Cross references

Ecclesiastes 4:14

For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

Ecclesiastes 4:14 BSB

Ecclesiastes 4:14 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 41:14 (8 votes) and Psalm 113:7–8 (8 votes). 2 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 41 to Luke 1.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 4:14 point to?

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  1. So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

  2. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

  3. Job 5:116 votes

    He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

  4. The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

  5. Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. …

  6. And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

  7. Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

  8. And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  9. On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison. And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. …

  10. While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 4:14?

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