in Judah.

Joel 3

Egypt Edom the children of Judah

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Joel 3
Judah dwells forever, and Jerusalem endures through generations.

Joel 3

Judah Jerusalem

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

Amos 1
God declares punishment against Damascus, sending fire into Hazael’s house to devour Benhadad’s palaces.

Amos 1 · 📍 [[Damascus]]

God Hazael Benhadad

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

Amos 2
God declares punishment against Moab for burning the king of Edom’s bones.

Amos 2

God Moab

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

Amos 2
God sends fire upon Moab, destroying the palaces of Kirioth.

Amos 2 · 📍 [[Kirioth]]

God Moab

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth:

Amos 2
God declares punishment against Judah for despising his law and disobeying his commandments.

Amos 2

God Judah

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments

Amos 2
God sends fire upon Judah, destroying Jerusalem’s palaces.

Amos 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Judah

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Amos 2
God declares punishment against Israel for selling the righteous and exploiting the poor.

Amos 2

God Jacob

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

Amos 2
God destroys the Amorite before Israel.

Amos 2

God Amorite Jacob

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Amos 2
God brings Israel out of Egypt and leads them through the wilderness toward possessing the Amorite’s land.

Amos 2 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · forty years

God Jacob

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Amos 2
Israel gives Nazarites wine and commands the prophets not to prophesy.

Amos 2

Jacob God

But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Amos 3
God announces punishment for Israel’s iniquities.

Amos 3

God Jacob

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Amos 3
God reveals his secret to his prophets.

Amos 3

God prophets

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Amos 3
God commands publication of Samaria’s oppression and summons witnesses to assemble.

Amos 3 · 📍 [[Samaria]]

God

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Amos 3
God brings an adversary against Israel, weakening and plundering its palaces.

Amos 3

God Jacob

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

Amos 3
God declares that only remnants of Israel will be taken from Samaria and Damascus.

Amos 3 · 📍 [[Samaria]]

God Jacob

so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

Amos 3
God declares that Bethel’s altars will be cut off and fall to the ground.

Amos 3 · 📍 [[Bethel]] · in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel

God

That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Amos 3
God declares the destruction of Israel’s luxurious houses.

Amos 3

God

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

Amos 4
God will remove Israel with hooks, including its posterity with fishhooks.

Amos 4 · the days shall come

God Jacob

The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Amos 4
God gives Israel famine and deprivation of bread throughout its cities and places.

Amos 4

God Jacob

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places:

Amos 4
God withholds rain from Israel, producing drought across different cities and fields.

Amos 4 · when there were yet three months to the harvest

God Jacob

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest:

Amos 4
God strikes Israel’s crops with blasting, mildew, and palmerworm destruction.

Amos 4

God Jacob

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them;

Amos 4
God sends pestilence, kills Israel’s young men, and removes its horses.

Amos 4

God Jacob

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses;

Amos 4
God overthrows some Israelites, leaving them like a firebrand rescued from burning.

Amos 4

God Jacob

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning;

Amos 5
Israel falls and is left forsaken without anyone to raise it.

Amos 5

God house of Israel

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

Amos 5
God declares Gilgal will enter captivity and Bethel will come to nothing.

Amos 5 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

God house of Israel

for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

Amos 5
God condemns Israel’s oppression and denies them enjoyment of their houses and vineyards.

Amos 5

God house of Israel

ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Amos 5
God rejects Israel’s feasts, offerings, assemblies, songs, and musical worship.

Amos 5

God house of Israel

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5
God announces Israel’s captivity beyond Damascus because of its idolatry.

Amos 5

God house of Israel

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Amos 6
God declares that the privileged will go captive with the first captives.

Amos 6

God

Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

Amos 6
God delivers the city and everything in it over to destruction.

Amos 6

God

I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

Amos 6
God declares that the remaining inhabitants of a house will die.

Amos 6

God

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

Amos 6
God commands the destruction of both great and small houses.

Amos 6

God

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Amos 6
God raises a nation against Israel to afflict them from Hemath to the wilderness river.

Amos 6

God

But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

Amos 7
God relents from the announced grasshopper judgment after Amos pleads for Israel.

Amos 7

God Amos

The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

Amos 7
God relents from the announced fire judgment after Amos pleads for Israel.

Amos 7

God Amos

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Amos 7
God declares that Israel will no longer be spared and will face destruction.

Amos 7

God Amos

Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

Amos 7
God declares judgment against Jeroboam’s royal house by the sword.

Amos 7

God Jeroboam

I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

Amos 7
Amaziah reports to Jeroboam that Amos has conspired against him.

Amos 7 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Amaziah Jeroboam Amos

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Amos 7
Amaziah orders Amos to flee to Judah and stop prophesying at Bethel.

Amos 7 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Amaziah Amos

O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

Amos 7
God takes Amos from herding and commissions him to prophesy to Israel.

Amos 7

God Amos

And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

Amos 7
God condemns Amaziah’s household and declares that Israel will go into captivity.

Amos 7

God Amaziah

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Amos 8
God shows Amos a vision of a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8

God Amos

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8
God declares Israel’s end and withdraws further mercy.

Amos 8

God

The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

Amos 8
God turns temple songs into howlings amid widespread deaths.

Amos 8 · in that day

God

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Amos 8
God darkens the earth during daytime.

Amos 8 · in that day

God

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

Amos 8
God sends a famine of hearing the LORD’s words.

Amos 8 · The days come

God

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Amos 8
God causes those trusting in Samaria, Dan, and Beersheba to fall permanently.

Amos 8 · In that day

God

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Amos 9
God announces that escaping sinners will be slain by the sword.

Amos 9

God

and I will slay the last of them with the sword

Amos 9
God declares judgment on the sinful kingdom while preserving the house of Jacob.

Amos 9

God house of Jacob

I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob

Amos 9
God commands the house of Israel to be sifted among all nations.

Amos 9

God house of Israel

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations

Amos 9
God promises to restore David’s fallen tabernacle and rebuild its ruins.

Amos 9 · In that day

God David

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof

Amos 9
God promises to restore Israel’s captivity and establish them permanently in their land.

Amos 9 · the days come

God house of Israel

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel

Obadiah 1
Esau is cut off forever because of violence against Jacob.

Obadiah 1

Esau

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Obadiah 1
Jacob’s house receives deliverance and possesses its possessions.

Obadiah 1 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

Jacob

But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1
Esau’s house is consumed without any survivors remaining.

Obadiah 1

Esau

and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau;

Obadiah 1
Saviours ascend Zion to judge Esau’s mountain.

Obadiah 1 · 📍 [[mount Zion]]

Esau

And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;

Jonah 1
God commanded Jonah to arise, go to Nineveh, and proclaim judgment against it.

Jonah 1 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Jonah

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Jonah 1
Jonah fled from God's presence and traveled toward Tarshish.

Jonah 1 · 📍 [[Tarshish]]

Jonah

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa

Jonah 1
God sent a great wind, producing a violent tempest that threatened to break the ship.

Jonah 1 · 📍 [[the sea]]

God

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

Jonah 1
The lot identified Jonah as responsible for the calamity.

Jonah 1

God Jonah

So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Jonah 1
Jonah instructed the sailors to cast him into the sea so the storm would cease.

Jonah 1 · 📍 [[the sea]]

Jonah

Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you

Jonah 1
Jonah was cast into the sea, and the raging storm immediately ceased.

Jonah 1 · 📍 [[the sea]]

Jonah

So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

Jonah 1
God prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, who remained inside it three days and nights.

Jonah 1 · three days and three nights

God Jonah

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2
God caused Jonah to be vomited out of the fish onto dry land.

