Genesis 6:11 Cross References - NSB

¹¹ The earth was corrupt in God’s sight. It was full of violence.

¹ Jehovah said to Noah: »Go into the ark, you and your whole family. For I have found you righteous in this generation.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. That is why it is said: »Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Jehovah.«

¹³ The men of Sodom were wicked and sinned greatly against Jehovah.

²⁷ »‘»You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of God when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. You humbled yourself, tore your clothes in distress, and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you, proclaims Jehovah.

⁵ Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.

⁹ Confuse their language, O Jehovah, because I see violence and conflict in the city.

¹¹ Do not let slanderers prosper on earth. Let evil hunt down violent people with one blow after another.

⁷ »As a well pours out its water, so Jerusalem pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Sickness and wounds are ever before me.

¹⁸ »You will no longer hear about violence in your land or desolation and destruction within your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

¹⁷ Jehovah said to me: »Mortal man, do you see that? These people of Judah are not satisfied with merely doing all the disgusting things you have seen here and with spreading violence throughout the country. No, they must come and do them right here in the Temple and make me even angrier. Look how they insult me in the most offensive way possible by thrusting the shoot to my nose! (an obsene reference or jesture to Jehovah)

¹⁶ »‘»By the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane from the mountain of God. I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

¹ Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land. ² They do nothing but swear, deceive, kill, steal and commit adultery! There is violence and bloodshed in the land.

² How long, O Jehovah (YHWH), will I call for help and you do not hear? I cry out to you, save me from violence! And yet you do not save.

⁸ »The people who remain will plunder you because you have plundered many nations. It is because of the blood you shed and the violence you brought on the land, the city and all who dwell there.

¹⁷ »The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you. The destruction of the animals and shedding of blood will frighten you. The violence done to the inhabitants of the land and the city will terrify you.

⁶ They were both righteous before God. They blamelessly obeyed all the commandments and ordinances of God (Greek: kurios: God).

¹³ The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.

¹⁹ We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.