Ecclesiastes 4:14 Cross References - BBE

¹⁴ Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.

¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

³³ And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years. ³⁵ And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it. ³⁶ And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food. ³⁷ And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants. ³⁸ Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you: ⁴⁰ You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt. ⁴² Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck; ⁴³ And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

²⁶ And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made. ²⁷ So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

³¹ Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ³² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done. ³³ And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ³⁴ Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

¹ In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him. ² And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

⁶ So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

¹² Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

⁷ And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

²⁷ And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison; ²⁸ And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ²⁹ And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. ³⁰ And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

¹¹ Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

⁷ He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position; ⁸ To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

²⁰ Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

³¹ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you: