Jeremiah 24:8 Cross References - Thomson

⁸ But like those bad figs which for their badness cannot be eaten, thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver up Zedekias king of Juda and his nobles and the remnant of Jerusalem; them who are left in this land and them who dwell in Egypt.

¹⁰ For I have set my face against this city for evils and not for good. It shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.

² The one was a basket of very fine figs, such as are first ripe; and the other was a basket of very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Like these good figs so will I acknowledge for good those banished Jews whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

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²⁸ Therefore thus said the Lord the God of Israel, This city will assuredly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it. ²⁹ And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and burn this city with fire; and they will burn those houses on the tops of which they have offered incense to Baal and poured out libations to strange gods, to provoke me.

¹⁷ therefore thus said the Lord, You have not hearkened to me to proclaim a general release, every one to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim a dismission of you to the sword, and to pestilence and to famine; and I will deliver you up to dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ I will indeed give up the men who have transgressed my covenant; them, who have not stood to this covenant of mine which they entered into in my presence; as the labouring bullock which they sacrificed ¹⁹ I will deliver up the chiefs of Juda and the rulers, and the priests, ²⁰ and the people themselves to their enemies: and their carcasses shall be meat for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth: ²¹ and I will deliver Sedekias king of Judea, and their chiefs, into the hands of their enemies. And as for the army of the king of Babylon, even to them who are retreating, ²² behold I am about to issue orders, saith the Lord, and I will cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against it, and take it and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Juda a desolation, without inhabitants.

¹⁰ Nay, though you should smite all the army of the Chaldeans who are warring against you and only some wounded men should be left, every one in his place; these shall rise up and burn this city with fire.

¹⁷ And the king asked him privately to tell him whether there was a message from the Lord. And Jeremias said, There is. Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

¹⁸ But if thou wilt not go out, this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans and they will burn it with fire; and thou shalt not escape. ¹⁹ And the king said to Jeremias, I am afraid of the Jews who have fled to the Chaldeans, lest upon being delivered into their hand they make me a mocking stock. ²⁰ And Jeremias replied, Thou wilt not be delivered up to them, Hear the word of the Lord which I speak to thee and it will be better for thee and thy soul shall live. ²¹ But if thou wilt not go out, this is the word which the Lord hath revealed to me, ²² "And behold all the women who were left in the house of the king of Juda were brought out to the chiefs of the king of Babylon. And they said, Thy men of peace deceived thee, and will prevail over thee. And with a fall they will weaken thy foot. They are gone from thee. ²³ And thy wives and thy children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans. And thou shalt not escape. For by the hand of the king of Babylon thou shalt be taken and this city shall be burned."

² And in the eleventh year of Sedekias in the fourth month on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made into the city; ³ and all the generals of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the middle gate, namely, Marganasar, and Samagoth and Nabusachar and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the generals of the king of Babylon; ⁴ [Omitted] ⁵ [Omitted] ⁶ [Omitted] ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ [Omitted] ⁹ [Omitted]

¹ And when Jeremias^ had made an end of speaking all these words of the Lord to the people, even all the words which the Lord had sent him to speak to them,

¹ The word which came to Jeremias for all the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt: for them settled at Magdolus, and at Taphnas, and in the land of Pathoura, saying.

²⁶ Therefore hear a word of the Lord, all ye of Juda, who are settled in the land of Egypt; behold by my great name I have sworn said the Lord, my name shall no more be mentioned by the mouth of any Jew in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord liveth. ²⁷ Because I have watched over them, to afflict them, and not to do them good, therefore all the Jews who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, shall perish by sword and by famine, until there be an end of them. ²⁸ They indeed who have escaped from the sword being few in number, shall return to the land of Juda; but the remnant of Juda, who have staid in the land of Egypt to settle there, shall know whose word shall stand. ²⁹ Now this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil: ³⁰ thus said the Lord, Behold I deliver up Onaphre king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of him who seeketh his life, as I delivered Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

² [Omitted] ³ [Omitted] ⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, came with his whole army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it and built a wall around it of square stones, ⁵ and the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias. ⁶ On the ninth day of the; month there was a grievous famine in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁷ When a breach was made into the city, all the men who were warriors went out by night by the way of the gate between the outer and the inner wall, which was along the king's garden, [though the Chaldeans were all around the city;] and took the road to Araba. ⁸ And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him on the borders of Jericho. And all his servants being dispersed from him, ⁹ they took the king and carried him to the king of Babylon at Deblatha, who passed sentence on him. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes. He slew also all the chiefs of Juda at Deblatha. ¹¹ Then he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains. And the king of Babylon led him to Babylon and committed him to the slave prison where he continued till the day of his death.

¹² And the chief in the midst of them shall be carried upon shoulders. He will go out in a secret manner through the wall; and a breach will be made for him to go out through it. He will cover his face that he may not be seen and he himself shall not see the ground. ¹³ But I will spread my net over him and he shall be caught in my enclosure. And I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it and he shall die there. ¹⁴ And all his helpers about him, and all them who assist him, I will scatter to every wind and make bare a sword to pursue them: ¹⁵ and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have dispersed them among the nations. For I will disperse them through the countries ¹⁶ and leave a few of them from the sword, and from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations whither they go. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹¹ Moreover a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man say now to this rebellious house, Do you not know the meaning of this? ¹² Say, When the king of Babylon hath come to Jerusalem, and shall take the king thereof and the chiefs thereof, and hath caused them to be brought to him to Babylon; ¹³ and shall take one of the royal seed and make a covenant with him, and shall lay him under an oath and comprehend the generals of the land, ¹⁴ that it shall be a weak kingdom and never be independent; that he will keep this covenant with him and that it shall stand. ¹⁵ Now should he revolt from him so as to send his ambassadors to Egypt, that it may furnish him with horses and a great army, shall he prosper? Shall he who is perfidious escape? And shall he who breaketh a covenant be delivered? ¹⁶ As I live saith the Lord, in the place where the king liveth, who made him king; even with him in Babylon shall he die who hath dishonoured my oath and broken my covenant: and neither with a great army nor with much people, ¹⁷ shall Pharao support him in the war, when ramparts are a raising, and towers a building to destroy lives. ¹⁸ As he hath dishonoured an oath, by breaking a covenant, [when lo! he had given his hand] and hath done all these things to him, he shall not escape. ¹⁹ Therefore say, As I live saith the Lord, The oath which he hath dishonoured, and the covenant which he hath broken, even this I will requite upon his head. ²⁰ And I will spread my net for him and he shall be taken in my enclosure. ²¹ In every engagement his men shall fall by the sword; and them who are left I will scatter to every wind; and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken.