Jeremiah 43:9 Cross References - MLV

⁹ Take great stones in your hand and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,

¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

³¹ And he brought out the people that were in it and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brick-kiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

²⁹ And it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment and the two were alone in the field. ³⁰ And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him and tore it in twelve pieces.
³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, You take ten pieces, for Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you

¹ In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and took it, ² at that time Jehovah spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from your loins and put your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
³ And Jehovah said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, ⁴ so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

¹ Jehovah says thus to me, Go and buy you a linen sash and put it upon your loins and do not put it in water. ² So I bought a sash according to the word of Jehovah and put it upon my loins.
³ And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, ⁴ Take the sash that you have bought, which is upon your loins and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. ⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.
⁶ And it happened after many days, that Jehovah said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there. ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the sash from the place where I had hid it. And behold, the sash was rotten. It was good for nothing.
⁸ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁹ Jehovah says thus, After this manner I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this sash, which is good for nothing.
¹¹ For as the sash clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Jehovah, that they may be to me for a people and for a name and for a praise and for a glory, but they would not hear.

² Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause you to hear my words.
³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. ⁴ And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it another vessel again, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
⁵ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you* as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you* in my hand, O house of Israel.
⁷ At that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, ⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
⁹ And at that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰ if they do what is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
¹¹ Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Jehovah says thus: Behold, I frame evil against you* and devise a device against you*. Return now everyone from his evil way and amend your* ways and your* practices. ¹² But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

¹ Thus said Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthenware and take of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests, ² and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Earthen Vessels Gate and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. ³ And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
⁴ Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place and have burned incense in it to other gods that they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, ⁵ and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it come into my mind, ⁶ therefore behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that this place will no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter.
⁷ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. And I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.
⁹ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they will eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life, will distress them.
¹⁰ Then you will break the earthenware in the sight of the men who go with you, ¹¹ and will say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus: Even so I will break this people and this city, as a potter's vessel is broken, that cannot be made whole again. And they will bury in Topheth till there is no place to bury.
¹² Thus I will do to this place, says Jehovah and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth. ¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
¹⁴ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house and said to all the people, ¹⁵ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

⁶³ And it will be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you will bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates. ⁶⁴ And you will say, Thus Babylon will sink and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her and they will be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

¹ You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem. ² And lay siege against it and build forts against it and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. ³ And take to you an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face toward it and it will be besieged and you will lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
⁴ Moreover lie you upon your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you will lie upon it, you will bear their iniquity. ⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
⁶ And again, when you have accomplished these, you will lie on your right side and will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to you. ⁷ And you will set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered and you will prophesy against it. ⁸ And behold, I lay bands upon you and you will not turn from one side to the other, till you have accomplished the days of your siege.
⁹ Also take to you wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make you bread of it, according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it. ¹⁰ And your food which you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day. You will eat it from time to time. ¹¹ And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. You will drink from time to time.
¹² And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. ¹³ And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
¹⁴ Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. ¹⁵ Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.

¹ And you, son of man, take a sharp sword. As a barber's razor you will take it to you and will cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
² A third part you will burn in the fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and you will take a third part and kill* with the sword all around it and a third part you will scatter to the wind. And I will draw out a sword after them. ³ And you will take from it a few in number and bind them in your skirts. ⁴ And of these again you will take and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries are all around her. ⁶ And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations and against my statutes more than the countries that are all around her, for they have rejected my ordinances and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
⁷ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* are more disorderly than the nations that are all around you* and have not walked in my statutes, nor have kept my ordinances, no, you* have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you*, ⁸ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. ⁹ And I will do in you what I have not done and of which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
¹⁰ Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in the midst of you and the sons will eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of you.
¹¹ Therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I also will diminish you, nor will my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.
¹² A third part of you will die with the pestilence and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you and a third part will fall by the sword all around you and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them.
¹³ Thus my anger will be accomplished and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
¹⁴ Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
¹⁵ So it will be a reproach and a taunt, a lesson and an astonishment, to the nations that are all around you, when I will execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath and in wrathful rebukes–I, Jehovah, have spoken it– ¹⁶ when I will send upon them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you*. And I will increase the famine upon you* and will break your* staff of bread. ¹⁷ And I will send upon you* famine and evil beasts and they will bereave you. And pestilence and blood will pass through you. And I will bring the sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

³ Therefore, you son of man, prepare stuff for moving and move by day in their sight. And you will move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
⁴ And you will bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. And you will go forth yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. ⁵ Dig through the wall in their sight and carry out by that. ⁶ You will bear it upon your shoulder in their sight and carry it forth in the dark. You will cover your face, that you do not see the land. For I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
⁷ And I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it forth in the dark and bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.
⁸ And in the morning the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing? ¹⁰ You say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: This burden concerns the ruler in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel among whom they are.
¹¹ Say, I am your* sign. Just as I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity. ¹² And the ruler who is among them will bear upon his shoulder in the dark and will go forth. They will dig through the wall to carry out by it. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.
¹³ I will also spread my net upon him and he will be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
¹⁴ And I will scatter toward every wind all who are all around him to help him and all his groups. And I will draw out the sword after them.
¹⁵ And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I will disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
¹⁶ But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁰ I have also spoken to the prophets and I have multiplied visions. And I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

¹⁴ Draw you water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.

¹¹ And he came to us and took Paul’s belt, and having bound his own feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these things, The Jews in Jerusalem will be binding thus the man whose belt this is, and will be giving him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

²¹ And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never be found anymore.