Jonah 2 · 📍 [[dry land]]

God Jonah

And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Jonah 3
God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach the message God would give him.

Jonah 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Jonah

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonah 3
Jonah entered Nineveh and proclaimed that it would be overthrown within forty days.

Jonah 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Jonah

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jonah 3
God withheld the announced destruction after seeing Nineveh turn from its evil way.

Jonah 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Jonah 4
God provides a gourd to shade Jonah and relieve his grief.

Jonah 4

God Jonah

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.

Jonah 4
God sends a worm that strikes the gourd, causing it to wither.

Jonah 4 · the next day

God Jonah

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Jonah 4
God sends a vehement east wind, causing Jonah to faint beneath the sun.

Jonah 4 · when the sun did arise

God Jonah

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted

Jonah 4
God reveals that Nineveh should be spared because of its many vulnerable inhabitants and cattle.

Jonah 4 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Jonah

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Micah 1
God reveals to Micah a prophecy concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 1 · in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

God Micah

The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 1
God decrees Samaria's destruction and the destruction of its graven images and idols.

Micah 1 · 📍 [[Samaria]]

God

Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

Micah 3
God empowers Micah to declare Jacob’s transgression and Israel’s sin.

Micah 3

God Micah

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Micah 3
God refuses to hear corrupt leaders and hides his face from them.

Micah 3 · at that time

God

Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Micah 3
God removes visions from the prophets, leaving seers ashamed and diviners confounded.

Micah 3

God

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Micah 3
God declares that Zion will be plowed as a field because of corrupt leadership.

Micah 3 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Micah 3
God declares that Jerusalem will become heaps because of corrupt leadership.

Micah 3 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Micah 4
God establishes the mountain of his house above all mountains, drawing peoples to it.

Micah 4 · 📍 [[Zion]] · in the last days

God

But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

Micah 4
God judges nations, ending warfare as they transform weapons into agricultural tools.

Micah 4 · in the last days

God

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Micah 4
God gathers the afflicted and exiled, making them a remnant and strong nation under his reign.

Micah 4 · 📍 [[mount Zion]] · In that day

God

In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

Micah 4
The daughter of Zion leaves the city for Babylon, where God redeems her from her enemies.

Micah 4 · 📍 [[Babylon]] · now

God daughter of Zion

Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Micah 4
God gathers hostile nations for judgment, enabling Zion to crush them and dedicate their wealth to him.

Micah 4 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God daughter of Zion

But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Micah 5
A ruler in Israel will come forth from Bethlehem Ephratah.

Micah 5 · 📍 [[Bethlehem Ephratah]]

Bethlehem Ephratah Jacob

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel

Micah 5
Israel will raise leaders who waste Assyria and deliver Israel from the Assyrian.

Micah 5 · 📍 [[Assyria]]

Jacob Assyrian

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian

Micah 5
The remnant of Jacob will overcome its adversaries and enemies.

Micah 5

Jacob

Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

Micah 5
God will remove Israel’s horses, chariots, cities, and strongholds.

Micah 5 · in that day

God Jacob

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

Micah 5
God will remove witchcrafts and soothsayers from Israel.

Micah 5 · in that day

God Jacob

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Micah 5
God will remove Israel’s graven and standing images, ending worship of human handiwork.

Micah 5 · in that day

God Jacob

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

Micah 5
God will execute unprecedented vengeance upon the heathen.

Micah 5

God heathen

And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

Micah 6
God commands Micah to arise and contend before the mountains.

Micah 6

God Micah

Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

Micah 6
God brought Israel out of Egypt and sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before them.

Micah 6 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron Miriam

For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Micah 6
Balak consulted Balaam, who answered him concerning Israel.

Micah 6 · 📍 [[Shittim unto Gilgal]]

Balak Balaam

what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal

Micah 6
God declares that sinful people will become desolate and bear reproach.

Micah 6

God

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

Micah 7
Micah bears God’s indignation until God vindicates him and brings him into the light.

