Jeremiah 44:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Against

To cut

Judges 21:11

Child

To leave

Jeremiah 44:12

Bible References

Against

Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?

Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.'

but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

To cut

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;

Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."

Child

Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.

To leave

I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.