Cross references

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 5:12 BSB

Ezekiel 5:12 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 5:2 (12 votes) and Jeremiah 15:2 (6 votes). 48 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Leviticus 26 to Revelation 6.

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Which verses does Ezekiel 5:12 point to?

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  1. Ezekiel 5:212 votes

    When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

  2. If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

  3. Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

  4. Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.

  5. And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

  6. I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.

  7. As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

  8. This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague. He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

  9. But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

  10. Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

  11. I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

  12. I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

  13. Amos 9:42 votes

Which verses point to Ezekiel 5:12?

The 10 strongest of 48.