Cross references
Ezekiel 16:5
No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.
Ezekiel 16:5 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 32:10 (5 votes) and Genesis 21:10 (4 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 21 to Romans 5.
Which verses does Ezekiel 16:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 32:105 votes
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Genesis 21:104 votes
and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
- Exodus 1:224 votes
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
- Numbers 19:164 votes
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Lamentations 4:34 votes
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Isaiah 49:153 votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Jeremiah 9:21–222 votes
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
- Jeremiah 22:192 votes
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
- Lamentations 2:112 votes
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:192 votes
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- Lamentations 4:102 votes
- Ezekiel 2:62 votes
Which verses point to Ezekiel 16:5?
The 10 strongest of 20.