Micah 7

Micah God

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Micah 7
God rebuilds the walls and removes the decree.

Micah 7 · In that day

God

In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

Micah 7
God shows marvelous things to his people.

Micah 7 · According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt

God

According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

Micah 7
God pardons iniquity, shows compassion, and subdues the people’s sins.

Micah 7

God

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7
God fulfills his sworn truth to Jacob and mercy to Abraham.

Micah 7 · from the days of old

God Jacob Abraham

Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Nahum 1
God will make an utter end of Nineveh and pursue its enemies with darkness.

Nahum 1 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Nineveh

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Nahum 1
God will break Judah’s yoke and burst its bonds.

Nahum 1 · 📍 [[Judah]] · For now

God Judah

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Nahum 1
God will destroy Nineveh’s idols and make its grave because it is vile.

Nahum 1 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Nineveh

out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Nahum 1
God promises Judah peace and declares that the wicked will no longer pass through it.

Nahum 1 · 📍 [[Judah]]

God Judah

O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

Nahum 2
Huzzab is led away captive with her maids following.

Nahum 2

Huzzab

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Nahum 2
The people of Nineveh flee, leaving the city without defenders.

Nahum 2 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

Nahum 2
The city's silver, gold, and precious furnishings are taken as spoil.

Nahum 2 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

Nahum 2
Nineveh becomes empty, void, and waste, causing widespread terror.

Nahum 2 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

Nahum 3
God declares judgment against Nineveh and exposes its shame before nations and kingdoms.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

God Nineveh

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

Nahum 3
Nineveh is declared laid waste, prompting observers to flee and find no comforters.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her?

Nahum 3
No is carried away captive after its children are killed and its leaders bound in chains.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[No]]

No Ethiopia Egypt Put Lubim

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Nahum 3
Nineveh’s gates are opened to enemies, and fire devours its defensive bars.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nahum 3
Fire and sword consume Nineveh despite its efforts to strengthen its defenses.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm:

Nahum 3
The king of Assyria’s nobles fall into dust, while his people scatter across the mountains.

Nahum 3

Sennacherib

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

Nahum 3
Nineveh’s wound is declared grievous and incurable because its wickedness has spread continually.

Nahum 3 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous:

Habakkuk 1
God raises up the Chaldeans to possess lands that are not theirs.

Habakkuk 1 · in your days

God

for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

Habakkuk 1
God ordains the Chaldeans for judgment and establishes them for correction.

Habakkuk 1

God

O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

Habakkuk 2
God answers Habakkuk and commands him to write the vision plainly.

Habakkuk 2

God Habakkuk

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Habakkuk 2
God declares that the appointed vision will surely come despite delay.

Habakkuk 2 · at the end

God

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:

Habakkuk 2
God declares that the just shall live by faith.

Habakkuk 2

God

but the just shall live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2
God declares that the earth will be filled with knowledge of his glory.

Habakkuk 2

God

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2
God commands the earth to keep silent before him in his holy temple.

Habakkuk 2

God

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk 3
God drove nations apart and scattered the everlasting mountains.

Habakkuk 3

God

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

Habakkuk 3
God marched through the land in anger and defeated the heathen.

Habakkuk 3

God

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

Habakkuk 3
God went forth to save his people and wounded the wicked ruler.

Habakkuk 3

God

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck.

Habakkuk 3
Habakkuk chose to rejoice in God despite failed crops, empty fields, and lost livestock.

Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk God

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Habakkuk 3
God became Habakkuk’s strength and enabled him to walk upon high places.

Habakkuk 3

God Habakkuk

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.

Zephaniah 1
God revealed his word to Zephaniah.

Zephaniah 1 · in the days of Josiah

God Zephaniah

The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

Zephaniah 1
God declared that he would consume everything from the land.

Zephaniah 1

God

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

Zephaniah 1
God declared he would cut off Baal’s remnant and its priests from Judah and Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

Zephaniah 1
God declared he would punish the princes and the king’s children.

Zephaniah 1 · in the day of the LORD’s sacrifice

God

And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

Zephaniah 1
God declared he would search Jerusalem and punish complacent men.

Zephaniah 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · at that time

God

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees:

Zephaniah 1
God declared that the whole land would be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.

Zephaniah 1 · in the day of the LORD’s wrath

God

but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 2
Philistine cities are abandoned, desolated, expelled, and uprooted.

Zephaniah 2

Gaza Ashkelon Ashdod Ekron

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2
Canaan and the Philistine land are destroyed and left without inhabitants.

Zephaniah 2

Canaan Philistines

I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2
Judah’s remnant receives the coast, and God turns away its captivity.

Zephaniah 2 · 📍 [[Ashkelon]] · in the evening

Judah God

for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

Zephaniah 2
Moab and Ammon become desolate, while God’s remnant possesses their lands.

Zephaniah 2

Moab Ammon

Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Zephaniah 2
The Ethiopians are slain by God’s sword.

Zephaniah 2

Ethiopians

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Zephaniah 2
Assyria is destroyed, and Nineveh becomes a desolation like a wilderness.

Zephaniah 2 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Assyria Nineveh

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Zephaniah 2
Nineveh’s proud, careless city is reduced to a desolate place inhabited by beasts.

Zephaniah 2 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Nineveh

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!

Zephaniah 3
God cut off the nations and destroyed their cities.

Zephaniah 3

God

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed

Zephaniah 3
God will gather the nations and pour his indignation upon them.

Zephaniah 3 · the day that I rise up to the prey

God

for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation

Zephaniah 3
God will give the people a pure language so they may serve him together.

Zephaniah 3 · then

God

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

Zephaniah 3
God will remove the proud and leave an afflicted, poor people trusting him.

Zephaniah 3 · In that day

God

I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

Zephaniah 3
God removed judgments and cast out Israel’s enemy.

Zephaniah 3

God

The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy

Zephaniah 3
God will undo affliction, save the halted, and gather the dispersed.

Zephaniah 3 · at that time

God

Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out

Zephaniah 3
God will restore the captives and give them praise among the nations.

Zephaniah 3 · At that time

God

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity

Haggai 1
God sent Haggai to deliver a message to Zerubbabel and Joshua.

Haggai 1 · In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month

God Haggai Zerubbabel Joshua

came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1
God commanded the people to gather wood and rebuild the LORD's house.

Haggai 1

God Haggai Zerubbabel Joshua

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

Haggai 1
God called a drought upon the land because the LORD's house remained waste.

Haggai 1

God

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Haggai 1
Zerubbabel and Joshua obeyed God's message, and the people began working on the LORD's house.

Haggai 1 · In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king

Zerubbabel Joshua God Haggai

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

Haggai 2
God commands Zerubbabel and Joshua to be strong and work.

Haggai 2 · In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month

God Zerubbabel Joshua

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

Haggai 2
God promises to shake the heavens, earth, sea, dry land, and all nations.

Haggai 2 · Yet once, it is a little while

God

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations

Haggai 2
God declares the people's works and offerings unclean before him.

Haggai 2 · 📍 [[the temple of the LORD]] · from this day

God

So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

Haggai 2
God promises to bless the people after the temple foundation is laid.

Haggai 2 · from this day

God

Consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Haggai 2
God promises to overthrow kingdoms, destroy heathen strength, and bring down their armies.

Haggai 2 · In that day

God

And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

Haggai 2
God chooses Zerubbabel and makes him as a signet.

Haggai 2 · In that day

God Zerubbabel

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1
God delivered a prophetic message to Zechariah.

Zechariah 1 · In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius

God Zechariah

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah

Zechariah 1
God commanded Zechariah to call the people to turn back to Him.

