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Summary

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

Bible References

He brought

2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
2 Kings 24:2
The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment -- right up to the present time.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
Jeremiah 32:42
"For I, the Lord, say: 'I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.
Jeremiah 40:3
Now he has brought it about. The Lord has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the Lord and did not obey him.
Daniel 9:14
The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

Who slew

Leviticus 26:14
"'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments --
Deuteronomy 28:15
"But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
Deuteronomy 29:18
Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.
Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Deuteronomy 31:16
Then the Lord said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
Psalm 74:20
Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.
Psalm 79:2
They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 15:9
The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 18:21
So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
Lamentations 2:21
(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

In the house

2 Chronicles 24:21
They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord's temple.
Lamentations 2:20
(Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
Ezekiel 9:5
While I listened, he said to the others, "Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare anyone!
Luke 13:1
Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

No compassion

Deuteronomy 28:50
a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.
Psalm 74:20
Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

General references

Numbers 33:56
And what I intended to do to them I will do to you."
Isaiah 42:24
Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law.
Jeremiah 9:21
Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.'
Jeremiah 51:22
I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.
Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, "Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!" So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

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