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

Do they vex Me? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

Yet you have not listened to Me, says Jehovah, so that you might provoke Me with the works of your hands, for harm to you.

For you used deceit against your souls when you sent me to Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God; and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gets understanding.

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

You have planned shame to your house, to make an end of many people, and are sinning in your soul.

To cut

in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you might cut yourselves off and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.

And they completely destroyed all in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

And this is the thing that you shall do. You shall utterly destroy every male and every woman who has lain with man.

Child

The sword outside, and the terror inside, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.

Now go and strike Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

And he struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and babes, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.

To leave

And I will take the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there; and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be destroyed by the sword and by the famine. They shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be a curse, a wonder, and a shame, and a reproach.