Zechariah 1

God Zechariah

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you

Zechariah 1
God revealed a vision of horsemen surveying the earth to Zechariah.

Zechariah 1 · Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius

God Zechariah

Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah

Zechariah 1
God promised to return to Jerusalem with mercy and rebuild His house there.

Zechariah 1 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it

Zechariah 1
God revealed four carpenters who would cast out the horns scattering Judah.

Zechariah 1

God

And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah

Zechariah 2
A man measures Jerusalem to determine its breadth and length.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

a man Jerusalem

To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

Zechariah 2
God promises Jerusalem will be inhabited as unwalled towns filled with people and cattle.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

Zechariah 2
God promises to protect Jerusalem with a wall of fire and display glory within it.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Jerusalem

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Zechariah 2
God commands Zion to escape from dwelling with Babylon.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Babylon]]

God Zion Babylon

Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Zechariah 2
God declares that the nations who spoiled Zion will become spoil to their servants.

Zechariah 2

God the nations

For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants:

Zechariah 2
God promises to come and dwell in the midst of Zion.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 2
Many nations will join God and become his people.

Zechariah 2 · in that day

the nations God

And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people:

Zechariah 2
God claims Judah as his portion and chooses Jerusalem again.

Zechariah 2 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God Judah Jerusalem

And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

Zechariah 3
God rebukes Satan for resisting Joshua.

Zechariah 3

God Satan

And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee

Zechariah 3
God removes Joshua’s iniquity and replaces his filthy garments with clean raiment.

Zechariah 3

God Joshua

Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

Zechariah 3
God promises Joshua authority to judge His house if Joshua obeys His ways.

Zechariah 3

God Joshua

If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house

Zechariah 4
God declares that the great mountain before Zerubbabel will become a plain.

Zechariah 4

God Zerubbabel

Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain:

Zechariah 4
Zerubbabel has laid the foundation of the house and will finish it.

Zechariah 4

Zerubbabel

The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it;

Zechariah 4
God has sent Zechariah to deliver this message.

Zechariah 4

God Zechariah

and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

Zechariah 5
God sends a curse across the earth against thieves and false swearers.

Zechariah 5

God

I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief

Zechariah 5
The angel seals wickedness inside an ephah beneath a lead weight.

Zechariah 5

angel

This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Zechariah 6
God commands Zechariah to crown Joshua with silver and gold crowns.

Zechariah 6 · 📍 [[house of Josiah]] · the same day

God Zechariah Joshua

Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

Zechariah 6
God declares that The BRANCH will build the temple and rule as both king and priest.

Zechariah 6 · 📍 [[temple of the LORD]]

God The BRANCH

Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Zechariah 6
The crowns are assigned as a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

Zechariah 6 · 📍 [[temple of the LORD]]

Hen

And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

Zechariah 6
God sends Zechariah, whose message will be confirmed when distant people build the temple.

Zechariah 6

God Zechariah

And ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

Zechariah 7
Sherezer and Regemmelech were sent to pray before God.

Zechariah 7 · 📍 [[house of God]] · in the fourth year of king Darius

Sherezer Regemmelech

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

Zechariah 7
God instructed Zechariah to proclaim the people’s fasting was not truly devoted to Him.

Zechariah 7

God Zechariah

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

Zechariah 7
God commanded Zechariah to proclaim true judgment, mercy, and compassion.

Zechariah 7

God Zechariah

And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Zechariah 7
After the people refused to listen, God scattered them among unknown nations and left their land desolate.

Zechariah 7

God

Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Zechariah 8
God returns to Zion and promises to dwell in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth;

Zechariah 8
God saves his people from east and west and brings them to Jerusalem.

Zechariah 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem:

Zechariah 8
God changes Judah and Israel from a curse among nations into a blessing.

Zechariah 8

God

And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing:

Zechariah 8
God resolves to do good to Jerusalem and Judah instead of punishing them.

Zechariah 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in these days

God

So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

Zechariah 8
God transforms Judah's fasts into joyful and cheerful feasts.

Zechariah 8

God

The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts;

Zechariah 8
Many peoples and strong nations come to Jerusalem to seek and pray before God.

Zechariah 8 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In those days

God

Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

Zechariah 9
God casts Tyrus out, destroys its sea power, and consumes it with fire.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 [[Tyrus]]

God Tyrus

Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

Zechariah 9
The king perishes from Gaza, and Ashkelon becomes uninhabited.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 [[Gaza]]

God Gaza Ashkelon

and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

Zechariah 9
God removes Philistine abominations and pride, while the remnant becomes part of God's people and Judah.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 [[Judah]]

God Philistines Judah

And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah

Zechariah 9
A righteous, saving King comes humbly to Zion and Jerusalem, riding an ass.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 [[Zion]]

King Zion Jerusalem

behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Zechariah 9
God removes military weapons and establishes the King's peaceful dominion over the earth.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 Ephraim

God Ephraim Jerusalem

And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

Zechariah 9
God sends prisoners out of the waterless pit through the blood of the covenant.

Zechariah 9

God prisoners

by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Zechariah 9
God raises Zion's sons against Greece and makes them like a mighty warrior's sword.

Zechariah 9 · 📍 [[Zion]]

God Zion Greece

When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Zechariah 9
God saves his people as a flock and makes them like crown stones lifted over the land.

Zechariah 9 · in that day

God

And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

Zechariah 10
God visits Judah and transforms it into a powerful warhorse.

Zechariah 10

God house of Judah

for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

Zechariah 10
God strengthens Judah, saves Joseph, and restores them as his people.

Zechariah 10

God house of Judah house of Joseph

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them;

Zechariah 10
God makes Ephraim mighty and causes its people to rejoice.

Zechariah 10

God Ephraim

And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine:

Zechariah 10
God gathers and redeems his scattered people, causing them to increase.

Zechariah 10

God

I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

Zechariah 10
God causes the dispersed people to remember him, live with their children, and return.

Zechariah 10

God

And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

Zechariah 10
God brings his people out of Egypt and Assyria into Gilead and Lebanon.

Zechariah 10

God Egypt Assyria

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;

Zechariah 10
God brings down Assyria’s pride and removes Egypt’s power.

Zechariah 10

God Assyria Egypt

and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Zechariah 10
God strengthens his people, who then walk in his name.

Zechariah 10

God

And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 11
God commands Zechariah to feed the flock destined for slaughter.

Zechariah 11

God Zechariah

Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

Zechariah 11
Zechariah cuts off three shepherds.

Zechariah 11 · in one month

Zechariah

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month;

Zechariah 11
Zechariah breaks the covenant by cutting his staff Beauty apart.

Zechariah 11

Zechariah

And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

Zechariah 11
Zechariah receives thirty pieces of silver as his price.

Zechariah 11

Zechariah

So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Zechariah 11
God orders Zechariah to cast the thirty silver pieces to the potter.

Zechariah 11 · 📍 [[the house of the LORD]]

God Zechariah

And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them.

Zechariah 11
Zechariah casts the thirty pieces of silver to the potter.

Zechariah 11 · 📍 [[the house of the LORD]]

Zechariah

And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Zechariah 11
Zechariah breaks his other staff, Bands, severing the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Zechariah 11

Zechariah

Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Zechariah 11
God raises up a shepherd who neglects and exploits the flock.

Zechariah 11

God

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off

Zechariah 12
God makes Jerusalem a cup of trembling for surrounding peoples besieging Judah and Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · when they shall be in the siege

God Jerusalem the people round about

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12
God makes Jerusalem a burdensome stone, cutting apart those who burden themselves with it.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In that day

God Jerusalem all the people of the earth

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Zechariah 12
God empowers Judah’s governors to devour surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem is inhabited again.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In that day

God the governors of Judah the people round about

In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12
God saves Judah’s tents first, preventing David’s house and Jerusalem’s inhabitants from magnifying themselves.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · The LORD also

God the tents of Judah the house of David the inhabitants of Jerusalem

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

Zechariah 12
God defends Jerusalem’s inhabitants and makes the feeble among them like David.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In that day

God the inhabitants of Jerusalem the house of David

In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

Zechariah 12
God seeks to destroy all nations attacking Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · in that day

God all the nations that come against Jerusalem

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12
God pours out grace and supplication, causing David’s house and Jerusalem’s inhabitants to mourn the pierced one.

Zechariah 12 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · And I will

God the house of David the inhabitants of Jerusalem

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Zechariah 13
God opens a fountain for David’s house and Jerusalem’s inhabitants to cleanse sin and uncleanness.

Zechariah 13 · In that day

God

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

Zechariah 13
God removes idols, prophets, and the unclean spirit from the land.

Zechariah 13 · in that day

God

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

Zechariah 13
God commands the shepherd to be struck, scattering the sheep and affecting the little ones.

Zechariah 13

God the shepherd the sheep

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Zechariah 13
God cuts off and kills two parts of the land, leaving a third part alive.

Zechariah 13

God the third part

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Zechariah 13
God brings the surviving third through fire to refine and test them.

Zechariah 13

God the third part

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:

Zechariah 13
The refined survivors call on God, who hears and claims them as his people.

Zechariah 13

God the third part

they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Zechariah 14
God gathers all nations against Jerusalem, causing the city’s capture and the captivity of half its population.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · the day of the LORD

God

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zechariah 14
God fights the nations, and the mount of Olives splits to form a great valley.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[mount of Olives]] · in that day

God

Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley;

Zechariah 14
God becomes king over all the earth, with one LORD and one name.

Zechariah 14 · in that day

God

And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Zechariah 14
God restores Jerusalem as a secure habitation without total destruction.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

Zechariah 14
God strikes the nations that fought Jerusalem with a consuming plague.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Zechariah 14
God requires surviving nations to worship annually and withholds rain from those refusing.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]]

God

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

Zechariah 14
God makes Jerusalem’s vessels holy and removes the Canaanite from the LORD’s house.

Zechariah 14 · 📍 [[Jerusalem]] · In that day

God

In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 1
God judged Esau by laying his mountains and heritage waste.

Malachi 1

God Esau

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Malachi 2
God sends a commandment to the priests.

Malachi 2

God

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Malachi 2
God establishes a covenant of life and peace with Levi.

Malachi 2

God Levi

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 2
God gives Levi life and peace because Levi fears Him.

Malachi 2

God Levi

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Malachi 2
God curses the priests and their blessings for refusing to honor His name.

Malachi 2

God

I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

Malachi 3
God sends a messenger to prepare the way before him.

Malachi 3

God

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:

Malachi 3
God promises to come suddenly to his temple as the messenger of the covenant.

Malachi 3 · 📍 [[his temple]]

God

and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant

Malachi 3
God declares judgment against sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, and oppressors.

Malachi 3

God

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers

Malachi 3
God curses the nation for robbing him through withheld tithes and offerings.

Malachi 3

God

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Malachi 3
God commands the people to bring tithes into the storehouse and promises abundant blessing.

Malachi 3

God

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith

Malachi 3
God promises to protect the land’s produce from destruction.

Malachi 3

God

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground

Malachi 3
God promises to spare those who fear him as a man spares his serving son.

Malachi 3 · in that day

God

And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them

Malachi 4
God commanded Moses to give Israel the law with its statutes and judgments.

Malachi 4 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Malachi 4
God promised to send Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

Malachi 4 · before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD

God Elijah

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Malachi 4
Elijah will turn the hearts of fathers and children toward one another.

Malachi 4

Elijah

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers

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